CaseTriangle1991

Austin, TX, USA

Huge blasts of spinning lights (3) scanned at least an acre of land until they zeroed in on us and chased us under a tree where we hid.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1991-07-08
Where
Austin, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
6 min.
Geo
30.267, -97.743 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-austin-tx-1991-162afc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
  • This case is one of 17 Texas reports filed in 1991.
  • Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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