CaseCircle2008
Lantana, TX, USA
Lantana, TX, 8/14/2008, 8:05 pm, Red light, moved overhead slowly
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-14
- Where
- Lantana, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.091, -97.124 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lantana-tx-2008-86ec87
Wave
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 2 reports logged in Lantana, TX.
- This case is one of 367 Texas reports filed in 2008.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.