CaseFormation2021
Dallas/Irving, TX, USA
The Dallas-Fort Worth Lights
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-19
- Where
- Dallas/Irving, TX, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15-20min
- Geo
- 32.783, -96.807 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-dallas-irving-tx-2021-5f40b5
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 2 reports logged in Dallas/Irving, TX.
- This case is one of 132 Texas reports filed in 2021.
- Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% 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.