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Texas · Harris County · Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands Metro
Houston is a major city in Texas with a population of 2,300,419. Residents earn $62,894 per year, which is 16% below the national average.
3.2
/5.0
B
Good
2,300,419
Population
3,590/sq mi density
$62,894
Median Income
$41,142 per capita
$253,400
Home Value
$261,976 Zillow
$1,313
Median Rent
31.6% income on rent
72°F
Avg Temperature
301 sunny days/yr
1,072
Violent Crime/100K
4,319 property/100K
B
Overall
3.2 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
B
Economy
3.4 / 5.0
$62,894 median income, 4.5% unemployment
A
Affordability
4.4 / 5.0
$253,400 home value, $1,313/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
1,072 violent crimes/100K (182% above avg)
B+
Education
3.9 / 5.0
36.0% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings Near Houston, TX
200 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Houston, TX.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Houston (katy area), TX | 2014 | Three lights blue/green red and white flying in a triangle pattern around my neighborhood for an hour. Shape is sphere like |
| Houston, TX | 2014 | Small white ball over Houston. |
| Houston, TX | 2014 | Silver disc on the right of me and then golden disc on the left of me. |
| Houston, TX | 2014 | Four silent triangular shaped UFOs spotted flying in formation over central Houston. |
| Houston, TX | 2014 | Yellow & blinking green; then solid green and red. Hovered; fast vertical & horizontal up and downs, turns and arches complex maneuvers |
| Houston, TX | 2014 | Shooting ticket type of craft, high in the night sky, which seemed to take off like a sci fi space ship going into light speed. |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | Large qrange/red circle appeares and disappears in the Houston sky. |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | While watching the Super Moon one craft appeared in sky and went to a point in the high southern sky and disapeared at a certain point |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | Red light and circular shape. |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | 2/13/2013 19:20 tx 5 minutes satellite looking object with crazy turns |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | Bright blue orb shot fast across the sky. No fade, no trail, no sound. |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | Two sets of lights in the night sky. |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | orange globe, closup |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | Round bright light. |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | Falling light then vanished. |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | Photographed, recognized after the fact. |
| Houston, TX | 2013 | Red/orange fireballs in Houston sky. |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Orange sphere seen for about 4 minutes |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Yellowish /Orange object falling from the sky then changing direction. |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Green ball of fire falling from sky. |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | 2 dark stealthy orbs silently cruised above Houston while rotating around each other |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Houston Fireball Triangle |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | About 9 red glowing objects going up into night sky formed lines, then triangles, then disappeared. |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Stationery light in the sky |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | A flash of green light, fire trail in the sky and no reports on the news of a plane exploding, etc. |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Falling teardrop-looking light of different colors. |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | UFO spotted in Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Three dim lights traveling through the sky. We looked through a scope and could not see an air craft. ((NUFORC Note: Aircraft?? PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Never seen anything like this |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | Day Light UFO Over Katy, TX, 16:40 Central Time, Fire Ball lighter than sun materialized then disappeared. |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | I saw unexplained objects not moving for about an hour, with bright lights. ((NUFORC Note: Jupiter and Venus. PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | I saw 2 unidentified objects flying at night . |
| Houston, TX | 2012 | 4 jets circling a mysterious object |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | Orange Orb/Ball near Downtown Houston. |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | white shining light over Houston,TX |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | It was bright circle that flew very fast and below airplane level |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | I saw 3 softly glowing, unblinking orange lights in a triangle formation as it flew without a sound by quickly. |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | Green light in the sky, Houston, TX |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | Crescent Shaped UFO Passes over Houston November 2011 |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | In a flash it was gone. |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | Very bright object moving all around quickly at times and slow at some times. |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | Stationary white light hovering in southwest region of Houston, Texas. |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | flew by it, 300 meters away, it was floating not moving at 15000 ft, looked directly across at it. |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | Point of light in the sky; too bright for star, moving unlike aircraft, satellite, ba.loon or parachute. ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2011 | Transparent UFO Seen by 3 teenagers. |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | Outside playing basketball in driveway at night...saw a brightly lit craft that appeared to be a plane. Craft appeared to be moving v |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | 6/28/2010 houston tx saucer shape with 15 lights at perimeter 7/28/2010 hou tx triangle with cluster lights, |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | 2 spheres flying around each other, on a rotating axis |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | ufo sighting in houston,texas |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | strange black object over Houston TX on 12/22/10 |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | object changing shapes and colors over houston. