Urubamba (outside Cusco, Peruvian Andes) (Peru), Peru
A fast moving "body of Light" sweeps over us as we star watch in the Sacred Valley of the Incas outside Cusco Peru at an elevation of l
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-28
- Where
- Urubamba (outside Cusco, Peruvian Andes) (Peru), Peru
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- few seconds
- Geo
- -13.305, -72.116 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-urubamba-outside-cusco-peruvian-andes-peru-1997-72d4d8
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Urubamba (outside Cusco, Peruvian Andes) (Peru), Peru.
- This case is one of 1 Peru reports filed in 1997.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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.