Texas UFO Sightings in 2008

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Orange light over Katy, TX seen 12/31/08 Observed an orange light moving from east to southwest at speed of a small propeller aircraft. Appeared to be larger than Venus, but smaller than the full moon. Light seemed to flare in size however orange color remained the same.

No sound was heard, speed remained constant during the duration of sighting. Many fireworks in view, however, this wasn't a skyrocket or firework. Light seemed to be descending when last seen.

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over 20 objects moving at different speeds some in triangle patterns to the norhtwest a formation of orange lights moving at different speeds to the northwest. NO sound of engines. Looked like a roman candle ball burning but the light did not dim.

Some of the objects were in a triangle formation too.

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Some definite activity off Texas coast ,, have friend with 11 full minutes of activity,, doesnt look earthly,, but national security We knew we saw something coming out of the gulf horizon in a hurry,, then sit and move alittle ,, hard to describe,, but then my best friend was in her hot tub the other morning and got 15 min,, only 3 min of no action. Now we are hearing it from friends,, oh yea so and so said it came right up out of the gulf,, and sat, tries to hide among the stars, to avoid passing planes,, by acting like a star, I know this sounds crazy, my husband and I both think so to,, but its real ,, there is a reference point star through the whole activity. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.

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over austin flying Have seen a weird looking saucer. With the a strong light strobe.

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I observed a brillian, white, ball of light flying at tremendous speed from West to East. On the night of December 20, 2008, my dog needed to go outside. While I was sitting in a chair on my patio the dog looked up, and I did also.

Flying overhead at a tremendous speed was a brilliant, white ball of light about the circumference of a hula hoop. A basketball size would not be quite large enough. It had come from the West over my house flying East at the same height of the wispy clouds above me.

I do not know how high that was. In seconds it disappeared into the distance. It was a clean, concise ball of light.

No vapor, or tail, or distortion. After it had disappeared, to my right in the sky was a small plane that was flying higher than the ball of light did. In a few more minutes a commercial jet plane came over my house and it seemed to be crawling in the sky compared to the speed of the earlier ball of light.

I am on the flight path of planes heading north from Bergstrom/Austin Airport, and I watch them often from my patio, and my dog is used to looking up at them. I am still in awe at the speed and the brightness of the object I saw last night. I have witnessed the shuttle followed by the International Space Station come over my back yard and neither of them showed the same speed across my sky that this object did.

I was able much longer to see them cross my sight path. This is an account as accurately and truthfully as I can relate.

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A RECTANGLE BLACK OBJECT STATIONARY IN MID -AIR ABOUT AN HR. WITNESSES ON HAND. 12-20-08 a huge retangle shape dark object was very visable at 12 oclock high,and stationary for about an hour in the sky,as many espectators pointed to the object,then it began to move very slowly toward the southeast,then disappered from the sky.

altitude estimated 12,ooo ft.many witnesses from parking lot,and few got out from their cars to see the object.the object did not make any noises.

seen two spectators taking pictures with cam corders.410 south,curcit city store and ross store parking lot,between 4:45pm and 5:48pm. GOD IS WITNESS ALSO! NO JOKE HERE!! from SAN ANTONIO,TEXAS.

it might come out on t.v. news.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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An arc of about 7 white lights at a very high altitude moving West at a very high rate of speed On December 20, 2008, I observed from Paris, Texas, at approximately 1:00 AM were a grouping of about 7 lights, in a arc, a crescent, pointing West, and moving West from point first noted, at about 12 o’clock and disappearing from view at about 2 o’clock, about 3 seconds later. There was no sound, they appeared to be at a very high altitude, they were white lights that appeared to dim a little as they got further West, and they may have spread out a bit.

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Bright light UFOs. Thought the UFO was going to crash into an airplane. Star-like UFOs.

12/16/2010 9:00 PM I noticed strange star-like lights in the Eastern sky. It started with a star-like UFO. My husband and I both decided that it wasn't an airplane.

It was Much brighter and larger. It also didn't seem to move. It was twinkling with white, red, and blue lights.

