UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Orcas Island, WA, USA

a bright light in the ssw sky slowly moves down slowly in the sky then vanishes in to the sky.

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
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-29
Where
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
48.654, -122.938 · exact
Slug
light-over-orcas-island-wa-1997-9883d1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    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…

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Orcas Island, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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