Austin, TX, USA
Glowing Oval Orb
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-08
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-austin-tx-2021-65e756
Part of a wave
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
May 2021 was a busy month for Austin, TX: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
- This case is one of 132 Texas reports filed in 2021.
- Oval craft made up 3.5% of 2020s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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