Azle, TX, USA
Saw circle of flames that then reduced size to single light,travelled quickly across the sky and was followed by military fighter plane
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-10
- Where
- Azle, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 32.895, -97.546 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-azle-tx-1997-9efbc8
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
- This is one of 15 reports logged in Azle, TX.
- This case is one of 77 Texas reports filed in 1997.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.