Garland, TX, USA
I had just got off of work at 1:15 a.m. I was driving down to the Hypermart USA because it was the only store open 24 hrs. I notice thi
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-01
- Where
- Garland, TX, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 40 seconds
- Geo
- 32.913, -96.639 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-garland-tx-1997-0afad6
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
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…
In context
- Garland, TX has 40 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
- The 1990s skewed 1.4% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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