Stephenville, TX, USA
Flashing strobes, silent, flames out the back side and jets chashing it! ((NUFORC Note: Several reports. Extensive news coverage.PD))
Report quality: High77/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-08
- Where
- Stephenville, TX, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 32.221, -98.202 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-stephenville-tx-2008-701da3
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…
Local cluster
Stephenville, TX logged 6 reports in the single month of January 2008.
In context
- One of 14 documented reports from Stephenville, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 367 sightings in 2008.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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