Austin, TX, USA
The UFO I had Reported has turned out to be an IFO to my relief. It was the Iridium satellite flash. We picked up the satellite naked-
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-07
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 19:00
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-austin-tx-1997-77451f
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
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 77 sightings in 1997.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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