CaseOval2012

Abilene, TX, USA

Formations of blue-white, silent lights travelling at high speed over Abilene Texas.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-08-17
Where
Abilene, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30-45 seconds
Geo
32.449, -99.733 · exact
Slug
oval-over-abilene-tx-2012-ea5c1b
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

  • This is one of 42 reports logged in Abilene, TX.
  • This case is one of 266 Texas reports filed in 2012.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

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.