CaseTriangle2009

Abilene, TX, USA

Just a fairly quick fly by from some craft Ive never seen before.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-21
Where
Abilene, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
less than 1 minute
Geo
32.449, -99.733 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-abilene-tx-2009-7d1415
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

  • Abilene, TX has 42 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 266 reports from Texas.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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