Bastrop County (rural area), TX, USA
FASt, satellirt-like "sparkling" object moving west to east and crossing almost the full sky in 10-20 seconds.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-30
- Where
- Bastrop County (rural area), TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 secs
- Geo
- 30.104, -97.312 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bastrop-county-rural-area-tx-2005-b83793
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
- Bastrop County (rural area), TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 218 reports came from Texas in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.