UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1997

Round Rock/Georgetown, TX, USA

Large black Rectangle hovering over radio towers just south of Georgetown and north of Round Rock

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-05
Where
Round Rock/Georgetown, TX, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
about 3 minutes
Geo
30.581, -97.707 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-round-rock-georgetown-tx-1997-68d350
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Round Rock/Georgetown, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 77 sightings in 1997.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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