CaseOther1997
Jupiter, FL, USA
Flame object giving off colored rings in the sky then exploding. ((NUFORC Note: Possible missile launch?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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 (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 1997-05-20
- Where
- Jupiter, FL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 Min
- Geo
- 26.934, -80.094 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-jupiter-fl-1997-1288a9
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
- One of 48 documented reports from Jupiter, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 51 sightings in 1997.
- Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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