CaseCigar1963
Houston, TX, USA
A witness reported a cigar-shaped object over north Houston, Texas in June 1963, before construction of the current airport, in a sighting lasting about five minutes.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-06-01
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-houston-tx-1963-304a19
In context
- One of 410 documented reports from Houston, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 5 sightings in 1963.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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