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the object was a twinkling star. PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | I was driving to work during the day and saw a shiny flying object, that camoflaged with the sky and disappeared instantly. |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | 7-10 Orange/Red Lights seen, blackberry battery drained |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | Orange lights seen over the Houston area traveling east to west in pairs. |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | 11/1/10 11:00am. Houston,Texas Duration: 5-minutes 6-silver metallic -balloons |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | Five Triangular shaped spacecraft seen over Memorial Park @ 8:30 pm Labor Day 9/06/10. |
| Houston, TX | 2010 | The UFO was a flying disc with green lights. |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | a flying object making circles around the moon for 20 minutes, Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | UFO sighting on night of meteor showers |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | I have never seen a light this kind ever in my life. it had to be a ufo. ((NUFORC Note: Probably Venus. PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | 3 witnesses--object looked like the moon but no moon tonight. I can see it glowing through the trees in neighbors backyard. To high in |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | It looked like the one from "race to witch mountain" and it came back a couple of times. |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | light over houston texas |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | Very bright light, idle, then shot off rapidly. |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | Things that are to take place in the days to come,will it be to late. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | A matte black aircraft with a large red light on the back hovers for 5 minutes then flys away at insane speed into space. |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | Strange object over Houston, Texas (midtown) on June 18, 2009 |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | In North Houston 3 family members and I witnessed 4 bright objects in a line formation heading southeast. About 30 sec later all object |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | On video'ing, and photographing, UFO's are positioned in front of our view of both Venus & Sirius. ((NUFORC Note: We disagree. PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | Oval shaped object, huge and very, very bright approx. 100 yards in front of my car. |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | Lights in the sky make themselves known. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sightings of satellites? PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | Multiple UFO Sightings Houston, Texas |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | Glowing green orb. |
| Houston, TX | 2009 | Glowing missile shaped object sited north of Houston IAH and heading towards earth. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | UFO PROB/FBI/CIA? 27 AUG 08 I was leaving work around 12:25 pm, 27 Aug 08, Ellington Fld, Houston, TX-- I was going home to evacuating |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Bright, light is stationery in the sky, then rapidly falls toward horizon |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Flying humanoid in houston? |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Daylight object passes by moon and makes random movements. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Flashing object at the sky of Houston, July 3񫺘. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Jupiter in the southeastern sky?? PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Extremely bright, cigar shaped object in the night sky near down town Houston. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | lit circle travling south to north across sky in 10-15 seconds in houston |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | I saw a spherical object hovering in the daytime sky that was pinkish in color. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | It took this long to find wedsite of the probe I saw in story above. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | They were shaped like geese would fly. We were lying in the back yard watching the stars and it came from south to north. My son said l |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Advanced flying machines in harris county. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | three changing color groups of lights hovering over rooftops |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Family has had several encounters over years with possible explanations regarding agenda, bovine blood use, and bdellium collection. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | black slow moving V shape object over houston s george bush airport |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Extremely Bright White object, Just like we saw at the beginning of the year, in Houston, when thousands saw it! |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Witnessed white floating object hovering and spinning slowly in the sky in Houston, Texas. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Light in the sky changing colors, moving very fast, dancing in one spot |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | one bright light noticed - three light travel together then split to for a perfect triangle. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Bright White light seen moving across Houston nighttime skies. |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Series of tall columns arorned with white lights and alternating on/off from left to right |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Two star-like objects were seen high in the sky both moving in one direction |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Saw four circular lights flying quickly in formation and then change formation, there was no sound, helipcopters circled around shortly |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Three triangular forms move quickly and in sync before disappearing, planes seemingly chasing it! |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | If I hadn't ran I've would've been abducted..again! |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | 05/29/2008 bule light headed SE. around 23:00 - 23:30 |
