NUFORC Report Index for Month 199701

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Image
Open	01/01/1997 20:30	Clatonia	NE	USA		Woman & daughter rept. 4-5 objs. with red, blue, and white lights. Close to ground in fog. Moved very fast. (No written rept.)	01/01/1997	11/02/1999
Open	01/01/1997 07:00	Jamestown	ND	USA	Changing	AUTHOR"S SUMMARY: The object was around the size of a small car it changed shape and light color and pattern as it moved. it was silen	01/02/1997	10/12/2001
Open	01/04/1997 21:32	Santa Rosa	CA	USA	Disk	A brief encounter with a circular looking object that appeared to be on fire... A neighbors house down the street a circular looking	01/04/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/07/1997 00:35	Amelia	OH	USA	Light	We saw a large "spotlight" at about 100-150 ft directly above us. It had one flashing red light above the spotlight and two white light	01/08/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/08/1997 17:22	South Attleboro	MA	USA	Disk	At dusk on perfectly clear night saw large, blue bright disk fly vertically down and skim out over the earth. As it pulled out of its d	01/09/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/08/1997 19:00	Eden	NY	USA	Light	Circular light image moving in an arc downward. Brightly lit, white-yellow with warmer tones flaring out on the bottom. It's size was	01/09/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/08/1997 16:00	Worsley, Manchester (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Teardrop	Tear drop shape, emitting dull gold glow at around 7000 feet. Moving at same speed as airliners in landing pattern in same vicinity.	01/10/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/15/1997 18:30	Alturas	CA	USA	Disk	pink/reddish glow with a gray round craft there was only one. It swayed back and forth and dissappeared. Jan. 15, 1997 approx. 5:30p	01/15/1997	08/05/2001
Open	01/24/1997 19:00	Alta	UT	USA	Other	A "moving star" similar to a satellite stopped, hovered, and darted around for over 3 hours. A telescope revealed a round shape. I	01/29/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/25/1997 21:00	Marion	WI	USA	Triangle	On a camping trip 3 triangle shaped objects were seen by myself and 7 other campers slowly drifting over, almost surveying the landscap	01/26/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/22/1997 03:35	Altus AFB	OK	USA	Changing	Object breaking up above western oklahoma At 3:35am Central time over S.W. Oklahoma a bright object came from the north about 30 deg	01/22/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/08/1997 17:20	Brooklyn	CT	USA	Disk	Flat, round object heading rapidly SE horizontally. I was on my way home from work on roads I've travelled at this time of day for t	01/27/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/19/1997 20:52	Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)		Brazil	Light	3 fast moving redish lights, very high, moving first North to South, them one manuevering to NW, followed by the other 2. Clear eve	01/19/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/17/1997 02:00	Sydney (NSW, Australia)		Australia	Cylinder	A long, rotating tube like object, covered with small windows. Perhaps 50m long. With two antennae like objects protruding from the fro	01/16/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/18/1997 22:00	Las Vegas (SE of)	NV	USA	Sphere	Luminous sphere (white) travelling due west at a very high velocity (it slowed down and then accelerated). It moved along a ridge of a	01/30/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/29/1997 23:15	East Greenwich	RI	USA	Disk	I witnessed a UFO which may be of the Lazar"Sport Model" variety when I was leaving work to drive home. The UFO was circular in shap	01/30/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/16/1997 06:30	Seguin	TX	USA	Fireball	San