Houston, TX, USA
1997 Houston, Tx., midnite - 1a.m., observed silent, dark, Chevron shaped object, gliding very slowly overhead, tremendous size.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-01
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3-5 mins
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-houston-tx-1997-258f22
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Houston, TX has 410 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
- The 1990s skewed 1.3% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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