CaseCigar1997
Aurora, TX, USA
Slow moving cigar shaped airship crashed in Aurora, Texas
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-17
- Where
- Aurora, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.061, -97.503 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-aurora-tx-1997-91703d
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
- Aurora, TX has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
- The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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