CaseChevron2008

Houston, TX, USA

black slow moving V shape object over houston s george bush airport

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-17
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
20 min
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-houston-tx-2008-6e0732
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Houston, TX reports filed in August 2008.

In context

  • Houston, TX shows up 410 times across the archive.
  • 367 reports came from Texas in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.2% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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