CaseLight2020

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
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

  • 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

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