UFOMYST
CaseOther1978

Richardson, TX, USA

Elongated wedge shaped UFO, smooth silver in color, in the daytime.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-04-15
Where
Richardson, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1 to 2 minutes
Geo
32.948, -96.730 · exact
Slug
other-over-richardson-tx-1978-74a7b8
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 23 documented reports from Richardson, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 25 sightings in 1978.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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