Murphy, TX, USA
Sitting in backyard with my wife facing the South sky. We both noticed a dull bronze colored rectangle heading in a straight line from
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-02
- Where
- Murphy, TX, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.015, -96.613 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-murphy-tx-2016-d99b05
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
- One of 3 documented reports from Murphy, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 159 sightings in 2016.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.