Pampa, TX, USA
Had UFO come within 30 to 40 feet from us. Then took off very very fast into space. No doubt there is other life out there, none at all
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-09-15
- Where
- Pampa, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.536, -100.960 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-pampa-tx-1978-11b25d
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In context
- Pampa, TX shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 25 reports came from Texas in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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