My husband got bored and went inside. I continued to watch the light for about 30 minutes. Then I saw another one rise in the Eastern sky to the left of the first one.

It rose just above the tree lines. It moved to the left, then it moved right. The UFO stayed put after that.

They both seemed to keep the path of the night sky and stayed all night. They were too close to be stars though. The light twinkling was profoundly artificial in nature.

Keep in mind that I am also seeing airplanes ever few minutes. Some time later, I saw two craft with bright red flashing lights North and South bound on the horizon. The lights from these crafts were larger than airplane lights, but not as bright as the "star-like" lights.

They headed straight for one another and leveled off one above the other. The two craft then turned East and flew until disappearing in the distance. Within about 15 minutes of the two aircraft meeting up, I see a big bright red light not flashing.

It had a hot white center. This UFO was descending rapidly from the atmosphere. At exactly the same time an airplane was bound North East.

I gasped as their points intersected. I thought there was going to be a crash. There wasn't though.

The red UFO leveled off at the horizon and headed East until disappearing from distance. I had called my mother at the beginning of the sightings. She stayed on the phone with me through out the near crash.

During all of this activity, my phone started getting static. It became difficult to talk. The static went away after the red UFO went away.

I also saw a shooting star during the excitement and fear of the potential crash. The sky was very active last night. It is the first time that I have ever seen anything like this.

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unknown ball of light appeared and then took off at a high rate of speed!!! I was sitting outside on my porch having a smoke , when all the sudden a ball of light appear about 2 blocks away and about 300 feet in the air and it was round and very bright light was coming from it, the unknown object stayed in the same position for about one minute and then took off at a high rate of speed going in the direction of southwest faster than any plane or man-made craft then it was gone from my site. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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3 cone shaped crafts the color of a rainstorm About 12 noon i saw 3 cone shaped crafts they were there for about ten minutes then was gone it was the color of a rainstorm cloud ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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I saw this green light fly into visibility in the sky and hover in a position for a couple of seconds. At first I thought it may have been some sort of firework that was being shot off, but rather than explode or do something of that sort, the object then seemed to quickly fly away and disappear. I do not seem to recall the actual shape of the object, but it appeared to be round from what I remember.

I also believe that there were a couple of other aircrafts in the area as well. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Cigar shaped craft floating over Lakeway Texas Decemeber 6th 2008 2:07 PM under clear skies On December 6th 2008 at 2:07 pm I noticed a craft which appeared to be floating in a Northeast to Southwest direction over the City of Lakeway Texas. The craft was gloss black in color and was floating in a counter clockwise direction. As the craft approached my location I was able to observe the underside.

The crafts underside was a yellowish color with what appeared to be a dome like structure underneath which appeared to have a blue and grayish mist-like appearance and was similar to a flourecent glow. The craft did not make any sound and was approximately 1000-1500 feet above my location. The craft appeared to have a rectangular to cigar shape apperance and appeared to be about the size of a blimp.

The weather conditions for that day was clear blue skies and no clouds. The craft procceded at a slow rate of speed and was visible to me about for about 10 minutes. Only one craft was observed.

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bright light drops and disappears My boyfriend and I were driving home and saw a bright beam of light flash in the sky (it was larger than a star), drop straight down, then disappear. It did not go all the way down to the horizon, it just disappeared mid-air. We both yelled, "did you see that?!" It definitely did not look like a meteor or shooting star.

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20:05 hrs., Dallas, TX, wedge shaped object passing approximately 150 feet above house, moving NW to SE at approx 15 mph. At exactly 20:05 hours on the evening of December 5th, 2008, I was in my back yard walking my dogs along with family cats.

Only lights on was backdoor light. Dogs were running around yard as usual. What drew my attention to object I witnessed, was one of my cats, who would normally stay distance from me, ran towards me and stopped right by my right leg.

She sat down and was looking up over the roof of house. I looked at the cat, thinking she was probably just looking at plane lights or maybe a bird so something. She kept looking, so then I looked up to see what she was seeing.

