CaseOther2002
Austin, TX, USA
Looked like a bright green shooting star, much larger, longer tail and brighter than a SS, headed in dowward direction.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-16
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1.5 seconds
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-austin-tx-2002-db00e9
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Austin, TX in October 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Austin, TX has 327 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 176 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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