CaseOval2012

Fort Worth, TX, USA

Saw object after I left work. Kept eyes on it until I got around half a mile from it. It was orange and looked like a giant footbal.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-03-13
Where
Fort Worth, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 min. that I'm aware of
Geo
32.725, -97.321 · exact
Slug
oval-over-fort-worth-tx-2012-17f7d6
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

    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

  • Fort Worth, TX has 116 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 266 reports from Texas.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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