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Analysis of Austin, Texas UFO Sightings in 2020
We analyzed all 17 UFO sighting reports in Austin, Texas to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "light" (3 reports, 17.65% of total).
- October was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 23.53% of total).
- Saturday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- 10/03/20 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 11.76% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (7 reports, 41.18% of total).
UFO Reports in Austin, Texas from 2020
These Austin, Texas UFO reports from 2020 are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Two lights over Austin Looking South from N/E Austin neighborhood - saw bright light, thought it was ISS - but it slows and changes trajectory - then we noticed there is smaller light following same speed and trajectory - as it made its way west is become more and more dim until both lights faded away.
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Bubble or orb-like craft sighting over North Austin, TX Witnessed what we thought was a plastic bag in the air but quickly realized it was way too big and moving too quickly to be a bag. This object was a milky white translucent color with some green flickering. The object was very high up in the air and was out of view within a minute or so.
It moved like a large bubble with pulsing shape within the same plane. It moved SW to NW.
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Bubble or orb-like craft sighting over North Austin, TX. Witnessed what we thought was a plastic bag in the air but quickly realized it was way too big and moving too quickly to be a bag. This object was a milky white translucent color with some green flickering.
The object was very high up in the air and was out of view within a minute or so. It moved like a large bubble with pulsing shape within the same plane. It moved SW to NW.
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My daughter (10y.o.) and I had just returned from getting groceries.
When I closed the trunk and proceeded toward the house I immediately noticed a white ball of light back behind the house. Probably 600 feet up. It just sat there for 20 to 30 seconds and tore off a cross the sky.
And it was gone. When I walked towards the house I did realize my daughter had seen it till she said something. She said, "Daddy, that was NOT a shooting star.
" My first response was that I was happy she saw it cause I thought I was seeing things for a second. I actually looked at my security camera footage of us in the driveway walking up. Both my daughter and I stopped dead still at the same time and just stood there looking at this thing I don't know what is was but man that thing was FAST! Crazy stuff.
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Cigar-Shaped hovering craft spotted near I-35 and 290 exit north of Austin It was a cloudless clear day with the sun shining at around 8:50 AM. I was traveling from 290 heading west-bound onto the I-35 S exit ramp toward the city of Austin. Upon approaching the ramp I noticed a silver-like cigar-shaped craft in the sky to my right (North of the city - Northeast from me) that was not moving - or moving very slowly.
At first, I thought it to be one of the many lightposts lining the area there when I realized it was further up in the sky and definitely not attached to anything and not in the shape of the lightposts. It was hovering with no other movement and the craft appeared to be segmented. The craft was divided in half horizontally although each piece (top and bottom) were the same gray-ish color.
I kept my eye on it as I continued to drive up the exit ramp for a couple of minutes. I then had to look away to brake for the car in front of me on the ramp. When looking back, the craft had entirely disappeared from the entire sky-spac! e.
The sky was clear so there were no clouds for the craft to disappear into and I did not notice any movement as it went away. I searched frantically to no avail. I checked the airspace/flight paths and did not find any craft in that specific area at that time.
It did not look like an airplane at all.
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yellow orange possibly transparent sphere of light While I was talking on the phone with a friend I looked out my window to the east and saw a glowing, possibly transparent, yellow orange ball of light hovering about one or two miles away. From my point of view it was about half the size of a penny. When I went out to my front balcony to get a better look it was gone.
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small ball of white light traveling south to north small white ball of light traveling south to north.
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My brother and I saw a circle flashing red, green and blue. I first thought it was a satellite, and then I thought, “Satellites don’t flash red, blue and green and neither do airplanes or helicopters.” Then my brother and I looked closer, and we saw it was a circle shape.
It flew across the sky for approximately a minute. It was around 10:30.
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July 26, 2020 approximately 9:37 pm there were 4 adults sitting on the 26th floor balcony of a downtown Condo in Austin, TX after dinner facing north enjoying an after-dinner conversation. Out of nowhere, the brightest white lights came zooming across the sky and stopped in front of us, hovered and turned then zoomed off again through a building. There was no sound or air movement.
