Austin, TX, USA
Steady, silent moving light moving over Northeast Austin, and vanishing. ((NUFORC Note: Probably ISS. Please see table below. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-06-08
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-austin-tx-2008-95fb14
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
- Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
- 367 reports came from Texas in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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