Caselight1997

Houston, TX, USA

My wife and I witnessed around 10 to 13 amber lights flying in a 'V' formation at a high rate of speed over Houston.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-28
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
light-over-houston-tx-1997-82fb15
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Houston, TX reports filed in April 1997.

In context

  • Houston, TX shows up 410 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%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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