lubbock, TX, USA
the shape started with cloudy formation then evovled into a burnted orange color starting at the bottom of the cloud. Then turned more
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-08
- Where
- lubbock, TX, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.578, -101.855 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-lubbock-tx-2005-98b953
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
- This is one of 52 reports logged in lubbock, TX.
- This case is one of 218 Texas reports filed in 2005.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.