UFOMYST
CaseOval2021

Odessa, TX, USA

Oval light in the sky that didn’t move for about 3hours.

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-09-26
Where
Odessa, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 hours
Geo
31.846, -102.368 · exact
Slug
oval-over-odessa-tx-2021-51b167
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…

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In context

  • Odessa, TX shows up 29 times across the archive.
  • 132 reports came from Texas in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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