Austin, TX, USA
Huge blasts of spinning lights (3) scanned at least an acre of land until they zeroed in on us and chased us under a tree where we hid.
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1991-07-08
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 6 min.
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-austin-tx-1991-162afc
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
- This case is one of 17 Texas reports filed in 1991.
- Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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