UFOMYST
CaseSphere2018

Arlington, TX, USA

Black sphere about the size of a large air plane very slowly moving then as I pointe do it out it sped off very extremely fast.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-10
Where
Arlington, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
32.736, -97.108 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-arlington-tx-2018-8eee09
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 80 documented reports from Arlington, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 89 sightings in 2018.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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