NUFORC Report Index for Month 199709

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Image
Open	09/19/1997 21:00	Seattle	WA	USA	other	On the night described above, We were getting ready to leave a freind's house in West Seattle. I was the first one out the door. While	10/10/1997	01/28/1999
Open	09/13/1997 22:34	Wolfville (Canada)	NS	Canada	Formation	About 5 balls of light flying around a group of lights	10/14/1997	12/02/2000
Open	09/21/1997 14:00	Manoa Valley (Honolulu)	HI	USA	Disk	Hovering Craft over Manoa Valley, Honolulu Hawaii. Greyish Color Shot directly upwards with no sound.	10/19/1997	01/28/1999
Open	09/15/1997 18:00	Farrell	PA	USA	Disk	Low-flying, object prior to west to east moving severe storm on PA/OH border.	11/01/1997	06/02/1998
Open	09/15/1997 21:00	Chicago	IL	USA	Light	Large green flash of light (probably 2 miles wide*1 mile high) right after the MIR & the spaceshuttle disconnected. Lasted about .5 of	11/03/1997	06/02/1998
Open	09/22/1997 03:00	St. Louis	MO	USA	Other	We had just moved into our new home and could not sleep. At approx. 3:00 a.m. I noticed a glowing object in the eastern sky at about h	11/12/1997	01/28/1999
Open	09/19/1997 05:40	Orland Park	IL	USA	Rectangle	When pulling out of my driveway headed north I noticed a stationary bright white light above the west horizon which suddenly sped off t	12/02/1997	06/02/1998
Open	09/24/1997 20:47	Huffman	TX	USA	Teardrop	Large object seen running N. of FM 1960 bearing W. It was about 1,000 through 4,000' feet in altitude. Looked to be between 5-8mi awa	12/02/1997	01/28/1999
Open	09/16/1997 04:00	Woodmont	CT	USA	Disk	Blizzard,my Siberian Husky , and I were walking along Anchor Beach in woodmont Connecticut , enjoying the view of the oysterboat workin	02/11/1998	02/22/2002
Open	09/06/1997 04:47	Covington	WA	USA	Triangle	Triangle shaped with six lights underneath. One side of the triangle was red, one other side was blue. Both of these sides had a hori	02/27/1998	01/28/1999
Open	09/09/1997 21:30	Roseburg	OR	USA	Light	Light bouncing around a valley. Light changes intensity, brightness, and color. Disappears, reappears different location.	03/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	09/22/1997 14:00	Palo	MI	USA	Cigar	I was sitting outside on the Phone with a friend when I looked up and saw a silent, cigar shaped craft flying west to east due north of	04/22/1998	01/28/1999
Open	09/19/1997 22:00	Crescent City (80 miles west of)	CA	USA	Disk	craft with blinking colored lights flying faster than any object known.	06/29/1998	08/05/2001
Open	09/02/1997 15:00	Zurich (Switzerland)		Switzerland	Disk	fast moving object merging from in back of swis clock tower at train station from Zurich to Rinsehorn Switzerland. Object moves real fa	08/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	09/01/1997 18:00	Woodmont	CT	USA	Disk	walking my dog along the beach,I was taking pictures of the oyster boats with my digital camera, when I viewed the pictures, I found a	08/16/1998	02/22/2002
Open	09/25/1997 22:00	Clearfield	UT	USA	Triangle	We observed a low flying craft (aprox.100yards up ) hovering over head and moving in a westerly direction. The movement was slow.	09/28/1998	01/28/1999
Open	09/10/1997 19:00	Alta Loma	CA	USA	Circle	Very bright circular object about 1500 to 2000 above ground level very slowly moving to the southwest.	12/06/1998	01/28/1999
Open	09/20/1997 22:15	Poway	CA	USA	Triangle	lights in the shape of a "V" were observed by approx 12 people, nobody had an explanation of what they saw, and nobody had ever seen su	01/10/1999	02/16/1999
