UFOMYST
Caselight1997

Maricopa (southwest of town), AZ, USA

8-10 bright stationary orange lights, plus a small line of 6-8 smaller bluish-white lights which flashed in succession from l. to r.,

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-16
Where
Maricopa (southwest of town), AZ, USA
Shape
light
Duration
4-5 min.
Geo
33.058, -112.048 · exact
Slug
light-over-maricopa-southwest-of-town-az-1997-09ea51
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Maricopa (southwest of town), AZ.
  • This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
  • Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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