CaseCircle2004

San Antonio, TX, USA

Sunset , multiple objects, mostly round, some triangular, 5 - 10 minute display

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-17
Where
San Antonio, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 - 10 minutes
Geo
29.424, -98.494 · exact
Slug
circle-over-san-antonio-tx-2004-3a3724
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

  • San Antonio, TX has 268 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 203 reports from Texas.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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