Lake Tawakoni, TX, USA
Bright burst of light formed a circle and a large cigar shaped object came out, similar to Stargate on TV.
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-14
- Where
- Lake Tawakoni, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 - 4 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-lake-tawakoni-tx-2010-ce9e5b
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Lake Tawakoni, TX.
- This case is one of 228 Texas reports filed in 2010.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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