Farmers Branch/Dallas, TX, USA
Large Metallic object hovering in skies above Dallas on 09112008 at 7:27 am sighting lasted only 3 seconds
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-11
- Where
- Farmers Branch/Dallas, TX, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2-3 Seconds
- Geo
- 32.927, -96.896 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-farmers-branch-dallas-tx-2008-c294d0
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
- Farmers Branch/Dallas, TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 367 reports came from Texas in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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