CaseFlash2002
Austin, TX, USA
Very bright birdlike image with flapping wings flashing in sky, moving across sky to the south at first and then gradually turning to t
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-22
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-austin-tx-2002-f432f7
Local cluster
Local cluster
August 2002 was a busy month for Austin, TX: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
- This case is one of 176 Texas reports filed in 2002.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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