San Antonio, TX, USA
I witnessed a strange craft hovering not too far above me in the atmosphere and then it shot off at warp speed with no warning.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-24
- Where
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 29.424, -98.494 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-san-antonio-tx-2009-9d617b
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
- San Antonio, TX shows up 268 times across the archive.
- 266 reports came from Texas in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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