South Padre, TX, USA
we were on vacation in south padre. myself,son,son in law were on the beach around 2:00am we were looking for blue crabs with a flashli
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-07
- Where
- South Padre, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15_20 min.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- oval-over-south-padre-tx-2011-7f23cc
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in South Padre, TX.
- This case is one of 267 Texas reports filed in 2011.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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