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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 228 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 2010 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (45 reports, 19.74% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (34 reports, 14.91% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (37 reports, 16.23% of total).
- 02/16/10 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 2.19% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (112 reports, 49.12% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 2010
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 2010, 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).
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On this New Year eve at midnight, we were popping fireworks,myself,my wife and our daughter when from the eastern sky a bright orange object entered the skyline and caught my daughter's attention.My self and my wife looked up and also saw the bright light. To be honest I thought it was a firework in its descent but it never dropped altitude, and seemed to hover.
I watched it to the horizon in awe and looked back at my family and another light same type hovered and appeared to pause.
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I went outside to sit and smoke a cigarette. A few seconds after lighting it, I looked over to the North and saw three glowing orange orbs in the sky. I immediately yelled for my husband to come outside.
He came out and saw all three in the sky. He went back in the house to find the video camera but couldn't locate it. When he returned outside two of them had dissapeared.
We watched as the third and finale one slowly seemed to burn out and turn into a small silver speck in the night sky. The three objects where heading from the Nort to a East by Southeast direction. There where two other airplanes in the area shortly after the UFO's where gone.
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Flying hug bright white saucer on top of car. I was out with my husband Celebrating new year eve, I was pregnant, on our way back home, a house away from ours while driving we saw a bright light saucer the same width of the street “Northshore “ came on top of our car and we heard bad crash noise on top of the car roof we both had our head down while driving slowly, and the light penetrating the car and the street , , we parked and we checked the car no scratches We still did not believe what we saw, we stayed quite and I just asked my husband if he saw and heard what I saw and he said yes . FYI my son was born with rare form of epilepsy and it lasted for 7 years with severe mental damage.
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Seen unidentified lighted object two shapes side by side one rectangle on the left side next to a circular shape on the right side. The rectangle shape moved into the circular shape and disappeared then the circular shape vanished like into small nothing or zoomed off. Could not exactly tell but was fast.
Then looked up again and the circular shape came back and vanished again.
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strange black object over Houston TX on 12/22/10 Object entered sight in the east / northeast horizon. Moved across sky in west / southwest direction. Color - black and changed shape as it moved.
Also moving faster than the cloud cover which was moving in a northerly direction from the south.
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it was right above the tree line me and my fiance were driving down a county road and she said waht is that i said moonlight as i looked closer i was shocked to see an ufo it was a disc- like object with a moderete lighting to it and was moving very rapidly at a vertical angel and then vanished.
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Near Coleman, TX. Orange lights off and on, with no sound On the nights of Dec 15 and 16 we witnessed very strange orangish lights. While night hunting in rural Runnells County on the 15th I saw them only once and then on the 16th my son and I saw them as many as 8 different times between 630 pm and 730 pm.
The lights were at a low angle, approximately 30 degrees. The lights were circular and would come on and go off and then another would come on in a different location. It happened fast enough and over a distance large enough that it could not have been a plane.
We never saw the lights move, they only came on went off and then reappeared in another location. The lights were very bright, much brighter and larger than a star and even much brighter than Venus. It was hard to tell the distance, however they were below 30,000 ft as they were underneath the Cirrus Toward the end of the sightings we noticed what seemed t! o be an increased number of aircraft flying into the area we had been seeing the lights.
I’m a Meteorologist and have watched the skies for many years with a discerning eye and I’ve never seen anything like those lights before!.
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flashing lights in a certain spot in sky seeming to communicate with one another. I stepped outside to smoke a cigerette at about 3 a.m.
in the morning since I cannot sleep that well due to my pain,(and yes I take pain medication) but as I was smokng my cigerette I noticed by a certain formation of stars that are shaped like a U or C all of a sudden a flash of light that proceded to flash about every 45 seconds, then about five minutes of this a second one started about east of the position of the first, and the flashing light started to flash about every 15 seconds, then a third one showed up and positioned itself about S.E. or south and in the center of the two, at this time the flashing lights started to look like they were communicating with each other and then the first one got really bright and I mean really bright like an air plane when it starts to land at the airport, and it took off south, but in a second, it just swooshed out of sight, then the other two were joined by one more, but in the mean time I got my brother out of bed to see this, as the one that took off scared me, and I did not want to be surprised by anything outside, me and my brother watched this go on for about an hour or two, until the lights just disapeared completly, this went on everynight that I was there.
