Arlington, TX, USA
Round white, red and blue twinkling lights, object not moving for a long time. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star? Sirius? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-04-20
- Where
- Arlington, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 32.736, -97.108 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-arlington-tx-2009-86f1fc
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
- Arlington, TX has 80 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 266 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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