CaseCircle2020

Briarcliff, TX, USA

Three shiny circles hanging in the sky

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-15
Where
Briarcliff, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1.30
Geo
30.407, -98.044 · exact
Slug
circle-over-briarcliff-tx-2020-23a88b
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

  • Briarcliff, TX has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 299 reports from Texas.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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