CaseOther2018

Austin, TX, USA

I witnessed an unknown object approaching from the S in a N direction about 100 ft behind it. ((anonymous report))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-04-24
Where
Austin, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1 minute
Geo
30.267, -97.743 · exact
Slug
other-over-austin-tx-2018-9eb872
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Austin, TX in April 2018 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Austin, TX has 327 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 89 reports from Texas.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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