CaseCone2001
Austin, TX, USA
Conical shaped oject with purple lights on the underside seen near a Home Depot store.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-01
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-austin-tx-2001-a62ed4
In context
- Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Texas in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 0.5% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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