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Texas UFO Sightings in 1976

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Texas during 1976.

How many Texas UFO sightings were there in 1976?

  • There were 20 officially reported UFO sightings in Texas in 1976.
  • In 1976, Texas ranked #3 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Texas ranks #23 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 1976, with an average of 0.18 reports per 100,000 residents.

Texas Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 1976

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Houston, TX 3 UFO Reports
2 Fort Worth, TX 2 UFO Reports
3 Garland, TX 2 UFO Reports
4 Eastland, TX 1 UFO Reports
5 Shepherd, TX 1 UFO Reports

Texas UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 20 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 1976 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 1976

This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 1976, 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).

Houston, TX

Full Report Text:

Night patrolman rendered defenseless by ALIENS and ARMORED aliens. Interlect exam took place on roof top of building. I was rendered helpless, limp and dazed during a mental and physical examination; most importantly "they" (ALIENS) seemed interested in testing my IQ, a discussion ensued that my IQ wasn't suitable, other Aliens dressed in what appeared to be metal armor and/or soft silver tried to seek permission from the examiners to kill me.

The Aliens left me lifeless and totally waeken so that until there departure I couldn't move or lift myself from against the roof wall, and "They"(ALIEN) didn't seem concerned about my weapons (357 M and 20 Gauge Shot Gun). Later, in fact a couple of years later. I reported what happen to Air Force Investigators @ NASA and Ellington AF Base and was told by the AF interviewer to not say nor tell any one about this encounter, and that someone would be in touch in the near future.

((NUFORC Note: Only a sole witness in this case. We would like confirmation from other sources. PD)).

11/26/76 3:30 AM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 15 minutes

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Garland, TX

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Halloween-walking inside with parents, saw several missile shaped, copper crafts flying in a line formation at a low altitude, very slow, over my house. I was 4 or 5, and it was Halloween. I had been across the street from my house playing with a friend, and my mother came to take me home for bed.

I always went to bed around 8:00. As we were walking across the street, I saw almost directly over me, and flying over my house (about 10 ft above house), a line of crafts that were copper, and shaped like missiles. They were going pretty slowly, and there were no windows or anything like that.

It made no noise. I had the distinct feeling that there was somebody(s) up there watching us--the street was full of children in costumes. I asked my mother what they were, and pointed to them, but she could not see anything.

I pointed again, and still she couldn't see anything, and we went in my house. I wasn't thinking at that time about "aliens"--I just knew it was something I had never seen before, was very unusual, and that nobody else seemed to notice. It wasn't until years later I would connect it with the possibility of it being extraterrestrial.

10/31/76 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 2 minutes

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Dallas, TX

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The hi-pitches noise is what first alerted me to the disk. My family was watching t.v when the t.

v started static and picture problems. The lights started blinking from dim to bright.My dogs were whining and scratching the back door wildly.

Keep in mind my German sheperd had been qaurentine twice for biting people riding or walking ddown the alley.As well as a mean standard poodle. I went to let them in the house and when I opened the door they ran me over peeing and pooping as they crossed over me.

The noise was very hi-pitched.I was 13 yrs old.My first reaction was to run where they did under my bed.

I went as far as the bed room and ran back to lookfor my mom and brother. The front door was opened and I went to the porch and our neighbors and my mom and brother were all looking in the sky. I looked up and saw a huge disk shape houvering above the neighbor hood.

It was so huge it could have destroyed at least two blocks if it landed. Now it gets even stranger.It is dark outside the sky is just a shade of dk blue but not quite black.

The ship is almost the same color or a shade just lighter from the color of the sky. I'm histerical and run in the room where my dogs are. I grab the phone to call police,my dad anyone because I'm scared but remember I have to go getmy mom and little brother.

The sound of the ship is head jolting. I ran to get my mom and brother in the house but they just stair in the sky. I grab my neighbor hand and tell her to run.

