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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 150 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 2000 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (28 reports, 18.67% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (18 reports, 12.00% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (29 reports, 19.33% of total).
- 08/15/00 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 3.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (75 reports, 50.00% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 2000
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 2000, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
Full Report Text:
Nocternal Visitation Experienced something very very strange. Sometime before 0402 hours today, have the feeling I was visited. For the past five years (since 1995) while sleeping have dreamed that my house, a two story is tilting to the west and crashing into the street.
This morning, I awoke for some reason. I lay awake and suddenly hear a low frequency buz or vibration and then hear noise, not sure what it was but almost at the same time sense I and my entire house tilting again to the west as one. I said .
gee, my house is going to colapse on top of me. I braced or tried to brace myself for this (thinking maybe an earthquake as the noise preceeding this reminded me of an earthquake when I lived in Japan) and expecting to hear furniture hitting each other as well as the west wall. I mean the angle was about 45 degrees now.
However, I neither heard furniture slamming into anything and to my amazement, my ceiling fan was turning as normal and not at an angle. That clued me into something weird. All this time while I was trying to brace myself, but then I realized I was fully imobilized, could not move any limb or my head.
The only thing that would move were my eyes and they were open. At this time, I forgot about the tilting effect when I looked to my right toward my skylight and see a beam of blue light that I sensed was searching and it found me. To my left (west side) I also saw light coming from the window.
I realized somethign was not right, yet could not move let alone get up. I now felt as if made semi unconcious yet fully awake and being examined in bed. I looked around and could only make out a small dark figure to my left, above my head and to my right.
To my astonishment, directly in front and a little to the right of me about 10 ft away I saw what appeared to be a holograhic figure or what tried to be one, or perhaps that was the beam of light that found me. I asked these thing what they wanted, but got no response and sensed they were intent on examining me. I definately experienced fear! , yet no thing I could do.
Then suddenly it stopped, and they left at least it felt that way, and I look quickly at the clock and it was 0402 hours. The blue light then gradually went away (maybe 30 seconds after the events stopped) from both my sky light and window. I have been awake since.
Full Report Text:
Diamond shaped object that huvered above with a very brite glow.(not lights) Diamond shaped object with very brite glow (not lights) it was at a ranch and in the middle of nowhere came over the tree line went straight up then forward above the truck stayed above for us to use binoculers to look at and then flew off. Just can't explain what it was .
it was no airplane as it was diamond shaped with a very brite glow that lit up the entire field where we were spot light hunting. Second siteing at this ranch. as the first siting was with the ranch hand several years back when there was a very brite light and object that was on the ground and the ranch hand aproached it with a gun the gun got so hot as he aproached that he had to drop it.
Full Report Text:
NO MODERN UFO I EVER SAW IT WAS MAYBE THE SIZE OF A SCHOOL BUS AND THE THING LOOKED LIKE A TUBE COVERD OVER WITH SOME KIND OF I DONT NO THE WORD BUT IT WAS LIKE TWO TRIAGELS PUT TO GETHER AND HAD THE EGDES SHAVED OFF TO LOOK SMOTH OR SOMETHING I SAW THE FRONT AND BACK AND ONE SID THE FRONT WAS LIKE A RING IT HAD FOUR WINDOW THINGS BUT ONLY ONE LOOKED CLOSE TO A WINDOW THE OTHER THREE WAS LIKE A VENT THE BACK HAD THREE NOZELS OR SOMETHING BUT IT WAS BLUE IN COLOR AND IT MADE NO NOSIE IT DID NOT HAVE NO OTTER LIGHTS BUT SO KIND OF GLOWY THING UNDER IT THE FORNT WAS ALSO LIKE A FLASH LIGTH AND IT HAD SOME KIND OF BOMB LOOKING THING UNDER IT.
Full Report Text:
Three lights in triangular formation. One craft or three I could not tell. 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? ((NUFORC Note: We assume the witness implies a sighting in Austin, TX, since that is his home. The event he alludes to occurred at Bentwaters AFB in England on the night of December 29, 1980, just 1 or 2 days after a dramatic sighting near Houston, TX, referred to as the Cash/Landrum Case.
