Fort Worth, TX, USA
Red LED lite @ incredible speed, approached saw circular sheer curtain of opalecent color 6 rays glowed around circle
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-17
- Where
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 32.725, -97.321 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fort-worth-tx-2011-e5ab8d
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
- Fort Worth, TX shows up 116 times across the archive.
- 267 reports came from Texas in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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