Abilene, TX, USA
My husband and I saw reddish, orangish, goldish lights in a line...going back and forth from right to left repeatly then disappear, thi
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-23
- Where
- Abilene, TX, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1/2 hour
- Geo
- 32.449, -99.733 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-abilene-tx-2008-17b576
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…
Local cluster
October 2008 was a busy month for Abilene, TX: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 42 reports logged in Abilene, TX.
- This case is one of 367 Texas reports filed in 2008.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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