CaseOther2008

Houston, TX, USA

They were shaped like geese would fly. We were lying in the back yard watching the stars and it came from south to north. My son said l

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-16
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
20seconds
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
other-over-houston-tx-2008-825ce1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 410 reports logged in Houston, TX.
  • This case is one of 367 Texas reports filed in 2008.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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