Texas UFO Sightings in 2001

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Large rectangular craft seen New Year's Eve I was driving towards the west when I stopped at a stop sign and saw what I thought was an elaborate fireworks show being that it was New Year's Eve. The event lasted one second.After watching the same area of the sky for a couple of minutes I realized what I'd witnessed was not a fireworks display.

What I had seen was a huge rectangular shaped object at least 300 yards long and 50 yards wide.It was vertical with several bright white lights inside a red rectangular outer rim.It was about 300 to 400 feet in the air and probably over the city of Pearland Texas which is about 10 miles from where I saw the object.

The sky was cloudy that night and I couldn't see any stars.I don't know if it was moving or hovering.The object appeared out of nowhere and the next second vanished.

It was incredibly beautiful and I wish I could have observed it longer.I believe it was either a craft or a holograph.Do humans have that kind of holographic ability and if they do why would they show that object and for only one second?Even though it was New Year's Eve I had not been imbibing and was completeley sober.

Although after witnessing the event I could have used a good stiff drink .

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Perfect Circle UFO Spotted at 30,000 Feet I was on an American Airlines flight 1566 from Dallas, TX heading to National Airport in DC. Our takeoff time was delayed and we left Dallas at approximately 2:15 p.m.

Dallas Time. Upon reaching cruising altitude (33,000 feet), I opened my window flap (I usually keep it closed during takeoffs and landings). At that point, our plane is flying above the clouds with about 1/3 of the horizon and sky visible.

I cannot see land beneath the plane. I noticed a solid white round object several thousand feet lower than my plane and located up to the North and East of my window (and the plane). At first, trying to rationalize, I think it is a bird.

Realizing birds do not fly at 30,000 feet, I continue to watch the object. It seems to hover or float. Eventually, it is directly in line with my window (but at the same distance away.

I surmise that at 500 mph, we have caught up with it, and it has not moved. Didn't see it move at that point. Still it appears to hover.

Then, rationalizing further, I think it might be a weather balloon. I have never seen a weather balloon, though, so I am not sure. No sooner do I process that thought, then the white object moves to the West.

It is still for a moment and then, shoots out in a diagonal of a north-westerly route and disappears in seconds into the horizon.

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Triangular shape ship with red light on bottom moving a circular motion. Went very slowly. Slow moving shop going NW.

Zig zag direction then due NW. Red lights underneath the craft. Ship was in a blunt shaped triangle.

There were red lights going in a circular motion. It was silent.

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Bright Light High in sky moving north to south I am a computer programmer living in Houston. I was at my office off of Enclave Pkwy on the westside of Houston. It was dark and the time was about 6:30 pm.

The sky was clear and the temperature was about 60 degrees. I was standing outside waiting for my ride and I was looking up at the stars when I noticed a very bright white light very high in the sky moving north to south. I watched light move across the sky for about 10 seconds before it faded out.

Light was moving too slowly to be a meteor. I first observed light directly overhead and the light traversed approx. 45 degrees of sky in approx.

10 seconds before fading out. The size of the light was about the same as the surrounding stars.

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hello Sir/Mam, On the night of 12/26/01 (the night after x-mas) @ 11:53 zulu . Let me tell you a little about myself, I grew up on military bases, around all sorts of airplanes jets and what not, I even used to build model planes when I was younger. Any who, in my experience growing up around all these different aircrafts, I have never seen one that looked or flew like the one I just saw.

So here's the story, I was on my parents up stairs balcony gradually commiting suicide (smoking a ciggarete in other words), when all of a sudden accross the lake past the road, out in the forrest (i'm guestimating approximatly 8 miles away) I noticed a light (which at first i thought had to have been a meteor) followed by a triangular shaped hover craft (it was unusually bigger craft)zoom out of an area, of possibly a very remote housing area but more likey is forrestry, it zoomed up about 30 or 40 feet, stopped dead in it's tracks (which i have NEVER seen an aircraft accomplish) then just zoomed out of sight. ((NUFORC Note: We do not know whether the time indicated above is the correct time for the event. We will attempt to clarify the time with the witness.

PD)).

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weird thing in texas I was outside in my front yard stargazing as I often do. It was a very clear night southerly breeze. Looking up I saw a rod shaped object it was white, about 4 foot long and 6 inchs around.

It was apprx. 15 foot over my head. It barely cleared the roof of my house.

It was moving from north to south opposit the wind.I'm a very scientific minded person.This the second time in last few months I have seen unusual things.

