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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 311 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 2014 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (66 reports, 21.22% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (64 reports, 20.58% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (87 reports, 27.97% of total).
- 07/12/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (30 reports, 9.65% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (170 reports, 54.66% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 2014
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 2014, 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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DFW airport area, round object sighted much faster, smaller, shinier and higher than commercial jets in vicinity. My husband and I stepped outside to enjoy the warmth of the sun, after cloudy days. Over 22 years living approximately 5 miles west of DFW airport we see aircraft regularly and have watched weather balloons and large hawks.
As we were looking over our roof in the northern blue sky, we saw what appeared to be a whitish silver weather balloon circling twice, rising, and rapidly moving due south. It was approximately 45,000 feet up. There was a passenger jet, approximately 35,000 ft, moving southwest and another at approximately 25,000 moving due south.
The object was moving at a much greater speed than either aircraft. As it was directly above us it began to look more like a hawk or smaller aircraft shape and would glow in the sunshine. It just disappeared in the sunlight the further south it went while the jets were still overhead.
This took place in approximately 30 to 45 seconds.
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An intensive white light flash on residential road, non UFO or trajectory This is NOT a UFO sighting, but an intensive light flash December 27, 2014 Saturday evening 7:50PM Location: Southfolk Drive, 2 miles east of Hwy 288, near the junction of County Road 90, Pearland, TX Weather: cloudy after rain, 51F, 89% humidity Ambient Condition: evening, dark, street lights on; 2 lane one-way road (there were 2 other lanes for the opposite traffic, divider in the middle with small trees). Residential neighborhood, houses on both sides, 30 miles/hour speed limit. Light traffic (estimated about 5-7 cars driving behind my vehicle).
Event Observation: While driving back home through the residential neighborhood, there was an intense white light bursting into scene. It happened by my vehicle’s immediate right, located near the lane divider, about spherical, diameter about 20 feet, height about 15 feet from the ground. It lasted about 2-3 sec.
My vehicle drove right through it. There was no sound, no smoke, no smell, no other phenomenon except the intense white light itself. It appeared as a camera flash light, but magnified about 1 million times in size and intensity.
The street lights about 1 mile in radius went off (because the street lights have auto-light sensor and come on-off by themselves). Then after about 2-3 minutes, they came back normal again. The traffic light which was about 50 feet away from the spot was not affected.
The street lights came back none damaged. None of the cars or other objects was damaged. Personal Experience: I came back after a long meditation session and a bad day with family conflict.
My mind was very negative and dark, full of recursive heavy thoughts. It was bitterly complaining about the meditation center and rumbling about it. The exact thought while I was witnessing this event was, “These 2 spiritual experiences can be dangerous, people need to be careful about joining spiritual centers, they will brain wash you” (the 2 meant my previous Buddhist meditation center and the present one).
I have been practicing meditation for a while and keenly aware of my inner state. Then the light came on, completely shocking to the minimal. My 1st reaction was it felt like the street light above the vehicle (which is the modern yellow glowing high voltage powered one) or the high-voltage power line exploded.
It happened so fast that my car drove right through the light. I had the aftermath wondering that how come my car did not get melted by it and I was still alive (I nearly felt my car would be exploded with it too). The car behind me also drove right through, along with several other vehicles.
This made me feel safe that I was not hallucinating or hurt by anything, and my mind became very clear and calm. All the negative thoughts suddenly stopped and vanished. I felt like being changed to my normal state again.
Meanwhile, all street lights completed shut down. Driving further 50 feet, I stopped by the traffic light which was red at that moment, and appeared to be very lonely in the complete darkness (a very interesting ethereal feeling). I turned right as the way of going home, noticing the entire street lights on this road were also shut off.
After driving a further 50 feet on this road, the lights started to come back again. I was very puzzled exactly what happened, and thought maybe something malfunctioned with the power line or street lights. I thought I need to call the city and it would be unsafe for people driving through the dark roads.
I took a U-turn through my house and drove back to the event location – this was about 5 minutes after. Everything went back to normal, as if nothing had ever happened. There was no trace left whatsoever, except my mind was wondering about exactly what this was about.
Afterwards, a very close friend came unexpected and immediately when I got home, keeping me engaged busily for 2 hours before I went to bed. The next morning when I recollected about this experience, it felt even more strange. So I decided to file this report to see if other people have reported it or other similar events.
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speechless. 4 large orange lights. it tilted and i saw the others on the other side.