But could'nt budge her. I ran back to the porch behind the bushes surrounding the porch and look up in ahh. I notice that it is round in shape like a washer that goes on a screw then criss-crossing are bars that connect to the center of the disk which is like a black smoke-glass sphere.

It didn't have windows and I would have to guess maybe that the center was like a smoke glass marble and they were watching us. Anyway, the outer part begin to have lights red,green,yellow,blue four in a row from my angle i could see blinking at the front side and back of the ship. They blinked in a harmony like way.

Then as it went higher u in the sky it's shape seemed to change and the criss-cross bars went in and the disk was smaaler in size and it went up and shot ahead in the sky so fast it was gone. I ran out into the yard where everyone seem to be calm and alert. I was screaming did you see it lets call someone.

And mom said calm down it's time for bed. Pat the neighbor was telling every one good night. I was alarmed that everyone was so calm and non-shalaunt about the situation.

The next day my mom the neighbors all of them said they didn't remember seeing anything last night. But they couldn't explain why my legs were all scratched up from the dogs running me over in the kitchen and the back door being almost scratched in too from the dogs. I've told this story to every one I know and they just look at me like I crazy.

And as god is my witness, I've been when three of them and together they witnessed again another ufo sighting. Do they keep an eye on you once you spot one of them. I've never seen a allien, but I have seen at least three other ships since I have seen that one at 13.

One had three lights and was triangle shape, one just a blue sphere never loosing altitude and traveled in a perfectly straight direction. and yet another like jacks shaped. You know the jacks and ball little girls played as a child.

With light on all five ends. They were at close distances and was also a bit over whelming even as I am now a adult. I had the same fear rush threw me as I did as the 13 year old girl who seen the mother of all ships.

Nothing has ever come close to the sighting I seen at the house in Dallas,Tx. Whats even stranger is. Since 1998 I have had a series of dreams.

That seem to be messages from alliens. They were very clear and in color that was so bright. Over a two year period I had five that were so real.

I have to question if they are related. One thing I am clear on is this. Somethings out there.

10/30/76 4:30 PM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 16:40

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Amarillo, TX

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Two low flying disk-shaped craft with port-hole windows fly directly over witness' head. Just before sundown I saw something moving on the western horizon and jumped up to get a better look. When the objects were about half way from the western horizon to my position I could see that they were disk shaped craft.

I was at the state fair and they flew silently almost directly over my position. Their altitude was quite low so at arms length they were about the size of a soda can bottom. I could see four round, port-hole windows on the bottom of each craft.

There was green light shining through each window like it was just the interior light and not a beam or external light. The bodies of the craft were grayish, metal looking. Flying from horizon to horizon only took about eight to ten seconds and going that fast they were not stream-lined like one would expect but wobbled slightly from side to side like there was some sort of magnetic attraction-repulsion as they flew.

They were completely silent. There was a person walking close by when the craft were just overhead and I told him there were "UFOs there" and pointed up, but he purposely looked down, not wanting to be fooled. Once the craft were out of sight, he looked up and not seeing anything he gave me a disapproving grunt like he knew there wasn't going to be anything! ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

PD)).

09/15/76 7:00 PM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 10 seconds

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Laredo, TX

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In the fall of 1976, three of us saw a grayish oval ufo with lighted windows hovering very low above some trees. This took place in October or November of 1976. All three of us (my mother, my cousin and I) were born and raised in the Laredo.

I had come to Laredo to visit my family, as I had been living in Mexico since 1956. My cousins knew I was interested in UFOs and that I believed there was life in other planets. They told me that there had been a lot of sightings recently in Laredo with people calling in to tv & radio stations etc.

about it. That afternoon, my cousin drove my mother and me to her house. She parked her car on Davis St.

looking north to let us out and then she started yelling, "The thing! The thing!" I looked at her and said, "What thing?" She then pointed straight ahead and again repeated the same words. I looked towards where she was pointing and a short distance away, hovering right above the trees was The Thing. It was dusk and I could see clearly the oval shaped ufo with lighted windows all around it.

