CaseUnknown1997
Punta Arenas (Chile), Chile
UFO watched over Punta Arenas, Chile on april 15th. 1997.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-15
- Where
- Punta Arenas (Chile), Chile
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 min 30 sec
- Geo
- -53.163, -70.909 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-punta-arenas-chile-1997-e9dcc9
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Punta Arenas (Chile), Chile.
- This case is one of 2 Chile reports filed in 1997.
Report
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