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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
5,375 entries
July 28, 2016 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Hurst, TX
Large Black Triangle with a strange rusty black color shot passed my window in the middle of the day. I ran outside to see if I could catch a pic, but it was a small dot on the horizon in only about 5 seconds of delay to get camera and get outside. It just drifted away very quickly. Much faster than when it first passed by the picture window.
July 27, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Austin, TX
Object was witnessed by myself only as I was driving home. Location is east Austin. Duration was just a few seconds before it disappeared out of view. Object was a white light sphere. Very bright. Perhaps the size of a van or SUV. It was not strobing like other spheres I have encountered. Just a solid white orb traveling basically horizontal, maybe slightly angled downward. Flew from west to east. Was no more than an 8th of a mile away and perhaps 600 feet above ground level. What made this orb unique from all the other orbs I've witnessed (I've had more than a few UAP encounters) was that it had a fiery orange/red vapor trail behind it. This thing was moving very fast like I said it was only visible for a couple seconds, but I knew right away that it wasn't any conventional aircraft or pyrotechnics display... And it was totally silent as per usual. Source of report provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2016 · 11:15 PM · CIRCLE
Plano, TX
As I watched these two orange colored stars, the top circular shaped object started to vanish. This higher craft did move slightly before it gradually vanished. At first I thought these might have been planes, but I've never seen a plane, or light from a plane, simply vanish before my very eyes. I didn't see the lower circular orange craft vanish, though I assume that it did as well. When I got down the hill to the lower trail, I turned around and it was gone as well.
July 24, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
New Braunfels, TX
Red glow illuminated several acres of field and houses. No apparent source or point of origin. Glow was intense enough to clearly see affected lit up area as if it were daylight. Lasted approximately 3 seconds, fading in for about 2 seconds and then the most intense glow lasted for the remainder. Red glow did not fade out, it cut off sharp. Bright enough to shine indoors, and light up frame of doors and windows from the inside perspective.
July 19, 2016 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
McKinney, TX
On 7-19-2016, on or about 20:16 hrs (CDT), while taking a break outdoors and watching a single engine plane doing “touch and go’s” from a nearby airstrip, I noticed a fairly bright white light approximately the size of or a little larger than a “BB” if held at arm’s length. The object was well above the local commercial air traffic, appearing at least as high as passing cirrus clouds and moved in a straight line from East to West. The observation lasted at least approximately three minutes and during this time, the object never seemed to change brightness, size, shape, or color. When I first noticed the object, it was approximately at the 10 or 11 o’clock position in the sky and remained visible until approximately the 2 o’clock position before fading out. If holding my hands at arm’s length, the object would have been about three to four hands high off of the horizon. Shortly after the object moved out of view, I observed two passing commercial aircraft in landing pattern and observed the glint from any reflective surfaces on them for comparison; neither of the craft had the same reflective luminosity of the object I had observed a few minutes earlier.
July 18, 2016 · 11:50 PM · OTHER
Texas City, TX
Saw a Y shaped light in the Western sky about 35 degrees up. It was gold in color and was stationery. It was 1/8 the size of the moon. It was above the clouds because it was hidden by clouds occasionally. Called a neighbor a mile away and they saw it too. I was not drinking or smoking anything. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is a skilled witness, and reliable. PD
July 15, 2016 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Denton, TX
10 solid, non-blinking orange lights moving from Southeast to Northwest in the night sky. Totally silent. An airplane moved from South to North at the same time that was much higher that made an obvious jet sound.
