Austin, TX, USA
V shaped craft flew over in and out of clouds clearly visible that the lights were on one craft. 7 lights total with two out on a side.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-05
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-austin-tx-2013-aaf975
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Austin, TX reports filed in May 2013.
In context
- Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
- 248 reports came from Texas in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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