Houston (west of), TX, USA
West of Houston, Texas on December 22, 1965, about 45 bus passengers reported standing to view a formation of objects, followed by a flash, all within about three minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-12-22
- Where
- Houston (west of), TX, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-houston-west-of-tx-1965-f1f860
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
- Houston (west of), TX has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 11 reports from Texas.
- The 1960s skewed 1.8% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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