UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

El Paso, TX, USA

UFO with five army helicopters following it over FT BLISS.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-11
Where
El Paso, TX, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5hours
Geo
31.759, -106.487 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-el-paso-tx-1997-7529bc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

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    Open wave →

In context

  • El Paso, TX has 123 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
  • The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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