Fort Hood (Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Facility), TX, USA
Several orange glowing objects resembling mercury vapor lamps were seen hovering, maneuvering, making high speed directional changes.
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-15
- Where
- Fort Hood (Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Facility), TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 25 min.
- Geo
- 31.255, -97.709 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-fort-hood-belton-lake-outdoor-recreation-facility-tx-1997-72c9a3
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
- Fort Hood (Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Facility), TX has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.