Houston, TX, USA
I was driving home from the Univ. of Houston and was at the light near Foley's warehouse (still in same place) and looked up to my fron
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-09-20
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-houston-tx-1973-f5d42c
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- This is one of 410 reports logged in Houston, TX.
- This case is one of 24 Texas reports filed in 1973.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 1970s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Report
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