Texas UFO Sightings in 1999

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5 miles South of D’Hanis, Texas on Farm to Market Road (FM) 2200 December 29, 1999 approx. 5 AM I stepped out of the back door and stood facing east. I noticed a very bright light in the sky in front of me.

It was approximately 30° above the horizon. (Although, looking in that direction there are hills, so it was probably more in the range of 35-40° above the true horizon). The light was moving fairly quickly from left to right across my field of vision.

My first thougtht was it was an airplane with its landing lights on. It was an extremely brilliant light, very white or blue-white. Then it appeared to stop, and I thought perhaps it had been turning slightly towards me and now was facing me so the apparent motion was stopped, although there was only one light rather than the two one normally sees from an approaching plane.

But it continued to stay motionless and the light did not appear to grow any closer or brighter. I then thought perhaps it was a helicopter with a bright light on it. But I continued to watch it for several minutes and it made no movement.

I also heard no sound (There were no sounds out there in the countryside other than the occasional low “moo” from a nearby cattle pen). After watching for several minutes, I went into the house and called the others to come outside to look at the light. We all trooped out the back door and I pointed out the still stationary light.

Witness 2 asked what is was. I said I didn’t know and explained its movements so far. Witness 3 asked if it could be a planet or a star.

I said it was certainly much larger and brighter than any star or planet I’d ever seen, that it looks bright like nearby aircraft landing lights, and it also moved from left to right and then stopped. Then I noticed it seemed to move slightly to right, and said so. Witness 2’s boys (Witness 4 and Witness 5) agreed.

We all kept watching it while speculating on what it might be. It appeared to move both left and right and up and down occasionally, but with no pattern I discerned. These were precise horizontal and vertical movements We all noticed the same movement.

Witness 3 wondered if we were perhaps seeing the movement as some sort of optical illusion. But we were all seeing the same movements. After Witness 3’s speculation, when I noticed movement, I did not call it out, but waited to see if someone else would notice and call out the movement I saw.

Both Witness 2 and both boys at least once each called out movements (that I saw but did not state until after they said something). So at all times we were seeing the same movement. I asked the boys what they saw (as they good eyes - no glasses, and we had no binoculars).

Witness 4 said he saw a darker area around the light. Witness 5 said to him the dark area looked kind of like a doughnut. I thought perhaps there was a smaller light above the light and asked the boys if they could tell if there was more than one or what it looked like to them.

Witness 5 said it looked like there was a light on top going up and down. Witness 4 agreed that it looked like that to him. I thought perhaps I could see that movement, but I couldn’t tell for sure.

We continued to watch and talk about the light, until we needed to leave for our hunting trip, which was approximately 5:30 am. Total time viewing the object from first sighting, until we left was at least 20 minutes. The weather was clear and dry, temperature approx.

high 30’s It wasn’t possible to tell how far away or how high the object was, although I would venture a guess of a mile or two distant. In size it appeared to be something about the size of a pea held a arms length. At one point while we were watching, I used lights from two houses or farms as reference points.

The “light” appeared to be equidistant (left and right) from the ground lights , making it the top point in a triangle. When we went to leave I looked at this again and the light was farther to the right (south), but still at the same apparent height. Even disregarding the movements of the light, I’m certain we weren’t seeing a planet.

I later looked up the planet positions for that location, date and time, and found that Venus was the only planet that could have been visible in that general direction. However Venus was only approximately 5 degrees above the horizon at 5 AM, so I don’t think we could see it at all, because it wouldn’t have risen above the hills yet. Venus would not reach the correct height until around 8 AM.

There were (5) witnesses altogether: Three adult males in their forties, all business executives from Houston, and the two sons (ages 14 and 12) of one of the men. None of us have had any previous experience with UFO’s. D'Hanis, Texas (Medina County) Location: 29:19:49N 99:16:46W Elevation: 886 feet.

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Saw very large object emerge from behind a hill in front of me on 408 Spur. Long row of lights too bright for me to see shape of craft. I was traveling South on 408 Spur at approx.

2:00 A.M. in late December 1999.

I was approaching a large hill which sits just off the Spur on the West side. I noticed very bright lights moving in the trees along the top of the hill and moving in Easterly Direction. My immediate thought was, "Hey, there is someone driving through those trees up there.

I've never seen anyone driving around up there. Must be someone doing off road stuff. Wow the lights are bright, could be more than one driving around up there.

