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
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…
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 daysReport
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