Wenatchee, WA, USA
Our newspaper did a story on this site and picked out stories from our area. One incident caught my attention as I believe that it was
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-08
- Where
- Wenatchee, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.423, -120.310 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wenatchee-wa-1997-705e76
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
- Wenatchee, WA has 73 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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