Mesquite, TX, USA
Small dim circle of light close to Moon began moving in a wide circle & moved away but was chased by a light from area of Moon
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-28
- Where
- Mesquite, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4+ minutes
- Geo
- 32.767, -96.599 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mesquite-tx-2005-d1923a
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
- Mesquite, TX shows up 24 times across the archive.
- 218 reports came from Texas in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.