CaseSphere2000
Houston, TX, USA
While taking-off in a 737, I saw an object that looked like a large chrome ball-bearing sitting above a cloud bed.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-16
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 SECONDS
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-houston-tx-2000-3089c3
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Houston, TX reports filed in March 2000.
In context
- Houston, TX shows up 410 times across the archive.
- 149 reports came from Texas in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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