CaseChanging2021

Mesquite, TX, USA

The three bright orange (not red like a plane - bright orange) lights in a triangle on the front of each caught my eye first. Three cra

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-09-18
Where
Mesquite, TX, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
32.767, -96.599 · exact
Slug
changing-over-mesquite-tx-2021-474124
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

  • This is one of 24 reports logged in Mesquite, TX.
  • This case is one of 132 Texas reports filed in 2021.
  • Changing craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.