Katy, TX, USA
Objects were flying together in a pattern and then one of the objects verged away slightly and then came back.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-13
- Where
- Katy, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 29.786, -95.824 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-katy-tx-2017-29e5dc
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
- Katy, TX shows up 61 times across the archive.
- 127 reports came from Texas in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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