Phoenix, AZ, USA
6-8 lights were seen flying in formation s.of phoenix. They would cluster, form V shapes, inverted Vs, cluster in a stationary loation.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-09
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-phoenix-az-1997-cd6432
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
- This is one of 741 reports logged in Phoenix, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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