CaseCircle2009

Rowlett, TX, USA

I live in Rowlett, TX and on October 16, 2009 I saw a circular bright object that pulsated with multiple colors within it.

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-16
Where
Rowlett, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
32.903, -96.564 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rowlett-tx-2009-adeaaf
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

  • Rowlett, TX shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 266 reports came from Texas in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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