Surrey (Canada), BC, Canada
it was turquoise, oval, it went across the sky at amazing speeds then disappeared in the blink of an eye with a flash.
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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-23
- Where
- Surrey (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 6-7min
- Geo
- 49.106, -122.825 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-surrey-canada-bc-1997-6299cd
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
- Surrey (Canada), Canada has 42 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 63 reports from Canada.
- The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.