CaseSphere2005

Pasadena, TX, USA

bright object going in and out of cloud formation

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-10
Where
Pasadena, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 min.
Geo
29.691, -95.209 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-pasadena-tx-2005-5f038e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Pasadena, TX shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from Texas in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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