North Zulch, TX, USA
((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Mars. PD)) I was outside last night packing our truck at our ranch in Texas…
Report quality: Low35/100
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
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-10-16
- Where
- North Zulch, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 30.918, -96.108 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-north-zulch-tx-2005-6d9d8e
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- North Zulch, TX has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 218 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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