CaseCircle1971
Houston (near), TX, USA
A witness near Houston, Texas reported a circular object emitting a beam of light that appeared to penetrate through a home's roof and ceiling, during a forty-five-minute sighting in September 1971.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (198 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-09-15
- Where
- Houston (near), TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 45 min.
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-houston-near-tx-1971-d7699c
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Houston (near), TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 8 sightings in 1971.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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