UFOMYST
CaseCigar2009

Austin, TX, USA

Cigar shaped object seen over Austin, Texas flying from West to East

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-06
Where
Austin, TX, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
30.267, -97.743 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-austin-tx-2009-6d359c
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Austin, TX reports filed in November 2009.

In context

  • Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
  • 266 reports came from Texas in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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