UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Mesquite, TX, USA

hoverd overhead about 30 seconds then took of north at very high speed

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-15
Where
Mesquite, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
32.767, -96.599 · exact
Slug
circle-over-mesquite-tx-1997-9f72a2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 24 documented reports from Mesquite, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 77 sightings in 1997.
  • Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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