UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

McKinney, TX, USA

Moving "star" sighted over McKinney Texas at 20:30 moving from the northwest to the southwest.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-10-09
Where
McKinney, TX, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2/3 minutes
Geo
33.198, -96.615 · exact
Slug
light-over-mckinney-tx-2008-18ff08
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • One of 33 documented reports from McKinney, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 367 sightings in 2008.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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