Galveston, TX, USA
Bright white light viewed from 1 mile for 3 min. with 20x100mm binoculars which passed overhead/no noise.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-12
- Where
- Galveston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 29.301, -94.798 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-galveston-tx-2011-e41bf7
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
- One of 35 documented reports from Galveston, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 267 sightings in 2011.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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