Carmine, TX, USA
At 9:48 pm around Feb 5th a Orange solid glowing basketball size object was flying 30,000 feet or more moving at a constant speed.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-05
- Where
- Carmine, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 30.149, -96.686 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-carmine-tx-2017-43a16a
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
- Carmine, TX shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 127 reports came from Texas in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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