CaseTriangle1998
Austin, TX, USA
Triangular shaped object moving from north to south. Object was barely discernable from the night sky. Leading edges faint orange. No
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-08
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-austin-tx-1998-b4b679
In context
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 99 sightings in 1998.
- Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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