Conroe, TX, USA
The date was early 1947 before Arnold's "flying saucers". I was ten years old, ridding in the front seat of our car next to the passan
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-01-10
- Where
- Conroe, TX, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3 to4 sec.
- Geo
- 30.312, -95.456 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-conroe-tx-1947-4cbe65
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- Conroe, TX shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Texas in 1947.
- In the 1940s, 7.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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