Childress (approx 20 miles north of, TX, USA
A bright light, which I thought was a "falling star", suddenly leveled off at my altitude, veered to the north, then came directly at m
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-29
- Where
- Childress (approx 20 miles north of, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 34.426, -100.204 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-childress-approx-20-miles-north-of-tx-1997-dde3d9
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
- Childress (approx 20 miles north of, TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 77 reports came from Texas in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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