CaseSphere2016

Lakehills, TX, USA

Large spheres of light appear over Medina Lake

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-09-15
Where
Lakehills, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
29.605, -98.943 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lakehills-tx-2016-6e3a79
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…

In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Lakehills, TX.
  • This case is one of 159 Texas reports filed in 2016.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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