Gatesville, TX, USA
2 red lights on back 1 bright white on the front shaped like a old bigbody Lincoln towncar with no top like a Flat rectangular brick
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-02
- Where
- Gatesville, TX, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 31.435, -97.744 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-gatesville-tx-2009-e4f51c
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
- Gatesville, TX shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 266 reports came from Texas in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.