UFOMYST
CaseOther2005

Baytown, TX, USA

vertical and horizontal flares moving slowly in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Both photos are of contrails against a clear sky. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-01-16
Where
Baytown, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 min. ?
Geo
29.735, -94.977 · exact
Slug
other-over-baytown-tx-2005-a8ca69
Wave

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In context

  • Baytown, TX has 24 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 218 reports from Texas.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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