CaseOval2008

Dallas, TX, USA

UFO I THINK

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (11 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-01
Where
Dallas, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 min
Geo
32.783, -96.807 · exact
Slug
oval-over-dallas-tx-2008-927a5a
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Dallas, TX in October 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Dallas, TX has 208 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 367 reports from Texas.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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