I guess fact is stranger than fiction. The [thing] made no sound and had no lights it was just very bright white and perectly formed.p.

s. I'm an amature astronomer.

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I Have No Idea What Happened I was driving down the motorway with my girlfriend when I saw something hovering in the sky about 3 miles away from me. The object appeared to change shape every few seconds. At first I thought I was seeing things because I've been driving for 3 hours non-stop.

But when the object started to glow a greenish colour I woke my girlfriend up who was sleeping at the time. I pointed to the object but when I pointed there The object turned into a red glow and vanished into the woods nearby. I tried to call a friend to tell him what just happened but when I turned my mobile on all I got was static and a buzzing noise through it.

An hour later my mobile started to work again but when I tld my friend what happened he just laughed at me and hung up. I can't explain what happened.

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What was over Texas 5-3-01 I was driving west on I20, on the NW sky I noticed a falling star. I looked directly at it and realized it wasn't a falling star. It was larger, yellow, and didn't burn out.

Also, it was still daylight. It had a tail, was very high, and fast. It turned, and was flying away from me then.

It was a large light that got smaller and smaller until it disappeared. There were many other people on the highway, people coming home from work. Someone else must have seen this.

I've been looking for any news articles and information to explain this. I am just trying to find a logical answer. ((NUFORC Note: We, at first, suspected that the report might address the re-entry event of space debris on Saturday, 01DE01.

However, if people were returning from work, it may not have been a Saturday. Please see other reports for the same date. PD)).

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comet like white bright vapor it seemed like a large comet made of white bright vapor the head of it did not show clearly and the tail was very long and it was wider than a normal comet and it moved very slow or so it seemed we was driving east on highway 83 when we saw that moving east at low cloud hight above falcon dam ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. Date probably is flawed. Witness provides no e-address.

Possible hoax?? We have changed the date above. PD)).

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bright lights stream across sky and leave a bright orange tail then slowly fade out. I Looked up and all I saw was A big light then it started shooting across the sky then alot of other lights that were smaller lit up and followed it the objects left a bright reddish orange glow to the tail end of the objects. Then they raced across the sky for 20 to 30 seconds then disappeared.

It couldn't of been meteores because the other little pieces that were there followed it all they way without falling other places and then it all slowly died out. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

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Serveral blue lights with long contrails travelling for 30 seconds from south to north in the western sky as viewed from Weatherford TX I was facing west and saw 4 largelights and several smaller lights moving from my left to my right about 25 degrees up from the horizon. They covered about 120 compass degrees in 30 seconds with a constant velocity and altitude until they disappeared behind the trees to my right. They had blue lights on the front and very, very long contrails behind.

The contrails changed colors as the objects appeared to pass through differing densities of clouhds. They travelled parallel with one another, with the larger object in the forefront of my view. ((NUFORC Note: Illustration provided by witness did not survive downloading to our database.

We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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Two lights w/firetail changed direction in sky at high rate of speed. Observed TWO orange colored lights with fire "tails" traveling from west to east in sky at tremendous speed and LEVEL off after traveling in a downward trajectory above treetop level then continue traveling east until we lost sight of objects. Entire incident was observed in mere seconds due to high rate of speed of the lights.

Made telephone report of sighting to the Navarro County Sheriff's Office. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

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the lights were traveling from the west side of canyon, tx. it looked like a an airplane taking off and being attacked by other small aircrafts, but the closer we saw it, it was a cluster of lined up bright lights crossing over hwy I=27. It looked like pieces of the ufo were falling ,but they never landed and the lights went by so fast, that it left a trace of light and then desiminated.

there were other witnesses that stopped to look at the unusual stream of lights. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

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Bright object appeared to be burning up in atmosphere as in re-entry. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

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slow moving groups of lights with tails moving in cone shaped formation from west to east at a low altitude. I first saw a cone shaped object coming towards us from west to east. I stopped the driver and we all got out and watched as it approached and then passed by at a fairly slow speed.

As it got closer we could see that it was not a cone but a grouping of lights with one very bright light and several smaller lights with tails streaking behind them. When I first distinguished the individual lights I thought, could this be a formation of helicopters coming towards us with search lights? But there was no noise. As the lights passed we jumped back in the vehicle and turned around thinking maybe we would see it go down.