| Houston, TX | 2008 | Tonight I and my little girl saw what appeared to be flying orbs of light over Houston. The direction of each craft was had no apparent |
| Houston (near; in flight sighting), TX | 2007 | ((HOAX??)) ufo plus 4 oval metalic objects fling next to plane continental huston-tampa., nobody else semms to noticed. |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Bright Blue Lighted Craft flying over clear Houston night sky. It was hovering low over the neighborhood as I took my nightly walk. |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Two connected and cloaked elongated circles |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Last night a large round object came out of a forest behing my house, the next day we explored the area to find no leaves. |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | A reddish/orange sphere (1/2 of a full moon), was seen moving steadily across the sky from SW to NE. |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Teardrop,fast,lights,ufo,balcony,house,dissapeared,strange,unidentified flying object |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Strobbing Orb ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD)) |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | small sphere above downtown Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Flashes of Greenish/Blue light over Clear Lake |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | As I was being dropped off at home, I noticed to the northeasterly direction two very bright circular shaped lights. What caught my at |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Gray egg shaped object with many colored lights flying low in the sky, then either vanishing or flying away very quickly. |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Large Boomerang formation of lights over Houston, Beltway 8 & Westheimer moving north to south 10/10/07, 9:43 PM. |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | Falling Bluish-White sphere, with yellowish-orange sparks emitting from the back. Then white flash explosion |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | "shooting star" like, red white strobe lights, hovers..APPEARS to be in higher atmosphere.(or space) 60-80ꯠ FT , or more |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | I-10 & Cambell Road, Houston TX UFO Sighting |
| Houston, TX | 2007 | this is an UPDATE... it is not a UFO... it is the star "ANTERES" several forum members on an aviation site helped me find out what i |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Blueish-Green Bright Light falling in the sky. |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | sliver/green low flying orb |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | White zigzagging shpere splits into two spheres. |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Two light yellowish white luminescent oval objects moving in a straight path at an apparent high speed |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Large dark object hovering east to west over Houston Suburbs. |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | small black object seen over IAH airport during thunderstorm flying from the NW to the SE while airport was shutdown for weather |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Tiangular UFO Hovering In Houston's Night Sky |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Colored spheres fly over Houston Texas! |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Dual White/Black/Red Ovalesques over Clear Lake, Texas |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Two lights in the sky with orbs surrounding them. |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Luminous Point Lights Spiral in the Texas Sky |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Ufo on 09/29/06 in Houston TX, Oval Shadow-like oblject. |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Black Triangle at Treetop level in City of Houston. Tx. |
| Houston, TX | 2006 | Still in the sky, gone in an instant |
| Houston (metro, southwest), TX | 2005 | Riding home and saw a UFO in Houston Metro |
| Houston, TX | 2005 | This black triangular object flew towards the direction of my car. It moved slowly above the clouds and had a slight wobble as it moved |
| Houston, TX | 2005 | 04/18/05 10:40pm Houston, TX, 4 brillant white lights w/soft green glow, each circle shaped, yet in formation as if one individual UFO |
| Houston, TX | 2005 | A Comet or plane like object & twin tail (not paralell) visible for 90 minutes is SW sky near Houston at 6:00pm - 7:30pm. |
| Houston, TX | 2005 | I live in Sharsptown, a residential community located in the southwestern side of Houston, Texas. On Thursday, June 23rd 2005 at approx |
| Houston, TX | 2005 | An oval object with lights very close to the Fwy |
| Houston, TX | 2005 | While eating dinner at a restaurant in the village I noticed a very bright light directly east of me and coming in my direction. It wa |
| Houston, TX | 2005 | UFO SIGHTED HOVERING AT REAR OF HOUSTON RESIDENCE. Richard & June H. /HUSBAND & WIFE WITNESS |
| Albuquerque/houston (inflight, halfway b/t), TX | 2004 | A twinkling light popped through the clouds while I was on a large plane; it zipped around, changing directions, then took off upward. |
| Houson, TX | 2004 | I did not see a UFO last night, but now I can attest to how a person could mistake Venus for one. Even through the overcast last night |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | White oval moving in still sky from near downtown to over Astrodome area. Did not rise above clouds and did not move above clouds so no |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | Two craft near Houston witnessed by 8 people....AMAZING!!! Pictures taken... |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | UFO over Houston park |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | Circle floating in and out of clouds on a dead still day at about 2000 feet. Near Hobby airport departure lanes (surprisingly close to |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | Large white and gray rectangular object hovering in sky. |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | Blue Flash of Light which covered the SE sky (not man-made). |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | three blimp like objects glided in front of our car and disappeared into the trees. |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | UFO TWICE ABOVE MY HOUSE. |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | fairly bright lights 8 or 9 circling chaoticly yet defined forming a line once north to south another time west to east exactly given |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | I saw several high flying objects hovering in the clear blue sky and make a formation before disappearing. |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | Small reddish spherical object that flashed red at varying intensities and intervals and that seemed to slightly wobble laterally |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | 5 Ships hovering near my home, attempting to communicate. 