CaseLight1997

Hart Mountain Elk Preserve, OR, USA

white light with smaller yellow light that streaks out of it

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-10
Where
Hart Mountain Elk Preserve, OR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
Slug
light-over-hart-mountain-elk-preserve-or-1997-57ed5c
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…

In context

  • Hart Mountain Elk Preserve, OR shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 37 reports came from Oregon in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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