As I have never really seen any strange lights in the sky before, I had to make sure my brother witnessed this with me as I am on pain medication and I did not want to be made a joke of with my dad, I am very glad I did this, as now my brother and I have really seen the lights and can believe.
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I was driving to work during the day and saw a shiny flying object, that camoflaged with the sky and disappeared instantly. Well I’ve always maybe thought there could be something out there, but this experience has truly made me believe. On my way to work I was driving and noticing the particularly beautiful day and it was about 8:20 in the morning as I crossed the bridge like I’ve done everyday for two years.
Now in the area is what is called Ellington Field, which is a sort of airport for NASA and Military use. I am used to seeing planes and hearing jets fly over. I tend to think of myself one who has my head in the clouds but as I was driving I noticed a particulary shiny flying object.
I took a double look (thinking it was a cool looking plane) but it in fact was an all metal low and fast flying object. It was hard to see and I think the only reason I did was because the sun was to the right of me.The object was reflecting the sun light but like a mirror as well camoflaging itself with the sky at the same time.
It was flat but round like a disc but it had a small dome on! top and a slightly larger dome on the bottom. It was moving at a very fast speed, but not so fast that the speed Iwas going in my car could not keep up. Now once I finally reached a red light on the busy morning road, wondering if anyone else was seeing what I was seeing, I fixed my eye on it.
So after the light turned green, the speed of the object started to increase until instantly, as if it had known I had discovered it, it vanished like looking like a bright star in the day sky and then gone completely. I didn’t suffer from any electric disturbances nor did really anyone else driving seem to notice, but I was for sure I had seen something out of the ordinary.
Full Report Text:
Two bright lights above the trees It was oval shaped seen it approx. 11/2 miles above trees two lights on it made me aware it was there, it did not move staying in one spot, the lights were very bright. Drove down highway 125 to get near to it,i could see it through trees at different points on road.
i could see the bottom of it because of these two light. pulled over beside road to get better look and by the time i got out it was gone.The last time i seen it was through trees,i should have went down a dirt road that runs beside the highway.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Possible Abduction Attempt in Cypress, Texas I was sleeping and I awoke by the covers on the bed being pulled tight arounds me at all corners of the bed. I couldn't move.I heard a loud humming noise in the room, so loud that it hurt my ears, and then a bright light came pouring into the room and I lifted my head and screamed to for my husband who fell asleep on the couch.
I screamed as loud as I could and it wouldn't come out loud, it came out so soft but I could hear what I was yelling.then a small blue circle of light came out of the ceiling and beamed down to my husbands side of the bed.I was still trying to yell for my husband but nothing was coming out and I was comletedly paralyzed.
Then all of the sudden the blue light went back up through the ceiling and the covers were loose again, I pulled back the covers and when I came up out of the bed, a red beam of light shot out of the bedroom window.I told my husband, I'm not nuts but I know what I saw and felt.I never believed in this ! kind of stuff before, and so when I told my husband what had happened, he told me to go online and read the stories and this is so true as to what happend to me.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
bright light following an airplane, then stoped in mid air. oval, bright like blueish light, it was following a southwest air plane over Dallas, Texas then it stopped it stayed there till it disappeared in the distance fading away the intensity on its light ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Bright light in the night sky, changes colors from red/green/yellow. On November 7, 2010 at 4:40 a.m.
I was awaken by dogs barking. It’s been getting pretty cold, so our dogs have been sleeping in our porch or in the house. I looked out our living room window, which is located at the front of our house facing southeast.
I immediately noticed a very bright and colorful light in the sky. This colorful light changed colors from red, green and yellow. It was a clear night and was very visible.
I grabbed a sweater and went outside to get a better look. This was pretty exciting for me and I wanted to share this with my two daughters(20 & 18 yrs. old).
Both were fast asleep and didn’t wake up. Still wanting to share this with someone, I began text messaging with my 22 yr. old son.
