Pearland, TX, USA
Bright Fireball-like object appeared/disappeared for 6 seconds over suburb of Houston at 3:04am
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-27
- Where
- Pearland, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- seconds
- Geo
- 29.564, -95.286 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pearland-tx-2008-15c7fb
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
- Pearland, TX has 19 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 367 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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