4 Silver and 1 White. |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | An orange vertical column of light in the northeast sky |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | Beam of light in NE Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | A strange glowing cloud the dissapeared and reappeared. |
| Houston, TX | 2004 | triangle formation seen for about fifteen minutes hovering clear blue sky |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Crescent Shaped Object |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Strange Happenings in Houston 2003 |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Voice mail from something not of this world |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Two Suspened orange vertical lights in the sky in the east. |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Object had no wings or tail and made no sound. It appeared cylindrical and at times disc like. We saw it in daylight in a clear sky |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Mundane Satellite? |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Objects that zip in and out |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Glowing Green Ball travelling slowly about 50-200 feet from earth in Houston at Westheimer/Chimney Rock |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Orange fireball w/green glow & trail low in sky no noise |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | The lights were long, slinder, fire orange in color, and pulsated in brightness. |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | while playing a game my friends and i saw two cigar shaped golden orange objects in the horizon. |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Perfectly Straight Light Line in the Sky above the Cloud Level. Looked like a crack in Sky. |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Several gray spheres moving together in a rolling pattern smooth and silent across the Houston sky |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Approx 15:30 in afternoon at friends apartment pool - noticed indefinte sized triangluar craft 90 degrees to left and up. Slowly moving |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Three dark mysterious objects in the afternoon sky |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | I decided to go out to the car for some reason, as I walked on the third floor walkway I saw out to the western night sky-(very clear)- |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Bright light in the sky |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | Flashing Lights Over Houston Texas |
| Houston, TX | 2003 | A UFO report that I submitted for August 16, 2003 is not included in the viewable database records on the website. Peter Davenport requ |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | Bright fast moving light, no sound and no "tail" like a meteor, moving across the horizon. |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | v shape ufo |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | diamond-shaped with lights, it split into 7 pieces and fused back together. |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | Black Triangle with Green Lihgts! |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | Bright object in Houston sky |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | Large object, no lights, no radar indication in Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | Three red light formation over Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | Extreme large, very bright orb gave off no light to anything else, observed in texas. |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | Probably not UFO - But WHAT was it that may have exploded? |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | January 7, 2002 Monday, I was going to work at 6:30 a.m. outbound on 45. When I was past the beltway I saw a huge light in the sky to m |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | V shaped lights over Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | PEOPLE ARE STRANGE -- WHATS STRANGER IS THE FACT THAT SOME PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE THERE IS NO LIFE OTHER THAN OURS IN THIS UNIVERSE. |
| Houston, TX | 2002 | Saw two black objects hovering over Houston |
| Houston (spring), TX | 2001 | Large Cylinder with six orange (low-glow) lights moving slowly within 3 miles of IAH, heading toward IAH (Airport) |
| Houston (spring), TX | 2001 | Six elongated lights, cylinder shaped, although actual "craft" could not be seen. NO sound. Smooth travel, no wavering. |
| Houston (spring/north suburbs), TX | 2001 | Sliver of light crashes in North Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | Bright Light High in sky moving north to south |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | An airplane was flying overhead emitting a long contrail and as my eyes went down the contrail a small white craft came out of the plum |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | Houston, Texas - Red pulsating light which "dropped" another light; disappeared in the sky |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | A dark gray object traveling across the night sky. |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | Light at great speed ,no sound. |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | Saturday night was a clear, full-moon and silent night after a wave of rainy clouds passed the West side of Houston, Texas. My wife and |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | Red globe moved slowly from southeast to northwest and disappeared after 30 minutes of viewing. |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | Diamond Shaped UFO in Houston |
| Houston, TX | 2001 | traveling north on richie saw lights moving left to right very quickley.After 2 - 3 seconds it dissapeared. |