CaseCigar1998
Houston, TX, USA
APRX.20,000 FT I THOUGHT IT WAS A JET BUT WHEN THE SUN SHINED ON IT IT WAS A LONG SHINNY SHAPE WITH A POINT AT THE FRONT,A LARGE GLOW A
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-02-24
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 MIN
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-houston-tx-1998-e35392
In context
- One of 410 documented reports from Houston, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 99 sightings in 1998.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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