Sour Lake, TX, USA
Staggered, colorful strobing lights spotted southwest of Sour Lake, Texas. ((NUFORC Note: Convincing video provided. PD))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 270000s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-12
- Where
- Sour Lake, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3+ hours (over 3 days)
- Geo
- 30.140, -94.411 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sour-lake-tx-2017-06dc4c
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Sour Lake, TX.
- This case is one of 127 Texas reports filed in 2017.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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