Harlingen, TX, USA
Cone shape that changed to circle seen over Tamaulipas Mexico from Harlingen Texas.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-02
- Where
- Harlingen, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 7 mins
- Geo
- 26.191, -97.696 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-harlingen-tx-2006-96e4c7
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
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Harlingen, TX.
- This case is one of 231 Texas reports filed in 2006.
- Cone craft made up 0.5% of 2000s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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