CaseCircle2005

in air, TX, USA

aluminum circle about two times the size of a car at 34,000 ft

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-20
Where
in air, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
Slug
circle-over-in-air-tx-2005-a4936b
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

  • in air, TX has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 218 reports from Texas.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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