CaseLight1968
Baytown, TX, USA
A witness in Baytown, Texas reported a light that moved sharply downward, then sideways, then downward again toward the ground in August 1968, during a three-minute sighting.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (174 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-08-01
- Where
- Baytown, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 29.735, -94.977 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-baytown-tx-1968-d4768c
In context
- This is one of 24 reports logged in Baytown, TX.
- This case is one of 16 Texas reports filed in 1968.
- Light craft made up 11.3% of 1960s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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