San Marcos, TX, USA
A long flickering shape went across the sky slowly and as it got out of view other lights started to appear closer than the original
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-18
- Where
- San Marcos, TX, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 4-6 minutes
- Geo
- 29.883, -97.941 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-san-marcos-tx-2021-616c7d
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
- San Marcos, TX shows up 29 times across the archive.
- 132 reports came from Texas in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.