Austin, TX, USA
Unidentified flying object south of Austin
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-25
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-austin-tx-2012-bbd08f
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
Austin, TX logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2012.
In context
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 266 sightings in 2012.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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