Rancho Viejo, TX, USA
Light went from small to big then from big to small until it completely turned off. Gray V shape object with 3 circular patches.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-02-16
- Where
- Rancho Viejo, TX, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 26.040, -97.556 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-rancho-viejo-tx-2012-0a0f47
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
- Rancho Viejo, TX has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 266 reports from Texas.
- The 2010s skewed 1.1% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
Report
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