CaseLight1972
El Paso, TX, USA
A witness in El Paso, Texas reported a large object described as a mothership releasing a smaller craft before disappearing, during a twelve-minute sighting in July 1972.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (170 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-07-15
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 12 min.
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-el-paso-tx-1972-48b190
In context
- One of 123 documented reports from El Paso, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 17 sightings in 1972.
- Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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