We were in an area southwest of Ozona and there are a lot of canyons and high hills. We were able to see it as it went out of sight over one of these hills. The hills were about five hundred feet above the road we were on and because the lights disappeared over their horizon very quickly, we believe the lights were at a very low altitude.

It did not seem to change elevation. I don't know if it is possible but it was like a slow moving group of meteors of various sizes being projected in front of us like a hologram. When I returned to my home in San Angelo, 120 miles northwest, and began to tell this to my family, my eighteen year old son interupted and related the same sighting in San Angelo at approximately the same time as he was returning home in his jeep.

His sighting was not witnessed. His details were were just like ours except the lights were futher away. I had a gps on the hunting trip and the sighting was within one half mile of the following coordinates: N30degrees31.

650minutes W101degress30.096minutes ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

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This encounter consisted of a brief sighting of several fireballs and related streaks seemingly flying in formation. On the evening of December 1, 2001, my mother (54) and I (35) were walking our dogs when we observed an unusual aerial phenomenon. With the exception of some high, thin clouds, the sky was clear; major constellations, such as Orion, were plainly visible.

As we were walking north on Yale Road in Richardson, Texas, between its intersections with Blake and Linda Lanes, we observed a formation of two large fireballs in the sky to the north, perhaps twenty-five to thirty degrees above the horizon, apparently accompanied by several smaller streaks of light. They moved across the sky from west to east, at a speed similar to that of an airplane; I got the impression that they were quite distant. One of the two larger fireballs was slightly higher than and ahead of the other; the smaller streaks, which were very faint, lay between and behind the two.

Another thin streak seemed to lead the leading fireball a small distance. I got the impression that the fireball was attached to the thin streak leading it. No such phenomenon was observed for the lower, trailing fireball.

The entire formation was moving at a very slight angle to the ground, only a few degrees at best; it seemed almost parallel to the ground. We observed it only briefly before it passed behind some trees and was lost. The presence of nearby streetlamps also affected our ability to view it more clearly.

We heard no unusual sounds during the experience. During the sighting I noticed at least one aircraft pass nearby, so there may have been other sightings of this phenomenon as well. The large fireballs themselves each consisted of a large, luminous head trailed by thick contrails of smoke or vapor.

The were primarily white, but toward the end of the sighting seemed to sputter briefly red/orange, then green. The other, faint streaks may have been smaller fireballs. Let me stress that I am certain that these were not conventional aircraft.

We live relatively near both Dallas Love Field and the Dallas/Fort Worth airport (one of the busiest airports in the world), so we see planes constantly, and are familiar with their night-time appearance. Neither do I believe that they were alien interstellar craft. I thought at first that they were some sort of burning objects being towed by small aircraft, given the faint streak I saw preceding one of the fireballs.

However, I saw no running lights that would indicate the streak was an airplane. At the moment, I believe that the most likely explanation is that we saw a large meteor in the process of breaking up. The annual Leonids meteor shower occured just two weeks ago.

In this scenario, the fireballs were portions of the meteor that included low-density icy or organic materials (common to the Leonids, which are fragments of Comet Swift-Tuttle, if I'm not mistaken), while the faint streaks were smaller, rockier fragments. This would explain the impression that they were flying in formation. The sputtering and vapor trails would have been caused by outgassing as the objects burned up in the atmosphere.

However, this explanation fails to explain why it was moving so slowly, or why it passed across the sky at such a shallow angle. I do know a small asteroid has been observed to do this before bouncing out of the atmosphere (in 1974), and that there is theory that hundreds of mini-comets burn up in the Earth's atmosphere daily. Clearly, I prefer to consider this a natural phenomenon.

Other possibilities -- that this was indeed several planes towing burning objects (but why?) or we witnessed some sort of government experiment. The latter theory seems overused an unlikely. Why test something near a major population center.

I suppose it could also have been a satellite burning up in the asteroid, or even the space shuttle, except the next shuttle mission is on hold for the moment. No, I'm not an astronomer, though I am very interested in astronomy. I am a technical writer with degrees in history and anthropology, and I worked for more than five years as a professional archeologist.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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Three craft, with red and white "tails", slower and larger than shooting strars were seen moving fron SW to Northeast. Three craft, with red and white "tails", slower and larger than shooting strars were seen moving fron SW to Northeast. They moved out of sight just above the Northern horizon ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs.

(Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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Observed a massive rectangular silent object with glowing red spears on either side about 150 ft off the ground for ten minutes Traveling in separate vehicles, my husband and I observed a massive silent rectangular shaped object travel over us forward, bank to the left and continue silently onward until we saw it move over the hills. If we had a rock we could have hit it, it was so low. had giant glowing red spears on both sides from front to back.

