CaseLight1997

Wickenburg, AZ, USA

A bright, silent, white circular light hovered for about 20 minutes and then sped off and disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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 (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-17
Where
Wickenburg, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.969, -112.730 · exact
Slug
light-over-wickenburg-az-1997-d7547d
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…

In context

  • Wickenburg, AZ has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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