UFOMYST
CaseLight2006

San Antonio, TX, USA

red plasma ball of light with a helicopter in the vicinity. ((NUFORC Note: Possible contrail, illuminated by setting Sun?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2006-10-27
Where
San Antonio, TX, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
29.424, -98.494 · exact
Slug
light-over-san-antonio-tx-2006-7ff971
Wave

Part of a wave

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

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Local cluster

Local cluster

October 2006 was a busy month for San Antonio, TX: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 268 reports logged in San Antonio, TX.
  • This case is one of 231 Texas reports filed in 2006.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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