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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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March 24, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Lorenzo, TX
The following event occurred approx. 20 miles east of Lubbock, Texas, at around 9:30 pm CST on the evening of March 24, 2016. Me and my friend were standing on my back porch, cooking steaks and enjoying the evening. It was a very clear and mild night by West Texas standards. Rising out of the east was a beautiful almost clay red moon that, in my estimation, illuminated at 97 percent visible. My friend in awe of the natural beauty of the moon's presence in the night sky proceeded to document on his cell phone camera. The event that immediately followed was recorded on his camera. With my back to him and tending the grill, he became vocally excited about something he was witnessing in the eastern night sky as he recorded on his phone camera. He exclaimed to me that he had just had visual on something that was amazing and though he may have captured the event on camera. Seconds later, I walked up behind him and viewed his phone screen over his shoulder. What he had recorded amazed me. This is what I witnessed immediately after he had stopped recording the documented footage. To the east in a medium low horizon was the moon with what appeared at first as a bright star on a lower plane on the right side (southern side from viewed position). Watching this, my attention became enhanced as this star seemed to be drifting horizontally in the direction of the moon. At this point what appeared to be a smaller star ejected out of the larger original star and moved rapidly across the lower horizontal plane of the moon. The fast moving light moved across the field of view of the camera and disappeared. After viewing again we noticed a faint flashing light on the north side of the moon in which the fast moving object appeared to be heading in the direction of. The lights came close to each other but the traveler passed by the faint object’s lower side. I immediately viewed the event he captured on his cell phone and experienced his excitement as it occurred in real time. The phone these images were captured on was a Motorola E Android 4.4.4 . Also, the video is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise after downloaded. Meaning the movement of objects actually is from right to left horizontally or from south to north from our view point. Afterwards he noticed his cell phone camera was displaying some anomalous time date information on his phone settings. He said he had never experienced that before with this phone. Video was forwarded in email to: director@ufocenter.com Please call if there was any problems receiving the recording
March 21, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Wylie and Rowlett, TX
At first, I thought that they were helicopters in the distance. Then they would get brighter and dimmer. Change colors and flash from white to redish. A few of them seemed you look like fire balls and others more like strobbing lights. Also, at times they seemed to be chasing each other. They would move fast and slow, up and down, side to side and in circles. Entirely to fast to be anything know to the average civilian. I also have about 10 minutes of recording in 3 different areas, 4 miles apart.
March 15, 2016 · 6:14 AM
Wichita Falls, TX
I saw an object about 1/2 mile away triangle shaped, one light on each point, grey metallic in color. I estimate it to be about 800 ft off the surface and travelling at a speed of around 3500 mph from east to west in the night. Condititons were very clear and dark with many stars in the back ground. Lights appeared to be blueish white, and very low intensity. Total time visible about 2 to 3 seconds.
March 13, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Fresnos, TX
A total of 14 orange lights in the sky traveling from South to North. There was a plane traveling from North to South at the time that three of the orange lights were traveling North. The orange lights traveled North over a span of 15 minutes all in the same path. At one point two orange lights were traveling one behind the other when the orange light in back started traveling faster and passed the one in front.
March 12, 2016 · 7:56 PM · LIGHT
Paris, TX
Upon arriving home from the store, I got out of my vehicle and noticed movement in the South of the sky. It looked like an entire constellation was moving. I yelled at. Y family to look. They all saw it. We watched the cluster of lights move northwest in the sky. My husband counted 14, and my daughter counted 21. There were like two of them! It was a huge cluster of lights that spanned a great distance. After they passed over head, there were 5 airplanes in the area. Within 10 min all the airplanes were gone. My husband and I stayed out a little longer and saw two more lights closer to the western horizon. Some of the lights were flashing like strobes. Some were not.
