CaseDiamond1996
Odessa, TX, USA
Driving down busy street at night, quarter of mile or so, thought we saw several helicopters in sky. Drove right up to it and under it
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-10-20
- Where
- Odessa, TX, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 31.846, -102.368 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-odessa-tx-1996-29c1fc
In context
- This is one of 29 reports logged in Odessa, TX.
- This case is one of 47 Texas reports filed in 1996.
- Diamond craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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