UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Not the Phoenix Lights, but the Scottsdale Lights.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45
Geo
33.509, -111.899 · exact
Slug
light-over-scottsdale-az-1997-a06255
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap1997

    AZ flap 1997-03

    AZ, USA

    47 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 1997 peak months 3–3; top shape triangle

    47 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

Scottsdale, AZ logged 5 reports in the single month of March 1997.

Flap

AZ flap 1997-03

This case is part of the AZ flap 1997-03 — 47 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.

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In context

  • One of 172 documented reports from Scottsdale, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 145 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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