Texas UFO Sightings in 1998

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Our dog was barking so I went to investigate. While watching the dogs outside I noticed a very bright light that seemed to be coming towards my home from about 10 to 15 miles away. I thought nothing of it until it started drifting slowly up then down then around but generally in the same spot.

It began quickly flashing orange lights then dimmed into the darkness but quickly lit up again w/a bright white light. It continued w/this flashing pattern for the duration of the event. It never got any closer or further away until about 6 a.

m. then it slowly lowered below the treeline out of sight. I woke my husband after watching it for the 1st min.

or so. He was intregued enough to watch the entire event. The event occured in the western sky at varying distances above the neighborhood treeline.

We couldn't detect a shape for sure. Only flashing lights that seemed to surround the object.

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The back yard at 11:30 Pm was lit up like daylight.my dog was spooked.got several pictures.

enclosed is best one. I was online on 22-12-98 with my friend from Missouri City (outside of Houston Tx) and he was telling me how his backyard was lit up like daylight and having lived in Texas 25 years had never seen anything like this.So, I told him I would look into finding out what it may have been.

When he went to bed at 1pm Tx.time.it was on going.

I am the Commander of ((title deleted)) State. I went thru all my emergency channels for information/weather oddities and found nothing.but in fact this is very like what goes on down in Pine Bush NY.

which I have seen in person myself.So I am checking for my friend.I will enclose his picture he sent me.

one of several. Thankyou for any information you may have or other reports. ((Name and address deleted.

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I am located about 35 miles slightly northwest of downtown Houston, TX and about 12 miles directly east of Magnolia, TX. I observed two objects in the western sky emitting different color light flashes. These objects were stationery, then began movement.

Looking to the western sky, I thought I saw a red flash. I kept looking and saw two objects, both stationery, emitting blue flashes and occasionally a red flash. I kept watching and noticed some movement in a back and forth direction, first to the east, and then back to the west.

After further observation, I saw some very erratic movement by these two objects. The object on the left moved in a southerly direction and then an easterly direction. The object on the right moved first northerly, and then began a circular motion.

During this circular motion it would make occasional very fast darts to the east and then back. These objects were very high in the sky. The one on the left was as bright as a star, the one on the right somewhat dimmer.

These objects were way to high to be any kind of helicopter or other aircraft that I am familiar with. After 50 minutes of watching this, i saw some kind of green flash of light go across the sky, much lower than these two objects. At that point, I went inside my house.

I went back outside 12 minutes later, and the objects were no longer there. I am a 39 year old male. I have a BBA in management and have worked for the same company in sales for 16 years.

I have never seen anything before I believed to be a UFO and frankly did not believe in them. Tonight I witnessed something that I can not explain. Again, these objects were not any kind of commercial aircraft.

I do not believe any kind of military aircraft could make these erratic maneuvers.

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Fast point of light (no tail) decending rapidly towards the earth at a down angle of ~45 degrees of 45 degrees It's 8:53 pm CST, traveling north on Interstate 45 just before the exit for FM 1488 (road), My spouse and I observed a point of light @ NNW enter our field of vision available from within the car (top of the windshield). The object rapidly decended from a approx 8000 ft to below the treetops in a perfect (not parabalic) line 45 degrees downward, appearing to head NE. The object maintained its albeit small (point of light) shape for the duration of observation.

The light was white, it had no visible tail, no sparks, suggesting it wasn't a meteor. Distance to object is uncertain due to small size of light.

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Object southbound, displaying three white lights, slowed, hovered, quickly accelerated and made a low, banking turn to the east and then sped north until out of sight. Witness #1 saw three white lights in sky at approximately 19:20CST. The lights appeared stationary and witness thought the lights were an inbound airliner at a distance thus accounting for the lights seeming to hover.

At approximately 19:40CST, witness #1 and witness #2 were traveling in a vehicle together when the object was again seem southbound over the southwest part of Lubbock. The object slowed, hovered, and then accelerated to the south, making a low sweeping turn to the east, completing the 180 degree turn to the north and sped out of sight. When the witnesses pulled off the street to look at the object, they heard it making a pulsing humming sound.