July 9, 2016 · 11:40 AM · TRIANGLE
Spring, TX
When spotted, it was a triangular shape and ith had a bright light on top. When it was first spotted, i believed it was a glare, but when i went outside, it started to disappear into the night sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 7, 2016 · 4:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Austin, TX
Male, age 3 asks upon awakening, "is that flying thing still in the sky?" Upon further questioning reports an object covered in lights. Also reports a light so bright, "I have to keep my eyes closed and can't open them." Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 7, 2016 · 3:10 AM · LIGHT
Austin, TX
I was driving past Austin Community College's Northridge Campus at 3:10 AM, when I saw an extremely bright white-blue flash of light in the southern sky. It was as bright as if someone took a picture of me with an antique flash camera from five feet away. I heard no sound. I pulled over in a nearby parking lot and waited for approximately 20 seconds, when an extremely powerful gust of wind hit me. The wind was was at least 60mph. I heard tree limbs popping. There was only one gust which lasted maybe 3 seconds. I drove home frightened, thinking a tornado was forming. I got home and checked the weather radar and saw no evidence of storms anywhere in Central Texas. Average wind speed as of this writing is 15 mph. I have not seen any more flashes of light in the southern sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2016 · 10:05 PM · FLASH
Copperas Cove, TX
Within about 1 minute, a pinpoint of light appeared out of nowhere, immediately expanded to about the size of a small dinner plate and then shrank back out to nothing. I was completely floored. I immediately texted my wife to come outside. I turned on my phone video and pointed it in that direction and waited. Within about a minute it happened again. Once again I was completely floored. I continued recording although I couldn’t be sure if I was catching the right area with my phone the screen was just black. Within about 1 more minute it happened again for the last time just before my wife arrived. I continued recording a few more minutes but nothing happened. It had an orange tint. It appeared in the same place as far as I could tell. It was not traveling at all and appeared extremely rigid in place. It didn’t cast any light down. It appeared out of empty sky as a pinpoint of light expanded, shrank to nothing in less than 2 seconds. There seemed to be a slight pause between it appearing as a pinpoint and then beginning to expand. To me it at full size it resembled the lens of one of those stage lights that hang above a theatre stage and have a circular pattern in the lens. There was no sound. There were no clouds and the sky around and behind it was very clear. It was not a planet, or an iridium flare, helicopter, drone or anything else like that. IT WAS STATIONARY. IT APPEARED IN THE SAME PLACE 5 TIMES IN ABOUT 5 MINUTES. IT LOOKED EXACTLY THE SAME ALL 3 TIME I SAW IT DIRECTLY. IT EXPANDED TO A SIZE MUCH GREATER THAN ANY OTHER OBJECT IVE EVER SEEN IN THE NIGHT SKY EXCEPT THE MOON. IT MADE NO SOUND. IT CAST NO LIGHT ON THE GROUND. THERE WAS NO TAIL OR FIRE OR SMOKE. IN MY JUDGMENT IT WAS WAY UP OR OUT THERE. THE SKY WAS CLEAR ALL AROUND IT. I COULD CLEARLY SEE THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE ANYWHERE IN THAT PATCH OF SKY. My video captured only one small instantaneous blip. Nothing like what I actually saw. No one else in my area ever reported seeing it as far as I know. I would have thought many people would have seen it as well. I want to know that someone else saw it too as I am beginning to question my own recollection even though my video proves something did appear. Thanks for reading this…. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2016 · 12:29 AM · SPHERE
Denton, TX
I was on the balcony with my girlfriend watching the crazy lightning in the sky, when a mysterious orb showed up out of no where. I was extremely terrified at the sheer speed it had to be moving. The crazy flight patterns blew me away as I have never seen something that agile in my life. The orb seemed to be trying to hid within the stormy night. My girlfriend and I are both college students and we were near a local university at the time. With multiple videos and a few pictures from two different sources the mysterious orange orb I saw tonight will, in no doubt in my mind be one of the most compelling cases. Right after my sighting, I called the UFO hotline and the man I spoke with said many similar sights happened all over tonight. I already believed we are not alone im just so glad to finally catch one on film. We have changed the date above, and asked the witness for confirmation. PD
July 4, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
El Paso, TX
Seen the first star heading east really small but moving fast. Seen the second moving object going north towards north east El Paso moving fast. Third was from the east heading north but disappeared.
