CaseLight1997
San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
I specifically recall a grey touching my forehead with one long skinny finger to put me back under?
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 18000s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-15
- Where
- San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 hrs
- Geo
- 33.191, -111.528 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-tan-valley-az-1997-a81129
Wave
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
- San Tan Valley, AZ has 45 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.