El Paso, TX, USA
Witnesses in El Paso, Texas, reported a lighted chevron-shaped object crossing the night sky during a 15-minute sighting in April 1967.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-04-15
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-el-paso-tx-1967-f02f3b
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- El Paso, TX shows up 123 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Texas in 1967.
- In the 1960s, 0.9% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
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