Phoenix, AZ, USA
July 23, 1997; 8:25 PM; Phoenix AZ/ 9822 N. 16th Place; Looking west, then north. Three witnesses at the same location as the March 13t
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-23
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-phoenix-az-1997-d0606b
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in July 1997.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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