" As the lights got to the East edge of the hill where I wondered if I would be up to the hill in time to see them drive down toward the highway, suddenly the lights just came out from behind the hill in the air! I did not expect that! A string of very bright lights emerged slowly and stopped directly over the highway up ahead. I would estimate the length of the object to be about as long as Texas Stadium! I could not see the shape of it or the sillouette of it for the brightness of the lights. I continued driving but was stupified at what I was looking at! After it stopped, it reversed direction and proceeded to go back the direction it came from.

(West) It disappeared behind the hill and very quickly I arrived at the spot where it had stopped over the highway. I looked to my right expecting to get a good look at whatever it was and all I saw was the lights of Grand Prairie, Arlington, and Fort Worth spread out in all their spleandor! There were no bright lights. There was no object.

If it had been there and had just turned its lights off, I would have seen a sillouette with all of the city lights . It just vanished! I have been driving home from night shift for 13 years and this is the one and only strange thing I have seen in the air! My main reason for reporting this event at this time is just to edify you in your investigation. In case you received another report from someone else concerning this same event and my report could corroborate their report.

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going outside to say goodbye to family when I looked into the sky and seen two lights one front of the other. Knowing to myself it looked kind of strange I ran inside and got my binoculars 10x50 and looked at the object in question. Observed the object for about 40 to 45 seconds and it just vanished.

two lights one in front of the other with a cigar shaped form inbetween. They were traveling east at a very very slow rate of speed.

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I spoted a copper/amber colored object moving from the se to the west. Observed it through a telescope. Seen a cluster of 15 to 20 disk shaped objects.

I am an amateur astronomer. I started observing the night sky with my telescope Saturday night, 12/18/99, around 22:30 pm central standard time. Observing location was SW Houston at my place of residence.

At approximately 01:15 am central standard time on 12/19/99 I noticed a object moving across the sky with the naked eye. At first glance it looked like a commercial airliner because the speed was about the same. But there was no sound and no blinking lights.

The light was constant with no fluctuation and was copper/amber in color. The object was coming from the southeast and moving toward the west. I was facing the south and looking up.

The object was at about 75 to 80 degrees. This made me curious as to what the object was. I swung my telescope around and was able to lock onto the object with my 9X50 finder scope.

Then I focused my finder scope. At that point I could tell the object was not an airplane or jet liner. I could make out multiple disc shaped objects all clustered closely together.

At that point I lined up the objects in my Astro-Physics 130 mm telescope. I had to refocus because I was previously observing the moon. I had to bring the focus in closer because the object was definitely closer to earth.

My telescope was set up with a 22mm panoptic eyepiece. This was giving me about 35 times magnification. I tracked and observed the object across the sky.

There was 15 to 20 disc-shaped objects. They were like bubbles that had been partially flattened. They were dark and transparent looking in the middle of the discs.

The discs were emitting an amber colored light around the outer edge and it was constant and nonfluctuating. Some of the objects held a steady position as they moved across the sky while others swayed back and forth. All of the discs were of the same size.

I followed them as far as I could to the west util my view was obstructed by a tree. By then the discs were very dim. The cluster stayed together for the duration of my observation.

After I lost site of the objects, ! I contin ued to observe the night sky for another hour. There was no other objects sited during that time. I took my compass and lined it up with the direction my telescope was pointed at the last site of the objects.

The compass reading was 275 degrees. This is almost due west. A this point I started writing down what had transpired since I had never seen anything like this before.

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looked like a really BIG . long lasting. blue/green shooting star.

appeared from top of my windshield and vanished in the distance. From the top of my windshield appeared a blue and green ball of fire/light. it "streaked" forward (in the direction i was driving) for about 8-9 seconds and disappeared.

i DO know that there was a meteor shower a couple of weeks before this occurence, so i guess it may be possible that it was a meteor of some sort; i don't know. it just seemed like a really wierd meteor; if it actually was one at all. it didn't go very fast, it was night outside, so i'm guessing it was about as fast as a jet maybe.

and it seemingly lasted quite a bit longer than any shooting star I'VE ever seen. in anycase, i thought it very unusual and worth reporting.

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The first appeared from the south as a light. I first thought it was a meteor, but then it turned east, and then went west. It slowly went west for about 2 minutes.

It then sped off to the west. My freind, who wishes to remain anonymous, said "Did you see that?" I told him I did. About 10 minutes later, another appeared and did the same thing Me and a freind were sitting in the back of my dad's truck.

We were looking at the stars when I noticed a light in the south kind of moving. My first thought was that it was a meteor, but it was moving a little slow for one. Then it turned to the east which meant that it did a 90 degree turn.

