El Paso, TX, USA
Unknown stationary shiny sphere
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-19
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1hr15min
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-el-paso-tx-2005-af3276
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…
Local cluster
May 2005 was a busy month for El Paso, TX: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 123 reports logged in El Paso, TX.
- This case is one of 218 Texas reports filed in 2005.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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