Texas UFO Sightings in 1988

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While in between two other 18 wheel trucks going 60 mph, I lost thirty minutes and the third truck did NOT see me, when he caught up to the first, ther were no turn offs, we had syncronized watches at the truck stop,deciding where to stop next. After the incident my watch was 15 minutes slow, I had 1:16 and they had 1:31 and they were both ahead of me on the side of the road,having pulled off to decide what to do. The very big african american guy who drove for ((deleted)) Truck Lines, began screaming and crying and he left in a hurry.

But myself and the ((deleted)) Transportation driver talked about it for awhile, we saw no craft, remember no aliens per say, I remembered a few years later that there were owls in the road.(?)I apparently became a different person, got divorced. I have new memories.

How can they make a whole truck disappear? Where did I go? Why was our watches different? I checked, the ones in the truck were slow 15 minutes too!his trucks clock was 15 fast as was the Wiley driver. 15 minutes were lost, that is sure, but how could the whole truck be gone? I am doubting that there were owls, I don't understand. Something happened to me then, I can speak spanish, I never took one class in spanish in my life, so help me GOD! I don't know any spanish speaking people.

I would like some answers please, it has been 11 years, and still that day effects my life. I can't remember much about the owls, I can't understand how come I remember all those owls, I wanted to talk to them , I was thinking that they were beautiful owls, they were brown, big owls. I get irritated when I think about this, and I cannot stop that from happening, I have tried.

I want to understand what happened, I know that I will not find out what happened to me, but I think that you can help me I was leaving Mexico with a load of Brocholli and I had waited all day to get shaved ice blown into the trailor in Nogalas, NM. I went north to I-10 and began the easterly trek. I was stopped at the exit scale in Texas, as I had run out of hours and was forced to shut-down for 8 hours, it was 3:20 or so PM, I logged that I left the scale at 3:15 on 12/22/88, and went east toward Wilmington, N.

C.I stopped at a truckstop and took a shower, and ate. In the dinner I met two other drivers that were headed east, and wanting to get home for chistmas in S.

C., we could help each other. We left the Truck stop and about an hour later the ((deleted)) drivers had to switch so in that I was in the rear, when they stopped, I passed them and became the middle truck, as the 1st one, Z((deleted)) Transportation truck, kept going.

I was about a half mile behind the first truck and by the time the one that stopped got going we had slowed down to about 30 miles an hour, waiting. Zero went over a hill in front of me and instantaniously , I heard them both holering for me on the radio, "where are you?" "where are you?" I said that I was right here and then found out that they were both ahead of me on the side of the road, and I pulled over when I got to them. They said that it had been 30 minutes since I last talked, and it had been only a minute or so.

I looked at my watch and said that it was 1:16 and they said that it was 1:31 and we checked my truck, which was the same as my watch, and we checked both of their watches and the clocks in their trucks and they were the same and then the Big guy starts crying and runs off and the other driver and I were talking about it for awhile, and we left and then things started to happen to me, all bad. I got divorced, went to jail for a week had to leave my friends and just bad stuff. Until I had a vasectomy, and then I got my life back, no more problems, new house, new career, great family.

Can you shed some light on this? I know I can't find out what happened exactly, but I am hoping tha! t you ca n help me fill in the numerous blanks. thank you. ((name deleted)).

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We know we weren't the only ones to see it, but there was never any media reports about it. In November of 1988, my friend and I were on our way to Dallas, Tx. We hit Sweetwater, Tx at about 11:00 pm, and we were on the interstate.

We were not the only ones to see this. First, there were two small shapes that were shooting all over the sky. They were red, one shaped like a stop sign and the other like a triangle.

They were everywhere. People were stopping along the road and getting out of their vehicles to watch the show. We didn't stop, as we were expected in Dallas at a certain time.

After about 20 minutes, we saw a huge shape covering the sky. The little ones were red, but this thing was blue and purple. It looked like a huge lego brick that moved very slowly and had no sound at all.

It looked like the size of at least three football-sized fields long. It had no sound at all. As soon as it passed overhead, the two little ones went into it and then came out.

We don't remember anymore of what happened. We got into Dallas at about 2:30 am, and didn't speak about the event until last November 23, 2002. We hadn't seen each other for about 12 years.

Weird, huh?? ((NUFORC Note: Date of incident may be approximate. PD)).

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Looking out at the night sky I caught out of my peripheral vision a streaking pastel green shooting star. My best friend and myself were walking home from the movie theater back to my house, which was about two blocks away. We always used to cut behind the old Kmart that went out of business to get home, when my buddy says to wait up that he needs to stop and tie his shoe.

