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January 16, 2019 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Pine Springs, TX
I was flying on Southwest 2168 on 16 January 2019, flying between Las Vegas, NV, and San Antonio, TX. While admiring the beautiful Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas, my eyes settled on an aircraft that soon entered my field of view. It was haze gray in color, spherical or perhaps saucer-shaped, and hung in the sky to the left of my plane at about 20 degrees below the horizon. As it drifted under the wing I tried to make out the direction it was traveling or any wings I could discern but could not. My plane's wing eventually obscured the object and I was unable to relocate it. I thought it was just another aircraft until a just few minutes later when an approaching airliner flew safely past my plane, streaking contrails as it did. It was only then that I realized the object I had seen had produced no contrails whatsoever and may have not even been moving. The sighting occurred about 9 AM CST. SWA 2168 was flying at 41,000 feet and was somewhere south of Pine Springs, TX. I estimate the object was 5-10k feet below my plane though it is difficult to gauge the size/distance of something unfamiliar.
January 10, 2019 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Dallas, TX
Was at work outside, saw this thing that was flashing bright green lights then suddenly stopped then flashed bright red lights. It stopped then moved left, stopped again then moved fast back the way it came.
January 9, 2019 · 12:20 AM · FORMATION
Lindale, TX
Seen a formation type of lights. Was there then disappeared after a few minutes.
January 8, 2019 · 8:00 AM
Midland, TX
Numerous beams of orange pulsing lights in the sky over midland circling the town.
January 8, 2019 · 8:00 AM
Midland, TX
Add to previous report. My husband ((husband's name deleted)) noticed two orange beans in the sky just over the midland memorial hospital. Then about 20 min later, he called me back outside and there were about nine in the direction of the walmart and three more between the two previous lights. One after another they would pulse getting really bright then dim. Then slowly one after another they disappeared. Each light was was 2 to three inches long high in the sky.
January 6, 2019 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Point Blank, TX
This report is a single event involving this UFO. I do not think it is extraterrestrial. I think it is man made. I have viewed this object multiple, multiple times in the past 3 months or longer. I can view it during any night when the sky is clear. For the past 3-4 months I noticed a star in the sky, first to the SW of my property and now to the SE of it. The object appears to be a star, but it is too bright to be one. I investigated a website that gives the minute-by-minute location of the planets in our solar system and the night of this sighting only three of the planets were visible at the time of my sighting, and all three were located to the North of my location. In the opposite direction of the star as I observed it. I took multiple photos of it and some video clips. I used a Canon PC-2200 camera with a 50X zoom. When zoomed to 50X the object can cover the entire viewing area of the camera. The object is oval or relatively round. It does not have the appearance of any of the planets in our solar system. And I believe it is too large in the viewing area of the camera to be a star. I also observed this object and pursued it early one morning between 3 AM and 7 AM. My thinking was as I approached the object its angle from my position would increase if it was at a relatively low altitude, one a star or planet could not be found at. The closer I would get, the larger the angle would become. If that makes sense. I was not able to make a determination that morning. I drove about 25 miles to a nearby town in the course of my driving. I watched the object from my truck while I drove. It was a very clear night with very high cirrus clouds. After driving about 18 miles the object began to grow small and dimmer and disappeared when it went thru the cirrus clouds. I stopped my truck, got out and viewed the entire sky for about 3 minutes. The star was gone. So, I terminated my trip and turned around to return home. About 5 miles down the road is a small town with a pizza restaurant I frequent. I decided to pull into its parking lot and take a look to see if the star was not there. It was there, clearly. So, I proceeded along my original path until I was about 25 miles from my home. I did not notice a discernible change in the angle of the star from the ground, and concluded it probably was not within 50 miles of me, maybe more. I stopped at a Walmart to buy something. When I returned to my truck I remembered I had a pair of binoculars in it. I took them out and viewed the object. I will describe this object not as an oval but more like a fat football. The binoculars have a power of about 10X or 12X. The object took up about 50% of the viewable area of the lens. That suggested to me the object must be relatively close, a location far too close to have been a star or a planet. The object consisted of chambers that appeared something like the cells of a honey comb but they were shorter and