CaseCircle1988
Odessa, TX, USA
Driving at night on loop saw circular blinking lights.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-10-15
- Where
- Odessa, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 31.846, -102.368 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-odessa-tx-1988-4021c2
In context
- Odessa, TX shows up 29 times across the archive.
- 16 reports came from Texas in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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