March 5, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Dallas, TX
My house is on Parkhurst Drive near its intersection with Northcliff Drive in northeast Dallas, Texas. I was outside in my back yard at 10:15 pm CST, on Saturday March 5, 2016. Most trees were still bare of leaves, affording a good view of the sky. To my southeast from behind the neighborhood housing, a moving single bright red light suddenly appeared at about 30-degrees elevation. It was flying level at about 3,000-ft altitude and at about 1-mile horizontal distance from me. It was traveling northeast, from my right to my left, along a path roughly estimated to follow Garland Road from Casa Linda Plaza to Whiterock Marketplace Shopping Center (Home Depot), where it then turned northward toward Lochwood Park. At first, I thought it was a small airplane in straight level flight without much variation. Its speed was about 200-mph, too fast to be a helicopter. I looked for any other lights, specifically white strobes and green navigation lights, but it only had! a steady intense red, visible from its left or port side toward me, proper for navigation. However, since it is illegal to fly below 10,000-feet without white lights, I quickly inferred that it was not an airplane or other human construct. No craft silhouette was visible because of the steady bright red light. I purposely listened intently for an airplane sound, but there was only dead silence. The craft then swung around from my southeast to my northeast, apparently making a 45-degree left turn, and headed along my northwest, keeping about 1-mile distance from me. When it was approaching my north, I lost sight of it because of trees. I watched it travel about 1.6-miles total distance and my sighting lasted about 30-seconds. It was somewhat low key. I have witnessed several anomalous objects over Dallas within the past three years, but had not paid attention to any before 2013. The different mindset that was forced upon me by my extremely vivid 2014 sighting has made me recognize that it is equally as important to identify UFOs as to discount them, and to not take a perpetually skeptical position. It is a much greater crime to see a flying saucer and dismiss it as “swamp gas” than to see swamp gas and label it as a “flying saucer.” When you see a light in the sky that does not behave like any normal object, it probably is not a normal object. Therefore, my conclusion is that this particular craft was a machine that is NOT man-made, because – 1. The lighting was illegal by FAA standards, 2. There was absolutely no sound at all, 3. The speed indicated a powered craft, 4. The large scale ruled out an RC toy, 5. The clock was late for normal small private airplane operations, 6. The flight path curved around my position and! was not straight, indicating some ulterior behavior, which made no sense for human piloting over northeast Dallas late at 10:15-pm.
March 5, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Dallas, TX
I live on Parkhurst Drive near its intersection with Northcliff Drive in northeast Dallas, Texas. I was outside in my back yard at 10:15 pm CST, on Saturday March 5, 2016. To my southeast I saw a moving bright red light that was flying level at about 3,000-ft altitude and at about 1-mile horizontal distance from me. It was flying northeast, from my right to my left, along a path roughly estimated to follow Garland Road from Casa Linda Plaza to Whiterock Marketplace Shopping Center, where it then turned northward toward Lochwood Park (Google Map). At first, I thought it was a small airplane in straight level flight without much variation. Its speed was about 200-mph, too fast to be a helicopter. I looked for any other lights, specifically white strobes and green navigation lights, but it only had a steady intense red. Since it is illegal to fly below 10,000-feet without white lights, I quickly inferred that it was not an airplane or other human construct. No craft silhouette was visible because of the steady bright red light. Then, I purposely listened intently for an airplane sound, but there was only dead silence. The craft then swung around from my southeast to my northeast, apparently making a 45-degree left turn, and headed northwest, keeping 1-mile distance from me. When it was to my northeast, I lost sight of it because of trees. I watched it travel about 1.6-miles total distance and my sighting lasted about 30-seconds. I am 76-years of age, take walks every night, and have vast experience viewing aircraft in the night sky. I have witnessed several other anomalous objects over Dallas within the past three years, but none before 2013. My conclusion is that this particular craft was a machine that is NOT man-made, because – 1. The lighting was illegal, 2. There was no sound at all, 3. The large scale ruled out an RC drone, 4. The speed indicated a powerful craft, 5. The time was late for small airplane operations, 6. The flight path was illogical.
February 29, 2016 · 6:15 PM · CIGAR
San Antonio, TX
Very high altitude. Traveling south just left of overhead. Much higher than planes coming into airport. Cigar shaped. Easily visible with sun setting on metallic form. No wings or lights. Heading south and turning toward SSE. Came back after a couple of minutes and crossed paths with a second identical object. Both disappeared.
February 26, 2016 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Houston, TX
I saw a traingle shaped object in the sky no lights but blended into the darkness like it was moving through water. Lasted few seconds before I lost sight of it. Was invisble, but you could see the outline as it moved through the sky. And it made no sound at all.
