UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Gladewater, TX, USA

At approximately 1:15 AM (CST), five individuals spotted a round ball approximately a football field's distance above the trees.

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-28
Where
Gladewater, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
32.537, -94.943 · exact
Slug
circle-over-gladewater-tx-2012-ee97fd
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Gladewater, TX shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 266 reports came from Texas in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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