NUFORC Reports for Month 199704

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media
Open	04/04/1997 20:30	Winsted	CT	USA		Man sees "movement" in E sky, notices 7-9 faint orange lights in "boomerang" formation. Lights move from E to NW sky in 5 sec..	04/04/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/18/1997 04:20	Hartford	SD	USA		Man sees a large, white disc in the night sky. Obj. splits into 2 smaller orange orbs, one of which maneuvers, then 2 orbs rejoin!	04/18/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/17/1997 17:30	Okanogan	WA	USA		Woman near Tunk(?) Valley sees large, very bright ball of light streak down out of the sky. "Layers" of light: green, red, green.	04/18/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/20/1997 20:05	Lakewood	WA	USA		Man sees 5 prominent shafts of "emerald green" light in N sky radiating in a "fan pattern." Seemed to come from one point in the sky.	04/21/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/21/1997 20:40	La Conner	WA	USA		Woman sees extremely bright, oval shaped obj. streak down out of a clear evening sky to the W. 1/4 dia. of full moon.	04/21/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/21/1997 20:40	Stanwood	WA	USA		2 males witness an extremely bright light descend in W night sky. 5 times size of bright star. 80 deg. angle of descent. No sound.	04/21/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/21/1997 21:20	Los Angeles	CA	USA		Man noticed a peculiar "star-like" obj. in sky; suddenly accelerated and moved N to S VERY fast. Obj. zigzagged twice, disappeared.	04/21/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/20/1997 04:00	Reno	NV	USA		Couple in hotel room witness a very bright, white light streak from E sky to N. VASTLY faster than any aircraft. Unblinking.	04/22/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/23/1997 00:05	Seattle	WA	USA		Attorney/public employee sees peculiar white light move across cloudy sky very rapidly. "Looked like a lightbulb." Flew behind cloud.	04/23/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/24/1997 21:30	Coos Bay	OR	USA	Sphere	Woman looking at stars in E sky sees a "dark tan circle of flames" moving to the N. 10 min. later, same obj. going S; closer, larger.	04/24/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/01/1997 20:10	Scarborough (Canada)	ON	Canada	Triangle	Mom & 3 daughters see "rounded, triangular" obj. w/ approx. 20 lights on leading edge streak overhead to S. Bigger than fist overhead.	04/02/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/03/1997 19:50	Gaston	OR	USA		Woman repts. seeing a bright yellow light streak across S sky, turn bright green. Obj. went to the horizon, disappeared from sight.	04/03/1997	11/02/1999
Open	04/24/1997 23:00	Depoe Bay	OR	USA		Group of 8 women witness complex light moving dramatically in night sky. Light moves over sea, joined by 2nd light, both disappear.	05/08/1997	10/19/2011
Open	04/02/1997 20:15	Lebanon	MO	USA	Sphere	A giant red ball of light( about 5 time the size hale-bopp was)flew across the sky at well over 1000MPH.	04/03/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/03/1997 21:00	Phoenix (far west)	AZ	USA	Oval	it was a bright light which moved kind of fast, it was making a humming sound which hummed for a couple of seconds then it was silenced	04/03/1997	11/20/2002
Open	04/03/1997 01:35	Port Wentworth	GA	USA	Other	object travelled at approx 800feet. moving north to south over savannah international airport at about 500 mph. no engine noise or exha	04/03/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/09/1997 00:00	Sarnia (Canada)	ON	Canada	Unknown	On this particular night my sister and I went out to our side porch to have a cigarette when she noticed something suddenly appear to t	04/09/1997	12/02/2000