more blunt. They and the object, star, all appeared to pulsate very slightly. The object had 3 black spots and what I can only describe as a smile. The cross section of a smile. It too was black. The object rotated as 2 of the 3 black spots disappeared as did the mouth. In the course of about 15 minutes the 2 missing black spots reappeared. The mouth did not reappear. I left and went home. I have not seen that object again. Almost every night the star/orb appears to the SE of my property. Some nights it seems to move across the sky like a star or planet. But the majority of nights it does not. I view it between 23:00 PM and 24:00 PM and then against at 5 or 6 Am and its in the same general location. This object starts the evening out at a very high altitude. During the night it descends to an altitude where it appears like the Star of Bethlehem in many Nativity photos. Relatively big and with 4 points to the naked eye. Again, I have seen this star in the sky almost every night for 3 months, maybe longer. I ignored it for a month or more, though it did not appear to be a star or planet to me. I don't think it can be either one for several reasons detailed above. That's a synopsis of what I have witnessed from my residence for over 3 months. The objects I have seen do not behave like those described in most UFO reports, darting, high speed turns, etc. This star(s) is relatively stationary, and the only speed it ever demonstrated was the morning it ascended and disappeared into the cirrus cloud during the trip I described above. I have other witnesses to this star(s). Very Best Wishes
January 4, 2019 · 11:45 PM · FORMATION
Portland, TX
I had recently started star gazing often at night because of a high occurrence of shooting stars in the area and sometimes in the early morning hours I would see satellites or space debris reflecting through the air. Recently Trump had threatened his nuclear weapon button was bigger in response to North Korea Nuclear tension via Twitter so my assumption for a while for what I had viewed that night was it was a defense test or Space-X Rocket Launch from the Brownsville, TX, location. I did not report this incident initially, as coming from a military family and having been educated in Mechanical Engineering, I assumed what I saw was a missile defense deflection test in preparation for any foreign nuclear attack. I walked outside and looked around the sky trying to allow my eyes to adjust to the darkness which would allow me to see stars and satellites easier as sometimes being next to a larger city the stars can be harder to locate. The night sky was clear enough from cloud coverage for me to be able to locate stars in any direction. About 2 minutes after being outside I noticed a group of 3 stars around 72 degrees east that were brighter than when my head had panned that direction previously. Now visually fixated on these objects, I noticed that the objects were tracking NE in regards to my position and phone compass. Being the large pessimist I am, I tried to downplay what I was seeing and assumed them to be air planes of some type. But there were no strobe lights or jet sounds so I thought these to be space debris for a moment. As a few seconds go by, I realize that it seems as if these equidistant 3 white orb objects are traveling in triangle formation. There roughly at abou! t 35 degrees upwards in relation to my point of view. Only about 10 or 15 seconds into the ordeal I made a split second decision not to go grab my phone (stupid) in a selfish act to keep watching the event unfold as I had never seen anything like this before but being someone well versed in mathematics and engineering was convincing myself with logical thinking what I was seeing was nothing to be excited about. Calmly, I watched at about 45 seconds into the entire event as a middle orb seemed to appear out of thin air. The objects began to track back towards the eastward direction slowly but changing directions simultaneously with each other moments after the arrival of the new orb. Remaining equidistant to the new object the three whitish orbs slowly started de-accelerating to a full stop in coordination with the new orb the air. Levitating there for a few more moments as the event reached the 1 minute mark. The original 3 orb objects at this time started moving around as i! f they were trying to push this new orb that appeared by directing themselves underneath the new orb. The original orbs were starting to move around the new orb erratically unlike anything I have ever seen before. Zig Zag patterns is the best description but staying equidistant from the new orb object. At this time I noticed strobe lights of airplanes coming from a local air force base heading towards the objects coming from the Southeast direction at 116 degrees. As the jets made it to around 75 degree east track the new orb surrounded by the original moving orbs started to glow orange slowly. Over a period of 20 seconds the new orb grew to be larger and larger and seemed to gain luminosity as bright as the sun in the night sky but only in that area of the sky. It looked like an atmospheric re-entry of a large object but the other objects around it seemed to speed up during this process. The orb toward the right of formation shot off faster than I have ever seen