February 23, 2016 · 6:15 PM · CIGAR
Leander, TX
While attending my daughter’s soccer match at Leander High School in Leander, Texas (30 minutes north of downtown Austin) on the evening of February 23, 2016, something in the sky caught my eye around 6:15 p.m.. I was sitting about mid-field on the home side of the bleachers, which face northeast toward the away team side. A former private pilot years ago and growing up in an aviation family, I have always kept an eye on the sky and have a very good visual familiarity with planes of all sizes. I knew what I was tracking was not airplane at all. I surmise the object was a little lower than normal airliner cruising altitude, somewhere between 20,000 to 25,000 feet above ground level. It did, however, appear to be about the size of an airliner, but there were no wings. Given this, I would say that the object was “cigar” shaped and rounded on both ends. It was also, in my estimate, not flying at airliner speed, approximately 500 mph. I would say that it was going only about 1/3 – 2/3 normal airline speed. It appeared to be white or metallic as an airliner appears, but again lower, slower, and with no contrail. It was tracking across the sky in a straight line traveling roughly north northeast to south southwest. I was able to watch it for two minutes or better before I lost it behind height of the bleachers. That I know, no one else around me noticed the object. I didn’t mention it to anyone because I happened to be seated between away team parents that I don’t know. I have seen weather balloons at high altitudes track across the sky in a very slow fashion, but they’re little what dots in the sky. Some I’m confident it wasn’t one of those. To be honest I’ve never in all of my years of watching the skies seen anything like this – with one exception. In early April 2015, my youngest daughter and I went to an airshow at the little airport in Burnet, Texas, about an hour’s drive west from our home in Leander. At some point as little Pitts Special aerobatic light plane completed a round of stunts with smoke, I notice something not quite right in the sky. I would say this object was at or above normal airliner cruising altitude, approximately the size of an airliner, and tracking slowly. This object was white/metallic like an airliner, except the shape is what I can only describe as “bowtie.” Looking at Google Earth, I would say that this object was moving west to east as I was standing looking north down the runway. In either case, I would definitely say neither object was a standard plane/airliner or any weather balloon that I’ve observed. They could possibly be drones or experimental aircraft. But my gut tells me that’s not the case.
February 15, 2016 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Houston, TX
I was flying in my airplane from California and just as we started our decline I looked out the window. Maybe 50 yards from the wing of the plane was a red ball like orb flying. It was traveling extremely fast then down shifted and zig zagged before it sped off extremely fast past the tail of the plane. The ball looked maybe the size of a beach ball. We were definitely too high in the air for it to be a balloon or drone, not to mention the very strange way it was flying, as if it was observing the airplane I was in. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 12, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
La Porte, TX
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 9, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Laredo, TX
It got so much my attention that I tried to take a photo but as it was on motion it didn't come out right. The remarkable orange sphere moved in a single direction until it continued its flight until I lost sight. It was the first time I have seen that. I live in an area with clear sky and 2 weeks ago saw a shooting star.
February 5, 2016 · 7:49 PM · FIREBALL
Austin, TX
Looking east from southwest Austin (Hays/Travis County border), saw bright orange light, seemed similar to rocket glow (e.g. Commercial launch vehicle). Saw light when I got out of car at home above roof line of house across the street, roughly 35 degrees elevation. Watched light ascend for about 25 seconds, moved through clouds (caused glow), then gone. Very sure this was a rocket or missile, perhaps even a small size amateur rockets, but have don't know if any ranges due east from viewing position, hence the "unidentifiable" report. We suspect that the exhaust from any missile would have been white or blue, given that rocket exhaust gases are very hot. PD
February 3, 2016 · 5:05 PM · LIGHT
Austin, TX
I look for over 5 minutes to find an object that may have reflected the light and found nothing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
February 3, 2016 · 5:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cypress, TX
I looked out in the sky and saw spherical shape rocketing straight up leaving a thin white line of exhaust. This object was was going faster than I have seen anything travel; like faster than the speed of light. Then, the object veered slowly to the right and continued on a slow course for about 15 minutes and disappeared out of range; it appeared to be a small rocket-shaped vehicle with bright lights at tip. It was mesmerizing to watch.