What I believed I saw at first, was a mass of bird flying over, and more than likely geese, since the formation was sort of looked liked a shape of geese migrating. But then reality hit me. It was moving at approximately 10 to 20 mph, almost parallel to my street, but when I focused on it, I then could see, that it had mass, and structure of a wedge shape.

It was close enough that I could get a base size from comparing it to the roof of my home. The overall length was approximately 100 to 150 feet long, and height was approximately 7 to 10 feet, and it was only 100 to 200 feet from the ground. I was looking at the right lower quarter, from bow to stern.

There weren’t any lights or any sound what-so-ever emitting from the craft. The right side was visible because of the lights of homes and a few street lights carried to that height. I also had a small private aircraft flying at one to two thousand feet at about 2 miles southwest of our location, so I could get some variable and we have high pecan trees which also gave me some comparison to height from the ground.

What was apparent, the side wasn’t a smooth surface. I say this because you could see dark and then somewhat lighter shades. This to me could have been either two assumptions: 1.

The surface was painted, as we do some of our military aircraft, so it will blend in with the sky (clouds lighter and darker) or 2. the surface had angles on it which would show lighter for the parts protruding out and dark for the area that was indented. This is similar to our stealth aircraft for displacing radar.

The light of homes and street lights were barely hitting the surface of the object but it was enough to make out the details. I yelled at my wife, who was inside. When she came out, the object had only moved ¼ of our block down the street.

I tried to have her follow my arm movement to look down the length of it to be able to see it. By the time she was in sync with my movement the craft had gained some altitude and was moving away. The rear of the craft seemed sort of blunt, not the shape appendage you would expect from a tails of an airplane.

It then moved away out of sight, not at an accelerated rate but at a constant speed. My background is journalism. I’ve spent over 6 years on U.

S. Navy aircraft carriers and 6 years on Navy Air Stations, documenting Navy fighters and bombers in flight. I also was piloting Cessna 150 and 172 aircraft years ago when I started pilot training, so I’m used to aircraft design, determining what you visually see before me in order to navigate and anything associated with flight.

And being a photo journalist I’m very good when it comes to attention to detail. I wasn’t mentally rattled and didn’t lose my composure but the event left me with allot of questions. A male friend of my wife at her work, who lives in north Dallas County saw something similar, same design, but with more than one object just a few months ago.

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I witnessed a bright blue object that appeared to move downwards and vanish in about 2 seconds Please bear with me as my phone is all I have to work with. It was almost 12:30 at night when I was walking back to my apartment complex. I was walking through the grass in the front of the apartments that had a gate where u could get back in.

Anyways I was just about to the gate when I saw a very bright blue light out of the cirbir of my eye. I looked up at the sky and there was this blue oval looking object. The object was I would have to say less than a half mile in the sky.

It was there and gone as soon as I looked up at it. It appeared to be moving downward into a field right across the street. I was very scared of the fact that it moved so quickly and seemed to vanish before getting to the ground.

There was no noise at all from the object. I would have to say I was less than 300 yards away from it as well. As soon as I saw it vanish I felt chills.

The area where the object was has a lot of dear that roam around at night. I didn't see any dear in sight. It's about an hour after I have witnessed the unidenitifief object.

I still don't see any deer, and they are always coming into the field around this time from across the street where I spores the object. Anyways like I said I looked up saw a blue oval looking object and as fast as I saw it, the thing shot downwards and appeared to vanish all within about 2 seconds. That's as much information as I'm available to give about what I've seen.

It's late and I'm shooken up about it. I hope my information helps.

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there were rapid flashing lights alternating from the left side of the craft to the right side whille being staionery. I noticed the object because I saw what appeared to be a vertical shaped line with 2 lights moving across the night sky very slowly. It was something I had never seen and was very odd looking.

I saw it out of an upstairs bedroom window. The object stopped moving and appeared to be an oval shaped pale blue light through the clouds. I then ran down the stairs to my front yard and noticed that it remained still, with a coloring like the moon through thin clouds, it was a little cloudy that night.

