UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Houston, TX, USA

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information about her presumed sighting. PD))

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-10-24
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-houston-tx-2017-471b7f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Houston, TX in October 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Houston, TX has 410 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 127 reports from Texas.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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