Open	04/05/1997 19:50	Randle (near)	WA	USA	Light	Large bright object moving horizontal in the evening sky, very low, made no noise.	04/10/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/07/1997 05:30	Colorado Springs	CO	USA	Cylinder	Dark. Between Fontaine and Drennan Rd. A tall, brightly litobject descended in field near reservoir west of Powers Rd. Tieredwith mul	04/10/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/11/1997 21:15	Houma	LA	USA	Circle	I WAS OUTSIDE OF MY HOME VIEWING THE COMET, AN OBJECT CROSSED MY LINE OF SIGHT. THE OBJECT WAS ROUND,AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A B	04/11/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/03/1997 20:45	Melbourne (VIC, Australia)		Australia	Egg	At aprox. 20.45 I noticed 2 light emitting pinkish egg shaped objects n/w of my position. They were aprox 50 miles away travelling extr	04/12/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/12/1997 23:15	Monrovia	CA	USA	Formation	Three (3)objects flying over Monrovia	04/12/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/11/1997 02:30	Monreal (Canada)	QC	Canada	Disk	two seperate UFO sightings, moments apart	04/14/1997	12/02/2000
Open	04/15/1997 22:30	Bakersfield	CA	USA	Light	I was looking up at the sky for Hale-Bop,when from the south a round yellowish light zoomed across the sky at a very high speed.	04/17/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/15/1997 11:33	Punta Arenas (Chile)		Chile	Unknown	UFO watched over Punta Arenas, Chile on april 15th. 1997.	04/17/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/17/1997 20:23	West Memphis	AR	USA	Light	Two lights merge together due south thenproceed rapidly to the southwest where theydisappear at the horizon	04/17/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/17/1997 22:45	Bismarck/Caddo Valley (between)	AR	USA	Light	Orange burst of light that sped out over the lake	04/18/1997	09/28/2002
Open	04/18/1997 07:05	Dallas	TX	USA	Diamond	Looking East, saw bright red light descendingdown thru cloud layer, then back up into clouds,repeating twice. Red light had a diamond s	04/18/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/20/1997 04:28	Greentown	IN	USA	Formation	4 UFO's spotted, In Northwest Sky, near the Big Dipper constellation. They all moved in roughly the same direction.(N-NE)	04/20/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/22/1997 00:34	Worcester	MA	USA	Egg	It was a bright white/Yellow light, moving at an incredible speed. Too fast for any plane Went from west to East, The White light woul	04/22/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/19/1997 22:00	Suisun (North S.F. Bay Area)	CA	USA	Circle	Hwy12 & 113,8 mi.SE of TravisAFB./Color-bright,shimmering,"traffic light"green/Elev.-2k'/Char.-Silent,mutate frm- rnd(dime) to lg (silv	04/22/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/10/1997 01:30	Tompson	GA	USA	Light	At around 1:30 am. we saw a light searching the top of the trees.We discounted it as a hellicopter of poachers.After aboout an hour,hou	04/23/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/24/1997 21:45	New Brighton	MN	USA	Triangle	20-35 triangular shaped craft sighting.Bright flashing lights at corners.	04/24/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/22/1997 01:00	Spokane	WA	USA	Light	Large bright red light, size of Venus at its brightest, observed over Spokane, Wa. at 1:00 a.m. on April 22, for about 20 minutes. Appe	04/28/1997	03/07/1998