As my cousing changed shifts to drive toward! s it, it zipped away in an instant. One minute it was there, the next it was gone. We were very excited about our experience which I have never forgotten and still tell people about it, especially because it was such a close encounter.

It wasn't like way up in the sky and is it or isn't it. We know what we saw. At that time it didn't occur to any of us to report it.

Now I wish I had. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

09/15/76 6:00 PM

UFO Shape: oval

Lasted: Seconds

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San Antonio, TX

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i was about 7years old. my parents and sister and brother were sitting at the table eating breakfast when the greyish metalic sphere hit the screen window. stayed their for seconds then at a high rate of speed went towards downtown but didnt go downtown and when it got to the other end of the creek went straight up into the sky.

their were neighbors who saw it also. no one remembers but me now . i try to bring up what had happen but no one memory buy mine .

i did notice i believe their was a dark colored lincoln with some men in suits. no its not men in black. that came to mind but i guess the object hit the other side of the creek before hitting our scree window.

thats been the only experience i have gone thew ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)).

09/01/76 9:00 AM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: 5 seconds

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Houston, TX

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Unknown object with flashing lights and laser beam behind the Hou ARTCC building/very fast moving I was an air traffic controller at the time. Often we'd see objects on our radar and on a few occasions NORAD would scramble on them. (That's another topic).

The incident that I'm reporting occurred after the end of my shift. Three of us were hanging around in the parking lot talking. One controller made a comment that Venus was bright that night.

We then started visibly scanning the sky. We noticed a brighter light to the North of the ARTCC building and wondered if the other light in the sky was indeed Venus, then what could that be. (The back door of the center faces east and leads to the back parking lot).

The object was standing still and was just visible above the far tree line. Someone made a comment that it was probably a street light. An airliner became visible climbing out of IAH but farther North of the light we were looking at.

The light then dimmed. As the plane got farther away on its climb out, the light came back to the full density as we had seen before. That got our attention.

We were wondering out loud what it could be. At that moment, the object moved from our left to our right at an extremely fast speed and stopped immediatley. almost a blur.

As fast as you can turn your head from 10 oclock to 2 oclock was the speed it seemed to move. (if east was 12 on the clock, then the object moved from 10 to 2). We could not judge how far away from us it was.

The object then just stood still for a minute or two. Very bright red, blue and green lights starting flashing around the object. A thin laser like beam of light, approximatley 6 to 12 inches in diameter, lit up part of the parking lot and starting scanning the parking lot.

All three of us ducked behind a car without saying a word. The beam shut off and the flashing lights stopped. The white light on the object then came back on and the object began moving very slowly back to our ten oclock position and stopped at the exact location it was when we first noticied it.

We didn't say a word for about a minute. When it sunk in what we had just seen, all three of us jumped in our cars and left for home. The next day, we considered reporting this to a national hotline number in Washington D.

C., that the FAA had provided us to report strange occurences that we observe on our radar screens (UFO's) but no one ever did for fear of losing our airman's certificate. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate.

PD)).

08/01/76 11:20 PM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: 10 to 13 mins

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Georgetown, TX

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ABDUCTED BY BRIGHT LIGHT 500 Lights On Object0: Yes I WAS 18 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME OF THIS EVENT. I WAS DRIVING HOME ABOUT MIDNIGHT. I WAS DRIVING A 1969 OLDSMOBILE 88.

I WAS JUST ENTERING THE TOWN OF GEORGETOWN VIA THE OLD CITY PARK ROAD. THERE IS A STOP SIGN RIGHT BEFORE YOU HAVE TO MAKE A LEFT TO ENTER THE PARK. I PULLED UP TO THE STOP SIGN AND STOPPED.

I WAS DRIVING BY MYSELF, AND THERE WERE NO CARS BEHIND ME OR IN FRONT OF ME. I WAS STOPPED AT THE STOP SIGN AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS A BRIGHT, BLINDING LIGHT DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ME. THE WIDTH OF THE LIGHT WAS ABOUT 30 FEET WIDE.

