CaseLight1997
Albany, ME, USA
Star makes right angle turns, speeds away.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-01
- Where
- Albany, ME, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 42.653, -73.756 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-albany-me-1997-47010c
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
- Albany, ME has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 10 reports from Maine.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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.