So we stopped and he went over to the loading ramp and started to tie his shoes and I just stared up at the night sky looking northward I could see the local TV stations antenna tower. Still looking out that way I caught out of my peripheral vision a streaking pastel green shooting star. But as I focused in I could make out an out line it was football shaped and the object pulsed red, green, and blue (all pastel in color) up and down the length of the object in controlled rhythm.

The object was traveling west to east as I yell over to my best friend to look up. We were only able to see it for a few moments as it was traveling at an awesome rate of speed, as it dipped below the trees and house line. We were dumbfounded by what we saw.

I went home and immediately drew a picture of what I saw. But that was not the end of my story. I went to school the next day to my electrical trades class and low and behold the was my teacher drawing on the white board the exact object I had seen the night before.

But not only was there the same drawing I had but in a story board fashion there were other drawings of it hovering with the same pulsing red, blue and green pastel lights, but another one next to it that included a star shaped little ball. I showed my teacher my picture and we talked about what each of us had seen. He saw everything I saw but from his house he could see the object level off hover for a bit, then spit out the object that looked like a floating star.

He then went on to say the floating ball moved around the other object then he said it kinda exploded into about 20 to 30 tiny objects that speed off into as many directions. Then the main original object sped off at an even faster speed straight up into the night's sky. I still have the picture I drew that night and that night is as fresh in my mind now as it was happening so many years ago.

I will never forget the pulsating pastel red, green, and blue football shaped object. With the exception of us three till now I never thought anyone else had seen this object till read the gentleman from Odessa recount of what he had seen that night. ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate.

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Driving at night on loop saw circular blinking lights. One evening aprox.ten years ago, my wife and I were traveling nort on the west loop 338 in Odessa,Texas.

As we topped the overpass I told my wife "look you can see the carnival from here." What I was refering to was a circular blinking ligts red, green,blue. It looked like the "tilt-a-whirl".

We were a mile or so from where it was. It turned from almost vertical to horizonital. Then it rose straight up several hundred feet in the air and took off eastly and went out of sight over the horizon in a flash.

In West Texas the horizon is miles and miles. I asked my wife if she had seen it and she said yes. About half an hour later we were home and noticed two helicopters heading in the direction of the craft.

I watched the news and nothing was said or mentioned. Did not know where to report it or who to.

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Had no visible color. Laying on children’s trampoline watching the clouds. There was an invisible triangular shape above me.

I could see a hazy outline only. It scared me. I went into the house.

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my friend and i witnessed a reddish-orange sphere in the sky. it disappeared and a few minutes later the light went over with helicopters following closely behind. the date is approximate, and i would have to confirm it with my friend.

I can remember quite a bit about what happened that night. It was a hot August night here in South Texas. That night, the sky was overcast, not a star or moon to be seen.

My friends and I were out in our backyard with a campfire (i was young at the time). One of my friends and myself went to grab some more wood for the fire, so we walked about 50 yards or so to a road that runs behind our property. as we turned toward the west, we noticed a large, spherical shaped object in the distance.

it looked as if it were the sun, very large and reddish-orange in color. we sat and watched it for about 5-10 minutes then it vanished. we didn't think much of it, until about 20-30 minutes later.

Out of the south we saw, some type of lights above the clouds. it was reddish, moving at a fair rate of speed. it continued moving north a few miles and seemed to stop about 2 miles from our property were a oil field had been carved out of the woods.

a few moments later, we heard the loud thumping of helicopters, and soon after the sounds we saw them (they sounded much like hueys, loud dull rotor sounds). we counted about five helicopters moving just over the tree tops, they went directly over us. again, they were heading north in the same path as the light we saw.

over the tree tops we could see a few of them circling the oil field and we thought that they may have landed out there. so my buddy and i proceed down a pipeline right-of-way that went directly to the oil field. i guess we were about half way there when something caught my eye, i stopped walking.

my friend, slightly behind me, asked why i had stopped, and about that time, i told him to look down at his chest. on his chest was what seemed to be a laser sight dot for a gun or something. the same was on my chest.

we ran back the entire way to my house. running into the house screaming, my mom asked what had happened and we told her. to this day i can remember the event ver! y vividly and my mom still remembers seeing us run into the house that night, looking like we had seen a ghost or something.

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((NUFORC Note: Witness does not indicate year of the sighting. PD)) The sphere moved in an absolute straight line just above the tree line. I was in the backyard of my residence.