In the latter case, three people were badly burned by a diamond-shaped, extremely bright object, which was being pursued by a number of USAF "Chinook" helicopters. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Bright, burning, descending small, narrow oval shaped light over s/sw sky in Houston, late afternoon/Dec 28, 00 Spotted object low in the southern (s/sw) sky when stopped to get gas(1709 hrs). Very bright, consistent brightness, just a small, narrow, oval shape - reminded me of comet Hale Bop's shape,(but no visible tail behind it). It was descending very slowly, maybe covering an inch of sky per minute.
It seemed to be something entering the atmosphere, burning. Too slow to be a meteorite and too fast to be a comet - maybe space junk? Watched until 17:20 hrs when went out of sight below treeline/horizon. The day was very clear, the sun was still up, altho setting - I am an astronomy buff - so I know where all the planets are and anyway it was too light for any stars or planets to appear yet and Venus is in west/setting now and Jupiter and Saturn in east/rising - so was not a planet.
Believe must hv been some space junk.
Full Report Text:
Quick Flash I saw a light object flash across the sky quickly and my whole house lit up very briefly. Then it left and all was normal. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
We saw a light in the night sky which appeared to be a satellite, but was moving much too fast. First of all let me say this. I love to watch those UFO shown on Discovery and TLC.
But I do so for entertainment purposes. I think, or thought, the whole UFO thing was a bunch of bunk. But last night I saw something that was truly unknown to me.
I was standing outside a ham radio friend's house and we were talking about amateur satellites. There were four of us in this group. A kid in the group started pointing out constelations.
When I started looking at what he was pointing out, I noticed what I thought was a satellite. It appeared to be a star which was moving from south to north, and it tracked almost straight overhead. It looked just like a low orbit satellite (I've seen many of those before) but it was moving much too fast.
A low orbit satellite would take about 10 minutes to track across the night sky. This object took under a minute. There were no flashing lights or sounds associated with this object.
In fact, I told the others it was probably a satellite, but I later decided that it couldn't have been. Then I thought it could have been a piece of space junk entering the earth's atmosphere, but this object left no trail or flaming debris. I have ruled out in my mind all the possibilities.
As much as I hate to admit it, I have seen an Unidentified Flying Object. If you guys know what this light could have been, I would love to hear back from you. I'm all out of explanations.
((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether the witness was observing either "Mir" or the International Space Station passing overhead. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Flare-like object blasts across sky at unthinkable speed over Austin Texas I was driving out by the lake on my way home from my sister's house in Lakeway, a town right outside of Austin, Texas. It was about 9:00pm and very cold out (on the verge of freezing). I happened to look up and to my surprize a flare-like object shot throught the sky as if it had been fired out of a gun.
It was faster than anything I have ever seen before. My initial thought was that of a bottle Rocket, but no bottle rocket travels at the speed that this thing was moving. The most interesting part of this is that the object fired off from a central point in the sky.
Its as if the object was floating and then just suddenly blasted off. The object immediately formed a vapor trail. This was the strangest vapor trail I have ever seen in that it had a vibrant white glow and it sort of looked like a dark blueish outline formed around the edges of the trail.
I am possitive that it wasnt a space shuttle landing, because I have seen the trail that forms from a space shuttle and this was far bigger and brighter. Once again, nothing has ever passed my eyes at the speed that this thing was traveling. I also noticed that although it seemed like it was only 200 or so feet above me at the start, as I drove into a clearing over Lake Travis (right by Mansfeild Dam) the trail looked like it was 5 miles high.
I have explained my sighting to the best of my memory. I must say that this has opened my eyes a little to the possibility of extraterrestrial airships. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
what i saw could only be descibed as a green laser beam coming from the sky and it had a red "flame" coming from the back as it shot down towards the ground in an angle. i tried to listen to see if it made a sound when it hit the ground but it did not. not even a light emmited as it hit.
Full Report Text:
object being chased pale orange (unblinking) object being chased by aircraft(blinking lites, and heard jet engine/s for short time) first noticed objects (includes both) in eastern sky unknown object was at higher altitude for short duration it appeard as if both objects were matching speed then pale orange object rapidly accearated, aircraft(blinking lites) fell behind quickly ((NUFORC Note: Anonymous report. PD)).
Full Report Text:
saw v shape craft going the same speed of a jet no light no sound i was in my back yard looking at the west sky. i saw a v shape objet going from north to west at the speed of a jet no noes no light look like ball,s under neth of craft.
