Mineral Wells, TX, USA
About 25mph and silent tablet shaped bottom covered in small dimley lit light blue lights. About 50 ft long and 150 ft off the ground
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-01
- Where
- Mineral Wells, TX, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 32.808, -98.113 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-mineral-wells-tx-2009-0ab3e9
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
- Mineral Wells, TX shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 266 reports came from Texas in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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