THE NEXT THING I REMEMBER, I AM SITTING IN MY CAR AND IT IS 6:00 AM IN THE MORNING. MY CAR IS RUNNING AND IT IS STOPPED RIGHT WERE IT WAS WHEN I SAW THE LIGHT. THE CAR IS NOW IN PARK INSTEAD OF THE DRIVE POSITION.

THIS WAS THE ONLY THING THAT I NOTICED. I PUT THE CAR IN DRIVE AND TURNED THEN I NOTICED THE TIME. I HAVE NO MEMORY OF WHAT HAPPENED DURING THOSE 6 HOURS.

SHORTLY AFTER THIS EVENT, I NOTICED TWO SMALL BUMPS ON THE BACK OF M! Y HEAD AT THE BASE OF THE SKULL. THERE WERE NO MARKS JUST THE TWO SMALL BUMPS. THEY ARE STILL THERE TO THIS DAY.

THE BUMPS NEVER HURT , OR CAUSED ME ANY PAIN. AFTER THAT EVENT I DID NOTICE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I HAD NEVER NOTICED BEFORE. FIRST, EVERY WATCH I EVER WORE ON MY WRIST AFTER THAT WOULD RUN A FOR A WHILE AND THEN JUST STOP.

I COULD SET THE WATCH DOWN AND IT WOULD ALWAYS RUN FINE. IF I PUT IT BACK ON IT WOULD STOP. THIS WAS THE SAME WITH EVERY WATCH I PUT ON MY WRIST.

I BOUGHT A POCKET WATCH AND WOULD CARRY IT IN MY POCKET AND IT WOULD WORK FINE. IT IS STILL THAT WAY TO THIS DAY. SECONDLY, I NOTICED EVERY TIME I PUT A PHONE UP TO MY RIGHT EAR IT WOULD MAKE A LOUD HIGH PITCHED BACK FEEDING SOUND.

THAT IS THE SAME SIDE THAT THE TWO SMALL BUMPS ARE AT THE BASE OF MY SKULL. TODAY SOME PHONES I USE MAKE THE BACK FEEDING NOISE AND SOME DO NOT. I CAN HOLD ANY PHONE TO MY LEFT EAR AND I NEVER DID GET THE BACK FEEDING NOISE.

I NEVER TOLD THIS TO ANYONE FOR MANY YEARS. I ! TOLD MY WIFE AND KIDS MANY YEARS LATER, AND NO ONE ELSE UNTIL ! I TOLD A FEW OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS TWO MONTHS AGO. I GUESS ITS TIME TO MAKE THE REPORT NOW, SO I AM.

08/01/76 12:00 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 6 hours

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New Gulf, TX

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we were driving around town.there is a golf course and one of the holes is close to the road.when all of a suuden as we were passing by this particular hole.

this object went straight up off the green.we followed it.this object was flying along the railroad track parallel to the road.

i lowered my window to see if i could hear anything.nothing but the car engine.when all of a sudden it stopped and reversed it flight.

we turned around and followed out of town in another direction.the object stayed right above the treeline.the object started going faster then just disappeared like it went into hyperspace mode.

07/20/76 9:00 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 10-15 minutes

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Leakey, TX

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1976 observation in W.Texas of 3 rapidly moving lights at very high alt. moving in a way that wouldn't be possible for man made craft The following account is what my friend and I remember seeing some 30 years ago while riding bikes near Leakey, Texas.

It was a very dark night, few clouds in the sky. He saw the lights first and so saw them a bit before pointing them out to me. I recall the lights being higher up than a jet would fly but moving very quickly across the sky.

I remember thinking that there was no way that an object that high up could be moving that fast - at least a man made object. The lights were perhaps as bright as one of the planets (Mars or Jupitor). I recall - all these years later the three objects (lights) moving as a triad together across the heavens.

