UFOMYST
CaseOval1978

Del Rio, TX, USA

I was driving back to base when I spotted a white light hovering over the runway.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-30
Where
Del Rio, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
few mins
Geo
29.363, -100.897 · exact
Slug
oval-over-del-rio-tx-1978-849ab0
Wave

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In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Del Rio, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 25 sightings in 1978.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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