Abilene, TX, USA
Craft with curved wings like an S shape (for the wings) flying over then vanish
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-06
- Where
- Abilene, TX, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 32.449, -99.733 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-abilene-tx-2020-4e733a
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
- Abilene, TX has 42 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 299 reports from Texas.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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