After a few minutes (maybe three) they stopped at the zenith of the sky and stayed there just a moment. Then one zoomed off at a very high rate of speed (no way it could have been a man made craft)in one direction; seconds later a second one went off in a different direction; and then seconds later the third went off in another direction. I remember looking us looking at each other and saying - did we really just see that? Since then, I've been an avowed UFO believer.

We had not been drinking or using drugs. The following is what my friend remembers - it is not prompted except to ask him what he recalled. The best I can remember, I think it was during the summer of 1976.

I have pictures of you visiting in my photo album, in storage, of that trip. I could dig them out and see at least what month and year it may have taken place. I believe that was the summer my grandparents were adding on the new kitchen to the old green house.

We were riding bikes up and down Ranch Road 1120 between Leakey and Rio Frio. It was about 9:30 at night. We had stopped briefly to rest.

We both looked up at the stars. A few minutes later, I saw a bright light come from the west, another from the east and another from the north. They were probably (wild ass guess) 15,000 miles up.

What caught my attention was that they were coming at a high rate of speed from the three directions. They all came to a point and then came to a complete stop together (from our perspective). After about 60 seconds, they suddenly shot off into different directions at a high rate of speed.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)).

07/15/76 9:50 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 5 minutes

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Corpus Christi, TX

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UFO in broad daylight in front of a baseball game UFO visual sighting 4th event: Summer, July 1976, cabinis field Baseball Park. Divisional game between Carroll high and king high. Skylab is in orbit.

During the middle of game the PA announcer who is calling the ball game, says that Skylab will be visible to the crowd (about 2500people) as it makes its orbit around earth. The PA announcer knows the exact time and the direction from which Skylab will appear from the horizon, I believe he told everyone to look to the southeast of cabinis field, as I looked up into the ‘clear blue sky’, directly out of the south in clear view came an object. It was cylindrical, dark and gray, had no markings, some external equipment and crooked arm sticking out of it with red glowing bulb at the end of the crooked arm.

It was clearly visible, the PA announcer and another man in the booth began to argue about the object, about it begin too low and not coming from the correct direction. The object came directly over the ball field, not more than a few hundred to a thousand f! eet high. Its details were very visible to me.

The object cleared the horizons from southern horizon to northern horizon in less than 10 seconds. The men in the PA booth of the ballpark continued to argue over the loud speaker about the object until finally the head PA announcer said to drop it, nothing more was said. I remember going down the stands to the concession stand and people looking bewildered and dazed.

I got in my car and drove home in disbelief.

07/01/76 3:00 PM

UFO Shape: cylinder

Lasted: 5 minutes

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Fort Worth, TX

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Camping in a back yard with a friend, a creature looked into the tent at us, at which point hours were lost. I was approximately 11 years old, staying overnight at a friend's house, "camping out" in his back yard. My friend had fallen asleep quite suddenly, and I heard what sounded like an animal shuffling around in the grass outside of the tent.

Normally this would not have scared me, but for whatever reason, it did, just then. I turned and looked at the screen in the tent flap and saw a head, shaped roughly like a football on its side, looking in at us in the darkness. It realized I was looking and quickly dropped out of sight.

At this point I did what any normal person would do - I covered my head. I looked out a couple of minutes later (so I thought) to find it was mid-morning. My friend was still asleep, and I was thoroughly confused.

I have no idea what I saw that night, and no idea what happened in the time from covering my head to the next morning. Again, it seemed like a couple of minutes, but was actually hours. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.

PD)).

06/15/76 10:00 PM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: Unknown

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Odessa, TX

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In the summer of 1975 or 76 I had just gotten off work around 2:00 am. Went home and got into bed with my wife. I was lying there listening to the radio when the disc jocky made a comment about a phone call of someone reporting a ufo around one of the parks that we lived close to.

This stured my interest so I got out of bed and went into the front yard which faced the park in reference. At first look i only saw a light that appeared to be a bright star but of a bluewhite color. After several minutes of watching this one light which was constant, I noticed that it was moving in my direction, slowly.

