CaseSphere1997
Prescott (North of), AZ, USA
While driving through Arizona My wife and I witnessed a white object in the sky.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-20
- Where
- Prescott (North of), AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1-3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.540, -112.469 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-prescott-north-of-az-1997-e93d7a
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
- Prescott (North of), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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