Full Report Text:
ANOTHER Bell County Sighting My husband and I were standing on our front porch looking into the south. He turned to me and said "there is that light again". Meaning the one that had shown up three times during the course of the week.
The light was intensely bright, and far off. The light would turn off, then on.zip to the right and back to its original place.
then go left. IT seemed to be "communicating" with two other like objects. The communication was the bright one flashing its light as the other two.
Then the two speed off from visibility. About 10 minutes into this two helicopters flew over the object, it turned sidways and we saw what looked like a bar of blue light on its sight and without warning the object burnt out. No trace of it.
and the fact that there is not a tower, antenna or light source which could produce this light. It has only shown up over this week and does not move like a traditional aircraft would have to to not crash. This object and its two companions hover, sitting silently and still in the sky.
The Bell County area is full of activity.a personal belief is that it has something to do with the fact that Fort Hood is located here. Near my grandmothers house, which is close to hwy 190, my family and strangers have observed MANY "floating balls of light" which seem to gather around a large microwave tower, maybe they are refueling?.
Full Report Text:
Triangle 3 slowly pulsating large soium colored lights, with small 7 running lights, vehicle moved extremely slow, with no sound We were heading east on US Hwy 175 betweeon Seagoville and Crandall Texas. It is very common to see air craft in the area as it is a flight way into Dallas Love Field and DFW. My son was driving, when I thought I was looking at Aircraft with there lights on to land.
This one iod not have the navigational, red, green, and stobe. We stopped on the side of the shoulder, it was a starry night with no clouds. The craft was a triangle with 3 large orange lights on underside, like the HWY sodium lights in color, that would pulsate slowly bright then dimmer.
They did this the entire time we watched it. It also had approx. 7 lights all along its outside edges.
with one on each point of the craft. As we stopped to watch it, we rolled down or windows and turned car off, no noise came from the craft. It was moving slower than the on coming traffic.
I have flown in both small and large aircraft over a hundred times. The craft appeared to be 100 yards across, sillouetted against the bright starry sky. It appeared to be black except for the lights of course.
I first thought it had to military, something new in the inventory. It just slowly kept following the Hwy heading west 70 degrees to our left or to the outh of us. We watched as long as we could see it as it flew into Dallas airspace and blended in with all the other planes coming and going out of Dallas.
The craft flew at about 1200 feet, as I fly powered parachutes and you have to learn tower heights and such.
Full Report Text:
This was reported to me by the eyewitnesses. There were two light colored sail shaped UFO's. One flew into and through the other.
Two witnesses are co-workers who were driving home. They were sighted close to DFW airport.
Full Report Text:
very big bright white saucer like object about 1000-1200 feet in diameter very large with red and blue flashing lights on it and around object hovering about 150 to 200 feet above the ground with a white beam of light or search light coming from object searching the ground below the object . appeared the ufo was searching or looking for something as it appeared. sighting located about 12 miles east of dilley tx frio county tx in isolated rural field area.
Full Report Text:
A black cube appears in the sky above me. In November of 2000 I saw my first ufo. It has always been difficult to explain what I saw.
Prior to my sighting, I thought ufo's were imaginary. Once I saw one my opinion changed. I saw the ufo in the evening just after sunset and it made no sound at all.
It was a black cube shape and hovered about 200 feet above me. I was driving a 4 wheel drive Bronco on private property near Sidney, Texas at the time. Back then computer technology was not what it is today and I have become able to animate exactly what I saw that day.
I have attached a video depicting exactly what I saw. I want to absolutely clear that this is an animation of what I saw – not a video recording. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
a black object (abyss)hovered 200 feet over me while deer hunting and 3 months later, i underwent emergency brain surgery. After an evening spring Texas turkey hunt, I drove my 4wd ford bronco across the ranch to return to my motor home. (Camp) along the way, I was to pick up my dad and when I approached him, he was obviously watching something above me.
He said nothing only looked. I asked what are you looking at and he replied I don’t know. Turning around I saw about 200 feet above me a motionless black object.
It made no sound. It was a cube shape, approximately 25 feet on each side and it had no surface texture at all. Its "surface" appeared to be a void collapsing into itself.
