CaseLight1997

Houston, TX, USA

3 lights in line to V formation moving southwest.One light moved erraticaly and split making 180 degree turn

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-02
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
a minute
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
light-over-houston-tx-1997-5a6f33
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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

  • One of 410 documented reports from Houston, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 77 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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