El Paso, TX, USA
I saw what appeared papers swirling high in the atmosphere. They changed into two huge white kite like objects which then turned into
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-31
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-el-paso-tx-1997-c85fee
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
- This is one of 123 reports logged in El Paso, TX.
- This case is one of 77 Texas reports filed in 1997.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.