UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Sea

I was serving in the U.S. Navy at the time, working as a radar operator on P-3 Orion aircraft. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy report.))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-16
Where
Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
light-over-mediterranean-sea-1997-f73ebf
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 3 reports logged in Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Sea.
  • This case is one of 1 Mediterranean Sea 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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