Texas City, TX, USA
While making a store delivery, I was exiting my truck and I saw a light yellow sphere appear then disappear and it was moving fast.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-08
- Where
- Texas City, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 29.384, -94.903 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-texas-city-tx-2015-87f127
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
- Texas City, TX shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 184 reports came from Texas in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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