Caselight1998
Austin, TX, USA
Eruption of blue-white light in the sky followed by sweeping action and lesser blast of blue-white light, south, toward San Antonio.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-20
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- light
- Duration
- 15 Sec.
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-austin-tx-1998-748460
Local cluster
Local cluster
Austin, TX logged 3 reports in the single month of April 1998.
In context
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 99 sightings in 1998.
- Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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