The radio in their automobile was tuned to an FM station. Something else came over the radio at a louder volume. Mixed in with the FM broadcast was a louder voice speaking in English.

It seemed to be one side of a two-way conversation, not unlike a telephone call. The object was very dark or black. Witness #1 is very familiar with civil and military aircraft and stated that he had never seen anything like this before.

I am reporting this incident for my daughter (witness #2) and her fiance (witness #1). If you want to contact me call digital pager 806((number deleted)). I will return your call as soon as possible.

The below number is my office telephone number where I can be contacted 0830-1700CST, Mon-Fri.

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If anyone is really listening, or cares, we are NOT ALONE! While driving home one evening from Church, my three sons and I encountered a UFO. The back window of our car had busted out previously, and it was snowing outside, and we all had our coats on with hoods up because it was so cold. I was talking to my older son, and suddenly my middle son yelled out "Mama!" and interrupted me.

I looked in the rearview mirror to see what he wanted that was so important as to interrupt me, and all of my children were looking up through the empty back window, with shock on their faces. I looked up through the front window, and as close to us, as if it were only three stories above, sat a Hugh dark, saucer shaped, solid object. It had no sound what so ever, and hovered or sat in the sky right above us.

I stopped the car, and we all got out. This saucer like object had beautiful flowing lights all around the mid section of it, and was as big as a base ball diamond. We were on Beltline Rd, near the Naval Air Station.

We stood there for a few moment! s, and suddenly the craft shot off in the direction of Arlington from us to the right. It went so fast, and made no sound, that I have never seen even a jet move so fast. I called the police station when we got home to report it, and the officer said they had no reports of any sightings, and that I could call the Naval Air Station and inquire.

I called the Navy Base, and the person on the phone assured me that they had no reports of any thing like we had witnessed. It has been many years sense that day, but none of us have ever forgotten it, and it burns in my memory as if it were today. I was NOT a believer in such things before this day, but am now! I saw what I saw, and no one can ever take that from me.

We didn't talk about it to too many people because back then, no one would have listened, even the police officer laughed at me. I have been in the US Navy myself and know the Need to Know is keep from the public from our government. If anyone is really listening, or cares, we are NOT ALONE! ((NUFORC Note: Date is estimated by us.

It is unknown. PD)).

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Driving in the country roads Me and my borther were driving in the back country roads, just looking at the stars. As we were returning home, we both the brightest flash of white/blue color light that we have ever saw. The shape of the object we could not see, but there were not houses, or lights of any type to make a mistake of.

We saw the object light up, zigged in the sky super fast, then shot straight down. The object did hit the ground. The ligh was white, until it shot stright down (blue light then) It seemed to, I guess burn up.

as the object was going down, and changed to the blue color it faded out, or burned up. Wharton is a country town, there is no airports. and it shot to fast to a mistaken as an airplane, or anything made by man.

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I was sitting in a stand hunting when I caught the reflection of a light on my glasses. I looked up and thought it was a planet which was near the moon at the time except this object was coming straight down and getting very bright. It was a whitish color with a blue tint.

It appeared rounded on the bottom and distorted from the intense light around the top. The object stopped at an altitude 1500-2000 feet, (I guess). As the object seem to hover the light began to stabilize and slowly decreased in intensity as it settle into what looked like a star.

At this point it moved off to the southwest. I lost sight of it as it moved behind the trees. I am not sure but after it moved away as a star in appearance it may have just vanished.

Not sure because I was looking through the trees at this point. Whitish ball blue tint. Very intense but did not appear to cast any light on tree's.

It did reflect off my glasses. That's what caught my attention to it. Two other hunter within 100 yards saw nothing.

They had more obstructions around them. The bottom was rounded. This I could tell by the glow of the light.

The top was hard to make out due to sparkling light and had no definite shape. The object dropped very fast. When it came to a stop it was very sudden, it was immediate.

It hovered for about 4-5 seconds. The light was jumping outward like sheets waving in the wind. Then the light appeared to pull back into itself until it looked like a star.

A very small blue/white star which then slowly moved away and I am not sure but i think it just vanished. I felt like this object was very close. When I first looked up and saw this thing falling I felt like it was going to come down on the deer lease I was on.

