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
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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.