Leander, TX, USA
I noticed a dark grey craft, no lights,heading east,looked away for a 1-2 count when I looked back up, it had disappeared from sight. W
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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-11
- Where
- Leander, TX, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 8-10 seconds
- Geo
- 30.579, -97.853 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-leander-tx-2017-ea227a
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 13 reports logged in Leander, TX.
- This case is one of 127 Texas reports filed in 2017.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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