January 31, 2016 · 11:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Stanton, TX
Sunday Jan 31st, 2016, at approximately 11:10 pm, I saw a flying triangle shaped object, with no lights traveling thru the sky in a westerly direction over Stanton, Texas. The object appeared to slightly reflect ambient light from the ground and was noticed because it was a few shades lighter than the night sky. I estimate its altitude at about 80 feet, and its size to be about 30 feet at the tail. It made no noise that I could hear. It appeared to going about 60 to 80 mph easily gliding through the sky with no resistance. I had a visual of the object for about 4 seconds. I cannot be certain as to its size, or speed as I am not a trained observer. I can say for sure I have never seen an object like this. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect that he is a very good, reliable witness. PD
January 30, 2016 · 6:20 PM · CHANGING
Dickinson, TX
We were getting ready to head out and my vehicle was facing east towards Galveston, and we notice this bright light changing color from red purple very bright It did stayed up there for like 5 minutes then start It going down slowly and disappear , we never seem anything that brite , I know it wasn't a Helicopter or an air plane ..
January 28, 2016 · 3:30 PM · OTHER
Rowlett, TX
I saw what looked like an airplane with a large orange flame behind it and the engine roar was quite loud.
January 27, 2016 · 8:06 PM · FIREBALL
Highland Village, TX
I was driving home from work of FM 2499 in Highland Village, Texas, and noticed an orange/amber colored fireball looking object flying low in the sky to my left. I pulled over onto a side street to get a closer look, and I watched it fly in an eastward direction. It slowly flew off to the eastern horizon which was blocked by tall houses. about 30 seconds later 2 more of the same orb/fireball objects were flying eastward as well. After those passed the horizon, the 4th one was flying in the same direction at a little bit lower altitude and I caught a low quality video of it. It looked the same but seemed to be twinkling as well. I will submit the video to the address below. My window was down & there was no sound coming from these objects. I'm curious to know what it is if someone could let me know. Thanks, ((name deleted))
January 25, 2016 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
New Braunfels, TX
Then a second light appeared above it and it reversed again and both orange lights started to move in unison going east. I zig zag a couple of times and slowed down. It was not a helicopter, it was not a small aircraft. I do not drink or do any kind of drugs or prescriptions. Hope this is useful just in case others report the same thing since I was alone in my sighting.
January 23, 2016 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Huntington, TX
Suspected UFO sighting Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:15PM Driving down FM2109 outside Huntington TX, coming home from moon viewing with friends and telescopes. Mostly clear, a few light clouds, full moon or near full. At first, I saw 4 orange lights above the road to my left, pulled over to get a look and some pictures at the first available driveway. Once stopped I could see there were 6 orange lights, moving slowly at low altitude, probably no more than 2000 feet. The 3 in front were in a triangle formation, the 3 following in a semi straight line. I tried to get a couple of pictures, due to the lens I was using (135mm) I was only able to get one at a time rather than the whole group. After trying to get pictures of one in the rear, I saw that two in front were gone, and a seventh had appeared bringing up the rear. The one in the lead started to slowly climb to a higher altitude, getting dimmer, until it finally went out of sight. The others all did the same, until all 7 were gone. Orange lights is all I could see, no details of any definite craft, no flying craft I know of made on this planet has lights that color. Also, totally silent, no noise I could hear at all. A couple of cars passed by as I stood and watched, none stopped. Between cars I could hear quite well, if they had made any noise at all I would have been able to easily hear it. A helicopter at that altitude, for example, would have been loud. These were just lights, of a very unusual color, moving slowly at low altitude, with no noise at all. I could not determine any definite shape, so I cannot say if they were round, oblong, or whatever.
January 23, 2016 · 6:45 PM · FIREBALL
Spring, TX
My husband pulled into our driveway from the store, walked into the house to tell me about seeing 4 orange lights outside; he wondered if it could be Unmanned Aircraft. Not immediately, but a few minutes later I walked outside to take my son to a school event. Waiting in the driveway, I looked up to see if I saw what my husband mentioned. I saw just 1 orange light. It was to the right of Orion’s belt (the 3-stars in a row). It was dark, but I saw a dark gray cloud cover the orange light briefly, making it seem to have disappeared or gone dimmer. Not thinking much of it, I did not stay to watch longer. It was cold and we were on our way, running just a bit behind, we left at about 7:05 p.m. Central Time. At 10 p.m. we walked outside together, the moon have moved up much higher and no orange lights in view.
January 17, 2016 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Angleton, TX
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD