UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Jefferson Estates, PA, USA

The first object was a red light that seemed to appear out of nowhere as if from behind the moon or something. It rose up to just slig

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-15
Where
Jefferson Estates, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
41.585, -84.499 · fallback
Slug
light-over-jefferson-estates-pa-1997-e2c80b
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Jefferson Estates, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 40 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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