July 2, 2016 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
Friendswood, TX
I looked in the sky and noticed a light, it was solid red for 3 seconds and then flashed green. It was very high up and not moving at all. It was staying in one spot for 4 minutes and then it suddenly started moving very fast. It didn't dart off it was just going very fast then started to sway left to right and finally started moving so fast we couldn't see it anymore.
June 28, 2016 · 1:30 AM · DIAMOND
Katy, TX
At ~1:30am on Tuesday morning, 4 individuals were driving west on Cinco Ranch Blvd in Katy, TX, when they saw a bright light in the sky ahead of them. The light moved quickly from the NW to W, and they pursued it into Fulshear, TX. The object stopped flying near the car, about a half mile above the ground, then quickly moved towards SE. The object/craft itself was a diamond, with four orange lights on each corner.
June 26, 2016 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Cypress, TX
This UFO was flying from the South heading North at a moderate speed. It didn't go up or down but stayed on course. It was red in color and had a flame out the back. Would love to know what it was or what it was doing. Will send pictures
June 26, 2016 · 12:34 AM · SPHERE
Garland, TX
Observing the stars with one of my friends when we looked into the Northeastern sky at about 45 degrees. We both see a large spherical light moving erratically through the sky about a quarter mile from us. It was flashing but with no pattern or timer just random flashes at different delays. It flashed with some intensity almost like a high power strobe flash or led. It stuck around for close to 2 minutes before the light faded out and then with a larger flash disappeared. There was no sound, no wind, no visual cause of the light it just seemed to appear with a quite literal flash. I attempted to film the Phenomena but was un able to get decent footage of the sighting. Animals acted very strange in the are having a large flock of birds take flight during the ordeal and then landing after the object was gone. We are unconvinced that this is a serious-minded report. Possible hoax, we believe. PD
June 23, 2016 · 10:16 PM · CIRCLE
Denton, TX
This photo was taken by me at 10:16 p.m., June 23, 2016, in the backyard of my next-door neighbor. We were enjoying dinner on her patio and using a star gazing app on my phone to identify stars and planets. Below is a description I wrote down shortly after the event to preserve the details. The first object traveled from the southeast toward my neighbor's house, in a northwesterly direction. The light on the right appeared first. I noticed it because i first thought it was a star. When it moved I thought it was a plane. It was some distance away (mile or more, so distant it looked like a small dot). It started coming toward us. I looked at it a couple of times and continued to notice it coming in our direction, still thinking it was just a plane. I looked away again, but then a few minutes later, it was close to the roof line of the house at the end of the street (four houses away) and it didn't move any closer. It just hovered. The light got much brighter. My neighbor's 9-year-old grand daughter was with me and said she saw it changing colors. Then I checked my flight radar app and saw there were no planes in the area. When I looked up again, there was a second one (one on the left) but it was much dimmer than the one on the right. They were spaced slightly further apart but then the dimmer one approached the larger one. I snapped this photo just as they became about the same brightness. They continued to hover there, the one on the left occasionally going behind the roof line of the house. Altogether it was just a few minutes. Then I looked away to say goodbye to one of my neighbors. I helped my other neighbor, whose house I was at, clean up our dinner plates. We went inside her house. I didn't say anything to her about the lights because I knew she would be frightened by them. When I went outside again a few minutes later and looked up, they were gone. I wish I could have continued watching, but I didn't get to see where they went or how quickly they left. Please note that I live within 30 minutes of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, but as stated above, my radar app showed no planes in the immediate area, and the objects were too close to the roof line to have been planes. They also traveled too great a distance to have been recreational drones, as I believe they would not have been within eye sight of any operator. They made no sound. Only my neighbor's grand daughter and I saw them.
