CaseOval1986
Austin, TX, USA
In broad daylight almost cloudless afternoon a large fat oval "craft" instantly appeared and disappeared from less than 1000 ft from my
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-07-30
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-austin-tx-1986-107c2e
In context
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 14 sightings in 1986.
- Oval sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1980s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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