CaseSphere1998
Austin, TX, USA
Fireball, green with white center, with a tail of white sparkling stuff. It went horozontally across sky, winked out.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-30
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-austin-tx-1998-b2a725
Local cluster
Local cluster
Austin, TX logged 3 reports in the single month of April 1998.
In context
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 99 sightings in 1998.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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