The residence is located in the pine woods of Bastrop County, about 5 miles north of the city of Bastrop. The back yard was small, only about 30 x 50'. There were trees surrounding the rest of the house and some small scrubs then larger trees in back of the yard.

I had notice a passenger plane passing over just a few minutes before. I was shooting a BB pistol when something moving at my left side in the air caught my attention. When I first looked up, my immediate thought was that it was a dandelion puff then I realized a puff would be too heavy to fly.

Upon closer observation, it appeared to be a sphere in shape, of metalic construction. It was traveling about ten to fifteen feet above the tree line in an absolute straight line without wavering. The speed is estimated to be about 5mph.

There was a slight breeze which made me think that this object was under some kind of power or it would have wavered in the wind. I wanted to get my camera but thought that it would be out of sight by the time I retrieved it. As the object passed at about a 10 degree angle from where I was standing, and about forty feet away, I opened fire with my BB pistol.

I had my doubts that I would hit it but felt like if I could, I may be able to alter its course. I shot at it several times and then observed it as it went out of sight beyond the trees in the front yard. I have relived this event many times, wondering just what it was that I observed.

I have never observed another unexplained object since that time or even before. ((NUFORC Note: The year of the sighting is unknown to us, given the error in the date submitted by the witness. We will attempt to correct the error by contacting the witness.

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I saw 2 objects that snined abluish white light on me . n or around July 0f 1988 I witnessed 2 equally glowing objects.They were one on top of another and at a 45 degree angle in the western sky around 10 pm.

This occurred a few steps outside my door right after I prayed.I am a believer in Jesus Christ and was going through some difficult times.What I am fixing to tell you is the truth and I have never told anyone these full details.

My faith was very weak and I was crying.I asked the Lord for a sign if he was real.I know I am basically a knowbody and when I got up off my knees and looked up in the sky I did not expect to see anything or know what to look for.

When I looked up,i saw the 2 objects moving across the sky .It seemed like they knew I saw them because they instantly stopped after about 5 seconds.It was strange because I felt they knew I saw them and stopped because they were aware of me also.

Then a blueish white beam of light shined down on me.Without even thinking I went down to my knees with my head down for about 5 seconds.Ithouht this had to be some kind of illusion or religious dillusion.

But when I looked up they were still there and I felt a peace I had never known before or since.They suddenly started moving again at the same rate of speed I had seen at the beginning and then after about 10 seconds they moved like a flash of light and disapeared.I live 3 miles from houston intercontinental airport and have seen all types of aircraft since I was 8 years old.

They say ufo's are either man made and Earthly.not from this world or they have a natural explanation.Because of my experience I believe at least some ufo's could be the way angels and even God himself travels.

Sincerely ((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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West side of Corpus Christi UFO I am 29yr old now and I estimate this even occurred sometime between '88-'89. My brother and I were inside our house watching t.v.

and my dad was out in the front yard smoking a cig one night. My dad opens the front door and yells "LOOK!". Well my bro and I run outside and my dad is in the middle of the yard staring at the sky.

We look up and there is this round object flying extremely low and what seemed slow.so low its scary.but yet we dont say a word to each other nor do we run away.

we can't help but just stand there in awe and stare as this object is about to fly over our heads.its the size of a house and it has small white round lights around the perimeter. It is not making a sound and its about 10pm so no one is outside yelling or making a commotion.

matter of fact, if you werent looking in the sky it would have flown right over your head without you ever knowing. It flew directly over our head and now that im older i can say that it was probably about 300ft. above us.

it cleared some power lines but was so low i remember thinking to my self "its gonna hit the power lines". It also flew what i would consider slow.about 30mph.

I know SOMEONE else HAD to have seen it around the area as we live in a residential neighborhood in the city. We didnt have a camcorder or camera back then and i know that now thats the first thing i would grab if i ever saw it again. I remember telling everyone but back then no one seemed to care so i just kinda buried the memories and it was begining to feel like i dreamt that night because i dont talk to my dad anymore and my bro never brought it up but my wife asked me if i ever thought i'd seen a ufo so i asked my bro if he remembered that night and he confirms my story.

His account is exactly the same except he says he remembers shortly afterwards black helicopters were flying around the area because my dad pointed them out (he was a helicopter mechanic back then). My bro is 3 years younger so i guess i would have been about 10 or 11 and he was! 7 or 8 when this happened. Oh yeah.

i know the object was round because when it flew over us, you could see this massive round black silouette in the dark sky and the perimeter lights were not beams but rather dull yellow white lights. IF ANYONE REMEMBERS SEEING SOMETHING SIMILAR PLEASE POST! this occured in the 80's on the west side of corpus christi near prescott and gollihar. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.

