Kemp, TX, USA
Color changing light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling star?? PD))
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 172800s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (32 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
- 2016-08-18
- Where
- Kemp, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 days
- Geo
- 32.443, -96.230 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-kemp-tx-2016-73c3df
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 1 reports logged in Kemp, TX.
- This case is one of 159 Texas reports filed in 2016.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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