El Paso, TX, USA
it was night so i couldnt see all the detail on the gigantic craft.i could tell it was probably black & rectangular mixed w/an oval sha
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-01
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- maybe 20sec.
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-el-paso-tx-1997-0641be
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
- One of 123 documented reports from El Paso, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 77 sightings in 1997.
- Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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