CaseOther1997

Greenville, TX, USA

AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A AIRPLANE BUT THE CRAFT STARTED TO SLOW DOWN MY SON WAS GETTING OFF THE BUS IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE, AND HE AS

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-10
Where
Greenville, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
20mins
Geo
33.138, -96.111 · exact
Slug
other-over-greenville-tx-1997-7e3527
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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

  • Greenville, TX shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 77 reports came from Texas in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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