UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Tooele (near), UT, USA

Large orange light with a tail fanning out.After seeing for about one minute it slowlyfaded away. Resembled Comet Hale-Bopp.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-23
Where
Tooele (near), UT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.531, -112.298 · exact
Slug
light-over-tooele-near-ut-1997-afe05b
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 1 reports logged in Tooele (near), UT.
  • This case is one of 23 Utah 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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