I had never seen a meteor do that. Then, about 45 seconds later, it did a 180 and went west. It went that way for 45 seconds.

Then, it just shot off to the west. My freind and I kept talking about it. Then we noticed another one just like it.

It did the exact same thing, except it was there about 4 and a half minutes. This can not be a meteor, i have seen meteors before, but none like this one.

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Earlier event Your log 9/8/98 2130 observed again. Was watching a very faint satellite track south to north when it reflected sun extremely bright for two seconds near the northern horizon, duplicating the earlier experience. You may close out my earlier report as known and would appreciate removing the earlier post from the net.

Regards, ((name deleted)).

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I was traveling north on Hwy 342 when I looked to the West and saw 5 to 6 lights traveling horizontally south. I was traveling north on Hwy 342 in Ellis County when I looked to the west and saw (1) one bright light. I looked away for about (5) seconds and looked back to the west and saw (5) five to (6) six lights traveling horizontally is a straight line southbound.

One light stayed stationary while the others dropped below and stayed in a line. Then all of a sudden there were only (2) two in the line. They were just white lights that were fairly bright.

The sky was clear and dark. The lights appeared to be round. I could not distinguish any particular shape of the object.

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a very large bright flash that moved to the right very fast than got smaler then disapered. it was about 150 yards in the sky. I was taking my soon to be wife home we turned to go on her street and there was very bright white flash about 150 yards in the sky.

The bright flash moved very fast to the right a got smaller than disapered. There was no noise, no vibration the sky was dark but clear. My soon to be wife was shocked as I was, we both could not belive what we saw.

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A humming noise and then a bright light in the sky which I saw at home at an appartment complex on northside east SA tx off HW1976 My self and my wife we saw a bright light on this November 28, It was about 9:30 and there was a light outside. My wife and I saw it and it was pretty dark out side there was no other persons outside of the apartment complex where we lived. the light was so bright when I looked out the blinds I could see a shadow on the living room wall.

The light was like no other I had seen. being former Navy I have seen many different aircraft and lights they would use for illumination. This light was very surreal and like a fire bright orange like when the sun sets and it lite up the entire complex and the back alley.

there was nothing in the sky when I checked the out side. It was a dreary night and looked as if it would rain but it did not. the entire event took place I would say in about five to ten minutes.

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I was alerted by my son by a phone call that he spotted a UFO in the Northeast sky that was red, green and white lights which separated and made a triangle and then formed a straight line and then it dissappeared into one light showing and then again formed a triangle shape with the three lights. It remained in the same area but changed positions clearly. It stayed in the sky for at least the 15 minutes we stood outside and looked at it.

we checked it again and it was still there as we looked through some binoculars about 30 more minutes. After about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Same as above.

Regular guy, retired and my family was over for leftover Thanksgiving meal when my son called with the first sighting. I did check the sky tonight, 11/28/99 at same time, 19:15, and there were no unusual lights or objects in the sky.

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Driving home from fishing, and saw a light in the sky. Me and my girlfriend were driving home from fishing, on 288 north near angleton. While driving north I noticed a light in the sky maybe a couple of miles north of me, I just saw it.

{I thought to myself should I tell my girlfriend to look or not. I have been having her look at almost every light in the sky, due to all this ufo stuff I hear on art bell.} But this light was like shimmering, and amber type orange.

So I said to her, do you see that light? She looked ahead and said she see's it. Right as she said that the light just faded out. We both were like wow! And then it just re-appears at the one oclock position.

We watched it for a second, and then it just faded out again. We did see a light that seemed similar, but it was very far in distance now. We thought we saw it again over some light towers near the tollway, but that light again just faded out.

We don't know what the light was but it just seemed odd, a shimmering light that fades and re-appears in different locations.

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Three dome shaped lights. One craft or three I don't know. This is an addendum to a report I made approx 16 hours ago concerning a craft of unknown identity spotted in Austin TX.

Craft Size: It was between a quarter and half-dollar held at arm's length. Of course that is an estimation and I cannot give it any weight. I can say that the circle / lights were distanced 1 1/2 circle / light diameters apart and if linked would from an equilatoral triangle.

An imaginary cicle periphery drawn around the three lights would be 2.5 times the size of each light. The craft proceeded north triangle point leading.

The lights had depth to them and appeared as shallow domes of light. The effect was something like viewing a tent with a lightsource inside. You don't see the source but its interaction with the tent material.

So too were these lights. They appeared to softly luminesce these shallow domes in a very off orange color. As I mentioned somewhere between subdued peach and burnt ocher.

