Midland, TX, USA
objects moved very fast& then very slow at each other, & kept stopping for long periods of time, then vanished
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 660s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-25
- Where
- Midland, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 11 mins
- Geo
- 31.997, -102.078 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-midland-tx-2004-f4f7ac
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
- Midland, TX has 28 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 203 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure 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.