Lubbock, TX, USA
I was comming out of the hospital after an emergency visit for my son. Upon leaving the hospital I noticed a ball of light in the sky.
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-17
- Where
- Lubbock, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 8-10minutes
- Geo
- 33.578, -101.855 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-lubbock-tx-2009-72ae13
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 52 documented reports from Lubbock, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 266 sightings in 2009.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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