During and immediately after the incident I recorded other visible activity in the sky and this consisted of three other, conventional, aircraft. None interacted with the object and appeared to be normal air traffic. The closest was at least 3-5 kilometers away and the farthest between 8 and 12.

Two were generally northeast and one (the farthest) was west. Austin-Bergstrom international airport lies east southeast approx 5 miles away. I hope this comletes this report accurately for you.

If I can clarify anything further please let me know. A copy of my initial report is enclosed below. My wife and I were returning to work after a lunch break.

I stepped outside and looked up to see the moon. Instead what I saw were three dome shaped lights that were moving north at a constant rate of travel. All three lights were the same color something between a subdued peach & burnt ocher.

They did not blink or flash. The lights were either three individual craft moving in perfect triangular formation, or they were attached to one indistinguishable craft. All moved exactly in unison! The craft covered about 40 degrees of sky in less than ten seconds and maintained a constant velocity.

No noise accompanied this sighting. I shouted over and over at my wife to "Look at this! Look at this!" She was closing the door behind me and turned and observed the craft for about seven seconds. After continuing across the sky in a straight line the UFO disappeared seemingly winking to nothing as it went into the night.

My wife was extrememly shaken. I too felt this, but I also felt excitement. Disbelief.

Never have I seen anything even close. I am an Army veteran and am trained in aircraft identification. This was absolutely not a conventional powered aircraft.

Nor is it anything I have ever been instructed to watch for. Very chillingly this craft is a near identicle copy of a recreation I observed very recently on TV of a UFO reported all over Britain in one night and investigated by that fromer MOD official whose name I cannot recall. I believe the show was "Sightings".

The event is less that 2 hours old and I am back at work, but my mind is not focused and I feel as though I am running on Auto. What do I do now?.

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We were lying on the ground watching the meteor shower and the stars, when one star appeared to get brighter and started moving what appeared to be N making a turn that appeared to be upward to what we thought was a star then looping back & moving N to another star(?) doing the same looping up and then back & moving N this time for several seconds be for doing the looping toward another star(?) and onward N as it went out of sight. About 30 to 40 min. we were lying on the ground with our feet W and our heads E,watching the sky's meteor shower.

We saw quite a few meteors, all of which crossed the sky from ne to sw. I said do you see that? That star is moving. She said, yeah, I see it jumping around.

I said that's not a star, I grabbed the binoculars by this time it had moved about 15 to 20 degrees from center sky to the right which was N. Through the binoculars all I could see was a bright star like glowing light moving N. I put the binoculars down and looking back up said where is it? She said, pointing about another 20 degrees N, it's right there.

And we watched as it moved out of sight. She said it could have been a plane. I said Oh come on, we've been lying here watching it, thinking it was a star all this time it wasn't a plane.

Look there's a meteor. The meteor shot across the sky which appeared to be the same section where the UFO moved from. She said I know but that's what everybody would say it was.

I said Oh, what time is it, looking at my watch, it's a quarter to 6, I'm calling the UFO hotline because it wasn't a plane, what kind of plane do we have that could stay in one spot appearing to be a star, then start glowing brighter and moving doing loops looking like it's moving from one star looping and going to another star looping going straight for a second or two and looping and going out of sight. She said I know, I saw it, it looked like a bee flitting from flower to flower and then moving on. Time 6:00.

I said are you believeing that there's another one. Only this time it moved sw about 20 degrees and disappeared. It is still dark and clear no clouds.

Time 6:25.She said look there's another one. This one was more to the left.

It moved about 30 degrees to the left, which appeared to be moving in a straight line. Time 6:30.She got up and pointing to the E she said there's the brightest star I've ever seen.

I looked up and to the E, Oh that's the N star. The sun getting read up come up. I'm still lying watching the the stars in the sky.

She came back, and I said well the N star is comming up but these stars are not moving with the rest of the sky. Then I realized these were satellites or appeared to be satellites since they were not moving. She said that many.

There was 6 to 8 scattered across the sky. I had heard about how you could tell which were satellites and which were stars, but this was the first time for me to visually see the satellites. Now the N star is almost over head to the W there are clouds forming.

To the E the sun was starting to brighten the sky. It has been a very long time since I have taken the time to lie out under the stars and just watch the sky. It was a very interesting.

I've always felt UFO's were out there but now I know for sure. I'VE SEEN ONE! Not up close but they are there! December the 12, 13, or 14, the next know meteor shower, I plan to lie under the stars and again watch the sky from the same spot. Who knows what I might see?.