I would est. at this point it was about 300 to 500 ft. off the gound.

Distance from the object to myself as a bullet would travel, I would say 1000 yards. It was northwest of my positon moving very slowly to the east. When it reached about 500 yards away it stoped, alt.

was still the same. At this point I could make out a "disc" shape. Being in awh, I ran inside to wake my wife.

At first she thought i had been drinking, but i was able to convince her to come and look. When we returned to the front yard I noticd that the object had begun to move in a southerly direction at a low rate of speed, estimated to be 5-10 mph. It continued to travel to the south until it's position was about 200 yards south of my front door which faced due west.

It stopped again for several minutes then began to move north at the same rate of speed, It traveled about 400 yards to the north and stopped again. It made the same trip again but stoping due west of my front yard, "about half way of the trip it just made". This put it directly it front of me.

My wife was shouting to get back in the house because the shape of the object was deffinetly clear at this point "disc". It had one light on it which was on the bottom midship. It stayed at this position for quiet sometime.

I had gone inside to get my deer rifle to use the scope for better vision, didnt work to good so i got my binoculars, this gave me much better vision of the ! object. I would say it was approx. 25'-30' in dia.

disc shaped and appeared to have a port hole or window on the upper side of the object. What I didnt notice that it now was about 200 ft. of the ground moving straight toward me, its speed had slowed to only several mph.

Its skin appeared to be metalic with a very low luster, it appeared to absorbe light rather than reflect it. There was absolutely no noise, no visual signs of proplusion,prop,engines, exhaust etc. No rotor blades, no vertical or horizonal stabelizers.

To put it bluntly it was a flying saucer perfectly still 200 ft. over my house at 3:00am in the morning. At this point my wife totally lost it running back into the house.

I was able to get her back out in the front yard to help me with the id so we wouldnt forget anything. After 10 min or so it began to move to the east again straight over my house, when it passed over us looking straight up at the object we felt a little sick to our stomachs and we felt like we were in a vaccuum. As it passed over our house we ran through the house into the back yard to continue watching.

It continued for about 400 yards at this slow rate of speed when all of a sudden its speed went from a few mph to an unadentified speed which I can only relate to that of a meteror, tail and all. It traveled straight for a sec then started in an upward motion at about 45 deg. heading straight up then disappearing into the clouds.

No noise, no light other than the one i have explained did we observe. The next day or two someone called the local newspaper and reported seeing the object at the park close to the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

06/15/76 2:00 AM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 45 min

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Midland, TX

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A 'dancing' star While sleeping in the backyard, with my brother and two visiting friends, I noticed a small bright light moving very high above. It was a clear night and at first glance I thought it was either an airplane, or better yet, maybe a satellite passing overhead. It was neither.

It was a tiny dot of medium brightness that moved rather quickly, in a straight line, for a seemingly short distance before coming to an abrupt halt. It remained stationary for 1-2 seconds, then darted off in a direction close to that in which I first saw it move from. There was no accelleration.

It went from nothing to all out speed instantly, then once aqain stopped suddenly and remained motionless for another second or two. This display of short bursts of speed, in different directions, followed by abrupt stops continued for maybe fifteen seconds, give or take, then the little dancing dot zipped away and vanished, looking somewhat like a meteor. While this was going on, I asked if anyone saw what I was seeing, but there was no answer.

They were sound asleep. The next morning, I told them about what I saw. and it took me quite a while to live it down.

Should have kept my mouth shut. I have no idea of the size or shape. It was the same color and intensity as a high flying aircraft's white tail light, or a satellite.

