UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Tehuacan (Mexico), Mexico

Oval object with half globe on the top and white-shiny haze around it

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-15
Where
Tehuacan (Mexico), Mexico
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
18.464, -97.397 · exact
Slug
oval-over-tehuacan-mexico-1997-51787b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Tehuacan (Mexico), Mexico in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Mexico logged 3 sightings in 1997.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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