CaseDisk1974
Merkel, TX, USA
Very high daylight disc moving south to north, with no deviation of course or altitude or speed.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-06-10
- Where
- Merkel, TX, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.471, -100.013 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-merkel-tx-1974-9bba50
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Merkel, TX.
- This case is one of 13 Texas reports filed in 1974.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.