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Seven blueish discs flying in V formation making no sound. I went outside to observe the Leonid Meteor event before going to work. While looking at the sky I noticed movement among the stars.

Moving very fast from east to west were seven pale blueish discs flying in a V formation. There was no sound and they were out of site in about 20 seconds. Were these exhaust ports on a delta shaped craft? Without binoculars I could not tell.

I asked our local HUFON group if anyone had seen them. I reported the sighting to MUFON but neither group responded. I haven't thought about it until last Friday when UFO's, Seeing Is Believing was aired.

Seeing is believing! ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD)).

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While observing the Leonid Meteor Shower I saw 7 or 8 luminous circles flying in a V formation east to west moving very fast and making no sound. Thursday morning Nov. 18 at around 5:00 AM, I went outside to view the Leonid Meteor Shower before getting ready for work.

I saw a few bright ones and was about to go back in the house when I noticed movement out of the corner of my left eye (I was facing south). I saw 7 or 8 luminous circles flying in a V or chevron formation. They were moving very fast east to west and made no sound.

They covered an area about the size of my thumbnail held at arms length. The circles were not bright and had they not been moving, I probably would not have seen them. They were out of sight in about 20 seconds.

Afterwards I wondered if these circles were on the underside of a large delta shaped craft since the allignment was maintained. I am 65 years old and have been interested in astronomy since I was 13. I have never seen a UFO before.

The local UFON group had no reports that day. I guess I was just lucky. Lat 29/40 Long 95/29.

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see below I was watching for the Leonid meteors this morning. Between 1:15 A.M.

and 1:20 A.M., I observed 3 pale orange lights in a perfect triangle.

At first, I thought they were 3 meteors. I first noticed them just behind Orion's belt. They were moving at a constant rate of speed due west.

They left NO tail. The formation DID NOT change shape in any form. At arm's length, there was about 1/2 inch between the lights.

If they were at extreme altitude, at the speed they were moving, there should have been a sonic boom. At lower altitude, if an airplane, I would have heard the engine sound and didn't. I watched them for about 15 seconds until they faded from sight just south of the bright star about 40 degrees to the west of Orion.

They moved this 40 degree distance in approximately 15 seconds. They were NOT meteors!!.

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I was driving east in SW Fort Worth when I saw a large object in the sky in front of me. All of a sudden it just disappeared and then a small plane with a contrail behind it flew in the approximate location of the object. I am a 53 year old female, wife, mother, grandmother and a Christian.

I have no history of mental illness and no criminal history. I was driving east in SW Fort Worth on Old Grandbury Road and almost to the intersection of Hulen when I looked in front of me in the sky slightly south and noticed a cylinder shaped silver object. I thought it was a plane but all of a sudden it disappeared before my eyes.

I looked all around in the sky but it was gone. A second later a small plane flew in the same area with a contrail behind it. My sister and I had a extrodinary sighting 25 years ago and for some reason we never reported it or told very many people about it and in fact forgot about it almost instantly until about 5 years ago.

This time I want to make sure it is reported and if it was a plane thats fine but still I have very large doubts since it was gone in an instant. Can you please let me know if anyone else saw anything odd today?.

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walking s-se I noticed an unnatural light in the sky s-se about 30 degrees. Motionless, obvious to be a great distance away I was leaving my office for lunch and I walk from my building to a guard shack. Between my bldg.

and the guard shack I noticed a new light in the night sky. looking s-se and about 30 degrees inclination a bright yellow-orange, more yellow than a halogen light, sitting in the sky. No motion whatsoever could be discerned.

I entered the guard shack and told the captian of this and he came outside with me and it was gone. no trace anywhere in the sky. I blew it off for the most part, however I did discuss it with colleagues and a late night guard seargant and my girlfriend as well.

I forgot about it until I read the reports from last night at CAUS.org. I work and live very near two different airports and know that even at a great distance at night you can see both strobes and movement of aircraft and I noticed neither of these.

I also live in an area where we have quite a bit of aerial police helicopter activity and the search lights are very different from this. No one I have spoken to has seen this but me.

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A real big green flash in the western sky All this happened so fast, we didn't see nothing in the sky just a huge green flash in the western sky. There was no sound. We could never find out from the tv news or the newspaper what it was, nothing.

I would appreciate if you all could get back with me if you have any info on this happening. We were watching for leonids that night that happened. I know a lot of things were going on that night.

Were big fans of Art Bell and listed when we can. You people are doing a great job up there keep it up. Thanks a lot.

I really appreciate.