Formation over Aledo, TX
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Three craft, with red and white "tails", slower and larger than shooting strars were seen moving fron SW to Northeast.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2001-11-28 → 2001-12-15
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February 1, 2020 · 1:34 AM · TRIANGLE
Aledo, TX
I walked out side to get food off the grill when i noticed a weird lighted triangle about 5000 ft above doing axis over axis rotation with a red light at the mid point on all 3 sides. I grabbed my friend to show him and when we looked up again we noticed dozens of the objects at that seemed were maintain their altitude but in a constant gyroscopic rotation that. after a moment we noticed the sky it covered in these triangular craft but these appeared almost as they were in orbit like a star and the earth was rotating. 2 groups of these craft about 10 or so in each were in the formation of the little and big dipper. in the east there was few one looked to be over JRB air base but over the west in orbit looked like a WW2 movie with dozens and dozens of these craft similar to a bombing squadron but not advancing and the only movement was the earths rotation as the crafts that seemed to be in orbit like a star and were in the same place in the sky almost two hou! rs later. I got a picture that was clear when i took it but after i sent it as a text message it appeared the iphone camera picture lost its resolution (i know this sounds crazy but i have a witness). I started to take video on my iphone 11 and this too captured these triangular craft in the west above aledo texas with a perfect white outline that would appear to turn into an orb as you got closer with the zoom. Thinking I zoomed in too far and the orb was just too much focus, i backed out the zoom just a little bit and I could clearly see a rotating octagon shape gyro scoping around its own axis. The pictures are no longer clear and in the video that showed the lower flying air craft outlines are blurry after i text messaged them from my iphone but the the orb typed objects that showed during my zooming on the video (zooming during the incident) are clear as day of the object that showed a clear outline of the craft by eye and by iphone camera at no zoom turned into a gy! ro scoping octogon orb. I could only see the orb as i zoomed i! n on cam era but when I would look directly at the craft i never saw the orb this was only seen on camera as it zoomed in to a certain point. I was suprised to wake up and see no coverage or reports of this incident as it was a saturday night over DFW Texas and the whole time we watched we didnt see one single commercial or private air craft and we are 30 miles from DFW Airport and 3 miles from JRB Airstation, and along hwy 30 west where careflight and often 3 chinook helicopters fly over using the below hwy as a visual visual route.
March 23, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Aledo, TX
In the country, 4 miles NW of Aledo, Texas; 5 miles West of the Joint Reserve Base, Fort Worth, I was inside walking towards my back glass sliding doors when a group of four very bright lights over my pasture caught my attention. The lights were so low and bright, my first thought was that a plane was coming down right towards my house. I was about to yell for my wife to run out the front in case there was a crash, then I realized that the lights were not moving at all. I heard no noise and would have heard an air craft this close. The lights were so bright that I could not discern the shape of the object. There were 3 lights in a row with the middle slightly lower and one offset and up to the right, as if there was a missing light between them. The object was approximately 200 ft. in the air, 1,500 ft. away, about the size of a half-dollar at arm's length, so it had to be in excess of 40' or more wide. I watched the object for 30+ seconds and ran to get my cell phone camera in the next room. I was gone less than 15 seconds but when I got back, it was gone (and, very oddly, my cell phone went down, then came back on while I was wondering what happened to it). I immediately went outside and searched the sky in all directions, no plane, helicopters or anything else was airborne. It is impossible for any typical aircraft to not be still visible in that time. We are in the flight path of Joint Reserve Base air craft and Care Flight Helicopters from Weatherford to Fort Worth daily. This object did not resemble any of those. It is now 2am and I still haven't been able to sleep. This event was so unexpected all I could think to say was Jeez-Louise! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 16, 2017 · 5:00 AM · FLASH
Aledo, TX
I woke up in early morning to go to bathroom as usual. Outside the window, a bright star caught my eyes. Then I noticed it’s not like a star, it’s about 10 times bigger than stars. I never saw a big star at that spot. I looked steadily at it. It seems getting bigger and bigger and moving towards me. There’s red lights flashing around the lower right. This is definitely not a star. It’s on the east side of sky. It’s just hanging in there till the sun comes up and no longer can be seen In the bright blue sky. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
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Aledo, TX
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Aledo, TX
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