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
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.
- 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
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 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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