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Mass sighting of spaceship. My brother a mutual friend and I were out to meet a bunch of fellow high schooler in the summer of eighty-eight. The place was called "the sherrifs posse" out in the county.

At first we noticed like a comet in the night sky but obviousely not a comet.Then, a minuete or two later a very large (mostly) rectangular spaceship was hovering over us and the surrounding area about one or two hundred feet above making no noise. We knida pulled over and got out screaming at each other to remember what ot looks like.

Some other cars pulled over and a few people came out of a couple of the houses. It looked like it eventually floated over looked as if it landed. We continued on to the meeting place to find chaos.

Bout 30-40 folks freaking out and girls crying. The next day all I heard about it was that a Russian satelite had fallen.

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Unknow 6 ft long ball of flame fire that pause, fly 3 circle around the tree then up it went. At the time we were playing around a 25 feet oak tree infront of our apartment complex, we seen this ball of fire flew our way stop at the top of the tree that we play under. Approximately 6 ft long ball of fire red, orange, yellow, green, and blue went around the tree 3 time, it stop again then take off.

This particular ball of fire was seen two time around the wooded apartment complex. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate.

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Cross shaped object moving across the clear North Texas sky at 21:45. At approximately 9:45 pm, March 23, 2008, a "strobe-light" type "aircraft" was seen moving from south to north over the western part of Dallas county or the eastern part of Tarrant county. The lights moved in a "sign of the cross" type of flashing sequence with four distinct colors (red, white, blue, green) being witnessed.

In a 4 minute sequence, this object would have covered approximately 150 ground miles. We watched until it disappeared into the northern sky. As it left it seemed to veer to the northwest, as if it was moving towards the Texas panhandle.

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Beam of Darkness from Nose of Jet This happened in the late 1980's. It was late spring or early summer. The sky was somewhat overcast yet still bright.

My then-boyfriend and I were traveling to Big Bend, TX for a camping trip. We were on the road from El Paso, and we were just outside of Valentine, TX when this happened. He was at the wheel and I noticed a jet flying in the distance above, moving left to right as we looked through the front windshield.

The jet was black. It was close enough to see that it was a jet, but not so close that we could see any logos or other colors that may have been on it. A beam of darkness shone out from the front end of the jet.

The beam was perfectly straight; it looked like it was coming out of the very tip of the nose of the jet. It was just like a beam from a flashlight except that it was a beam of darkness. My boyfriend saw it too and we talked about it for several minutes while it was in view.

We wondered if a "flashdark" had been invented that would project darkness into a lighted space in the same way that flashlights project light into darkness. When I saw your March report from the family in IL that saw the same thing, I decided to make this report. It was such an odd thing that I've never forgotten it.

I was surprised that the IL family's report sounded exactly like what my boyfriend and I saw. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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A star type bright light slowly moved by and disapeared in to the distance. The same object was seen 3 times in the same week. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

Possible sighting of a satellite, or the ISS?? PD)).

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We saw a lsilent ight in the sky that disappeard as soon as we noticed. My husband and I were driving into our neighborhood after dinner, neither of us had been drinking. We both saw a white light in the sky, approximately 30 yards in front of us, at a height of 100 yards and no sound.

As soon as I said, "did you see that light?" and he answered "yes" the light disappeared into what seemed like a cloud that suddenly appeared. I stood in front of our house for at least an hour afterwards trying to figure the light out. We are still unable to explain it.

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3 lights in trianglular formation over nw dallas It was late, a few minutes after 11:00 pm when my wife and I and my two young boys had just gotten home from attending a disney on ice at reunion arena in downtown dallas. I had gotten my youngest boy who was 3 at the time from the back of the seat while my wife took some things out of the trunk I turn around to ask my wife a question when I looked up, from a distance I could see three lights coming our way very low and slow,they were in a triangle formation. I asked my wife to look and what she thought about it she thought it was either 3 helicopters or 3 small planes.

when they went over us I ask my wife if she could hear anything like roters or motor like a helicopter would sound. she said I don't hear anything we both looked at each other and quickly ran inside I told her we had just witnessed a ufo it took about a minute or so to to fly over us the objects were heading north. I was about to call it in but my wife said that they wouldn't believe me(police) but after reading all this, I'm sure there were other witnesses that night.

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