CaseChevron2005

Crystal Beach, TX, USA

Small brown chevron-shaped object over water at Crystal Beach.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-23
Where
Crystal Beach, TX, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
29.457, -94.640 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-crystal-beach-tx-2005-205b90
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

  • Crystal Beach, TX shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from Texas in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 1.2% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Report

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