UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil

3 fast moving redish lights, very high, moving first North to South, them one manuevering to NW, followed by the other 2.Clear eve

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-19
Where
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil
Shape
Light
Duration
30 sec
Geo
-22.906, -43.182 · exact
Slug
light-over-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-1997-6e10fd
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 14 reports logged in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil.
  • This case is one of 2 Brazil 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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