Dallas, TX, USA
11 orange lights. Moving S to N slowly. Covered a good portion of the horizon east of Dallas. I got two videos on my smartphone.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-14
- Where
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 mins
- Geo
- 32.783, -96.807 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-dallas-tx-2012-031de7
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…
Local cluster
January 2012 was a busy month for Dallas, TX: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 208 reports logged in Dallas, TX.
- This case is one of 266 Texas reports filed in 2012.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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