UFOMYST
CaseOther2016

Rowlett, TX, USA

I saw what looked like an airplane with a large orange flame behind it and the engine roar was quite loud.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-28
Where
Rowlett, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
~2 minutes
Geo
32.903, -96.564 · exact
Slug
other-over-rowlett-tx-2016-aed6d9
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…

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In context

  • Rowlett, TX shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from Texas in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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