CaseLight1997

Tempe, AZ, USA

Nothing WE have, could have done what we all saw that night.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Tempe, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 min
Geo
33.415, -111.909 · exact
Slug
light-over-tempe-az-1997-2b7082
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

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Tempe, AZ reports filed in March 1997.

Flap

AZ flap 1997-03

This report belongs to the AZ flap 1997-03 — 47 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • Tempe, AZ shows up 116 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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