CaseDisk2009
Austin, TX, USA
New Years Eve Unkown object in the sky above Downtown Austin Texas
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-31
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-austin-tx-2009-035d89
Wave
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 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 266 sightings in 2009.
- Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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