Outside of El Paso, TX, USA
I was coming to El Paso Texas from Hobbs New Mexico, I was on Carlsbad highway entering the Guadalupe mountains when I saw a huge light
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-12-21
- Where
- Outside of El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15min
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- other-over-outside-of-el-paso-tx-1978-13f7d4
Part of a wave
Colares & Operação Prato
Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil
The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…
In context
- Outside of El Paso, TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 25 reports came from Texas in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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