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Circle over Santa Fe, TX

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Seven circular balls of white to orange light's taking on to different spectacular flying formations in the sky.

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April 18, 2021 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE

Santa Fe, TX

On the night of Sunday, April 18th, 2021, at approximately 9 p.m. I was inside my home washing dishes when I could hear sirens outside of my home. As a few minutes passed, I began to hear even more sirens and police cars gathering close by. I walked outside to the end of my driveway to investigate all of the sirens I was hearing. Across the street from me, there was a small home that appeared to have smoke pouring out of it. Obviously I presumed something was on fire inside the home. I watched roughly eight fire trucks arrive on the scene followed by numerous police cars and three ambulances. My home resides behind my landlord who i'm friends with so i sent her a text message to let her know what was going on. She came outside and greeted me and stood beside me while we watched the events of the fire unfold. We stood at the end of the driveway while we watched the fire fighters try to make an entry into the house. Roughly fifteen minutes after watching them, I noticed what seemed to be a solid green colored star slowly descend from the sky.The closer it became, the less it seemed like a star and more like a green orb. The green orb descended until it stopped right above the scene of the fire. At the time I asked my landlord if she could see the same green orb I did to which she agreed. When it stopped, we could tell that the object had a round figure to it, also it had some mass to it. You could tell that it was large, and it sat just under the clouds right above the home. The object sat there in mid air not moving for a few moments. Suddenly it started moving side to side very slowly. We continued to watch the object shocked and wondering what it was. We kept asking each other what it could be and we couldn't come up with an answer. The green orb would move slowly in one direction, then in the blink of an eye, shoot straight up into the sky. It was almost impossible to keep up with. The object stayed a solid green color and continued to stay directly above the scene of the house fire. It would come down slowly and hover, then move to the side, then gain altitude and ascend into the sky. All of the movements were irregular and hard to keep up with because of how erratic it was. There were times we could see it right under the clouds almost getting close enough to hover right over the treeline that was behind the house, then it would ascend so quickly into the sky it would look like a distant star all over again. Even when it gained altitude, it would stop in mid air and slowly move side to side, then drop down close. Whatever movement it made it seemed t! o have an interest in the lights or the scene of the house fire. As my landlord and I both watched it, we felt nervous and a little shaken up because of the movements this green orb was making. This was no drone because of the speed and altitude it could achieve in mere milliseconds. This was not a meteor or any kind of man piloted aircraft. It did not have any kind of propelling force that moved the object. There was no fire or smoke behind the aircraft. This object moved across the sky back and forth so quickly and slowly that you could tell it did not abide by the natural law of physics. After watching this green orb for about fifteen minutes it would disappear, then reappear on the other side of the sky. My landlord and I struggled to point out to each other where it was disappearing and reappearing. Eventually after it made its erratic movements and kept moving across the sky, the object just simply disappeared. We watched it do this a few times until eventually it never reappeared in the sky. My landlord and I knew what we had just ! seen was something unexplained. Even now when we talk about it, we get uncomfortable.

