CaseSphere1969
Austin, TX, USA
Over Austin, Texas, in September 1969, witnesses watched a ring of light fill in with a golden glow, brighten while moving, then gradually fade away over twelve to fifteen minutes.
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: 810s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (180 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-09-09
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 12-15 Minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-austin-tx-1969-b72341
In context
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 9 sightings in 1969.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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