Springtown, TX, USA
((HOAX??)) Military helicopters escort UFO off to Fort Worth Miliary Base.
Report quality: Low39/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-01-18
- Where
- Springtown, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 32.966, -97.684 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-springtown-tx-2008-abe83d
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Springtown, TX in January 2008 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Springtown, TX has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 367 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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