CaseFireball1968
Winnie (near), TX, USA
was returning to Houston from Port Arthur...near Winnie....clear night....cloudless sky....emerged from car....studied sky....a
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-01
- Where
- Winnie (near), TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 29.820, -94.384 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-winnie-near-tx-1968-6d4477
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Winnie (near), TX.
- This case is one of 16 Texas reports filed in 1968.
- Fireball craft made up 2.5% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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