Austin, TX, USA
Triangle shaped craft hovering over middle school in south austin sped away silently to the west
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-17
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-austin-tx-2004-b6d0d2
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
Austin, TX logged 5 reports in the single month of September 2004.
In context
- One of 327 documented reports from Austin, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 203 sightings in 2004.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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