He works nights and of course was awake and suggested that I video record this sighting. I recorded it on my blackberry and took a few shots of it. As I began to process my experience, I actually started googling recent UFO sightings and even ! went on a star magazine website.
On this magazine’s website I found that a star named “Mira” was visible to the unaided eye as a red star. So I figured this bright and colorful light was this star “Mira”. As the days passed, I curiously began paying more attention to the stars at night.
I’ve since seen this bright colorful light in the sky at least 6 times and so has my husband and 18 yr. old. Last night(12/1/2010) we brought our dogs inside because of the cold temps.
We were all sleeping, when one of the dogs began barking and running down the hallway towards the front door. I am a light sleeper and got up quickly to see what was going on. This was at about 1:40 a.
m. By this time our other dog got up and followed me outside. My small dog that woke me up, kept barking up towards the sky.
Sure enough the bright colorful light was there again. I woke up my husband and we both went back outside to see the lights. We watched for a few minutes, until we couldn’t stand the cold temp.
I am convinced this is not a star. Just this evening my husband and I both saw it in the northwestern sky at about 9:30 p.m.
and then again in the southeastern sky at about 10:00 p.m. I’m not an expert, but if I’m not mistaken stars don’t switch locations like that.
Our town has a small airport and an air force base. But this looks nothing like airplane lights to me. The couple of times that I’ve seen it, the colors are clearly red/green/yellow and it‘s stationary.
It doesn’t twinkle like a star, but blinks as it changes colors.
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two orange lights / spheres moving together across sky, then they danced and left into the stars. amazing I am recounting this after over ten years, but still remember perfectly: I was sitting on my driveway with my then-boyfriend. We were just talking before it was time for me to go inside for the night.
We were facing south. I noticed an orange light in my peripheral. At first, I thought it was the streetlight but I realized that it was shaking and moving across the sky.
I turned my head and saw that it was two orange spheres, seeming to shake rapidly as they moved smoothly and silently across the sky. They looked like they were made of light. One was in front and higher in the sky than the second light, but they moved perfectly synchronized.
They were moving east to west. Once they were almost in front of us, they stopped moving in the sky, stopped shaking too. They just froze and hovered for a few seconds.
They were orange balls about the size of the full moon. They seemed to be flat, like 2D, and multifaceted like bicycle reflectors. But it was hard to understand what they really were.
What happened next is hard to explain: They were hanging in the air, one higher and more to the left of the other. Then, simultaneously, they shifted in the air so that the higher one was now in the lower position and the lower one was now in the higher position. They froze again.
Then they shifted back and froze. Then, they just LEFT. They ascended into the stars just fast enough for your eyes to follow – FAST.
Up, gone, away. They didn't seem to accelerate, just suddenly gone. It was amazing and I will never forget.
Years later, I thought they must have known we were watching but who knows? I swear to this story. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Large house size flat white light (similar to Christmas lights on house) just above horizon I am now going go on record as having seen a UFO early this morning. About 3:AM I was up performing my normal middle of the night routine when I decided to let the animals out in the cold as they would come right back in very quickly. As I looked out over the back pasture I could see what I then thought was the outline of a house with those white lights on it just below the tree tops.
I thought to myself then that I never realized that a house when lighted up could be seen at all through the trees. There were no clouds and the sky was very clear. Due east and to the left was appeared to be a very bright star (maybe satellite) and several others could be seen.
That was a UFO, normal white lights, no blinking, no moving just stationery. After coming back about 30 minutes later to let the animals in, there were no lights. I thought to myself, now why would anyone get up at 3:30 to turn off lights, maybe a timer.
When I got up this morning to see just what! house that could possibly be, I realized that there is no possibility of a house at that level. That is straight into the sky as those trees are on top of a hill and nothing is visible for miles and miles if ever at that angle. This morning , there is no house, never could be, and never will be.
Nothing like any UFO I had read about but that was no illusion, not a mirage or some atmospheric phenomena. I did not take a picture, as it just did not impress me at all until this morning looking out to see where it was and to take note to go look at the house with Christmas lights in that area.
Full Report Text:
The UFO was a flying disc with green lights. It was arouned midnight and the sky was clear. A UFO apared.
