Ferndale, WA, USA
The last night of the eight planets lining up. Huge craft flew over. NO SOUND. Thought it was a shooting star, went really fast then
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-05
- Where
- Ferndale, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 to 6 minutes
- Geo
- 48.846, -122.591 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-ferndale-wa-1997-0fee4d
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
- Ferndale, WA has 18 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
Report
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