Antonio Express-News ran 3 stories on the 'UFO' that was found in a rancher's field. From San Antonio Express-News story, 2 witn	01/30/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/12/1997 23:00	Billings	MT	USA	Light	Two bright red lights moving in perfect formation flew over Billings on the evening of Jan.12, 1997. They were flying at an altitude n	02/10/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/15/1997 07:00	Macon	GA	USA	Disk	The night of this event I was coming home from a boy scout campout with some other boys when we saw the objects. We saw 4 objects. O	02/21/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/11/1997 05:00	St. Cloud	MN	USA	Diamond	Right when me and my friend left the my housewe saw a bright green glowing object thatlooked like a 4 sided pyrimid then after about2 m	01/11/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/14/1997 16:00	McKinlyville/Eureka (near Arcata Driving)	CA	USA	Disk	SMALL DISK SHAPE UFO	03/20/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/16/1997 18:00	Moab	UT	USA	Other	Very bright stationary object approx. 30 deg.off horizon. Emitted triangular yellow greenlight, modulating from flood to spot beam. T	04/13/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/15/1997 17:30	Long Beach	NY	USA	Egg	A bright luminesant egg shaped object aproached the beach from the south and hovered with out sound for three mins.	04/17/1997	03/07/1998
Open	01/02/1997 19:15	Austin	TX	USA	Light	While viewing M42 through telescope, we witness 3 anamolous moving lights, two with scope, one with naked eye, approx. 10-15 min. apart	06/29/1997	01/28/1999
Open	01/21/1997 19:15	Blackwell	OK	USA	Triangle	A gold triangular shaped object with a red "tail" was seen hovering in the air west southwest of Blackwell, OK. It hovered for at leas	01/23/1998	03/07/1998
Open	01/03/1997 03:00	Long Beach (in); and again in Seattle	WA	USA	Light	I awoke in a to a ball of white light in my hotel room in Long Beach, the object came towards me and I ran into the bathroom. The next	03/18/1999	04/02/1999
Open	01/01/1997 00:00	Chilhowie	VA	USA	Cross	4 craft slowly came together from four directions (North, South, East, West) They stayed together for 2-3 minutes(shot off in different	08/05/1999	08/10/1999
Open	01/01/1997 07:00	Chanute	KS	USA	Circle	3 circle shaped objects travelling due north.	02/15/2000	02/16/2000
Open	01/04/1997 21:00	Steinhatchee	FL	USA	Cigar	It was orangish reddish in color as if it were passing through the atmosphere.A craft at this height must have been massive.	04/11/2000	04/15/2000
Open	01/05/1997 17:00	Beirut (Lebanon)		Lebanon	Fireball	me and my wife bringing our chuild from the school,we both saw around shaped fireball with a tail around ahundred meter long passing ju	05/17/2000	06/06/2000
Open	01/15/1997 04:30	Calabash	NC	USA	Oval	This was a round solid object like a chandelier with many tiny white lights	02/09/2001	02/18/2001
Open	01/25/1997 06:00	Mount Hope/Binbrook (Canada)	ON	Canada	Disk	A large disk or saucer type object, approximately 200 feet in length, hovering above the tree line.	04/07/2001	04/28/2001
Open	01/13/1997 17:30	Lombard	IL	USA	Fireball	While my friend and I were out sledding by my house we saw a comet-like object and eventually nine other similar objects appeared.	04/26/2001	04/28/2001
Open	01/11/1997 23:30	Brisbane (QLD, Australia)		Australia	Circle	Strange lights over Brisbane	07/20/2001	08/05/2001
Open	01/15/1997 15:00	Pico Rivera/Paramount	CA	USA	Oval	during the day, the amount of them and what the saucers were doing	01/16/2002	01/29/2002
Open	01/01/1997 19:30	Phoenix	AZ	USA	Chevron	Phoenix lights witnessed and documented two months prior to major sighting.	10/13/2002	10/15/2002
Open	01/01/1997 01:30	Perth (Western Australia)		Australia	Triangle	u.f.o. over suberbia	12/11/2002	12/23/2002
