San Antonio, TX, USA
Orange orbs flying over New Years fireworks in San Antonio.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-01
- Where
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 29.424, -98.494 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-antonio-tx-2020-89b01f
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of San Antonio, TX in January 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Antonio, TX has 268 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 299 reports from Texas.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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