Detroit, TX, USA
As i was driving to my house the craft was hovering above the road. I could make out tall things moving around inside. They stopped as
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-09
- Where
- Detroit, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Geo
- 33.661, -95.267 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-detroit-tx-2006-3eb3a5
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
- Detroit, TX has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 231 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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