CaseDisk1997

Austin, TX, USA

Saw a fast movin UFO on the way back from getting a pizza.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-25
Where
Austin, TX, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 seconds - 1 minute
Geo
30.267, -97.743 · exact
Slug
disk-over-austin-tx-1997-25bd73
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Austin, TX in May 1997 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Austin, TX has 327 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
  • The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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