Austin, TX, USA
Trianglular lighted object sighted over Austin Texas 6-14-97 at 11:20 pm.Seen from the intersection of Hwy. 71 and Hwy. 620, near Bee C
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-14
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- triangle
- Duration
- 15-20 secs
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-austin-tx-1997-e31486
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
- This case is one of 77 Texas reports filed in 1997.
- Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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