2 police officers were next door and heard me yelling look look. their view wasn't as goid as mine but they saw them/it too. i have a terrrrible video of the smaller trailing orange ball.
afterwards there was 4 normal meaning us/usa aircrafts checking out the area.
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Two bright orange lights were moving straight across the sky with no engine sound. I saw an orange light in the night sky moving from the northwest to the east as I was out walking my dog. As I turned back to the northwest to return to my house I saw another bright orange light moving in the same pattern.
I asked my family to come out and look at the light. We all thought the light appeared to be flickering but it was bright. It moved in a straight line following the same path as the previous light but there was no sound.
Comparing what we saw to a news report from Cape Coral, Florida, we felt we saw the same kind of light that was sighted the family there.
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While walking subdivision park we saw 4 white light objects, 1stayed stationary, 3 moved in a > formation, then turn L,then back flat ---.
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Falling object changing direction Good morning. On my way to school today, at 6:41 central standard time I witnessed a strange sighting in the eastern sky. I saw an object which appeared to be 2/3 of a triangle (or the leading edge of a chevron or an arrow falling from the sky.
It was either white or faint blue in color. What got my attention is that it changed direction in flight. It went from falling downward at a slightly southern angle to falling straight down.
The total sighting lasted no longer than 2 seconds. On thinking about it later, I wonder if I saw the sonic wave or buffer and did not see an object but instead saw its sonic wave. Whatever it was the change in direction got me.
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Very large, low to the groung, bright green light shot across Harlingen, TX sky I was driving down the expressway south on 83 near New Hampshire street and from far left in the sky a very large bright green light moving at a fast speed went all the way from far left of my vision to far right, and it was so low and so large that i thought it was going to crash into the earth, and just when i prepared for impact it looked as if it burnt out. I have seen many shooting stars in my life, but this was much bigger and much closer to the ground, i know there must be many others that seen it as well.
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yellowish orangeish triangular shape It was orange and triangular with the lights.
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light shooting across sky, change direction, then fade with other Walking down the road i saw a shooting star. Then a few mins later i saw another, after the second i saw what i thought was a star, it didn't fade it didnt lose shape just kept moving, the light kept a speed faster to the planes u unusually see at night, it also had no other lights onn it, it changed direction at the snap of fingers, kept moving till my eeyes lost track, but as i was loosing sight a notherof the same lights started moving in another direction, i paused trying to keep track of both, in doing soi lost them entirely. Looked like star a light but didnt move like one, didnt pulse, moved till it blended inn too the black, like as if moving away, after i lost track of them then i waited too see if they would reshow them selves, but i did see another shooting star,.
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Flashing lights (1 red 2 green) with whirring sound, stopped, then changed direction, then went down towards the earth Walking the dog and I hear a whirring sound above. Looked up and saw three distinct lights close to each other moving at normal aircraft speed 2 green lights and 1 red light. The green lights were flashing in unison.
The object stopped for about 5-10 seconds (no wobbling observed) the proceeded at a 120 deg direction from where it was. No turning was observed. This is when I paid attention cause even a helicopter would've shown some sort of a turning movement.
Then it stopped again. and started going down in a vertical steady movement until I was behind the trees and I could not see it. A few minutes later (I am now at a different location since I was walking the dog) I looked back to see the object in the air again.
Same green lights flashing and a steady red light. I took a quick (read bad) video of it with my cell phone. Then it went down again until it disappeared behind the trees again.
This is what it looked like O O the two light on top flashing green O This single light was steady red. Did not see any structure between the lights as it was dark but the lights did not vary distance between each other. Like they were connected somehow.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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At 02:15 on 12/7/14, I woke to let my dogs out. When I went to the garage I noticed what I thought was that someone had left the garage light on. When I went to turn it off the switch was already off.
I looked up and there was a ball of light floating in the garage. It scared me and I felt that I scared it also. Then it went right through the wall.
I ran outside to watch it shoot into the sky at what you could say looked like the speed of light. I am now a believer. In what I don't know but there is something going on.
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Missing time episode and two experiences of sleep paralysis. My experience was about missing time when I was living in El Paso, TX. On December 3, 2014 I was sleeping and I woke up like other nights.
I saw the clock that is on my table near me and I saw that the time was 1:11am. This surprised me a bit and decided to get up to go to the bathroom. I’m quite sure (because I was awake) I was in the bathroom two minutes.
When I return to bed, I look at the clock and it was 2:43am. I missed 1 hour 32 minutes. I know I will not remain asleep in the bathroon because I remember everything I did.