Open	09/15/1997 19:00	Wedgefield	SC	USA	Triangle	Traingle or 3 separate crafts in triang. formation over AFB bombing range.	02/17/1999	04/02/1999
Open	09/10/1997 16:00	Lierskogen (Norway)		Norway	Unknown	It looked as a pointed horseshoe. It was full daylight, and it had a lighter shade than the rest of the sky. There was no clouds at all	04/13/1999	04/26/1999
Open	09/23/1997 20:00	Rhinebeck (south of)	NY	USA	Triangle	2 sightings of apparently the same triangular object, moving above tree level at a very slow rate of speed with only a dull hum	01/03/1999	05/24/1999
Open	09/15/1997 20:00	Salem	OR	USA	Light	We saw a bright green object that looked like a comet or shooting star but it moved very slowly.	06/05/1999	06/23/1999
Open	09/28/1997 23:15	San Francisco	CA	USA	Triangle	flying-wing shape outlined by 12-14 lights. Apparent high altitude over- head east to west mvmnt. Appx. 9-12 moon widths	06/18/1999	07/05/1999
Open	09/23/1997 22:30	Brewster	NY	USA	Triangle	Triangle Shaped-Matte finished flying object "floating" across the sky	08/30/1999	08/30/1999
Open	09/18/1997 04:15	West Manchester	OH	USA	Changing	My husband and I saw an object hovering in the sky north of our home at 4:15 a.m. E.S.T. September 18,1997, Thursday. It looked like a	09/21/1999	10/02/1999
Open	09/17/1997 18:00	Delilah Lookout (Sequoia N F)	CA	USA	Disk	Right around dusk, my girlfriend and I had just finished dinner in the fire lookout tower. She spotted something to the north, over a m	11/15/1999	11/17/1999
Open	09/24/1997 14:30	Muskegon	MI	USA	Disk	Saw from a car. Metallic saucer about 1 mile away.	04/04/2000	04/15/2000
Open	09/23/1997 20:00	Hyde Park	VT	USA	Fireball	Glowing green ball skirting along grounds of house	05/24/2000	06/06/2000
Open	09/09/1997 16:00	Las Vegas	NV	USA	Formation	My wife and I watched 3 craft fly accross the airport grounds headed towards our hotel and become stationary above us.	06/30/2000	07/11/2000
Open	09/02/1997 21:45	Algonac	MI	USA	Unknown	Starlike craft makes a pass three time faster than any sattelite, horizon to horizon in less than 15 seconds,Algonac, MI.	07/18/2000	07/23/2000
Open	09/15/1997 15:00	Colorado Springs	CO	USA	Rectangle	The object was about one hundred and fifty feet long, and fifty feet wide. It was greyish black in color, I think the object was about	12/30/2000	01/03/2001
Open	09/23/1997 19:00	Denison	IA	USA	Disk	After seeing the SR71 Blackbird I saw a saucer shaped craft hoovering silently.	02/15/2001	02/18/2001
Open	09/27/1997 05:00	Crestwood	KY	USA	Disk	A big disk with red and green lights on the rim was coming closer to the ground, it's body was the color of the sky.	05/03/2001	08/05/2001
Open	09/18/1997 22:15	Doha (Qatar)		Qatar	Circle	UFO sighting In a Gulf Desert	06/16/2001	08/05/2001
Open	09/03/1997 11:10	Beloit	WI	USA			10/19/2001	12/22/2022
Open	09/25/1997 02:00	Toronto (Canada)	ON	Canada	Light	bright round object zig zaging back and forth up and down over lake ontario canada side.	12/07/2001	01/11/2002
Open	09/02/1997 21:45	Portland	OR	USA	Formation	Four pink/orange lights in V formation flying over metro Portland	06/21/2002	07/01/2002
Open	09/15/1997 22:00	Foley	MN	USA	Unknown	strange bright light fades away	07/31/2002	08/16/2002
Open	09/15/1997 22:30	Woodstock	CT	USA	Sphere	Bright, fast low flying object crossed field of view at close range during drive at night	01/17/2003	03/21/2003
Open	09/15/1997 17:00	Comfort	TX	USA	Cylinder	1 cylinder object- highly polished silver. Joined after brief time by another- from thin air! Then both moved away and vanished!	05/29/2003	06/03/2003
