Brownwood, TX, USA
Unidentified object appears in sky with lights appearing and then vanishing 5 times as it moved.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-29
- Where
- Brownwood, TX, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 31.709, -98.991 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-brownwood-tx-2009-f57435
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
- Brownwood, TX shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 266 reports came from Texas in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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