UFOMYST
Casesphere1997

Houston, TX, USA

SMALL GLOBE, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A TENNIS BALL, ORANGE/GOLD IN COLOR. SIGHTING WAS MADE AT NIGHT, WITH NAKED EYE. OBJECT FLEW THROUGH T

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-28
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
sphere
Duration
2 MIN
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-houston-tx-1997-ccd0d6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Houston, TX shows up 410 times across the archive.
  • 77 reports came from Texas in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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