CaseTeardrop2007

Lubbock, TX, USA

SINGLE OVAL-TEARDROP SHAPE RED IN COLOR. COMING DOWN AT 30 DEGREE ANGLE FROM THE SOUTHWEST. LOST SITE AFTER PASSING BEHIND TREES. OBJEC

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-11-04
Where
Lubbock, TX, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
33.578, -101.855 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-lubbock-tx-2007-e92bb7
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

  • Lubbock, TX shows up 52 times across the archive.
  • 213 reports came from Texas in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Report

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