CaseLight1997
Kings Mtn., NC, USA
07-15-97 22:30 N.C. 30 sec. cloud formation & craft
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-15
- Where
- Kings Mtn., NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 sec.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-kings-mtn-nc-1997-c44e18
Wave
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
- Kings Mtn., NC has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 25 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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