Lakehills, TX, USA
Orange spheres appear near Medina Lake, blinking on and off for several minutes.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-13
- Where
- Lakehills, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 29.605, -98.943 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lakehills-tx-2016-ccec98
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
- Lakehills, TX has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 159 reports from Texas.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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