CaseLight2008

Baird/Putnam (on I-20), TX, USA

3 then four lights appeared in the sky then faded out seemed to be traveling in a specific direction

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-08
Where
Baird/Putnam (on I-20), TX, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
32.394, -99.394 · exact
Slug
light-over-baird-putnam-on-i-20-tx-2008-02d6e1
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

  • Baird/Putnam (on I-20), TX has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 367 reports from Texas.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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