It blended in well with the stars and I'd have not even noticed it, at all, had I not happened to be looking up, in the right place, at just the right time. If I were to hold a ruler out at arms length, while this object was darting around, it would have been viewed as performing all of its maneuvers within about a two inch square window before 'zipping' away and vanishing. Not very spectacular, but noteworthy.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

06/15/76 2:00 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 15 seconds

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Fort Worth, TX

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Two odd fireballs moving slowly, silently in daytime We saw two fireballs moving slowly and silently across the afternoon, clear blue sky. They were yellow, appeared to be made of moving flame, appeared to be about 1/10 the size of the moon or less. They were about 60 degrees elevated.

Both seemed to have tails behind them (opposite the direction of their movement) which were very small and appeared to have a candle or flame at the end, pointed upwards. They were seen by my family (5 persons) and neighbors (2+ persons). ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

06/06/76 4:00 PM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted: 30 Minutes

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Waco, TX

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I saw a hazy blue ball of light about four feet in diameter just off the ground. I was waked up one night by my dog barking and could hear every dog in the neighborhood barking. I finally got up to take a look outside and saw a beautiful blue ball of light just above the ground in my yard.

It didn’t have a definite shape, just a soft glow of light. I saw it for only about four or five seconds but that was long enough then it just disappeared. My little dog was with me and we went back inside and went to bed but I didn’t sleep much that night.

The next day I called the television stations to see if anything had been reported but they said no and I wouldn’t give them my name. I’ve only told a few people about this because it makes no sense. I lived in the country where there weren’t any lights so it couldn’t have been any kind of reflection.

The next morning I went out to look at the place where the blue ball had been and my little dog ran over to sniff the ground. I wasn’t dreaming and I don’t drink. This has puzzled me for many years.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of the sighting is approximate. We have assigned an arbitrary date. PD)).

06/01/76 11:00 PM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: 4 seconds

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Shepherd, TX

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Blue light over a triangler shape craft floating over road beside my house. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. Witness provides no contact information, and only a paucity of information about the alleged event.

Possible hoax. PD)).

06/01/76 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted:

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Eastland, TX

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eagle shaped with detailed coloring I was only about 4 years old, but I remember it well. Me, my sister (8 years old at the time), my grandmother, granddad, mother and stepfather were out in the front yard at my granddad's house. It was early evening and there were no clouds in the sky.

I remember, as do all that were there, looking just above the big pecan tree and seeing a giant (the size of two 747s) eagle that was made out of what it seemed like to be metal. It a light on the end of the beak and around the wings and on the tail. It was solid.

meaning that the wings did not flap. It's head was turned to where looking up, all you could see was one eye. The color was very detailed and there was no sound.

It just hovered. We all were standing there in awe looking at the eagle when my granddad started yelling at us to get in the house and go to the closet. The last thing I remember was running into the closet and everyone was crying.

My stepfather started to close the door and everyone started yelling for granddad. My stepfather said that he would go get him and he closed the door. That's the last thing I remember.

What I do remember, I remember very vividly.as do all that were present. That very next Christmas, my granddad built a huge cross that the entire town could see for years to come.

He lined it in white lights and put it in the yard right where we were standing that day. Through the years after that day, when we would try to discuss it with granddad, he ALWAYS cut us short and refused to discuss it. I've NEVER heard of a UFO sighting like this in my life.

I've looked everywhere on the web as well as the UFO museum in Roswell. I know what we saw was real. We all remember very well.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

05/01/76 4:00 PM

UFO Shape:

Lasted: 10 minutes

Report

Houston, TX

Full Report Text:

MY SISTER AND MYSELF WERE WALKING TO A FAMILY STORE ABOUT 3 BLOCKS FROM MY HOUSE, WENT WE WERE HALF WAY THERE A SAUSER SHAPE OBJECT APPEARED ABOUT A 100 FT. ABOVE US. RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT A BLUE LIGHT SHINED FROM THE BOTTEM OF THE CRAFT, MY SISTER RAN AWAY BUT I COULD NOT MOVE, I REALLY DON;T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME I STAYED THERE BUT I THINK IT WAS ABOUT 3 TO 5 MINS.

