UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Dallas, TX, USA

My friend and I were driving home from a date, I opened the sunroof to view the moon lite sky. As I was starring at the stars somethi

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 (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-15
Where
Dallas, TX, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
32.783, -96.807 · exact
Slug
light-over-dallas-tx-1997-049f92
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Dallas, TX has 208 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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