UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

Houston, TX, USA

A matte black aircraft with a large red light on the back hovers for 5 minutes then flys away at insane speed into space.

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 (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-04
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
other-over-houston-tx-2009-e64257
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 410 reports logged in Houston, TX.
  • This case is one of 266 Texas reports filed in 2009.
  • 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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