highway 78 between Bailey & Bonham, Texas, TX, USA
We were in a car traveling northbound when I noticed a shiny, silver sphere in the northern sky approximately 45 degrees above the hori
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-19
- Where
- highway 78 between Bailey & Bonham, Texas, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- approx. 2 min.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- sphere-over-highway-78-between-bailey-bonham-texas-tx-2006-9bbc19
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in highway 78 between Bailey & Bonham, Texas, TX.
- This case is one of 231 Texas reports filed in 2006.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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