Houston, TX, USA
flew by it, 300 meters away, it was floating not moving at 15000 ft, looked directly across at it.
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-01-24
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 20 to 30 sec
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-houston-tx-2011-efcce9
Part of a wave
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
- Houston, TX has 410 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 267 reports from Texas.
- The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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