CaseUnknown1997

Funafuti (Tuvalu), Tuvalu

Dawn arrives ahead of schedule [from the West] over a remote Pacific Island.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-27
Where
Funafuti (Tuvalu), Tuvalu
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
-8.524, 179.194 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-funafuti-tuvalu-1997-e6483b
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Funafuti (Tuvalu), Tuvalu in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tuvalu logged 1 sightings in 1997.

Report

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