Odessa, TX, USA
On Saturday night, at around 8:30 p.m CST on Dec. 8, 2012, I saw what appeared to be a shooting star or a meteor.
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-08
- Where
- Odessa, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 to 15 seconds
- Geo
- 31.846, -102.368 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-odessa-tx-2012-2864d4
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
- Odessa, TX shows up 29 times across the archive.
- 266 reports came from Texas in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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