CaseSphere2008

Dublin, TX, USA

Series of small yellow-orange lights, alone and in sequences across the western sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-28
Where
Dublin, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
32.085, -98.342 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-dublin-tx-2008-74c6d6
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…

In context

  • Dublin, TX shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 367 reports came from Texas in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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