Pilot Point, TX, USA
((HOAX)) 9:20 a gray object hovering above the horizon, emitted no light or sounds.
Report quality: Low15/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-04-11
- Where
- Pilot Point, TX, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 21:21
- Geo
- 33.397, -96.961 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-pilot-point-tx-2008-3d2ac1
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 3 documented reports from Pilot Point, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 367 sightings in 2008.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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