Dallas, TX, USA
Looking East, saw bright red light descendingdown thru cloud layer, then back up into clouds,repeating twice. Red light had a diamond s
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-18
- Where
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 32.783, -96.807 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-dallas-tx-1997-b3b4dd
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 208 reports logged in Dallas, TX.
- This case is one of 77 Texas reports filed in 1997.
- Diamond craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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