UFOMYST
Caselight1997

Austin, TX, USA

Several lights appeared in the Northwestern sky.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-05
Where
Austin, TX, USA
Shape
light
Duration
15sec
Geo
30.267, -97.743 · exact
Slug
light-over-austin-tx-1997-3d6506
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Austin, TX reports filed in May 1997.

In context

  • Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
  • 77 reports came from Texas in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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