UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Bracketville, TX, USA

I was deer hunting when i saw it . The sun hadnt came up yet when i noticed what i thought was a star in the horizon , it was moving an

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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 could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-17
Where
Bracketville, TX, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15 mins
Geo
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Slug
cigar-over-bracketville-tx-1997-b4beb7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Bracketville, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 77 sightings in 1997.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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