CaseCircle1997
Kilgore, TX, USA
Dear Sir, In reference to the sighting in east texas. I spoke with with my friend y((name deleted)) (903 XXX-XXXX).
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-01
- Where
- Kilgore, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 32.386, -94.876 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-kilgore-tx-1997-c1b47a
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
- Kilgore, TX shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 77 reports came from Texas in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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