Texas UFO Sightings in 1997

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Summary : ROUND WITH RED AND WHITE LIGHTS FLASHING VERY,VERY RAPIDLY AND MOVING AROUND. WHITE WITH WHITE AND RED LIGHTS WHICH WOULD FLASH VERY FAST AND WAS SPINNING AROUND VERY FAST.IT WOULD MOVE AROUND VERY RAPIDLY AND EVENTUALLY DISAPPEARED.

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Summary : Red object moving west to east, person looking southward. Appear as large as airplanes approaching Dallas/Ft.Worth airport but traveling faster than the normal airspeed of planes approaching the airport.

First looked like over size red lights on plane but speed faster took a closer look. Object than stopped giving off what appearred as flames from the bottom extremely white than a small white object decended straight down from the red object flames. The white object disappear but could hear a pop sound at its disappearance.

Red object fades away. Same as above. Observer is a motel clerk taking a cigarette break outside at time of sighting.

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Summary : sleepover. flashing lights. blankets ripped off bed.

tall thin figures "spoke" to us. abduction. woke with strange triangular marks on our bodies that vanished within hours.

constant feeling of being watched. S.O.

S. Me and my friend are 14 years old. We had stayed up late studying for finals.

We went to bed at about 12 and stayed up till about 1 afeter talking about school. At about 2 we were both awakened suddenly to a strange silence and bright flashing lights out side the window. We both remember a sence of absolute shock and severe fright, when our covers were suddenly and yet gently drawn from our beds.

At the foot of my bed I saw a the silouette of a tall thin figure with large black eyes that had a shiney luster to them, it was as if I could see myself in them,(after this moment I regret to say that the rest is the account of my friend because I cannot remember anything else).I looked over at Patty and I remember thinking that she was dead because she lie so still. her body began to rise above the bed into the arms of the figure described above.

I also was "carried" into the figures arms, but i did not pass out. Before I knew it, we were in a different place that is defficult to describe because i was surrounded by these figures. I was laying on a strange surface that was both hot and cold at the same time.

It felt as if there was a sheet over my body put there so that i could not move. The only part of my body that i could move was my eyes. I did not see Patty anywhere, until the beings parted for a split second, and i caught sight of them carrying her body out of the room, i was sure she was dead.

i then directed my eyes toward the celing and saw an object slowly and silently descending toward my stomach. It resembled a very large needle, and it was then that i fainted. i awoke in the morning laying beside Patty on the kitchen floor.

We vaguely (at first) remembered what had happened. We noticed three strange triangular marks on our bodies--one behind the left ear, one on our stomachs, and one on our lower back. Now Patty and i feel that if we ever separate after this experience together, somthing bad will happen.

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Summary : A bright green light appeared low on the horizon. Made a arc movement from the northern horizon up about 15 degrees and went down over the tops of neighboring houses. Holding my fist at arms length it was about half the size of my fist.

It disappeared and never came back. I am in the US airforce and have never seen any aircraft move like this. I believe it was a meteor but it was awful low on the horizon.

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I was deer hunting when i saw it . The sun hadnt came up yet when i noticed what i thought was a star in the horizon , it was moving and stopping horizontally then it went straight up faster than anything i've ever seen. It was very var away and real high.

I was facing Northeast when it appeared it was comeing towards me going toward Mexico. You can see 100 miles from the mountain i was, on it was flying around, well like a bug in the sky i was saying "Man i wish i had my camcorder with me"! The object got almost over my head when i tried to get a look at it with my scope.I had tried earlier but couldn't stay with it i would lose it because of how fast it was going.

This time i could see it better better ,then all of the sudden it spit three little red things out of whatI would call the front of it .Not shot out spitout they dissapeared i never heard even one sound then my feeder went offf . I it scared the shit out of me i wtched it for another min as it dissapeared towards mexico then shot an eight point.

When i got back to camp ,first thing i said was "I seen a UFO" not i shot an eight point the hair was still standing on back of neck.I never thought i could be scared with a 270 in my hand but i do now!.

