UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Black River (Canada), ON, Canada

About the time the Phoenix Lights were making news, we witnessed the very same over Lake Ontario.

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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-12
Where
Black River (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2.5hrs
Geo
45.079, -74.871 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-black-river-canada-on-1997-997426
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Black River (Canada), Canada has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 63 reports from Canada.
  • The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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