The shape was rectangular that was 3-D. The lights were brighter than any lights we had ever seen in the sky. It was peaceful.
The 4 our us looked at each other and simultaneously said, “did you see that?” “What was that?” One of the individuals is an executive in the international aviation business so knowledgeable that it was not an airplane, helicopter or drone for multiple reasons as it was silent and the speed was faster than any of them as we watch them from the balcony. Two of the individuals are engineers and PhD’s at a Fortune 500 company and began a process of elimination of what it could be. The four of us all agree it was not anything we had ever seen before.
It was peaceful, amazing and a one-time experience. It happened too fast to take a photo unfortunately. :(.
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orangish yellowish star FADES in place out of SIGHT. WATCHED IT FADE OUT completely but it didn't move. thought was just a star.
it was near another smaller white star. though it was i guess more yellowish or orangish. just looked across sky as i smoked cig didn't notice it.
as i happened to look back at the two stars the orangish yellowish one just FADED out. I mean it. It just faded out, I watched it disappear.
And not 5 seconds later way further right in the sky i saw a shooting star come down, but it was an awesome shooting star it like split apart at end and went different directions. but seconds before the shooting star, the orangish star just FADED OUT. what the hell was that.
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2 "planes" that disapeared from view followed by 2 stationary bright orange "objects" Hello, I saw something strange last night pictures attached) that may or not be of potential interest to you. Around 9:15 p.m.
, my wife and I (both PhDs in different fields) were getting back home from our usual evening walk in our South Austin neighborhood. While arriving toward the last bend of the road before the straight stretch of road that reaches our house, we saw looking West what seemed to be two approaching planes. What looked strange to us is that the furthest away “plane “ was catching up with the one closest to us.
Then they both suddenly disappeared from our view. A few seconds later, at another spot also looking West, we saw two bright orange lights what seemed to be stationary in the sky. Looking at them for a minute, they did not move at all.
I took pictures with my iphone , first of the two “planes” before they disappeared from our view, then of the two stationary orange lights. We then kept walking back home. Maybe this is nothing, but just-in-case, the pictures are being sent via email.
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MADAR Node 101.
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Flashball gliding down I was working near a power plant in Texas and saw something beaming but slowly coming down heading towards the power plant, there was a light flickering and by the time it got about 60 feet or so close it stayed hovering over the power plant for about 4 minutes the ball looked about 6 inches big in the sky but it was brighter then the sun, it was making no noise at all and by the time i looked down and looked back up again it was still there for 2 seconds then it automatically glided up and shot up and it disappeared, I’m not sure if it was recharging or doing something.
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MADAR Node 101.
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There was no sound, no other aircrafts around because I looked around, steady paced, didn't break formation. It was more like 5:40am, small like you would see a moving star or orb like objects but in 3's like . which were several of them coming from west to east and disappearing in the east.
They were going in a fast speed, never broke formation and all stayed the same speed, at the end, it was . and then there was only one that was behind. When that was almost disappearing, another was crossing from north to south before both disappearing.
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MADAR Node 101.
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I was driving into Austin it was still dark. Noticed the Big Dipper. About 20 minutes later I noticed a plane at a high speed underneath.
The sun came up I noticed it was a plane with a chemical trail behind it. To the right I seen a bright orb. It disappeared quickly after two minutes max.
I noticed this dark cloud with a bright light from the top of the cloud and a bunch of planes coming out of it from the top right. They too were producing a trail. I noticed one plane coming out the bottom left as well.
Then a smaller orb close to were the plane was. The orb disappeared fairly quickly. The other orb was faint and didn’t stay long.
I also noticed a bomber plane while I was driving toward Camp Mabry disappear not cut through a cloud just not visual.
Austin, Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Austin, Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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October | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Austin, Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Austin, Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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10/03/20 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
02/28/20 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
06/13/20 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
10/01/20 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
11/16/20 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Austin, Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 7 reported sightings | 41.18% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
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