CaseFormation2009
Odessa, TX, USA
3 oval shaped orange colored orbs flew by in a triangle formation.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-15
- Where
- Odessa, TX, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 31.846, -102.368 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-odessa-tx-2009-dee372
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 29 reports logged in Odessa, TX.
- This case is one of 266 Texas reports filed in 2009.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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