UFOMYST
CaseCircle2004

Galveston, TX, USA

We were fishing off the North Jetties and my father in law pointed up and said, "What's that?" I then looked up to my left and could s

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-31
Where
Galveston, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
29.301, -94.798 · exact
Slug
circle-over-galveston-tx-2004-be5ecb
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…

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In context

  • One of 35 documented reports from Galveston, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 203 sightings in 2004.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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