CaseCylinder2013

Arlington, TX, USA

Yellow lighted craft seen in horizon for 5 sec in Arlington,TX.

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-14
Where
Arlington, TX, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5-7 minutes
Geo
32.736, -97.108 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-arlington-tx-2013-ab1c81
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

  • This is one of 80 reports logged in Arlington, TX.
  • This case is one of 248 Texas reports filed in 2013.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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