UFOMYST
CaseCircle2006

Highlands, TX, USA

the object was more fast than an air plane. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. Possible hoax. PD))

Report quality: Low2/100

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2006-11-16
Where
Highlands, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
40 sec
Geo
29.819, -95.056 · exact
Slug
circle-over-highlands-tx-2006-dea7ed
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

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In context

  • Highlands, TX shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 231 reports came from Texas in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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