Galveston, TX, USA
Crossing over the causeway bridge into Galveston, i noticed what i thought at first was a advertisement banner that is pulled behind an
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-14
- Where
- Galveston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 29.301, -94.798 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-galveston-tx-2020-6ac42d
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
- Galveston, TX shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 299 reports came from Texas in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.