CaseFireball1960
Austin, TX, USA
Flying orange ahead of Echo I in 1960.
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 (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-08-16
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- <1 minute
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-austin-tx-1960-3a0e38
In context
- Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Texas in 1960.
- In the 1960s, 2.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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