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Summary : Saw strange lights above high clouds from an American Airlines flight into Dallas-Ft Worth I am writing you because of something I saw (along with a friend) while flying into Dallas Friday evening. The more I have thought about this the more I knew I should write down what I saw.   I was flying from Seattle to Dallas on Flight 18 Friday Nov.

14th. At about 6:35-6:45 P.M.

Dallas time, about a half hour out of Dallas/Ft Worth we were high above thick cloud cover. There was a full moon out and the clarity above the clouds was good. As we looked out ahead and to the east (port side of the aircraft), I noticed few lights out ahead of us.

I presumed they were other aircraft coming right at us since the lights did not blink like wing lights but as the head lights do at times. There were two such lights and they looked far off but being at night it was hard to tell just how far. I watched for a long time watching other aircraft with blinking strobe lights passing in various directions.

These lights (the identifiable aircraft with blinkers) were much smaller in size to the constant lights. What started to seem strange was the fact that the original two lights which were constant began to appear to be closer the nearer we flew, not farther apart as it should be is! we were approaching them. Also what seemed strange was the fact that at no point did there appear any other lights such as a green (starboard) or red (port) lights with these two constant lights.

I watched intently as I saw a normally lit and identifiable aircraft fly perpendicular to the main light on my left that I had been watching. The identifiable aircraft approached extremely close and behind this light. The light was not a distant star or light on a hill or a beacon as my mind raced to start to explain what I was seeing.

  The time span now is maybe 15 full minutes of watching these lights. We were approaching these lights which was apparent since the lights were now directly to the port side of the aircraft and no longer in front of us. As we continued on, and our approach to Dallas caused as to slightly alter our approach, these lights became directly to port from us and even closer and seemed to rise higher above the cloud layer than before.

I had mentioned the lights to my companion several times since I first spotted them when I had described them first as two aircraft with their  headlights on. At this point I saw a third light low in the cloud cover below these two lights. This third light was hazy as if slightly in the clouds and also seemed larger and closer to us.

It had shape to it, almost like it was like a soft cube shape (a cube with rounded corners and puffed up sides. It was not just light). I was seriously questioning that these lights were anything I had seen before.

I had made! several comments to my friend trying to explain what I was seeing since I knew they were not aircraft like "these have to be beacon lights" or "maybe they are power lines" always to be followed by, "but we are too high for that".   I said to my companion that she should look at the lights. Right about then, I leaned back as we passed the lights.

My companion leaned over me and looked now back slightly aft and to port through the windows and said to me "You mean those lights that look like a triangle?". I looked out the window again and now saw that indeed there was three distinct lights, not blinking above the cloud cover in a triangle formation. The third light had indeed come out and was well above the clouds.

  As we continued to move towards Dallas and begin our decent, the lights remained in a triangle formation eventhough we continued make a left turn towards the Dallas/Ft Worth airport. In other words, even thought they were in a triangular formation while we looked at them to port, they remained in a triangular formation as we viewed them to aft.   Within a few minutes we were descending into the clouds and I lost sight of the lights.

  I have thought a lot about what I saw and discussed it with my companion who also saw them. These were stationary lights at our altitude during normal flight approach about 35-45 mins out of Dallas or slightly higher (with the exception to the third light) which would put them at  least 25-35K feet. The lights were stationary since while we approached they were in front, as we continued they were to the port and then aft of us as we passed.

There were initially two constant lights very far apart when first viewed and only slightly brighter and very much closer to each other 30 minutes later when joined by the third light from the clouds. the lights did not seem to move but were stationary though they must have moved since they were closer to each other after viewing them for 30 minutes than at first.   I am a 42 yr old businessman in Seattle (your town).

I work as a real estate broker. I was a concert promoter for many many years and have flown hundreds of thousands of miles. I have a good grasp of astronomy and can identify the moons of Jupiter with my binoculars and Venus along with my favorite constellations.

I grew up with a pilot as y best friend and have logged hundreds of right seat flying in small aircraft so I have an appreciation for what aircraft look like at night and during the day. Though I do listen to Art Bell and have read many books on Roswell and a few about other UFO's, I am not a "believer". I am a curious observer.

