Dallas, TX, USA
Ball of light seen above full moon while moon was blacked out and then appeared again.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-11
- Where
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 32.783, -96.807 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-dallas-tx-2012-f7a138
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…
Local cluster
Dallas, TX logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2012.
In context
- One of 208 documented reports from Dallas, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 266 sightings in 2012.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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