Austin, TX, USA
Approximate 6:55 pm, while driving northbound on Westgate Blvd from Davis Rd, my family and I saw a red/orange flaming large object in
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-02-21
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-austin-tx-2021-be831c
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
- This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
- This case is one of 132 Texas reports filed in 2021.
- Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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