Thelma (south of), TX, USA
A hunter near Thelma, Texas reported a disk-shaped object that circled, landed, then took off straight up out of sight, over about five minutes on November 14, 1954.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-11-14
- Where
- Thelma (south of), TX, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 31.583, -96.611 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-thelma-south-of-tx-1954-c9d41b
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Thelma (south of), TX.
- This case is one of 6 Texas reports filed in 1954.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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