CaseSphere2016

Laredo, TX, USA

Last night, I was at my back yard and while in a phone call, I saw coming a bright orange sphere flying towards North. As its very com

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-02-09
Where
Laredo, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
non stop
Geo
27.506, -99.508 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-laredo-tx-2016-9ce08f
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 15 reports logged in Laredo, 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.

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