anything travel in my entire life. It covered around 6 inches of sky in less than! a 1 second span. I assumed this object was traveling mach 5 or 6 but there was no explosion or sounds. All I could hear were the jets at this time that were now approaching it within my range of view and most definitely theirs. It was obvious these jets were tracking these objects. The orb that traveled away from the formation went like a chord through a circle in regards to my visible atmosphere. In less mathematical descriptive terms, the object was like if you were to have shot a bullet through the top portion of an orange. The object was moving so fast it almost looked as a shooting star would have in regards to speed but this object was more gathered and had no comet tail or sparks. The new glowing orb faded and each orb slowly one by one flickered/disappeared from plain site. Whether these objects just traveled beyond the atmosphere slowly or not..they just vanished. After not being able to confirm that there was a space x launch and others in the area reported seeing the same thing I took it upon myself to report it. As a credible witness soon to earn a degree in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in both Mathematics and Psychology… What I saw is definitely artificial. I would assume at this time it is advanced defensive or just raw technology possessed by the United States Government being it was so closely after the nuclear arms arguments. This is why I did not report it for a while but now I realize if it is an adversary that has the technology. These objects are being reported around US military bases frequently. Reports like this might be useful into tracking the origin. Regardless of my opinions..it does not change the visual event that occurred. So I decided to come forward with the report even though people usually are shunned for this type of thing.
January 4, 2019 · 12:26 AM · CIRCLE
Austin, TX
Driving on rt 183 north west saw very very bright light in circle in night sky was clear sky jan 4 1226 am it was moving in same direction and got very big stopped moving then shot up and gone OMG fast
January 1, 2019 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Texas (southern), TX
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 1, 2019 · 4:00 AM · OVAL
Bryan, TX
Leaving Bryan, Tx about 4 in the morning I saw this bright light appearing as if hanging from the moon. It never left the location from the moon.
December 31, 2018 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
San Antonio, TX
I saw fiery orange lights no sound flying at low altitude no noise they moved south then flanked back but they all flanked at the same area as they flew higher I took pictures and video I tried to close up to see if they were lanterns but there was no flickering I have seen them before, but can’t identify them.
December 31, 2018 · 10:00 PM
Spring, TX
Location: Spring, TX along Grand Parkway, 5 miles east of interstate 45 Date: 31 December 2018 Time: 22:00hrs Observation: 6 orange/ red lights over course of approximately 10-15 minutes Orange/ red lights moving in a general SW to NE direction. Difficult to judge distance, but appeared to move from below low level clouds to a higher elevation. First saw only one light, which moved from approximately 50 degrees of arc to roughly 110 degrees relative to my position before disappearing. Light changed both intensity and color over approximately 1-2 minutes of observation. Intensity would fade, then return to original brightness. The light at first appeared to be an aircraft in the holding pattern of IAH. Approach vector matched typical inbound commercial aircraft. After initial observation, it became clear that this was not a commercial airliner, due to a single light source. Meaning there were no approach or running lights, nor were there any strobes. No typical turbofan engine sound could be heard (no discernible noise at all related to the light) Approach speed and angle were consistent with powered flight on a steady course. After 2-3 minutes a second light appeared, following the same trajectory as the first. I observed both of these until they appeared to either dissipate or disappear into the clouds. Shortly after the first two lights disappeared, a second pair could be observed above the tree line, however these were on a different trajectory in their flight path. The first set travelled from a 12 o’clock position to a 9 o’clock position, from my perspective as the observer. The second followed a narrower flight path from 12 to 1 o’clock position. A third pair of lights followed a 12 to 3 o’clock path. Other observers present suggested this could have been a Chinese lantern or a drone. Drone was not plausible due to the number, apparent altitude, lack of sound, and lack of running lights. Chinese lanterns could not have moved at the apparent speed and divergent trajectories. I took several photos of the lights and attempted a video, these were not very detailed. However, the lights matched a video recording posted on YouTube that was filmed in South Carolina during December 24th. The audio description also matches what I observed. https://youtu.be/WQsSORRSzSE I’m filing this report after doing some research and seeing a pattern of similar observations during the same period of time.
