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CaseTeardrop2009

Alvarado, TX, USA

In the western sky we saw the first object move from the S.W. to N.W. very quickly. It appeared not to be too high in the sky. At fir

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-04
Where
Alvarado, TX, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
5 min
Geo
32.407, -97.212 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-alvarado-tx-2009-f7e26e
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

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Alvarado, TX.
  • This case is one of 266 Texas reports filed in 2009.
  • Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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