CaseOther2009

Abilene, TX, USA

It was a very large space ship /craft of some kind hidden behind the smokey clouds as other images passed slowly past it.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-15
Where
Abilene, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 min
Geo
32.449, -99.733 · exact
Slug
other-over-abilene-tx-2009-c84785
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

  • One of 42 documented reports from Abilene, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 266 sightings in 2009.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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