Crystal Beach, TX, USA
Spent a sunday in July 1967 at Crystal Beach with friends, at dusk I spotted what appeared to be a speed boat in the Gulf heading towar
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: 11700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-07-16
- Where
- Crystal Beach, TX, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3.25 hours
- Geo
- 29.457, -94.640 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-crystal-beach-tx-1967-bad931
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Crystal Beach, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 11 sightings in 1967.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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