Houston, TX, USA
UFO sighting on night of meteor showers
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-12
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-houston-tx-2009-d8b384
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
Houston, TX logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2009.
In context
- One of 410 documented reports from Houston, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 266 sightings in 2009.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.4%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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