CaseFireball2001
Austin, TX, USA
HUGE blazing falling object (NOT the Mir).
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-03-19
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ?20 minutes?
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-austin-tx-2001-ed8df2
Local cluster
Local cluster
Austin, TX logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2001.
In context
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 140 sightings in 2001.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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