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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 10 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 1969 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "oval" (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 40.00% of total).
- 06/01/69 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 50.00% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 1969
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 1969, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
Full Report Text:
Went outside before supper and saw it saw of home Went outside and saw it in sky at sunset and saw big round object in sw kind of gold-orange towards the sunset and darker blue-purple on east side reflecting off of it.
Full Report Text:
the light that came as i called it as i stepped out of the lions club hurst texas the sky was clear and the rain was still on the ground .i looked up to see two black helos chasing a white light .my thoughts were of a jail break like david janson of the fugitive a popular tv show of the time.
the black helos were traveling north with the white light in front of them.i said in my mind COME HERE .the craft came to me at tree top level and a bright light burned the back of my neck.
the water on the ground evaporated in a circle and the person behind me with his foot in the air but not touching the ground as he looked up to the object.fear filled me and i found it difficult to speak.the police officer/security guard had his face and arm sticking out the door of the lions club.
i still remember his name.the light made such a sharp turn to get to me the two helos seemed as if they didnt notice and kept going north?time stood still for a moment as everyone was like a statue except me!heat on my neck and a lump in my throat i uttered UUGGHH at that instant everything came back to normal and bob shaking his head said"did you see that?"yeah i replied and he just shook his head and went back inside.at the moment i found my voice the disk went back to the south at tree top level without making a sound.
i dont know who the guy was behind me.i continued my walk home afraid to mention the sighting to anyone.still amazed that i called it to me,just by saying COME HERE in my mind.
Full Report Text:
A ring of light appeared, filled in with golden light, increased in brightness while moving, then gradually faded away. A thin, perfect circle of silver light appeared northeast of my position. As I observed the circle, it began to fill in with a faint golden light.
The light filled in the circle with irregular "rivulets" of golden light until the circle glowed a uniform golden color, not unlike that of a full moon except that it was perfectly uniform with no "craters" or surface imperfections. It was about the size of a nickle held at arm's length and about 30-35 degrees off the horizon. I had a clear view with no obstructions.
The circle of golden light was well defined at first. It then began to slowly increase in brightness until it appeared to "boil" with the boundaries becoming indistinct. It then began to move in an arc toward the North maintaining a uniform elevation above the horizon.
I then began to notice that it was decreasing in brightness slowly as it moved. It lost brightness uniformly until it was once again a distinct circle of light. It continued to slowly move toward the North until it was no longer visible.
It moved a total of approximately 40 degrees of arc in 10 minutes or so. No sound was apparent. (NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.
PD)).
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a Flash of light went through the house. I was in the bed for the night, when a flash of bright light went throughout the house, afterward, there were lights in the back of the house in which my bedroom was in the back, I got up to see what was going on as I open the back door there two aliens standing as if they were waiting on me, they stood about four feet with large heads. as I saw them I was so afraid that I froze and could not move, one of them looked at me and I was no longer in control as he looked at me I stared walking to the craft which was not very large with the door open from the font as I walked in I took a set in the back one set in front the other to the right slightly in front as the door closed you could see all around the craft from the inside as we were airborne I could see the house the surrounding area I watched till the earth disappeared to make it short I will talk about some major events, I remember we flew bye a super large blue planet that seem scary to me and the alien t! hat was to my right would look back at me from time to time, as we went around this planet it was to my left side we went toward a distant star it was bright and as we got closer and closer it was so bright that it was disturbing to my eyes we were so close that I could see the flames and there was another star to the right but not as bright as we flew in that direction we did not go to it but there was a planet from it that had a rusty looking color as we flew in its direction the whole planet look like it was covered as we entered the orbit it was a rusty cloud that covered the planet when we went through the clouds it looked like early morning light.
what I seen was a rush hour of flying objects all over more than any traffic that I have ever seen, every building were very high with an open space at the top of them with the flying objects going in and out of them in the mist of them there was a building that was much higher and bigger than all the rest we flew into it an! d immediate landed and as the craft opened one of them looked and me and I got out and to the right of me there was a long metal table that I laid on face up after that a eight to ten feet tall and real slim alien had some kind of wand with a light on the tip began to start scanning my body starting at my feet as he got to my waist I feel asleep I was awakened with the sun setting in my face from my bed I lost time I did not know the day or anything I was taking at night and what was the sun doing setting that missing time threw me off. this was my second encounter I was not abducted the first encounter.
