CaseLight1996
The Woodlands, TX, USA
Saw bright orange light (size of Venus) with diffuse and changing orange haze 1/2 size of moon around central light.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-18
- Where
- The Woodlands, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.158, -95.489 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-the-woodlands-tx-1996-86192c
In context
- The Woodlands, TX shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 47 reports came from Texas in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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