UFOMYST
CaseOther2006

Austin, TX, USA

2/11/06 6:40am NOW - UFO Sighting in eastern sky in Austin Texas. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus, we believe. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2006-02-11
Where
Austin, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1 hour +
Geo
30.267, -97.743 · exact
Slug
other-over-austin-tx-2006-96dc82
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Austin, TX in February 2006 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Austin, TX has 327 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 231 reports from Texas.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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