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
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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