December 29, 2018 · 12:29 AM · CHANGING
Sanger, TX
2 of my friends and I were out at lake Ray Roberts in Sanger taking pictures of star trails late at night. The sky was cloudy and pretty dark, but a few minutes later, we looked over the Ray Roberts dam and saw a giant object in the sky. The object in question had a fiery hue and changed form a few times. It would get bigger and brighter and then it would shrink down to nothing and reappear. It rotated around while it was in view and had around 3 other objects of the same fiery hue fly up to it. After the 3 smaller objects flew up towards it, it vanished. While we were observing it we attempted to capture images of it. I was unsuccessful as my images were blurry but my 2 other friends managed to capture photo and video of it.
December 19, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Estelline, TX
On 12/19/2018 at 9:30 pm, in Estelline, Texas, we noticed 17 small lights in the sky. There was 4 witness who observed them move thru the sky in small groups of 3 then 5 and 7 and 2. It was partly cloudy, with the clouds moving south wards and the lights moving northwest. They were going again slightly wind and moving rapidly in clusters of 3 then 5 then 7 and then 2.
December 10, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Beaumont, TX
I was outside a hospital smoking a cigarette.looked up and saw a bright white light that resembled a star, except it got dimmer and dimmer then slowly went away. I've seen this before. The first time was approximately 2 months ago (10/14). That time i heard a noise and my dogs went insane as the light seemed to disappear behind a small field of trees. My dog definitely felt something. Also when I got back in the house, it appeared that i lost track of time as 3 hrs had passed. As though i spent 3 hrs looking at that object. I recorded it. And im wondering. What did i see??
December 4, 2018 · 8:54 PM · LIGHT
Galveston, TX
Me and my brother were driving and we had seen a huge orange light in the sky levitating. After a couple seconds it shot down leaving a trail so we followed it over to harbor side and it looked like it went into the water. Everyone is trying to say it was a firecracker, but it made no sound. Please investigate it!!!!
December 1, 2018 · 12:00 PM · CHEVRON
San Antonio, TX
I am a home health PTA and I was going to see a patient in their home. As I was leaving my housing development, I saw five flickering lights in the sky that appears to me to be over Lackland AFB. I pulled over to watch, but did not get pictures or video. The lights were in a chevron shape and this did not change so I assume it was one object. I did not see a physical craft or dark shape the lights were connected to. I am an Air Force veteran and former San Antonio police officer, I see C5's flying overhead all the time as Lackland AFB is the training facility for this large plane. Even when a C5 is flying over the base 12 miles away, you can make out that it is a plane. The object I saw was only lights that flickered like a silver mylar balloon would in the wind reflecting the sun. There was no pattern between the five lights, but the distance between them remained constant. I watched for maybe a couple of minutes and it banked to my left in a northern direction. Then then flickered out and I did not see them again.
November 14, 2018 · 2:55 PM · OVAL
Coppers Cove, TX
The object was an oval white shape stationary in the sky was a clear blue sky. Was looking overhead at a propeller plane flying over us in my yard and noticed the object. It stayed in the sky for about 30 seconds and was still did not move then just disappeared .
November 13, 2018 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Kaufman, TX
I am ex military so i have seen many helicopters and that is not what that was. After we watched them for about 5 minutes we came to our exit and right before we got ready to exit they just disappeared. Please someone tell me what we just witnessed. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
November 13, 2018 · 5:45 AM · FIREBALL
Sugar Land, TX
I was walking my dogs near Constellation Field around 5:30 in the morning. It was dark outside and my dog when a series of strange events happened with possible missing time. I let my dogs off their leashes and we noticed a rabbit run directly into the stadium. my dogs were frozen as they noticed a husky like dog chase after it. My dogs took off after this dog, which caused me to frantically chase after them in full sprit. A next thing I know, my dogs are running towards me. I put them back on leashes and look to my left and notice a human figure and the dog walk under a bridge. As soon as the two pass my line of sight, out of breath, I look up and notice a ball of light hover above the bridge and shoot straight up silently. The ball of light had a tail of light behind as it went straight up. I had never seen anything like it before or any other ufo video to compare it too. The object would have been either close to or right above a chemical storage facility! called Nalco Champion. I recently saw an article that stated that less than one in ten sightings are reported, so I decided to report my sighting.