With thousands of hours of staring at the skies, of flying all over this country many times over during night and day, I have never seen anything that wasn't identifiable, at least after 5-10 minutes of viewing. These objects were viewed by me for nearly 45 minutes non-stop and I have no explanation that meets any test I put to it. I have replayed the tape in my head over and over.

I keep seeing the aircraft passing behind the main left light. I keep seeing the two lights far apart and them seeing the triangle shape after the appearance of the third. I see the third boxy light shrouded ion the clouds then see it clearly in view above the clouds.

These objects had to be moving, but in such a way that they seemed stationary. There were no additional lights associated with these white lights. there were no strobes with these lights.

While other aircraft came and went from Dallas and appeared across the sky, these lights seemed to sit still.   I had to finally admit I saw something strange and unexplainable with my resources. I guess in a way, I wanted to live in denial that I saw anything weird at all, but in the end, had to write this down and send it off as a statement of my very best recollection of what I saw.

  My companion is a person who works for the airline, does not wish to be involved but has flown extensively for the last 5 years in her porfession.

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The UFO I had Reported has turned out to be an IFO to my relief. It was the Iridium satellite flash. We picked up the satellite naked-eye just northeast of Jupiter, when it flared to at least-4, maybe brighter.

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Summary : A bright red light in E/SE. Did not move as long as we watched. Leaving house to go to children's fair.

We often look at the stars. I noticed an unusually bright red object in the E/SE and stopped to look. Thought it was Mars but too bright.

Too high for radio tower. Blimp? Did not move for over 15 minutes. still there when i had to leave.

Haven't seen since. Family watched. We are military brats so know aircraft.

This was weird. My girls got scared because i kept saying that whatever it was it wasn't normal. I expected to see an article in the paper about it.

A nova star? Perhaps it was the planets aligning that night? It had teh steadiness of a star or planet but it was very bright. At one point there seemed to be three interior lights, a little less bright. I thought it was my eyes but my wife and two kids saw it too.

I went to California a week later and told a friend who said a similar light was reported in Santa Barbara on NOv 15 but it was reportedly a rocket launch. Maybe so, but what I saw was not a rocket launch.

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3 lights in line to V formation moving southwest.One light moved erraticaly and split making 180 degree turn 3 lights in line to V formation moving southwest.One light moved erraticaly and split making 180 degree turn.

The sky was a bit overcast and the lights appeared very distant and moved rapidly. The easternmost light moved back and forth and side to side very rapidly and appeared to wabble. At one point the erratic light seemed to touch the light in center and then it turned 180 degrees moving to the southeast and left the formation.

Don't know what is was but quite positive it was not airplane, star, sattelite, lightbug and was definetly not a hallucination. The lights were light orange color and made no sound at all. None of the following characteristics apply.

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Summary : I saw what appeared papers swirling high in the atmosphere. They changed into two huge white kite like objects which then turned into two blimp-like objects which then began to fly southeasterly at the same height and rate as commercial jets, but were much bigger. As I began to lose sight of them, I called my husband on the west side of town (20miles away).

He saw what appeared as a shiny orb traveling southeasterly. Standing in my backyard, around 10 in the morning, I saw what appeared to be a jet in the northeastern sky. It was climbing very high and very rapidly.

Suddenly,in the northeastern sky I saw what appeared to be papers caught way up in the atmosphere . They appeared to be swirling downward. These "papers" took the shape of two huge white kite shaped objects moving together.

These then seemed to turn into two huge white blimp shaped objects that were moving southeasterly one following the other at about the same rate and height as passenger planes. The sun was now striking them making them appear shiny. I called my husband who was on the west side of towm ( about 20 miles away).

He saw a shiny orb that seemed to zig-zag. From his angle he may hane been looking at the two objects one flying lower than the other. This happened at ten in the morning on a bright sunny cloudless day and it seems to have gone unnoticed.

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Summary : A very dim, round ball of light that moved at a very high speed across the sky--much faster than a jet, but slower than a meteorite. I saw, at midnight, a very dim ball of light. I call it a ball because it appeared to be a small round object way up in the sky.

