Joshua, TX, USA
I decided to step out in the apartment balcony, when I noticed an object traveling in an Easter direction. Without any noise or the usu
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-17
- Where
- Joshua, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 120 seconds
- Geo
- 32.462, -97.388 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-joshua-tx-2020-0046d6
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
- Joshua, TX has 4 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 daysReport
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