It was green and it looks like a disk. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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3 craft stayed still in the sky and one left Friend of mine gave me the photos to post because they where scared to post them. I do investigate ufo's for myself and I cannot explain these photos.
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streak of light low to ground caught on game camera Captured 2 videos on game camera of this flash of light. These videos were taken in a remote area of East Texas near a creek that is very active with wildlife. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.
PD)).
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Daylight sighting in San Angelo(oval) At approx. 18:00 hrs. I stepped out to the back deck for a smoke.
As I sat in my beach chair leaning back I noticed two hawks or buzzards in a thermal at approx. 1500 ft. Looking beyond them I noticed another object farther up and hovering at approx.
5-6000 ft. It looked to the size of a small airplane but with no wings and just sitting there. The birds had moved to the east by now and it was just this thing hanging up there , I looked away and looked back to make sure it was not something on my eyes .
(floaters) I called out to my son to bring a camera and as I was waiting for him said object shot to the west. The object moved from 0 mph to out of sight in less than one second. If I had blinked I would thought it had just vanished but, it moved so fast it actually left a trail of darkness behind it as if it were a tracer.
I have never seen anything move that fast in the daylight. The best way I could even describe the speed is to say it left a line in the sky as it shot westward. I'm reporting this as I know another sighting was reported in this town at a later time.
My wife and son have had two other sightings in the last 14 months at this location but, they were night sightings.
Full Report Text:
White light moving across sky without a streak or sound in different directions. I was driving down FM-544 heading southbound. As I looked into the sky in front of me I noticed what I thought was a shooting star.
My personal analysis of this event is as accurate as it gets. The object was about 100,000 feet above me as I traveled at a speed of 55 MPH. The object moved eastbound approximately 6-8 miles, or approximately North Garland Rd and George Bush Tollway.
Then it moved a mile westward, or approximately Brand Rd. Then it moved back to North Garland Rd. Finally coming back over my vehicle and disappeared over Lake Ray Hubbard.
The incident occured in approximately 1-2 seconds. So using simple math I calculated the craft roughly went 6-8 miles westbound, Then 1 mile east bound, then another mile westbound, then back 6-8 miles at where it began. 14 miles at the slowest in 1 second.
Thats 50,000 MPH in different directions, without a sound or streak of light. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Texas UFO Sightings From 2010 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 | 45 reported sightings | 19.74% of all reports |
Triangle | 25 reported sightings | 10.96% of all reports |
Unknown | 20 reported sightings | 8.77% of all reports |
Sphere | 19 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Other | 17 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
Fireball | 16 reported sightings | 7.02% of all reports |
Circle | 16 reported sightings | 7.02% of all reports |
Disk | 14 reported sightings | 6.14% of all reports |
Changing | 11 reported sightings | 4.82% of all reports |
Oval | 10 reported sightings | 4.39% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Chevron | 6 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Flash | 6 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 0.88% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 0.88% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2010 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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October | 34 reported sightings | 14.91% of all reports |
September | 26 reported sightings | 11.40% of all reports |
August | 23 reported sightings | 10.09% of all reports |
July | 23 reported sightings | 10.09% of all reports |
April | 18 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
November | 17 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
February | 17 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
June | 16 reported sightings | 7.02% of all reports |
December | 15 reported sightings | 6.58% of all reports |
March | 14 reported sightings | 6.14% of all reports |
May | 14 reported sightings | 6.14% of all reports |
January | 11 reported sightings | 4.82% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2010 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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Tuesday | 37 reported sightings | 16.23% of all reports |
Saturday | 37 reported sightings | 16.23% of all reports |
Wednesday | 36 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Friday | 33 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Thursday | 33 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Sunday | 31 reported sightings | 13.60% of all reports |
Monday | 21 reported sightings | 9.21% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2010 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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02/16/10 | 5 reported sightings | 2.19% of all reports |
10/12/10 | 5 reported sightings | 2.19% of all reports |
07/04/10 | 4 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
04/08/10 | 4 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
09/13/10 | 4 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2010 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 | 112 reported sightings | 49.12% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 42 reported sightings | 18.42% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 31 reported sightings | 13.60% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 16 reported sightings | 7.02% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 6.58% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 12 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2010
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 2010
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.