CaseCircle2016

Dallas, TX, USA

I was lying on a lounge chair by the hotel pool looking up at the sky. I saw something flying that looked similar to the stars but it

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-16
Where
Dallas, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
32.783, -96.807 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dallas-tx-2016-d34493
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 208 documented reports from Dallas, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 159 sightings in 2016.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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