UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1978

Fairfield, TX, USA

A rectangular object with reflective illumination travels accross the sky

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Fairfield, TX, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
31.725, -96.165 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-fairfield-tx-1978-8a065b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Fairfield, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 25 sightings in 1978.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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