Abilene, TX, USA
Initially 2 orange lights traveling quickly in N/NW direction followed by 4 blue objects also traveling in synchrony in a diamond confi
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-18
- Where
- Abilene, TX, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.449, -99.733 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-abilene-tx-2012-4a9533
Part of a wave
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
- One of 42 documented reports from Abilene, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 266 sightings in 2012.
Report
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