Corpus Christi, TX, USA
Three circular outlines made of red lights; two drifted away in different directions, one lingered and then left.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-31
- Where
- Corpus Christi, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 27.801, -97.396 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-corpus-christi-tx-2009-79e951
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
- This is one of 81 reports logged in Corpus Christi, TX.
- This case is one of 266 Texas reports filed in 2009.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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