UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Gila Bend (20 miles east of, on I-8), AZ, USA

2 large, bright orange/pinkish lights seen south of I-8 over the desert. Went from 2 to 3 to 4 lights. Small bright objects quickly le

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 (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Gila Bend (20 miles east of, on I-8), AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 mins
Geo
32.948, -112.717 · exact
Slug
light-over-gila-bend-20-miles-east-of-on-i-8-az-1997-444de6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Gila Bend (20 miles east of, on I-8), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate 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.