Open	01/15/1997 18:00	Millsboro	DE	USA	Triangle	4 lights in square formation in sky and small triangular craft seen at close range	01/05/2003	03/21/2003
Open	01/15/1997 23:00	Ellensburg (? on a pass just pass, just east of)	WA	USA	Fireball	Orange orb	02/18/2003	02/25/2003
Open	01/15/1997 01:15	Mankato/Lake Crystal	MN	USA	Sphere	Two spheres, one silver, the other emerald. Great speed, seen from 1/4 mile away.	02/02/2004	02/12/2004
Open	01/18/1997 22:00	Babson Park	FL	USA	Diamond	Iam 22 years old now and at the time I was about 16 so I didn't have acess to a pc at the time to document this. Me my father my brothe	04/12/2004	04/27/2004
Open	01/01/1997 15:30	Johnston	RI	USA	Rectangle	Cube haystack shape seen a between 1997-1998 (not sure of exact date)........	07/22/2004	08/11/2004
Open	01/15/1997 11:30	Circleville	OH	USA	Disk	Small(er) craft hovering over a small woods , possibly leaching power from large power lines	08/31/2004	09/01/2004
Open	01/23/1997 18:30	North Kingstown	RI	USA	Triangle	1/23/97: Huge black triangle w/ rearguard heli, sighted over deserted Rte.1A in RI, drifts overhead & out to Sea.	01/23/2005	01/27/2005
Open	01/11/1997 22:00	Carrollton	TX	USA	Circle	Very distinct object (circular in shape) passed over three major suburb cities of Dallas, Tx.	02/03/2005	02/08/2005
Open	01/10/1997 22:00	Columbus	OH	USA	Triangle	Very large triangular craft moved silently and darkly (no lights) very fast through dark Columbus OH night.	01/03/2007	02/01/2007
Open	01/15/1997 00:30	Columbia	SC	USA	Light	Light in sky made 90 degree turn	11/16/2007	11/28/2007
Open	01/08/1997 00:00	Manchester (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Triangle	rotating triangle of light	06/23/2008	07/05/2008
Open	01/01/1997 23:00	Tom Sauk Moutain	MO	USA	Light	This was January 1, 1997. I was backpacking in the Mark Twain Forest of Missouri. It was about 11pm. I was sitting on a rock in the	07/27/2008	08/12/2008
Open	01/01/1997 13:00	Arrayo Grande	CA	USA	Oval	These sightings were ten years apart and exactly the same type of craft, wich I have seen since then in photos of sightings on the web.	09/29/2008	10/31/2008
Open	01/26/1997 22:00	Flagstaff	AZ	USA	Light	It traveled at about the same speed we were going and continued along with us for about five to seven miles.	02/17/2009	03/19/2009
Open	01/07/1997 21:30	Don't Know	NV	USA	Teardrop	Unforgettable Teardrop 1997	12/09/2010	01/05/2011
Open	01/01/1997 21:00	Cayce	SC	USA	Unknown	Jesus and Aliens 2012	12/23/2011	01/12/2012
Open	01/05/1997 01:10	Haleiwa	HI	USA	Triangle	January 1977 1:00 am Haleiwa Hawaii Two craft (like power boats) at 5000 feet Exchanging power beam 1-2 hour duration	10/26/2013	11/11/2013
Open	01/01/1997 19:00	Monchengladbach (UK/England)		United Kingdom		Triangular shaped lights, low in a foggy sky, no noise, sped off in a second.	01/17/2016	01/20/2016
Open	01/01/1997 19:00	Monchengladbach (Germany)		Germany	Triangle	White lights in triangular shape hovering for minutes then disappearing upwards and fading.	01/23/2016	01/23/2016
Open	01/01/1997 12:00	Rye	NY	USA	Disk	Took a photo of a UFO by accident, good photo.	12/19/2017	12/21/2017
Open	01/15/1997 20:00	Unknown	WI	USA	Formation	Five patterned bright lights seen over highway and car engine was affected.	09/03/2018	09/13/2018
Open	01/09/1997 15:00	Margate (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Egg	White Egg UFO in Margate, Kent. England	08/05/2019	08/23/2019
Open	01/06/1997 19:00	N/A	AZ	USA	Light	Four amber lights suddenly appeared on a horizontal plane as approached the Phoenix metro area. I was driving on I-10 from Nogales.I	07/09/2022	09/09/2022
Open	01/01/1997 12:00	Rye	NY	USA	Disk	Captured UFO in photograph, did not see at time O	08/16/2022	09/09/2022	Y
Open	01/06/1997 20:00	Coal City	IL	USA	Light	Bright light with DNA strands floating through the air.	08/12/2023	09/10/2023
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Image