CaseFormation1997

Sciotoville, OH, USA

The phoenix lights were also seen in Ohio.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Sciotoville, OH, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10-15 min
Geo
38.758, -82.891 · exact
Slug
formation-over-sciotoville-oh-1997-95fb0a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Sciotoville, OH shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Ohio in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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