CaseFlash2012

Fort Stockton, TX, USA

Looks to be three lights in a diamond shape with a strobing light going from l to r. ((NUFORC Note: Star or planet?? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2012-01-29
Where
Fort Stockton, TX, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
Hours
Geo
30.894, -102.879 · exact
Slug
flash-over-fort-stockton-tx-2012-98bcee
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

  • Fort Stockton, TX has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 266 reports from Texas.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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