CaseTriangle2009

Shepherd, TX, USA

triangle object with bright lights

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-04-13
Where
Shepherd, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1.00 minute
Geo
30.498, -94.997 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-shepherd-tx-2009-c25d46
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 5 documented reports from Shepherd, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 266 sightings in 2009.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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