Carrollton, TX, USA
White in color with a white tail sperical shape. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a high-altitude a/c, with a contrail behind it? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-10-21
- Where
- Carrollton, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 32.954, -96.890 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-carrollton-tx-2016-18cf63
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
- Carrollton, TX shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from Texas in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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