NUFORC Sightings Report: 01/1997

This document is a compilation of UFO sighting reports submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) for the month of January 1997. The report lists numerous individual accounts from various locations globally, including the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Lebanon, and Germany. The sightings describe a wide variety of phenomena, including objects identified as disks, triangles, spheres, fireballs, cylinders, diamonds, and lights. Many reports detail specific behaviors such as hovering, rapid movement, changing shape, or emitting light beams. Several witnesses mention specific environmental conditions, such as fog or clear night skies, and some reports note potential physical or electromagnetic effects, such as car engines being affected or power lines being leached. The document serves as a chronological log of these civilian-reported events, providing dates, times, locations, and brief descriptions of the observed phenomena. The reports range from brief, single-sentence descriptions to more detailed accounts of personal experiences, such as a witness in Long Beach describing a ball of white light in a hotel room, or a report from Altus AFB regarding an object breaking up over Oklahoma. The data is presented as a raw collection of reports without official analysis or conclusions.