Kingsville, TX, USA
A cigar shaped craft about the size of my pinky at arms lenght was seen traveling due north spotted over Kingsville, Tx. Craft traveli
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-22
- Where
- Kingsville, TX, USA
- Shape
- cigar
- Duration
- 5-6 Seconds
- Geo
- 27.516, -97.856 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-kingsville-tx-1997-576cdb
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
- One of 8 documented reports from Kingsville, 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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