UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2008

Houston, TX, USA

Flashing object at the sky of Houston, July 3,2008. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Jupiter in the southeastern sky?? 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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 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
2008-07-03
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
~1 hour
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-houston-tx-2008-ca8007
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Houston, TX in July 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Houston, TX has 410 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 367 reports from Texas.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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