Buda, TX, USA
Bright UFO that changed shape from sphere to triangle and color of bright light, many colors. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-11-12
- Where
- Buda, TX, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- I viewed for 2 hours
- Geo
- 30.085, -97.840 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-buda-tx-2009-3cf1e6
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
- Buda, TX has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 266 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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