November 12, 2018 · 6:10 PM · SPHERE
San Angelo, TX
I was heading from north to south on Abe Street, when I spotted this thing. According to my watch, it was just after six in the evening. Off to my right, this bluish white ball looked as if it were descending towards the Concho River. As I approached Santa Fe Park, the ball of light made a hard banking turn and continued to descend over the river. The object traveled from west to east. Checking the rearview mirror, I could tell that the drivers behind me knew something was going on. The car behind me began to slow down. After making Santa Fe Park Dr., I proceeded west. En route to pickup my daughter, I didn’t want to be late. But this thing was headed straight towards me. Estimating, I would say the object was no more than 700 feet from the ground. Blue-white in color and the thing sort of flickered, like an image on a television screen sometimes does. But it was that banking turn, like this thing just rolled onto course and followed the bend in the river. Thirty feet in diameter, and it wasn’t travelling very fast. In fact, it passed me slowly as it continued eastward. I’m not sure what speed it was travelling at. The thing went by silently. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 11, 2018 · 8:50 PM · FLASH
San Antonio, TX
Was driving home, heading south on Commercial Avenue, on the south side of San Antonio. We noticed a large flash of light in the south eastern part of the sky. Each flash was blue in color. Flashes lasted only a few seconds, but continued for several minutes around the San Antonio River and Loop 410 area. There was no accompanying sound, smoke or any reports of electrical power being lost. The flashes light up the entire portion of the sky. There was a gas main that caught fire, but it was reported at 0100 hrs a full 5 hours after these flashes were observed.
November 2, 2018 · 10:00 AM · RECTANGLE
San Antonio, TX
I was picking up my friend from her house around 10 o’clock. She was trying to sneak out of her house, so my other friend and I waited in the car for her. We didn’t want people to notice us so we turned off the headlights completely and lowered the inside lights coming from the console down (thus there was no chance it was a glare). We were waiting and then in an instant, both of us see this yellow-greenish light. It was rectangular. The street itself was completely dark with the exception of a light post off in the distance. It just appeared out of nowhere. It glided downwards for 5 seconds and then it just ended. It didn’t touch the ground, all of this happened mid-air. It was so quick but very vivid. We could tell it was a rectangle with a green-yellow light/aura coming from it. It was that high but it wasn’t that low. I would say it was at the height of when airplanes just take off, like when they haven’t reached their height cruising speed but not that low. It was very odd. The windows were down to and we didn’t hear anything coming from it. It couldn’t have been a firework or flare as it didn’t come up, it just appeared and then went down. It couldn’t have been a drone, we would have seen the lights continue and it wouldn’t have just appeared out of nowhere. And it definitely wasn’t an airplane or a helicopter.
October 27, 2018 · 4:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Crowley, TX
I went outside during the afternoon of October 27, 2018 to throw out the garbage and heard some birds overhead. As an avid birdwatcher, I take my binoculars with me when I go outside from time to time. Unfortunately, this time I did not. However the birds I was hearing I was familiar with what they were (sandhill cranes). I decided to whip out my smart phone and take a picture of the area where I could hear them. I took the picture to see approximately how many where flying around. I ended up taking two pictures. When I got back in the house to look at my pictures to find the birds, I noticed a triangular object in one of the two pictures I took. I found the object before finding the birds in the picture. The birds are a large bird with a wingspan of 6'8". In the opposite direction of the birds is the triangular object. The object seems to be in only one of the two pictures. The pictures are taken five seconds apart according to the time stamp. One other item in the picture is an airplane with it's contrails. I never noticed the triangular object with my naked eyes or heard anything other than the birds. It also happened to be a clear day. This happened in close proximity, sky-wise, to another observance I had one evening maybe in the last two months. I don't have the exact evening and it was somewhere around 21:30 to 22:30. I was looking the same direction just as this observerance and noticed a light in the sky. It was like a bright star which didn't move, however it was there and then it vanished, as if it burned out. This observerance I happened to be inside and looking out my kitchen window. It happened as long as maybe a minute or two.