UFOMYST
CaseSphere1973

Austin, TX, USA

Played with by a UFO

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-01
Where
Austin, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10-15 MINUTES
Geo
30.267, -97.743 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-austin-tx-1973-3c4781
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
  • This case is one of 24 Texas reports filed in 1973.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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