Chattanooga, TN, USA
bright lights munerving high in the sky back and forth quickly and moving very high in the sky and disapering very quickly!
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-01
- Where
- Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 35.046, -85.310 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-chattanooga-tn-1997-ccf42c
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
- One of 59 documented reports from Chattanooga, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Tennessee logged 13 sightings in 1997.
- Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 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.