Open	09/15/1997 22:00	West Milton (north of)	OH	USA	Light	Red blinking high in the sky leading the way.	09/12/2003	09/12/2003
Open	09/01/1997 20:00	Pleasant View	TN	USA	Fireball	large white fireball or super flare...	10/17/2003	10/31/2003
Open	09/25/1997 23:00	Toronto (Canada)	ON	Canada	Light	reddish orange lights popping in and out of sky randomly all in different spots	02/09/2004	02/12/2004
Open	09/30/1997 22:00	Madison	WI	USA	Light	Strange light inside Lake Monona	02/14/2004	03/02/2004
Open	09/15/1997 20:40	Sammamish	WA	USA	Unknown	I looked North toward Mt. Baker, I saw a bright light that hoovered for about 15 seconds, then shot up, then to my left, then disappear	04/09/2004	04/27/2004
Open	09/27/1997 23:00	Egan	SD	USA	Other	The Weirdest Thing I Have Ever Seen	02/17/2005	02/22/2005
Open	09/16/1997 19:00	Minneapolis	MN	USA	Other	Morphing Triangle	06/12/2005	06/20/2005
Open	09/15/1997 20:00	Toronto (Canada)	ON	Canada	Chevron	This object was transparent except its outline chevron shape	10/18/2005	10/20/2005
Open	09/15/1997 09:00	Sherman Oaks	CA	USA	Cigar	Cigar shaped object in Sherman Oaks	11/15/2005	12/16/2005
Open	09/30/1997 20:00	Nova Scotia (Canada)	NS	Canada	Light	Single light resembling a star, but moving spuratically downwards and sideways.	07/28/2006	10/30/2006
Open	09/01/1997 23:00	Albany	ME	USA	Light	Star makes right angle turns, speeds away.	01/17/2007	02/01/2007
Open	09/15/1997 20:00	Angola	IN	USA	Circle	Tire shaped object sighted in the woods of indiana had no lights and moved with purpose.	02/18/2007	02/24/2007
Open	09/07/1997 12:00	Gulf of Mexico	LA	USA	Cigar	Mercury colored Cigar shaped USO surfaced near Oil Plarform in Gulf of Mexico	12/26/2008	01/10/2009
Open	09/22/1997 20:00	Solomons Island	MD	USA	Disk	Close up at twilight, Stationary UFO.	06/09/2009	08/05/2009
Open	09/01/1997 22:30	Carlsbad	CA	USA	Orb	Round orb of light seen in back yard.between apr.and oct 1997.	08/31/2009	12/12/2009
Open	09/15/1997 00:00	Houston	TX	USA	Disk	Beautiful silver-colored flying saucer about the size of a round 18 wheeler with turquoise lights around perimeter seen.clearly in '97.	07/13/2010	07/19/2010
Open	09/15/1997 20:00	Bellevue	WA	USA		Phone call from a purported alien living on earth willing to share his views re: himself and our civ.. ((NUFORC Note: See Note. PD))	07/23/2010	07/28/2010
Open	09/18/1997 20:15	Panama City	FL	USA	Unknown	Looked like stars in the sky so far up/moveing fast	03/07/2012	03/13/2012
Open	09/15/1997 20:00	Kent	WA	USA	Sphere	Was looking thru a telescope at the moon in 1997 month is not exact. However my cousin and I were looking at the moon with a telescope.	03/16/2017	03/17/2017
Open	09/15/1997 20:00	Santa Fe	NM	USA	Light	Saw white dot of light moving in zig-zag motion over mountains outside of Santa Fe, NM.	11/07/2017	11/09/2017
Open	09/19/1997 00:00	Garden Grove	CA	USA	Rectangle	Around 6:30 PM I was walking through a Vons Pavilions parking lot when I looked up and saw 4 black objects near the ground. 3 of those	10/15/2019	12/01/2019
Open	09/05/1997 21:30	Maryland Heights	MO	USA	Oval	It was shaped like a octagon	03/12/2022	04/22/2022
Open	09/01/1997 23:00	Jonesboro	GA	USA	Disk	2 friends and I saw a metallic flying saucer shaped craft up close at night.	12/25/2022	03/06/2023
Open	09/17/1997 00:30	Birmingham	Birmingham	United Kingdom	Disk	I saw it earlier in the day on derelict land 3 4 beings around it.then it took off about 12 30 am slowly climbing above the houses move	03/07/2023	04/09/2023
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Image