Murphy, TX, USA
A bright object barely visible due to its distance slowly streaked across the sky and then dissappeared.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-29
- Where
- Murphy, TX, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 Minutes
- Geo
- 33.015, -96.613 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-murphy-tx-2008-67e1f4
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 3 reports logged in Murphy, TX.
- This case is one of 367 Texas reports filed in 2008.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.