Kaufman, TX, USA
My report of Sunday night April 24 9:50 pm 17:50 hrs I was out in the open Night sky lying on my hammock with my face toward the north
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-04-25
- Where
- Kaufman, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 6 min
- Geo
- 32.589, -96.309 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-kaufman-tx-2010-4e9a01
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
- Kaufman, TX shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 228 reports came from Texas in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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