CaseOval2004

Corpus Christi, TX, USA

Oval object streaks across a clear Texas sky.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-09
Where
Corpus Christi, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
27.801, -97.396 · exact
Slug
oval-over-corpus-christi-tx-2004-b8bd31
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

  • Corpus Christi, TX shows up 81 times across the archive.
  • 203 reports came from Texas in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

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.