I would have thought it was something reentering the atmosphere, satillite etc. but it would not stop and move off in a level flight after coming straight down. I saw something very simular to this a couple of years ago while sitting on my inlaws back poch in the Dallas Tx.

area. There was 4 of us who saw it. I am an electronic Technician, 45 years old.

Spent 6 years in the service.

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A previous report of a very bright light was a satellite. IN October 1998 I reported a very bright light in the north sky that lasted about 2 or three seconds. In December of '98 I watched a satellite travel south to north.

As it reached the northern horizon it suddenly became a point of light (about the size of a pencil eraser lasting about 2 to 3 seconds) so bright it hurt my eyes to look at it and it lit the ground. Now I see lots of reports of this light being observed. Bet it is a mirror satellite.

Regards, ((name deleted).

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my daughter and I were returnung from town which is about six miles from our house when we saw three round orange colored lights in the south west. only two were lighted at the same time they looked like they were playing leap frog. My husband and I saw the same lights in the same area about three weeks later.

They would light up then one would fade out and another one would light up each time they did this same thing then they would just disappear. Each time it was only lights that we saw. It was dark with no moon.

They were all in a line moving from north to south approximately 20 or 30 miles from us. This is a very rural area without many city lights the population of our entire county is less than 8000. and there aren't any large airport close to us.

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On tape, I have cicular objects moving across screen to fast to be an airplane. Defenatly not a weather ballon. Background-Sky Color-Silver Several objects throughout the video moving faster than a plane, some objects appeared then just disappeared.

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Was heading back to Houston Tx, when I saw a green fireball streak across the sky from west to east. Only it sorta dashed across like so ----- then it was gone. Seen lots of shooting stars but never one that ----- across the sky.

Had just finished delivering a load of gas at the Texaco station in Columbus Tx, and was heading back to the rack in Houston when my attention was caught by a green fireball sorta streaking or rather skipping across the sky. Never seen one do that before so I thought I report it to you.

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Glowing amber lights hovering in formation and morphing from 1 to 5 I was riding with my friend who was finishing his work along the central texas countryside. When he looked up started yelling about somthing that was infront of us in above the treeline.i noticed the very bright objects and quickly recognised them as the amber colored lights i had seen on the internet in various forms "video + picts".

i had also realised that some said it was military flares. so instantly i was ready to go get sompleatly under the lights to find out what they were,But my friend was very scared and didnt want to take me any closer. i talked him into at least following the objects to try to see what they were .

so we followed them over a hill and then we could see the entire sky and noticed just how many of them there was it was at least 5 or 6 balls lighting up in formation all over the sky. they first appeared in completely straight lines stretching at least a quater mile away from each other and one about 5 miles off to the left of the others. then they dissappear for about 10 seconds and re appear in a star formation about 50 feet apart from each other.

i also noticed what seemed to be morphing from 1 ball to a few smaller ones. we followed them for about 40 minutes while they were "roaming" around the sky in what i remember to be northwest. we tried to go get a video camera and return to the site with no luck.

we are very intrested in anyone seeing the same thing in texas around december 3rd . if anyone has seen this we would like to see any picts and or videos or this ordeal. ((E-mail address deleted)).

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i could not sleep so i went to get a cup of water. then i looked out of the window to see a lager light that was multi. colored and then there was a loud "Boom" sound and the u.

f.o truned firey red. all my lights turned on and off and it was gone in a matter of seconds.

it was VERY bright w/ green,red,puprle, blue, yellow.it all most looked like a rainbow. then it turned firey-red and made a loud "Boom" nosie my light went off and on then it was gone.

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I was Traveling west on I-10 20 miles west of Houston,Tx. At Approx 21:30 I saw a green fireball with a long tail streak across the sky from north to south. At first I thought it was a meteor but it took too long to cross the sky approx 4 seconds.

Clear skies lots of stars not much light pollution. Like stated above, I at first thought of a meteor, but I had time to glance down the road to my front a couple of times and still look out my side window and still see the green fireball moving across the sky. It was moving very fast but not nearly as fast as one would imagin a meteor would.

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Cylindrical object seem moving rapdily through the sky, east to west. Thanksgiving day, 1998. Near McKinney, Texas.

