Austin, TX, USA
Saw a fast movin UFO on the way back from getting a pizza.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-25
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds - 1 minute
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-austin-tx-1997-25bd73
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Austin, TX in May 1997 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Austin, TX has 327 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
- The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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