CaseUnknown1997
Abilene, TX, USA
Saw a bright light before grocery shopping and disappeared and took off.
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 (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-19
- Where
- Abilene, TX, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 32.449, -99.733 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-abilene-tx-1997-729560
Wave
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 42 reports logged in Abilene, TX.
- This case is one of 77 Texas reports filed in 1997.
Report
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