UFOMYST
CaseSphere1989

Dayton, TX, USA

Texas, 1989, Orb in upper Earth atmosphere--ridiculous movements--impossible speeds

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-08-15
Where
Dayton, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
30.047, -94.885 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-dayton-tx-1989-40eaab
Wave

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In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Dayton, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 15 sightings in 1989.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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