Alvin, TX, USA
Star Shooting towards earth and stops in mid air and make a 90 degree turn and slowly moves out of sight.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-29
- Where
- Alvin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 29.424, -95.244 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-alvin-tx-2011-4c3604
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…
In context
- Alvin, TX shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 267 reports came from Texas in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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