I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO FIND SOME ONE TO HELP ME RELIVE THE THE EVENT, MAYBE THOUGH A DOCTOR, BUT I CANNOT FIND ONE HERE TO HELP ME. THEY DON'T BELIVE ME.

03/24/76 9:00 PM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 5 MINS.

Report

Garland, TX

Full Report Text:

Orange/red glowing disk zig zagging slowy behind apartments nearby I was 5, it was bedtime, was sent up to bed, I laid down staring out the window and saw a disk shaped craft, I thought it looked like the lost in space UFO, had a beveled dome on top. It slowly zig zagged behind a neighboring building. It was maybe 100yds away.

Ran downstairs to tell my mom, she sent me back to bed thought I was lying.

01/01/76 7:00 PM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 15-30 seconds

Report

Texas UFO Sightings From 1976 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Disk 5 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
Light 3 reported sightings 15.00% of all reports
Triangle 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
Unknown 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
Sphere 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
Fireball 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports
Oval 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports
Cylinder 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports
Other 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports
Circle 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports

Texas UFO Sightings From 1976 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
June 6 reported sightings 30.00% of all reports
July 3 reported sightings 15.00% of all reports
September 3 reported sightings 15.00% of all reports
August 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
October 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
March 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports
November 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports
May 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports
January 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports

Texas UFO Sightings From 1976 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
Tuesday 6 reported sightings 30.00% of all reports
Wednesday 4 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Sunday 4 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Thursday 3 reported sightings 15.00% of all reports
Saturday 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
Friday 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports

Texas UFO Sightings From 1976 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
06/15/76 3 reported sightings 15.00% of all reports
06/01/76 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
08/01/76 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
09/15/76 2 reported sightings 10.00% of all reports
07/01/76 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports

Texas UFO Sightings From 1976 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
Night 20:00 - 23:59 8 reported sightings 40.00% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 6 reported sightings 30.00% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 4 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Morning 08:00 - 11:59 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 1 reported sightings 5.00% of all reports

All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1976

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 1976

City Number of Reports View Reports
Houston 3 UFO Reports Houston UFO Sightings in 1976
Fort Worth 2 UFO Reports Fort Worth UFO Sightings in 1976
Garland 2 UFO Reports Garland UFO Sightings in 1976
Eastland 1 UFO Reports Eastland UFO Sightings in 1976
Shepherd 1 UFO Reports Shepherd UFO Sightings in 1976
Dallas 1 UFO Reports Dallas UFO Sightings in 1976
Leakey 1 UFO Reports Leakey UFO Sightings in 1976
San Antonio 1 UFO Reports San Antonio UFO Sightings in 1976
New Gulf 1 UFO Reports New Gulf UFO Sightings in 1976
Waco 1 UFO Reports Waco UFO Sightings in 1976
Laredo 1 UFO Reports Laredo UFO Sightings in 1976
Georgetown 1 UFO Reports Georgetown UFO Sightings in 1976
Corpus Christi 1 UFO Reports Corpus Christi UFO Sightings in 1976
Amarillo 1 UFO Reports Amarillo UFO Sightings in 1976
Odessa 1 UFO Reports Odessa UFO Sightings in 1976
Midland 1 UFO Reports Midland UFO Sightings in 1976

Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 51 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 213 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 192 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 145 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 311 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 248 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 95 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 127 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 159 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 188 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 311 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 253 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 270 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 268 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 228 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 267 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 367 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 214 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 212 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 221 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 203 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 191 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 176 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 140 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 150 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 145 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 99 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 77 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 47 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 48 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 15 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 19 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 20 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 18 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1991
1990 15 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1990
1989 16 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 16 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 16 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 15 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1986
1985 17 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1985
1984 15 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 10 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 11 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 9 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1981
1980 17 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1980
1979 14 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 25 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 16 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 20 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 23 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 13 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 25 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 16 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 9 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 9 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 10 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1969
1966 1 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1966
1961 1 UFO Reports Texas UFO Sightings in 1961