CaseSphere1997
Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom
Two objects doing imposible manovers
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-12
- Where
- Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 54.905, -1.382 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-sunderland-uk-england-1997-c40398
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
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 47 United Kingdom reports filed in 1997.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.