McAllen, TX, USA
My mother and I were traveling South on Biccentennial, when we got to the stoplight of Dove and Bicentennial at approximately 18:15. W
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-16
- Where
- McAllen, TX, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 26.203, -98.230 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-mcallen-tx-2014-e518c6
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
- One of 15 documented reports from McAllen, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 309 sightings in 2014.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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