CaseCigar1997
Cleveland, TX, USA
saw 7 objects hoving in the sky for at least and hr ..theysaw some kind of planes chasing
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-19
- Where
- Cleveland, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1hr
- Geo
- 30.341, -95.085 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-cleveland-tx-1997-2f709d
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
- Cleveland, TX shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 77 reports came from Texas in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 2.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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