Open	04/19/1997 01:30	Reno (north of)	NV	USA	Other	When first seen, it was a huge, brilliant white, "bow-tie" shaped object which exploded into a much larger sphere filled with red, gree	04/28/1997	09/26/1998
Open	04/30/1997 20:00	Toronto (Canada)	ON	Canada		our web camera captured images of a strange craft hovering and moving over toronto	05/05/1997	12/02/2000
Open	04/30/1997 23:30	Westboro/Marlboro	MA	USA	Other	Two friends of mine were driving back from a class last Wednesday when they spotted a strange object over a field. At first they thoug	05/06/1997	01/28/1999
Open	04/30/1997 23:00	Columbia	MO	USA	Light	5 lights in the sky east of columbia dipping rapidly, disappearing then rising again rapidly	05/06/1997	09/19/2002
Open	04/07/1997 21:07	Hastings On Hudson	NY	USA	triangle	Wedge shaped ship hovering over school. Lights on the points of the ship. Bigger than a park.	05/09/1997	01/28/1999
Open	04/28/1997 22:00	Houston	TX	USA	light	My wife and I witnessed around 10 to 13 amber lights flying in a 'V' formation at a high rate of speed over Houston.	05/10/1997	01/28/1999
Open	04/05/1997 14:00	Fairhope	AL	USA	Other	Witness observes tire-shaped object w/windows.	05/12/1997	01/28/1999
Open	04/03/1997 17:30	Seattle	WA	USA	other	I was on highway 520 going home and saw a black, silent "elongated key" shape traveling south over lake WA dissappered (cut into clouds	05/12/1997	01/28/1999
Open	04/15/1997 22:45	Coolidge/Casa Grande (between)	AZ	USA	light	On different nights in April a co-worker and I were on our way home from work. I saw some lights in the sky and he thought they were li	05/13/1997	01/28/1999
Open	04/23/1997 21:00	Orlando	FL	USA	Orb	bright light travelling east to west veryhigh in the sky similar to headlights comingthrough fog then disappeared suddenly	06/18/1997	01/28/1999
Open	04/05/1997 14:00	Fairhope	AL	USA	Circle	Man walking dog sees tire-shaped object w/windows. No sound, no animal reaction.	07/19/1997	09/26/1998
Open	04/08/1997 20:00	Las Vegas	NV	USA	Rectangle	large, erratic, black object, movement reminiscent of paper falling, almost invisible edge on.	07/21/1997	09/26/1998
Open	04/27/1997 01:00	San-Carlos mountains	AZ	USA	Light	A friend who hauls water from an artisian well on the reserve told us about her {friends}, in the mountains. We were on vacation in Phe	07/25/1997	09/26/1998
Open	04/24/1997 01:00	Clarion	PA	USA	Light	It was a partly cloudy night in April 1997, the thursday following Easter Sunday. My two friends and I were hanging out on the roof of	02/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	04/15/1997 13:00	South Point	OH	USA	Egg	I and a co-worker were traveling on Route 52, just past the bridge into Ashland, Kentucky. A large, silent, matte silver object appear	05/15/1998	01/28/1999
Open	04/15/1997 02:30	Fort Pierce	FL	USA	Fireball	While traveling north on I-95 we saw what we thought was a shooting star but as it kept coming down it seem to burn up or burst into a	09/30/1998	11/01/1998
Open	04/01/1997 23:05	Brush Creek	TN	USA	Unknown	The object came up over a group of trees at what seemed to be a very low altitude. Proceeded NNE until I guessed it to be somewhere nea	02/28/1999	04/02/1999
Open	04/01/1997 22:00	Sedona	AZ	USA	Orb	bright red pulsing orb that performed anti-gravity manuevers, seen from first plateau at Cathedral Rock... It was a little north of whe	03/03/1999	04/02/1999
Open	04/15/1997 22:00	Lincoln	NE	USA	Sphere	On a spring night in 1997 I was sitting in a car at a park with a friend talking. I would periodically look out my window for no reaso	05/10/1999	05/24/1999