March 8, 2015 · 8:30 AM · UNKNOWN

Santa Fe, TX

SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT POSTED 03/13/2015 SANTA FE, TEXAS **SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT** Occurred : 3/7/2015 20:40 (Entered as : 03/07/15 20:40) Reported: 3/9/2015 4:29:50 AM 04:29 Posted: 3/13/2015 Location: Santa Fe, TX Approx. 35 Miles South – South West of Houston, Texas 22 Miles West North West of Galveston, Texas and 12 -15 Miles West of Texas City, Texas by road ways Unknown and believed to be shorter in miles due North of the West End of Galveston Island See initial report - Occurrence: 3/7/2015, Posted 3/13/2015. Also “05-04-2012 @22:15 - occurrence Santa Fe, Texas” a sighting of my own. Shape: Disk Duration:15-20 seconds ** Additional Details for Occurrence: 3/72015 20:40 hours Reported: 3/9/2015 Posted: 3/13/2015** The very next day, Sunday 3/8/2015, I was not at home, however my wife reported to me that she heard the very same intense noise occurrence’s twice, during the day while she was busy inside the house. The first one at approx. 08:30 hours and a second one at approx. 13:20. I asked her did she make it outside to see whether or not it may have been the same thing? She stated the first time she heard it she was headed toward the front door to look but about half way there the noise diminished as quick as it came about but shook the house and rattled windows just the same as the night before. Then later in the afternoon the same thing, so she didn’t even bother and sure enough had she tried but due to not being that close to either the front or back door to the house she would have missed it. Both occurrences this time would have been in broad daylight instead of after dark the evening before when she saw whatever this “perfectly round object” may have been in the sky. What has really played upon my mind was when this first occurrence woke me up out of a sound sleep as stated, sounding like a jet air liner flying way too low for whatever reason. The distinct high pitched sound of jet propelled turbine engines and of course the intense noise of something really cooking through the air. It wasn’t until I read another report from this web site which occurred on 3/6/2015 from Conroe, Texas, (the very day before) where the author apparently familiar as a former Navy cryptologist writes about the “Alert/Intercept single pilot Fighter Jet deployed in full afterburner” maneuvering through Houston IAH Airspace as such to gain maximum speed. That an alert exercise would not happen right through the holding pattern of Houston IAH. I take that to mean holding patterns of two significant airports that I know of in Houston, Bush International and William P. Hobby including what air traffic still coming and going from Ellington Field Air Force Base in South Houston and several other smaller private airports in the surrounding area. What little I know about the reported sightings of these unidentified flying “disk shaped” objects is usually they are silent. At best some sort of low pitched humming sound if that? Which perhaps explains what I heard, my wife heard and saw and perhaps what she as well, didn’t see? Could this have been the case regarding this ground shaking noise (jet engines)? One or more of our “fighter jets” that for whatever reason my wife didn’t or couldn’t see, perhaps perusing or attempting to this “perfectly round object” with the two red lights with a single bright white one in the middle as described in my original report? All kinds of questions arise in my mind as to just what the heck was this particular event? If this was the case then why couldn’t she see any jet in addition to when s looked up just in time to see its approach, then straight up as it flew directly overhead as “it then took off out of sight like a shooting star” regarding speed, sight, sound, everything to do with it, gone with in a split second! In attempts to rationalize the distinct sound of a jet engine winding down or up could this craft have perhaps been jet powered itself? Or if there was a fighter jet in pursuit it would seem logical enough reason for the distinct sound of jet turbines associated with it? Very plausible if it came in from the Gulf, which would have been in the same direction it came from and just a few miles away as “the Crow/or a disk in this case, flies” and basically took off as described, leaving any type of jet far, far, behind in an instant? What now stands out is why couldn’t a jet engine still be heard afterwards until fading in the distance in going away from a stationary position on the ground? There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind what so ever that my wife did not see, exactly what she described. Of which I failed to mention, even though the lighting conditions was dark the sky itself in the area we live was light enough to distinguish the difference in the configuration between a low flying air plane, helicopter, or as in this incident this blacked out perfectly round disk with the exception of said lights up front which may have assisted her in seeing the thing at all. Now she wishes she hadn’t seen it as she remained perplexed for a few days like I did upon seeing what I saw on 05-04-12 while on my way to work (a spectacular light show of these multicolored to white and ! then orange light orbs) one night and knows now how I felt for quite some time in trying to figure out what I saw and still to this very day. Upon checking back with this website (N-UFO Reporting Center) in seeing my report was posted regarding a 03/07/2015 Santa Fe, Texas sighting, I noticed the following reports of sightings reported also in the same general geographical area and close proximity to each other within one day plus apart. Note to Director of NUFORC: Please feel free to edit or not even post at all due to length. I will also include additional contact numbers in the proper fields of report submission form should an investigator already tried to contact me and couldn’t get through as I am willing to assist in any way with in my ability to perhaps do so. For any potential interested experienced investigator since there seems to be enough activity in this particular area of Texas (along The Gulf Coast and within a radius of I’d say 300 miles or so inland) not to mention Texas alone having such a high collective number in totality. I have taken the liberty to cut and paste some of your most recent posts from your website regarding this area for any investigator perhaps not recognizing all these towns and cities by name as to their proximity to each other and incorporating them into my supplement. By pulling up a map of Galveston County, Texas, and cross referencing with your website you will see that just about each and every city and unincorporated area (towns) it appears, has added multiple sightings over and over again. Especially regarding these orbs of light. I begin with the first one being most interesting to me as it is the one which coincides with the sighting my wife saw the very next day following this persons sighting regarding unusual activity of one of our own fighter jets. If this persons conclusion is correct, then just WHY was this fighter jet sent up in the manner described and for WHAT if anything it may have seen for itself? Not something most any of us could or would get an answer to in making a simple telephone call to the proper authority. This occurrence was/is only approx. 73 – 81 miles from our residence taking a jet once in the air in afterburner mode if sent up again the very next day for yet another unknown air craft investigation possibly coinciding with our report, a matter of minutes to get from Conroe to the coast? ** Denotes added by this author** National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report Occurred : 3/6/2015 14:35 (Entered as : 03/06/15 14:35)Reported: 3/8/2015 9:27:08 AM 09:27 Posted: 3/13/2015 Location: Conroe, TX Shape: Other Duration:3 minutes **located about 40 miles (64 km) north of Houston ** Alert intercept/fighter in full afterburner, manoevering through Houston I

