TX, USA
An oval shaped object in a photograph. ((NUFORC Note: Does not look like a UFO to us. PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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 (38 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-17
- Where
- TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- oval-over-tx-2008-c228aa
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
- Texas logged 367 sightings in 2008.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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