Wichita Falls (Sheppard AFB), TX, USA
A bright green light appeared low on the horizon. Made a arc movement from the northern horizon up about 15 degrees and went down over
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-23
- Where
- Wichita Falls (Sheppard AFB), TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 33.914, -98.493 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wichita-falls-sheppard-afb-tx-1997-cf437a
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…
In context
- Wichita Falls (Sheppard AFB), TX has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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