CaseUnknown1997
Northampton (UK/England), United Kingdom
WINTER 97/98 BRIGHT LIGHT TRAVELLING AT HIGH SPEED IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS TOWARDS THE EAST LASTED ABOUT 5 SECONDS.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-15
- Where
- Northampton (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 52.250, -0.883 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-northampton-uk-england-1997-681fa3
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
- Northampton (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 47 reports came from United Kingdom in 1997.
Report
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