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
Part of a wave
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
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 daysReport
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