It was very dark on this Halloween night, and the sky appeared to be clear as all of the stars were shining. This small round object glowed very dimly; I could barely see it. It moved from the north to the south, from horizon to horizon in about 12 seconds, approximately.

I lost sight of the object behind the roof line of my home as it continued south. This is the first unusual thing that I have ever seen. I am 45 years old and I have a BA and a MS degree from TCU in Fort Worth Texas.

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I submitted this report last week, but haven't seen it posted, so I thought it may have been lost in the shuffle. Incidentally, as a commercial pilot, I have flown this route from Oklahoma City to Roswell, NM about 50 times. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

On the afternoon of Oct. 29, 1997, I flew my three teenagers from Shawnee, Ok. to Roswell, N.

M., to attend their Grandmothers funeral. (My ex-wife's mother) I dropped them off at the airport, had my aircraft refueled, and departed Roswell at approx.

1600 Mountain daylight time. (ROW tower should have the exact departure time in their logs. My aircraft registration number is N9229A) I climbed to a cruising altitude of 9,500 feet, and settled in for the three and a half hour, non-stop flight back to Shawnee, Ok.

The sun set about an hour later, and left me with a beautiful, star lit night, tail winds, and no turbulence. Two hours into the flight, at approx. 1900 CDT, and about 10-20 miles north of Childress, Tx.

, (I was at 70 DME southwest of the Hobart VOR, on the 240 radial) I saw what at first I thought to be a "falling star". I was amazed that it didn't burn up in the first second or two after becoming visible, while traveling from an extremely high altitude, nearly vertical towards the ground. I remember thinking to myself that I could have made a wish on this one! The object descended vertically until reaching my altitude, when it suddenly leveled off, and while traveling from east to west, still at what I would have to call 'meteorite speed', veered slightly to the north, before arcing back to the south, on a direct collision course with my! aircraft.

I remember at this point, saying to myself in awe two or three times, that nothing goes this fast!!! As the object approached my airplane at very high speed, it appeared to grow from 'shooting star size', until it was about the size of a beach ball held at arms length, when I in a panic, banked hard to the right, (taking the object out of my field of view) to avoid a "collision". I never saw the object again after that. I wanted to call Fort Worth Center (ATC) to see if they had "painted any targets" in my area, but was so shaken up by the event, that when I tried to find the frequency on my charts, it was simply too overwhelming to look at the charts, and control the airplane at the same time.

I was about 60 miles west of Altus AFB, so it is possible the control tower saw this same object. I'm certain it at least streaked from east to west that far.

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Summary : A bright light, which I thought was a "falling star", suddenly leveled off at my altitude, veered to the north, then came directly at me, at very high speed. On the evening of October 29, 1997, I was flying my Cessna 170, at an altitude of 9,500 ft., and a heading of 060 degrees.

(N.E.).

I was approx. 70 nautical miles S.W.

of the Hobart VOR. on the 240 radial. At around 1900 CST, I observed what I thought at first was a meteorite, and wondered why it didn't burn up like they usually do.

I remember saying to myself, "Gosh, I could of made a wish on this one!" Then I thought it was going to make it all the way to the ground. When it got to my altitude, it suddenly leveled off, veered slightly to the north, then turned and came directly at me, still at what I, out of lack of a better term, will call "meteorite speed". I was in awe, and remember thinking, "nothing travels that fast!!!" After a few seconds in awe, I was terror stricken, as I realized the object was on a direct collision course.

My reflex reaction made me bank the plane 90 degrees, and pull back hard to avoid collision. (As if my 120 mph airplane could possibly avoid something that fast!?) When there was no impact, or wake, or anything else, I turned around to see what it was, but it was gone. I immediately went for my charts to find the frequency to call ATC on, to see if they had painted a target, but was so upset, and shaking, I couldn't look at my chart and fly the plane at the same time.

As for the size, and relative speed of the object, I can only make an analogy. I have already compared it to a meteorite. Assuming a meteorite appears about the size of a kernel of corn, held at arms length, then this object went from that size, when I first observed it, to about the size of a beach ball, held at arms length, when I maneuvered abruptly to "avoid it".

