CaseFormation1981
Austin (Lake Travis), TX, USA
circular light pattern that flew off with great speed in formation with 2 Air Force Jets on its tail.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-08-01
- Where
- Austin (Lake Travis), TX, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-austin-lake-travis-tx-1981-cb75d9
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Austin (Lake Travis), TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 8 sightings in 1981.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.5% during the 1980s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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