Full Report Text:
object expoded before hitting the ground in 1969 near San Marcos Texas. Driving from Austin Tx to San Marcos around midnight , when coming from the south was a lemon shaped object on fire with flames and sparks shooting from it. car died pulled over off highway 35.
object expoded before hitting the ground brilliant white light. I called KNOW radio station in Austin and other people had called in to report. the air force base (Bergstrom) put out a statement read on the air that a UFO had been tracked from the Corpus Christie area and lost on radar in the Austin area.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
the lights of the first craft turned back on and 2 more identically lighted aircraft zipped in on both sides of the lead aircraft ., I was visiting a friend of mine and after dinner we walk out to his backyard which backed up to a creek bordered by tall willow tree. There was a pleasant breeze out of the south and the sky was clear and moonless.
I was approx. 16, and he was 15, and we were very up to date on "known" aircraft at that time. We were watching the skys and out from the southeast moving northwest, we observed an aircraft with 3 colored lights, moving in a silent slow pace within what I was assuming normal jetliner height.
With the breeze coming from the same direction we saw the aircraft but, we never heard it. Within 10 seconds after seeing the object the triangular patterened non-blinking lights on the craft turned off. We both thought this was quite unusual and I began to track the craft with my right hand index finger extended under my right eye to judge the speed.
Approximately 7 seconds had elapesed and we heard the afterburner of a jet aircraft, with its light flashing, persuing directly behind the first craft. I would say within 5 seconds of sighting the jet aircraft, the lights of the first craft turned back on and, to both myself and my friend's amazement, 2 more identically lighted aircraft zipped in on both sides of the lead aircraft making an arrowhead formation. The three aircraft started to speed up and then make an extraordinary sharp 90 degree turn to the north/northeast.
After the turn there level of speed was unbeleivable. We raced to the right side of the house down the driveway and we saw all three aircraft dissapear within seconds. We raced to the back yard where we saw the persuing jet just making it to the point where the three craft had meet.
The speed was just incrediable, in a blink they were gone. From that day, my friend and I have seen each other only twice and we never talked about the event again. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of the event is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
White Lights Following Vehicle Along HWY 77 My mother told of a strange incident she experienced on the way back from Raymondville, Tx to Bishop one night. As she traveled north along HWY 77, she noticed several rows of lights coming low over King Ranch and traveling along side her. Frightened by the eerie lights, she tried to speed up, but they stayed with her no matter how she adjusted her speed.
After maybe 5-6 minutes, they zipped off so quickly, she didn't see exactly where they went. My mom has passed on, but she told me this story right after it happened in 1969, I think. She never talked about it much, as she was very religious, and wasn't prone to believe in aliens and UFO's, but I had her repeat the story to me shortly before she died.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Large lemon shaped object crossed highway 35 .Car died, then object exploded about 1\2 mile away extremely bright white light no noise then imploded all light back into the center. Object varified by radio callers and the local air force base {Bergstrom}.
Full Report Text:
An incomplete report given on behalf of another due to a kidnapping situation I am submitting this record as a witness to testimonial given to me by a family relation in 2014. At that time, she detailed an est. 1969 UFO sighting in El Paso, TX with her parents (who are now deceased).
So, there were at least three witnesses to the craft she described, in detail, by type of material and color. I believed she may have been in recent therapy prior to sharing the information with me. I needed to share the UFO with her husband, and did so in 2014.
I did not relay to him any of the details she shared with me. Now this incident is reported into the OSHA Whistleblower system as it became a background issue in a kidnapping in 2016. This is an incomplete report and now I am demanding the person who gave me this information be prosecuted, along with her employers, for terrorism.
I would like to be contacted by an investigator who can document this case directly with the source of the UFO sighting.
Full Report Text:
A light came toward us and stopped directly overhead. It stayed there a couple seconds then shot off very fast. No noise.
Object was a single white light that came slowly toward us about 200 yards above our heads and stopped. It was a circular shape and made no noise at all. After a couple seconds it shot off.
We had been sitting outside the old radio station at Buckner Childrens Home sneaking a cigarette. We then ran back to our dorm and after asking each other what we thought we saw, we never talked about it again.
Texas UFO Sightings From 1969 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Oval | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 1969 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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June | 5 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 1969 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 40.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 1969 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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06/01/69 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
06/15/69 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
09/09/69 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
06/30/69 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
07/23/69 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 1969 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 5 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1969
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 1969
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Kyle | 2 UFO Reports | Kyle UFO Sightings in 1969 |
Austin | 1 UFO Reports | Austin UFO Sightings in 1969 |
Creedmoor | 1 UFO Reports | Creedmoor UFO Sightings in 1969 |
Lubbock | 1 UFO Reports | Lubbock UFO Sightings in 1969 |
El Paso | 1 UFO Reports | El Paso UFO Sightings in 1969 |
Dallas | 1 UFO Reports | Dallas UFO Sightings in 1969 |
Hurst | 1 UFO Reports | Hurst UFO Sightings in 1969 |
Bryan | 1 UFO Reports | Bryan UFO Sightings in 1969 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.