I am a commercial pilot with ten years, and several thousand flight hours of experience, and am certainly used to seeing lights in the sky, and judging their speed and altitude, for collision avoidance. I live near an Air Force base, and am used to seeing, and sharing the airspace with military aircraft. I can say with certainty, nothing the military has, goes that fast.

If anyone wants to check the radar tapes, my transponder was on all the way, so there should be a good plot of my course. I departed Roswell, N. M.

, at approx. 16:00 mountain time. The tower at ROW will have a log with the exact time.

My aircraft call sign is N((Numbers))A.

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Summary : Witnessed black, metallic UFO pass by airplane window at 28,000 feet. Witnessed by several people in daylight. Friday, 10/24/97 at approx.

6:00pm (Mountain Time). Continental Airlines flight #1807 from Houston to Phoenix. Shortly after takeoff witnessed a black, semi-matte, metallic craft fly right past the airplane through the window.

It was traveling east - opposite direction of the plane - and was visible as it flew past for about 6 seconds. Size and distance from plane couldn't accurately be determined, but it was incredibly close to the plane. It had a triangular upper half, but the lower half was rounded and dome-shaped.

This occured at 28,000 feet (the pilot had announced the plane's altitude only minutes before.) 3 to 4 other people also witnessed the object as it flew by. It was daylight and it was clear enough to see the object had definate edges and form (i.

e. it wasn't just a dark shape seen out of the corner of the eye.) The observer has had past training in local law enforcement as well as some FBI training, and would not be described as a typical believer in such things as UFOs.

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Major UFO event, Round Rock Texas This was a major event in Round Rock Texas, the object was stationary in the sky near the Travis/Williamson County border near the super Walmart shopping center. I first learned of what was going on from a radio DJ on KROX stating a strange object is being seen in that area. From my location in North Austin, I noticed several military jets flying at very high speed at low altitude towards the object.

I drove towards the location of the Walmart shopping center and saw a blue/green diamond object in the sky with the military jets circling it. I know hundreds of people in North Austin and Round Rock saw this take place. After an hour or so, the object disappeared and so did the military jets in the sky.

In the summer of 1999, I saw news story on one of the local Austin TV stations, of a farmer in Williamson County, finding a military jet top canopy, in his drained cow pond, and he was clueless how this part of a military jet ended up there. That story was never seen on TV again, it could be that one of the military jets flying around the UFO crashed that night,and the pilot ejected, but the canopy of the jet was not found because it was submerged in the cow pond. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

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Saw a bright light before grocery shopping and disappeared and took off. My family went to Abilene to go grocery shopping one evening and this was later than we usually did, and we arrived at the Sams Club in Abilene and we got out of the vehicle. My dad looked up in the sky and saw this light that was hovering in the sky and we all (my sister, mom, me, and dad) saw it in the sky.

It was doing a little moving and had one light on and all of a sudden the light just shut off and it took off faster than I had seen anything in my life. My parents said it was probably a airplane, but airplanes don't move that slow in the air, otherwise they would crash. I think it was a UFO, but knowing the government, it could have been a top secret type of aircraft.

So far that was the only time I've ever seen one. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)).

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"V" Shaped craft over Night Sky in Alvarado TX. Oct. 1997 About 10pm my wife and I were returning from Ft.

Worth, TX. I was pulling into the driveway which faces west. The sky was clear and dark except for the stars which shone brightly against the black sky.

We live in a mobil home which runs north and south. We have a security lamp on the electric pole which illuminates our driveway near the house. Even before I completly stopped the car, I could not help but notice something EXTREMELY LARGE passing slowly over our house.

We both got out of the car and uttered virtually the same words. "What the Hell is that?" Moving from South-West to North-East about 10 miles an hour was some huge flying craft. It was difficult to estimate size because it's only illumination was about seven glowing white lights along the wings in the front of the craft.

In other words one light was centered at the nose and four down each wing. The craft was "V" Shaped like the front of a stealth fighter. It was enormous.

I have since held my thumb up to the sky as a passing Commercial airliner flew over which easily covered the Jet. I believe the Jet was in the neighborhood of 3 thousand feet. It would have required both hands in front of my face to cover this craft that we saw.