June 23, 2016 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Katy, TX
On June 23, 2016, I was driving home from work in Houston heading west toward Katy on I-10. It was around 6:20pm, so the sun was still high in the sky. It was sunny and partly cloudy. A shiny object in the sky caught my eye. I would say that it was like an oval-ish shape, I couldn't see any sharp edges but it was solid. The reflection was bright and it made it hard to see the actual shape of the object was. I did not see it appear, I just happened to notice it. I was around I-10 and Dairy Ashford and it was on my right, north of I-10. It was wasn't too high but it wasn't too low on the horizon to where the view of it could be obstructed by trees or anything. I just stared at it. There was some traffic so I wasn't driving too fast so I was able to see if it had a trajectory path but it did not move, it stayed at the same position. I was trying to see if it was a plane, but the way that it shone, it could have not been because it wasn't small enough, the reflection was too bright and it would require a lot more surface area. The shape of a small plane could of not have cast the amount to light or reflection that this object did and from that distance, it would of been too small anyway. At first all I could notice was the bright reflective surface, but the more I looked, I could see that it was silver on the bottom part. Again, it was hard to see the actual shape of the object, but it was solid. There is a small airport on Groschke Road that is between Barker Cypress and Hwy 6. I occasionally see small planes take off so its not out of ordinary for me to see things in the sky, I have even seen colorful hot air ballons come from south of I-10 in Katy, I am not too sure where exactly they come from but it has been a while since I have seen those. However, this object or I guess UFO was rather large but at the same time seemed far away. If I would guess where the UFO was on top of, I would guess that it was between the Mason Rd to Fry Rd and Saums to Clay Rd area. So as I am driving I pass under the Hwy 6 overpass and when I look at the same spot in the sky, it was gone. I looked around to see if it moved lower or higher but it was nowhere. The Hwy 6 overpass only obstructed my view for about 5 seconds. The length of time that I saw this UFO was no more than 1 minute. When I first saw it I felt curious and I was thinking of all the possibilites of what this could of be! en. When I continued to see it, I felt kind of confused because I couldn't understand what the object was and when it disappeared quickly I was just shocked and I also felt upset at myself for not taking a picture of it. I am sure that it would of been visible. If somebody knows what this object was or if you saw it too, please leave a comment. I have been trying to forget or to talk myself out of thinking that I saw a UFO. I am not one of those kind of people that think that there are aliens out there or those that do a lot of research on conspiracy theories but I cannot explain what could that could have been but I KNOW what I saw. I can't talk myself out of this and forget it so I wanted to let others know. Sorry this is so long but I wanted to be highly descriptive!
June 16, 2016 · 10:26 PM · DIAMOND
San Antonio, TX
It hovered for 5 seconds and immediately moved from left to the right and disappeared. I then called my mother in law from the inside of the house and we all went to the front yard, where then it appeared again, and moved left to right rapidly and disappeared. We were in "awe" and came into the house where we saw through our 5 by10 entrance window in our two story house, giving us the ability to see the sky while standing in our entrance.
June 16, 2016 · 1:00 AM · DISK
Paige, TX
Early am we were fighting an 18 wheeler fire on an empty section of highway one of the fire fighters started taking pictures with her phone there were two shots taken back to back in the second one an object appears hovering over the truck where we were working
June 2, 2016 · 4:00 PM · TEARDROP
Hurst, TX
This craft showed up during a fireworks show. I was watching from a distance enjoying the show, when I noticed a crescent shape craft light up to the right of my position. It seemed to light up in the crescent inner portion, as it sat stationary. It then just flashed out of sight. It was just gone. Witness indicates a date in "2106." We have attempted to contact him, to verify the date, but have not been successful, yet. PD
May 29, 2016 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Abilene, TX
Thunderstorms coming in, was watching sky when saw a bright light traveling west to east back and forth making quick 360 degree turns going back and forth over a 2 mile radius. The light would split off and quickly come back together.
May 28, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Woodville, TX
It would seem to be about two feet in diameter and maybe three inches in thickness. It seemed to be a circle. I have one photo which I lightened on my computer. It was a very dark night. I can see from that improvement it is inside my yard. I wonder if this can be a drone? Please share information regarding this UFO if there is any. We have looked at the photo, and suspect that the object is not an alien space craft. The quality of the copy sent to NUFORC is not high, but it appears to us as though the object of interest is in the near field of the camera, and probably is relatively small. PD