Arlington, TX, USA
At approximately 3 am a bright light appeared NNE in the sky about 3 miles away at about 50 degrees above the horizon. The object was
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-15
- Where
- Arlington, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 32.736, -97.108 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-arlington-tx-2005-5ef68c
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
- One of 80 documented reports from Arlington, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 218 sightings in 2005.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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