Fairfield, TX, USA
Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas 3 cylinder long gun barrel shiny objects at dusk on Western horizon, there for over 20 minutes
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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-21
- Where
- Fairfield, TX, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20 -25 minutes
- Geo
- 31.725, -96.165 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-fairfield-tx-2008-4795ab
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Fairfield, TX reports filed in October 2008.
In context
- Fairfield, TX shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 367 reports came from Texas in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.