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

  • 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

  • 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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