CaseFireball1975
Highlands, TX, USA
Ball of light like a roman candle
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1975-08-16
- Where
- Highlands, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 29.819, -95.056 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-highlands-tx-1975-c5c46e
In context
- Highlands, TX has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1975 brought 22 reports from Texas.
- The 1970s skewed 2.6% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.