CaseCircle1997
Kilgore, TX, USA
Two police officers, out on a hunting expedition, witness a dramatically bright "fireball" close to their position.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-01
- Where
- Kilgore, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 32.386, -94.876 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-kilgore-tx-1997-297a2e
Wave
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 6 reports logged in Kilgore, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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