Dallas, TX, USA
Bright white light cigar shaped object seen flying slowly to the north in slight decent.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-12
- Where
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.783, -96.807 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-dallas-tx-2010-335c85
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Dallas, TX in October 2010 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Dallas, TX has 208 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 228 reports from Texas.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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