No apparent windows. No sound or means of propulsion. It was about the size of two football fields end to end.

Appeared to be about 150 ft off the ground. I am a currently disabled (MS) Nurse and my husband is an internationally recognized artist. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

PD)).

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A huge display of lights more in the form of a disc, but too large and obsured to make that determination. My husband and I were driving on a county farm road in the Southeast Texas countryside between East Bernard and Wallis, Texas around 8:30 pm on a very cloudy night. An approaching cold front was drawing clouds from the south and the cloud cover was fairly dense and moving rapidly.

I looked to the east which was in he direction of Rosenberg, Texas and could see the lights of that small town displayed against the flat horizon. Above the lit horizon was a very brigt cloud nestled among many others of a normal grey appearance. When the cloud drifted to the north there was a huge display of lights about 35 degrees above the horizon just behind or maybe inside the low clouds.

The lights appeared to be like those seen from a distance at a football field, but they were lined up right beside each other and there were at least five rows of them. Each sat next to the other and above and below the rest. There seemed to be very little space between them in any direction I counted five rows, but the clouds around the light display seemed to be obsurng more rows because the brightness kept showing through even when I could see five rows distinctly.

I don't believe the set of lights moved, but that the cloud movement kept covering the display and at one point I could count nine lights in the longest (and center) row. At arm's length the object was almost three inches in width and about a inch in height. The lights appeared to descend in number from the middle to the top and in the same manner from the middle to the bottom.

Occasionally, a cloud would totally encase the lights, but the cloud would then be luminescent. We watched the formation for about ten minutes before turning on to another road. Trees close to us loomed over the part of sky we were watching.

By the time we could see that horizon again we had driven fairly far from Rosenberg and there was nothing but normal cloudcover. ((FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION)) Mr. Davenport, Actually, you're correct in that the sighting took place on December 1st.

I checked my original report posted to a message board that very night. My memory can be faulty so I wrote it down as soon as I got home. As far as the timing goes it was definitly 8:30 pm CST so if you are taking about Midwestern time for the reentry the two don't really match up.

However, if you are talking Pacific time that would be just right. (Well, I just read a lot of the reports at NUFORC and realize the timing isn't right for when we saw what we saw.) There were no tails or auras and the lights didn't seem to move at all, but with the clouds moving so rapidly I might have become confused.

The lights were side by side and extremely bright with perhaps six lights in a row just above the row of nine and perhaps another five or six below that row. There were even fewer visible in the top and bottom rows and I'm referring to the best view I had with clouds passing. The lights never varied in size, they were all of equal size, so whatever the object might have been I doubt it was moving.

I neglected to make the report to you at the time because what I saw didn't look like any know UFO shape other than a disc literally made entirely of white lights. Really strange and as I said, they seemed to remain stationery for ten minutes or so. I've also been waiting to read reports of something similar before reporting I also forgot to mention that we made the same trip on the night of December 23rd and saw Rosenberg's lights on the horizon on a clear night, but there were no lights in the sky other than stars.

It might be a good idea if I called Rosenberg's police department to see if there were any other reports or if there is some explanation I haven't thought of. It's a small town with no reason for a large tower extending into the clouds, but I think it's worth a phone call or two even if I have to listen to a chuckle or two. If there were similar reports I'll let you know.

Thanks for letting me know others have made more than one report to you. If and when you might find the time I'd appreciate knowing what sort of sound you heard a UFO make. I was sitting in a quiet house alone several weeks ago and heard a very strange, loud sound outside, a buzzing of something electrical, but it seemed to be "skipping out.

" It sounded to me as though it were passing overhead, but I can't be sure of that. The sound progressed and then seemed to pass away. I'm sure there are any number of reasons for such a sound, but I've never heard that before.

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lights that followed us for several hours. we were walking down a country road late at night when i noticed lights that i origanaly thought were headlights of a car but when we would star at the light it would start shifting left and right for a couple of seconds and then it would fly right at us at a very fast speed. that is when i noticed there were more than one of them.

there was allways one on the road behind us and the others were above the trees and across a pasture. and each light new when you were looking at it because only the one you were looking at would come at us.they followed us for several hours.

there was also a strange type of cloud lightning even though the cloud cover was very light. ((NUFORC Note: Date of the incident may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD)).