Bastrop, TX, USA
Light high in the sky after dusk appeared to be satellite , but curved and changed speed
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-06
- Where
- Bastrop, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes+
- Geo
- 30.110, -97.315 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bastrop-tx-2005-40f508
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
3 reports came out of Bastrop, TX in November 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Bastrop, TX has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 218 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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