Houston, TX, USA
Circle floating in and out of clouds on a dead still day at about 2000 feet. Near Hobby airport departure lanes (surprisingly close to
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-13
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-houston-tx-2004-307adb
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 — 4 Houston, TX reports filed in July 2004.
In context
- Houston, TX shows up 410 times across the archive.
- 203 reports came from Texas in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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