CaseLight1980
Athens, TX, USA
I saw light moving, in my experience in an inexplicable manner, then at incredible speed disappearing into the sky at near verticle.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-06-30
- Where
- Athens, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 32.205, -95.856 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-athens-tx-1980-8a586e
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Athens, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 16 sightings in 1980.
- Light sightings ran at 11% during the 1980s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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