Galveston, TX, USA
I was very delighted to finally find a place to report this object we encountered that evening. My brother, cousin and I were aboard my
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-12
- Where
- Galveston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 29.301, -94.798 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-galveston-tx-2004-e64608
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
- This is one of 35 reports logged in Galveston, TX.
- This case is one of 203 Texas reports filed in 2004.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.