CaseOval2006

Smithville, TX, USA

Fast walker object blinks in and out over Texas

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-04-02
Where
Smithville, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
seconds
Geo
30.009, -97.159 · exact
Slug
oval-over-smithville-tx-2006-11e0f8
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

  • Smithville, TX has 6 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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