UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Colchester, VT, USA

Saw bright green light, about 11:45 pass over head going to northeast. No sound but radio was out for about ten to fifteen seconds. W

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-17
Where
Colchester, VT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
44.544, -73.148 · exact
Slug
light-over-colchester-vt-1997-050fbd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Colchester, VT shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Vermont in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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