Plainview, TX, USA
bright light then when I zoomed In after I took the pictures looks like three lights and four dark circles on the bottom w going to tin
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-14
- Where
- Plainview, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 34.185, -101.707 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-plainview-tx-2019-69fdc1
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Plainview, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 239 sightings in 2019.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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