CaseOval1999
Houston, TX, USA
Flying object similar to blimp shaped like rounded football, illuminated from within.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-16
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-houston-tx-1999-5a0736
Local cluster
Local cluster
October 1999 was a busy month for Houston, TX: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 410 reports logged in Houston, TX.
- This case is one of 148 Texas reports filed in 1999.
- Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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