A warm windy day. Hogh broken clouds. Early afternoon, exact time not observed.

An object perceived to be cylindrical in form seen hurtling through th sky, west to east. Object was amongst or above the clouds. Object appeared to be light gray in color, not shiny.

Seemed to have no control surfaces or aerodynamic faetures. First observed when directly overhead, the object was observed traveling through an arc of approximately 80 degrees in about six seconds. If in fact a cylinder, the length would have been more than three times the diameter.

Diameter appeared about like a pencil held at arms length.

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was waching Venus when craft appeared out of my eye. I was just sitting outside looking at Venus with my telescope. My brother was in the shop, working on his bike.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw a triangle shaped craft, with four lights on the bottom and two mid center. The lights were kind of dim, almost unoticable. It flew over the moon, heading north over the shop.

As it moved, it seemed to merge togther. It moved about 20 mph. Then it was gone.

I was muttering, "oh my god." the whole time. My brother ran out of the shop, but by the time he did, it was gone.

Mnay dogs were barking, and planes had been flying around the area before the sighting. When i woke up, a scar mark was on my back. It had never been there before.

Two deeper scratches had been there, but were now gone. The scar seemed to be like stitches into my back. I live close by to a military base.

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Extremely clear night, south/southeast of Austin,TX. Possibly btween Austin/San Marcos. 11pm 11/16/98.

Flashing object. Remained stationary over 1 hr. Was not plane/helicopter, nor planet/star.

Approx 11pm, looking s/se from SW Austin, sky was very clear, no moon, I noticed one of "planet" was very bright and twinkling oddly. Upon reporting to my roommate we became suspicious of object. For one hr.

it didn't move, flashing red, yellow, white. Appeared to be 1-2 miles above far south/se Austin or just north of San Marcos. We ruled out aircraft and planets/stars.

With binoculars I had to rack focus from stars to object. There was obvious depth/definition/form to object. It wasn't aircraft.

It was apparently 1 mile from ground, approx. 20 miles S. of downtown Austin.

Possibly satellite? Only possibility in our opinion. One wk later a friend in San Antonio told me he saw UFO on same night to north/northeast of SA @ same approx time. Similar description in height/location.

This was the night b4 meteor shower.

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Saw a glowing fireball plunge through the sky towards earth. I witnessed this on my way to work at approximately 6:40 Monday morning. In the sky to the north I saw a huge fireball flying through the sky headed downwards.

I assumed at the time that it was only a meteor entering the atmosphere(what with leonid and all), but have seen footage of an object identical to mine, and anlysis of the footage of this other object said it could not have been a meteor. I am an IT professional w/ a very prestigous Global company, and have never seen or reported anything of this nature before.

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Triangular object w/three hemi-spherical 'projections' from the bottom, travelling N-S reflecting pink glow of city lights. I was watching the Leonids meteor shower of 11/16/98, approximately 2:30 AM +/- five minutes. As I watched one meteor directly overhead, the meteor trail crossed the path of the object.

The object appeared to be triangular in shape, with three hemi-spherical projections from the bottom. Imagine three silver ballons with their stems tied together. It was about the size of ones thumbnail if held at arms length, or the distance between any two of the three stars that make up Orion's belt.

It's leading edge and the leading portions of the projections seemed to be reflecting the pinkish color of a nearby streetlight, or possibly the glow from Austin, but it did not seem to be creating any other light of its own. The wind was a dead calm and it made no sound. It was moving extrememly fast.

I approximated that it would travel from horizon to horizon in about 10-15 seconds. I saw it first when it was almost directly overhead, and watched it for about five seconds before it was obscured by a house. During that time it travelled N-S along a line from Polaris passing roughly between Leo and Orion.

I felt it might actually be three silver ballons that someone had let go, or possibly a set of weather balloons, but the object was moving very fast and the wind was a dead calm. I continued to watch until 3:00 AM but saw nothing else except meteors. I am an amateur astronomer with a degree in Physics.

I am very skeptical about what I saw, but I have no explanation. I have to count out normal balloons or weather balloons due to the extremely fast movement of the object and the lack of any wind whatsoever. I was very startled to find a similar report in your database dated 10/8/98, also in Austin.