Schertz, TX, USA
Happened very quickly like some type of explosion. ((NUFORC Note: Flare, or reflection, from Iridium satellite?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2021-03-03
- Where
- Schertz, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 29.552, -98.270 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-schertz-tx-2021-e559a2
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
- Schertz, TX shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 132 reports came from Texas in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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