CaseLight1997
Wichita, KS, USA
Before you read this you should think. Do you beleive?
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-27
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wichita-ks-1997-d111f2
Wave
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
- Wichita, KS shows up 152 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Kansas in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.