CaseCircle2001
Austin, TX, USA
low-flying, helicopter-sounding, aircraft or circle shaped (from underneath), and had few lights + bright spotlight
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-20
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- three minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-austin-tx-2001-b9f94c
In context
- Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Texas in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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