I then returned into my, went back to my bederoom window with binoculars to watch the still unmoving object. I noticed that it had a lot of lights flashing in different colors it now appeared to be more disked or saucer shaped with lots of lights. I saw a plane pass right in front of it from my view.

The object was very large and i'm sure it was at a much higher altitude than the plane. I called my daughter on the phone and told her about the sighting. My daughter lives a short distance away, about a couple of miles from me.

She looked out of an upstairs patio, and was able to see it along with her husband. As i continued watching, it began to slowly move toward the north west,then stopped. There were at least 6 rows of about 10 red lights flashing alternating from the left side of the craft to the right side of the craft very rapidly for abou 5 minutes.

The flashing red lights gave way to rows of pale green lights in the center of the craft for about 2 minutes. The ofject then reverted to a pale blue and slowly moved toward the north west.It was not a plane, blimp or helicopter, it no sound.

This is the first time I've ever seen something that I could not find an explanation for.I am a registerd nurse, I do not have a back ground in physics, science or astronomy. I know that what i saw was very unusual,i described it just as i saw it.

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We were leaving a place when we saw a bright light in the sky, it looked as if it could be seen miles away. We sat and stared at it and it never moved. We got into the car and drove in it's direction, and it vanished.

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oval-like shape with little lights spinning around its perimeter I was driving home with my children when I noticed something strange in the sky--I only say strange because it seemed to be tilting in place, almost like a kite. It looked like a staight line of lights line at first, so I thought it was a plane but when it tilted I could see that it was an oval or disk- like shape. It moved back and forth and up and down, so I decided to investigate by driving in its direction.

It was near Tinseltown movie theatre in Plano, actually about 200 meters above it.about 7 people were looking at it.one was an old man, there were also some young men wearing tuxedos (employees of the theatre?), and a couple of others.

I thought, maybe someone is hiding somewhere and flying this thing just to see people sreactins but it moved so gracefully that it seemed real??? Has anyone else reported it--it just happenedwithin the last hour or so! I can't remember what happened next, but as I was driving home to let my husband know, I spotted it again, this time in Carrollton, near my home. It was far away, but it seemed to be lowering.I don't know if this was some kind of toy, but ity looked real, and too large to be a toy.

about the size of two cars.

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Bright lights over the southern and south eastern skies of Vernon Texas We live out in the country about 17miles southwest of Vernon, Texas. For about two months now we have seen objects in the southern, eastern skies. These objects would move radically not accustom to known aircraft.

It has been seen that when a plane or jet would be heading in the same direction, the object(light) would go stationary. After the plane or jet had passed the light(object) would continue its radical movements. It is unknown how far these objects are away, but far enough that there is no way to determine the shape or how big the object is.

The only description is like looking at a star. Sometimes the lights change colors. The flight pattern (?) of these objects is from side to side, up and down and diagonally and some times in circles.

If looking in the sky, possibly do to the distance factor, the objects move the approximate length of a foot in the sky. Also the object is always bright, no flickering as a plane or jet. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect stars or planets.

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Brightly illuminated orb near I-35 and 635 in Dallas at 3 am 11/29/08 Brightly illuminated orb appeared near eastbound Highway 635 between I35 and Dallas North Tollway just after 3am. Because it was very dark and rainy, I was travelling around 45 mph. I noticed an extremely bright light that appeared to be emitting from a glass office building on the south side of the highway.

It was so bright that I had to squint, and I assumed it to be some sort of spotlight affixed to one of the lower floors of the building. The light began to flash arhythmically then stayed illuminated and moved rapidly and diagnonally from the lower left side of the building to the upper right side of the building, then it flew toward the west (the opposite direction I was travelling), zooming very quickly directly over my vehicle, perhaps 8-10 stories above the ground. Entire sighting lasted only a few seconds.

My radio was turned off because my daughter was asleep in the car, and I heard no sounds coming from the object and saw no propellers or wings. It was not a large object, perhaps the size of a basketball. Immediately after, a street lamp in front of the building extinguished.