Open	04/15/1997 22:30	Harrisburg (area)	PA	USA	Formation	Formation of lights observed over Three mile Island area. Exactly the same formation and sequencing of lights as seen in Pheonix about	07/22/1999	08/10/1999
Open	04/01/1997 00:00	Gardena	CA	USA	Other	Many small lights in sky all the time,unsure what.Fire flylike,some dark some white,move fast.Not everyone can see them.Dont understan	08/30/1999	09/12/1999
Open	04/15/1997 02:30	Plainwell	MI	USA	Diamond	Diamond-shpae object in the Southeastern sky, heading northwest at a underterminate speed.	09/12/1999	10/02/1999
Open	04/18/1997 20:40	Cleveland/Euclid	OH	USA	Triangle	It was dark and the craft flew slowly over us! There was no sound at all coming from it.It had round lights on the bottom of it and app	02/18/2000	02/23/2000
Open	04/01/1997 18:30	Monument Valley	UT	USA	Light	RUN OFF THE ROAD DRIVING SOUTH INTO MV,UT BY A VERY BRIGHT LIGHT-SILENT	02/28/2000	03/07/2000
Open	04/28/1997 00:25	Williamston	SC	USA	Triangle	20ft. from the road and 150ft. up a trianguler craft was hovering silently.	05/25/2000	06/06/2000
Open	04/20/1997 19:30	Penryn (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Orb	Mir incident	12/06/2000	12/09/2000
Open	04/15/1997 01:00	White Mountains	AZ	USA	Other	one object was in the shape of the number six on a piece of dice.	01/31/2001	02/18/2001
Open	04/07/1997 14:00	Milwaukee	WI	USA	Other	Strange objects descend to tree tops, cruise across tree tops and vanish into Lake Michigan.	06/25/2001	08/05/2001
Open	04/23/1997 21:30	Norwich (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Light	Bright light floating in sky for 2minutes then slowly moved off and suddenly accelerated out of sight.	08/01/2001	08/05/2001
Open	04/14/1997 02:15	Edison	NJ	USA	Triangle	Large, triangle shaped ufo that emanates light at each corner, moves on straight a straight linear axis while in 360 degree rotation.	09/12/2001	10/12/2001
Open	04/20/1997 23:00	Las Vegas	NV	USA	Light	zig zagging light in the sky	02/13/2002	02/22/2002
Open	04/01/1997 20:00	Singapore		Singapore	Disk	i saw this couple of years ago. never know abt this site until recently. i was staring at the skys for stars that nite, suddenly, i saw	07/14/2002	08/28/2002
Open	04/01/1997 10:00	Round Rock	TX	USA	Triangle	We never heard any aircraft noises.	08/21/2002	08/28/2002
Open	04/23/1997 19:30	Houston	TX	USA	Triangle	Stationary hourglass-shaped object that appeared to be made of glass	04/23/2003	04/27/2003
Open	04/03/1997 21:00	Kosciusko	MS	USA	Light	Flashing Lights Seen Over Treeline in Kosciusko, MS 1997	04/30/2003	05/02/2003
Open	04/05/1997 01:00	Palm Springs (Moreno Valley)	CA	USA	Oval	my self and two other cousins were in palm springs califorina back from a track meet. we were in the middle of no where in the desert t	06/19/2003	07/16/2003
Open	04/13/1997 19:07	San Diego	CA	USA	Light	4/13/97 approx.7:06pm I video taped an object flying through the tail of the Hale Bopp comet.	09/21/2003	09/24/2003
Open	04/01/1997 04:00	Houston	TX	USA	Other	Large Bus sized cloud - emanating several beautiful colors from center but not making it past outer edge of the cloud 2 minute sighting	09/30/2003	10/07/2003
Open	04/14/1997 18:00	Big Bear City	CA	USA	Oval	The object hovered over the airport then disappeared.	03/15/2004	03/17/2004
Open	04/15/1997 01:30	Fullerton	CA	USA	Changing	the object made no noise,as it changed colors,and hovered in complete silence until it was ready to move.	04/30/2004	05/04/2004
Open	04/25/1997 00:00	New York City (Brooklyn)	NY	USA	Other	Shape changing object	05/12/2004	06/04/2004
Open	04/20/1997 02:00	Carlinville	IL	USA	Other	In the night, I was awoken by the prescence of a groteque, glowing ship, with a glow as so sinister in a cloak of shadows IT was with.	07/13/2004	07/25/2004
