Clarion, PA, USA
It was a partly cloudy night in April 1997, the thursday following Easter Sunday. My two friends and I were hanging out on the roof of
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-24
- Where
- Clarion, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~2:00 min.
- Geo
- 41.215, -79.385 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-clarion-pa-1997-503f82
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
- Clarion, PA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 40 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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