UFOMYST
CaseOval2004

Houston, TX, USA

White oval moving in still sky from near downtown to over Astrodome area. Did not rise above clouds and did not move above clouds so no

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-07-13
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
oval-over-houston-tx-2004-1bd5cd
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

July 2004 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 203 Texas reports filed in 2004.
  • Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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