Wichita Falls, TX, USA
A little orange light movings as if a fairy was hovering over your head. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a planet?? PD))
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: 6060s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-05-02
- Where
- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 hour & 41 minutes
- Geo
- 33.914, -98.493 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wichita-falls-tx-2019-773b09
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
- Wichita Falls, TX shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 239 reports came from Texas in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% 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.