Open	04/04/1997 02:15	Atlanta	GA	USA	Sphere	Daytime sighting of spheres over Midtown Atlanta.	08/01/2004	08/11/2004
Open	04/04/1997 01:00	Regina (Canada)	SK	Canada	Fireball	I was driving down a stretch of highway, just outside of regina. I was about an hour or so from reaching moosejaw. With me was my mothe	08/09/2004	08/11/2004
Open	04/29/1997 17:00	Fresh Pond	CA	USA	Formation	Large green glowing ball of light over the Sierras	12/03/2004	12/14/2004
Open	04/30/1997 21:00	Twelve Mile	IN	USA	Disk	The kids & I saw several bright white lights in a row hovering over the tree tops that were along the edge of a field.	02/13/2005	02/22/2005
Open	04/08/1997 19:45	Sonoma	CA	USA	Chevron	Extremely massive matte grey/black boomerang with no center section; jets scrambled; no lights, possible aura.	04/06/2005	05/11/2005
Open	04/01/1997 21:00	Homestead	FL	USA	Unknown	Red lights along the side, white light in front, in a search-like pattern: slow over water, very fast over land.	06/02/2005	06/20/2005
Open	04/18/1997 23:59	Tampa	FL	USA	Triangle	ET Stops for Big Gulp?	04/08/2006	05/15/2006
Open	04/17/1997 22:45	Lake DeGray	AR	USA	Fireball	Just found your sight and saw listed a sighting from Arkansas (4/17/97 22:45 Bismarck/Caddo Valley (between) AR Light 30 seconds Orange	03/16/2007	04/27/2007
Open	04/01/1997 22:00	Santa Fe	NM	USA	Unknown	1997 Santa fe, MN A enormous "metropolis" looking ship landing and our memories wiped away, lost time	07/10/2007	08/07/2007
Open	04/23/1997 18:00	Guntersville	AL	USA	Oval	new glass like craft seen	12/10/2007	02/14/2008
Open	04/15/1997 22:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Unknown	In mid conversation we both looked up to the sky simultaniously. We saw what we thought was a shooting star very high in the eveni	06/04/2008	06/12/2008
Open	04/07/1997 17:00	Austin	TX	USA	Triangle	I was driving northbound on I-35, and was around 5 miles south of Austin when I noticed an intensely bright white light far ahead on th	12/26/2008	01/10/2009
Open	04/15/1997 05:40	Atwater	CA	USA	Unknown	Very bright light hovering over central california	02/25/2009	03/19/2009
Open	04/10/1997 00:30	Little Rock (east of)	AR	USA	Disk	My son saw a craft with 8 white lights under it as it flew right over our car about 150 feet above us .	04/18/2009	05/12/2009
Open	04/15/1997 10:00	Hawthorne	CA	USA	Light	A light flashed by a man at close range.	05/13/2009	06/09/2009
Open	04/01/1997 01:00	Foster	VA	USA	Cigar	From Halle-Bopp's distance, a huge ship sped into the atmosphere, slowed silently and closely overhead, and zoomed back into space.	07/21/2009	08/05/2009
Open	04/25/1997 01:45	Delray Beach	FL	USA	Light	Single white light changes to multiple sources with red light, splits up. Red light moves differently and sparkle type exhaust noticed.	06/29/2012	07/04/2012
Open	04/20/1997 19:00	Billings	MT	USA	Orb	One arc light over billing montana.	11/22/2012	12/20/2012
Open	04/10/1997 23:00	Lubbock	TX	USA	Triangle	Black triangle with three solid white lights and a forth blinking light in the center of the other three solid lights.	09/02/2015	09/11/2015
Open	04/20/1997 15:00	Richmond Hill	NY	USA	Oval	Back in 1997 , i lived in Richmond hill NY At my parents house, My mother had given me this Binocular for my Birthday one my hobbies wa	04/05/2020	04/09/2020
Open	04/15/1997 23:30	Mccall	ID	USA	Other	A swarm of dozens of dim lights in the night sky.	07/17/2021	08/16/2021
Open	04/10/1997 07:50	Forest	IN	USA	Other	Daytime up close ground sighting	02/07/2023	03/06/2023
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media