Aledo, TX, USA
Bright light about 10x a star, flashing with tint of red lights in Aledo, TX, sky for hrs. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? Anonymous. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-06-16
- Where
- Aledo, TX, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 32.696, -97.602 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-aledo-tx-2017-7580a9
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
- Aledo, TX shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 127 reports came from Texas in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
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