CaseLight2009
Silsbee, TX, USA
orange-yellowish bright light that just disappeared
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-28
- Where
- Silsbee, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 min.
- Geo
- 30.349, -94.178 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-silsbee-tx-2009-2b75ba
Wave
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
- Silsbee, TX has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 266 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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