Richardson, TX, USA
Strange lights in cylindrical formation flying above and low then disappeared
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-04-07
- Where
- Richardson, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 32.948, -96.730 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-richardson-tx-2021-fd2265
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
- One of 23 documented reports from Richardson, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 132 sightings in 2021.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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