CaseOther2016

Texas City, TX, USA

Saw a gold Y shaped stationary light in the Western sky around midnight.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-18
Where
Texas City, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
29.384, -94.903 · exact
Slug
other-over-texas-city-tx-2016-25c4bf
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

  • Texas City, TX has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 159 reports from Texas.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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