CaseSphere1988
Splendora, TX, USA
my friend and i witnessed a reddish-orange sphere in the sky. it disappeared and a few minutes later the light went over with helicopt
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-08-20
- Where
- Splendora, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Geo
- 30.233, -95.161 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-splendora-tx-1988-0fa369
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Splendora, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 16 sightings in 1988.
- Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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