Tom Bean, TX, USA
Late in the morning, there was a large cast of clouds rippling across the sky covering the face of the moon and sky blocking out stars.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-31
- Where
- Tom Bean, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 35 seconds
- Geo
- 33.520, -96.484 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tom-bean-tx-2020-84347c
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
- Tom Bean, TX has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 299 reports from Texas.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure 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.