It seemed as if it were an abyss and drawing light into it. I looked at it for about 5 seconds and it suddenly ascended at a rate that I would estimate being greater than 50,000 feet per minute. (I am a licensed pilot) as it ascended, it made no sound but a bright white/blue/red/yellow light appeared on its underside.
In less than 4 seconds, this object climbed and disappeared vertically right into infinity. We asked each other what the hell was that. Dad mentioned that he thought it might have been what people call a UFO.
Three months later, I underwent emergency brain surgery for a cerebral fistula (blood vessel malformation that the doctors referred to as extremely life threatening. I have no idea if these circumstances are related but the thought that this encounter may have been related is quite chilling.
Full Report Text:
i saw a mothership letting off flying sausers every morning at daylight i get up and sit at the kitchen table drinking coffee and smoking a cigarette,looking out the patio door beside the table.on the 14th i looked out the door and saw a hugevery bright star much too close.something passed between me and the star.
i was trying to see if there were any clouds but could not find anyand the i saw a small flying saucer.the light was shining on it and it had a distinct shape.i had seen several cross between me and the light.
the mothership was huge.i estimate it at a half mile long or even longer and at least 40 foot high or more.then the mother ship took off at a high rate of speed and the spot light was still on.
it went very fast for a long ways, then the light went out.
Full Report Text:
Black triangle spotted over highway in the night sky Saw a perfect triangle shaped object about 50-60 stories above the ground directly over the highway I was traveling on. The object had one red light and one blue light, but they did not blink and were not very bright.in fact if I was not looking in the right place at the right time, I would never have seen the object.
The object was darker than the night sky, because when it went overhead the night sky helped to determine its shape. Truely an awesome sight.
Full Report Text:
White Daytime disc in north Dallas on Election Day. North Dallas, I had just completed voting and was walking home from the polling place, Hillcrest High School, Dallas. Full cloud cover, only small patches of blue.
I was walking on the side walk and thinkng to myself; this is the kind of day you might see a ufo. At that moment I was kind of scanning the sky almost above my head and just to the right, I was faceing east, and saw a totally white ufo it was just ducking behind a cloud. It was the size of my pinkey nail when held in front of my face as compaird to the ufo.
The cloud layer was fairly low. It has been raining for two weeks here. The ufo moved fluidly with stability and no wableing or sound.
It was the color of the clouds around it but just a bit more white. I,m sure it was intellagently controlled because of the speed that it was moving, and it seemed to take evasive moves when I saw it and it saw me. I have seen one of thies white cloud ufo's before.
That one was in Arizona about 4 years ago around Flagstaff. I see ufo's fairly frequently and I told my self that I would report the next one. Please excuse the spelling I am dislexic.
Thanx. ((NUFORC Note: We do not know what "2530" hrs. is.
We will attempt to confirm the time of the sighting. We assume the witness may mean 1750 hrs. PD)).
Texas UFO Sightings From 2000 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 28 reported sightings | 18.67% of all reports |
Triangle | 16 reported sightings | 10.67% of all reports |
Other | 15 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 14 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
Disk | 12 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 11 reported sightings | 7.33% of all reports |
Circle | 10 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Sphere | 7 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
Cylinder | 5 reported sightings | 3.33% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Diamond | 4 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 2.00% of all reports |
Flash | 3 reported sightings | 2.00% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 0.67% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.67% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.67% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2000 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 18 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
September | 16 reported sightings | 10.67% of all reports |
November | 15 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
January | 15 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
October | 15 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
April | 12 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
August | 11 reported sightings | 7.33% of all reports |
June | 11 reported sightings | 7.33% of all reports |
May | 10 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
February | 9 reported sightings | 6.00% of all reports |
December | 9 reported sightings | 6.00% of all reports |
March | 9 reported sightings | 6.00% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2000 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Thursday | 29 reported sightings | 19.33% of all reports |
Friday | 24 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 24 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 21 reported sightings | 14.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 20 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Sunday | 19 reported sightings | 12.67% of all reports |
Monday | 13 reported sightings | 8.67% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2000 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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08/15/00 | 5 reported sightings | 3.33% of all reports |
07/26/00 | 5 reported sightings | 3.33% of all reports |
10/15/00 | 4 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
09/01/00 | 4 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
04/06/00 | 3 reported sightings | 2.00% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2000 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 75 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 30 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 20 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 6.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 8 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 8 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2000
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 2000
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.