Houston, MS, USA
Rapid moving craft moved into stationary position seemed to fire something downward then something shot upward towards it.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-02
- Where
- Houston, MS, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- 33.898, -88.999 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-houston-ms-2020-ba653f
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Houston, MS.
- This case is one of 27 Mississippi reports filed in 2020.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.