CaseFormation2016

San Marcos, TX, USA

Formation of bright round lights. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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  • Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-14
Where
San Marcos, TX, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
29.883, -97.941 · exact
Slug
formation-over-san-marcos-tx-2016-99e8e9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 29 documented reports from San Marcos, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 159 sightings in 2016.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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