CaseCircle2008

Lantana, TX, USA

Lantana, TX, 8/14/2008, 8:05 pm, Red light, moved overhead slowly

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-14
Where
Lantana, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.091, -97.124 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lantana-tx-2008-86ec87
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Lantana, TX.
  • This case is one of 367 Texas reports filed in 2008.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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