CaseLight1961
Richardson, TX, USA
In 1961, a witness in Richardson, Texas, reported a bright light performing maneuvers in the sky before being pursued by jet aircraft, over about twenty minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (161 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-06-15
- Where
- Richardson, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 32.948, -96.730 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-richardson-tx-1961-9d9199
In context
- Richardson, TX has 23 sightings on file here.
- 1961 brought 6 reports from Texas.
- The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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