CaseTriangle2012

Austin, TX, USA

Slow moving, solid trinagle (no wings) with green and red lights. ((NUFORC Note: Green/red is not inconsistent with an aircraft. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2012-09-06
Where
Austin, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
30.267, -97.743 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-austin-tx-2012-5d07c1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

In context

  • Austin, TX has 327 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 266 reports from Texas.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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