Troup, TX, USA
Was working on a well site in Troup Texas around 0200. Off to the left a Bright red light caught my attention. Looked in the direction
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-22
- Where
- Troup, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 32.145, -95.121 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-troup-tx-2008-18e4ed
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 Troup, TX.
- This case is one of 367 Texas reports filed in 2008.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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