CaseLight1957
Houston (Ellington AFB), TX, USA
A witness near Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, reported a small, extremely fast, silent light making a sharp turn before speeding away horizontally, in about three seconds in October 1957.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (191 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-10-15
- Where
- Houston (Ellington AFB), TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-houston-ellington-afb-tx-1957-8c57eb
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Houston (Ellington AFB), TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 13 sightings in 1957.
- Light sightings ran at 11.5% during the 1950s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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