CaseLight1997
Austin, TX, USA
A bright red light in E/SE. Did not move as long as we watched.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-07
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-austin-tx-1997-291aaf
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Austin, TX has 327 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 77 reports from Texas.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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