March 7, 2015 · 8:40 PM · DISK

Santa Fe, TX

On Saturday March 8, 2015, at approx. 2040 hours (8:40 P.M.), I was asleep, when awakened by one heck of a loud roaring noise of such intensity it was literally vibrating/shaking the walls and window panes of the entire house. To me it sounded as if it were a large jet airliner flying way too low as if it were in some sort of mechanical distress about to have to make a forced emergency landing any second, as I briefly cringed for a few seconds wondering if our house was going to be the first one taken out. By the time I got out of the bed and went through the house into the living room my wife was just coming back inside from the front door. I asked her, “you hear that dammed jet”! She had this weirdest look on her face saying, “Yes I did, that’s why I went out the front door and that was no air plane of any kind, I saw it”! She was watching television in the living room and heard the same approach when she jumped up off the couch and stepped out the front door. She stated that as soon as she cleared the overhang of the front part of the house and looked up in the direction the approaching rumble was coming from (the south east) she could clearly see three lights to the front of a perfectly round object. Two red evenly spaced and shining at an angle off to the side with one intensely bright white light centered in the middle shining straight ahead as if were a headlight or spotlight for the pilot/operator. She further stated upon me questioning her that it looked as if it were! going to brush the top of a row of tall pine trees we have down the side of the yard (approx.. 30 feet high). That as she could see it was no plane of any kind as it cleared the tree tops she could then tell that it was may be three times the height of the trees above them. As it flew across the top of the trees going right over our house headed North West upon her looking up at it trying to follow it with her eyes once it cleared the house, “That it was gone with the speed of a shooting star.” At this time, she could tell that it was may be two to three times the height of the pine trees above them which would have been may be 90 feet or so? I know it’s extremely difficult to impossible for most of us to accurately estimate distance of most anything in the sky. Furthermore it looked as if it were may be as big around as our living room which is somewhere around 10 X 20 feet of which I have no idea as to just what size larger that would be 90 plus feet above? Santa Fe, Texas, is located in Galveston County, about 22 miles west from Galveston Island, which sits right on the coast line of the open waters of the huge Gulf of Mexico where quite a few of these unexplained sightings seem to come from/occur and about 30 miles or so south of Houston. See a previous report of a sighting I personally saw and submitted 05-04-12 @22:15 Santa Fe, Texas, one night on my way to work from Santa Fe to Galveston. I see where Texas ranks fourth in the nation (4,342 reports) behind Washington State (4,991), Florida (5,096), and California (11,165) all of which seem to be “hot beds” for this sort of activity. Also look up “Strange Lights Over Galveston on YouTube” where others have caught these strange light orbs and patterns in the sky of which I reported on. The best one was submitted by a “DB James’ out of Texas City one of many cities in Galveston County reporting video’s there and reports to this site.

August 14, 2013 · 10:39 PM · FIREBALL