It passed so slowly that I knew it was no jet. The stall speed of even a propeller type craft was not even being met. It made absolutely No noise whatsoever.

It was not a helicopter. As matter of fact it was too large to be even close to size of any Balloon, Plane , Helicopter or anything else that I have seen Man Made and in fLight. FT.

Hood at Kileen, TX. is in the Direction from which it came. It blanked the stars out of the sky as it passed over which is how that I could tell that it was "V" Shaped.

It had no flashing beacon nor the standard Red and Green Port and Starboard lights nor the flashing beacon all of which you expect to see on PLANES and Helicopters. Of couse I take into account that these would not be present if the Military was flying a secret "STEALTH" craft over. I believe that th! is Craft was flying no more than 1 thousand feet up.

With that guestimation, I would say that the width was at least 3000 feet across and 1000 feet long. It blanked out a considerable portion of the sky noticing the disappearance of stars and their reappearnace. We observed the craft some 30 seconds until I could no longer make out the shape.

The white lights along the wings did not seem to cast light in front of the craft They were however, visible even after it had passed over us. I never heard anything about it on the news. I have since heard of simular sightings within months of our sighting.

I was prompted to leave this account by Mr. Davenport's Radio visit to COAST to COAST listening on KVIL AM 570 Dallas WT. Worth and subsequently on WKOI AM 1200 San Antonio as we recently drove to Shreveport LA.

((NUFORC Note: Date of sighting is approximate. We will encourage the witness to attempt to determine the date accurately. PD)).

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Central Texas Sighting in Fall of 1997. Pulsing, single craft at EXTREME SPEEDS. On a Fall night in 1997 I witnessed a pulsating object in the western sky.

It was an extremely calm night. No wind. The object started out as a red light hovering very high in the sky.

It stayed in that position for sometime. At this point it did not look suspicious. As we topped a hill, I called this object to the attention of all the members in our car.

We stopped at the top and all 7 of us noticed a pulsing red light. It would also show some white pulsing. After about 10 minutes the object jumped across the sky due north.

It appeared to travel at an extreme rate of speed. It burned a red light then shot across the sky. It also traveled up, way up to what seemed 40,000 feet or higher, higher than any aircraft we have spotted.

It shot back at the same extreme rate of speed. The children were extremely frightened. This action did not seem reasonable for an airplane or any other known aircraft.

We watched as it shot straight up and due north, then disappeared. I went outside later that night, the air was crisp and I noticed the lack of wind. I have spotted similar objects in the night sky, without the movement, always on calm nights without clouds or wind.

I swear this sighting to be the truth. I am a teacher and would not have believed this had I not seen it with my own eyes. The exact date of the month I cannot recall, it was a week or so before Halloween.

It started before sundown and continued for 10 to 15 minutes. Did anyone else see this? I was in central Texas and felt sure that any state west of us could have also experienced this. It was a single craft, with pulsing lights, red off and on.

Very unusual. Very. ((NUFORC Note: Date in October 1997 is approximate.

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Summary : My friend and I were driving home from a date, I opened the sunroof to view the moon lite sky. As I was staring at the stars, something caught my eye. I saw what looked like a far away star, but was moving around in fast motion.

Ive seen shooting stars, this wasn't one. It would move around the stars like as if going through some sort of maze. I told my friend about it and we stopped the car, and stayed starring at it.

When it got to the point where we couldnt see it we drove ahead to see if we could keep watching. We were both amazed at the fact that we knew this was something out of the ordinary. It had to be a UFO.

The star looking object was of color white mixed with yellow. Two people observed this. The object would manuever around the stars in a fast motion.

We saw this on our way home.

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Lights flying around the moon. I was looking up at the moon on a clear night. I saw 3 lights CIRCLING THE MOON at great speed!!!! One light was red, one was white or yellow, and one was green.

The 3 lights looked liked they were in a race around the moon, and I saw them circle the moon at least 3-4 times!!! The lights looked like moving stars. It was not Shooting stars or a meteor either! ((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with this witness, and she sounded to be quite sober-minded and sincere about the several sightings she though she had had, during her lifetime. This is one of seven reports she submitted.

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