This is very disturbing to me because I find no explanation. Sometimes I can not sleep thinking abóut this and trying to find what happened to me. About seven years ago, I was living in Fort Worth, TX, and I had an episode of sleep paralysis.
That morning, when I woke up I could not move. With great effort I could look at my husband who slept beside me. I tried to scream to wake him and could not.
I tried to calm down, closed my eyes tightly and when opened I could already move. Another episode I think was a sleep paralysis as well happened to me about five or six years ago (in Fort Worth, TX) When I woke up this morning, my bed sheets were clenched as if some unknown force were grabbing the covers and pulling them down. In this three experiences, I do not remember seeing anything unusual in the room, like lights, shadows, etc.
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Got up to turn heater on and could hear what sounded like the sound barrier had been broke like fighter jets. I steped outside and the sky for 2am in arlington looked as though their was an orange glow in the clouds passing over behind a cold front and it looked as if the clouds werent moving too fast and it was like something hiding beneath the clouds like a cloak and saw tiny streaks of light darting around like a laser pointer and too fast I believe for an earthly vehicle and too tiny to be lights on a jet plane from dfw and dfw airport is just up 360 N. I believe it could of been a ufo.
The incident didn't last but maybe 45 minutes. Kinda set my neck hairs on their staight ends. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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While sitting on an upper deck a little after midnight, I was looking up at the sky and saw an orange spider/bug looking object moving quickly through the sky in a very straight line (sorta like a spider would run on a string). It was moving east to west. It was faster than an airplane, but not by much.
After about 15 seconds I asked the people I was with what it was, but only one person saw it. The object made a quick zig zag and disappeared. The object either had "legs" or there were a few crafts flying together, and the outside crafts vibrated or shook while the middle didn't.
The object flew continuously, methodically, clearly and then poof disappeared.
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Orange flickering light moving through sky then the light went out, could see silver object moving away @ high speed. No noise. My husband and I saw an orange light moving fast and in different directions.
The light was flickering. There was no noise associated with this light, just complete silence. It then came a little closer to us and the light started to flicker more and then it started to fade until you could only see a little silver thing moving away very quickly.
We see lots of planes outside at night and this was not a plane or a helicopter.
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Oval, very dark with faint gold light, appeared to be spinning, gyrating, motion as it moved silently away. Wednesday 26 November 2014 0530 a.m.
I had just walked out the back door of my house to drive to work. As I turned around after locking door, I noticed an odd light in northwest night sky, about 80 degrees above horizon, and about the size of a full moon. The object was very dark with a faint amber golden light and appeared to be spinning.
The movement of this object did not appear to be a straight steady line but more of a gyrating motion as it moved away. There was no sound, just the sighting which lasted about 15-20 seconds. The sky was clear, winds from the southwest at about 8 m.
p.h. and temperature about 48 degrees.
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UFO spotted. 4 crafts with flashing colors of green and red flying around. We saw planes flying around and then the crafts would circle them.
The planes flew away and the craft moved quickly and then stayed still and then flew off. They turned very quickly and we're close enough to see they were not a plane. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
We are uncertain as to whether the event was in the morning, or evening. We suspect an evening sighting, and have changed the time above. PD)).
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There was a hovering silver egg shaped object above Spring, Texas. It was a clear morning without a cloud in the sky. I looked above the tree line about 800-1000 ft is the air was an object in the sky.
It was pure silver in color. It seemed to be hovering. I saw it for about 15 seconds until I had a tree line obstruct my view.
When I passed tree line, the object vanished. I looked all around for it. I even saw an airplane and noticed the shape I saw was not the same and was definitely not moving.
After a few miles I looked up again and saw it again. It was there for approximately 15 seconds. I took my eyes off of it for a split second and it was gone.
I have never been a believer, but this was surreal. The object was like a cross between an egg and a large bell and silver in color. I would guess it was a diameter of about 12 feet.
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Two white lights slowly moved apart, and then faded away. My girlfriend told me to come outside and look at two "weird looking" stars she had never noticed. I saw two white lights that appeared to be normal stars in the northeast sky.
The lights slowly began to move apart and then over a period of about 30 seconds completely faded away. They were very bright white and slowly dimmed to white-ish blue. They were not blinking or flickering.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Blue light in the sky appears and vanishes instantly. I was with some friends hanging out in my truck just parked, we were talking about what we did that day when I heard a huge "BANG" noise. At the same time that I heard the noise I saw a huge blue light in the shape of a circle.
It was as if it were an explosion, starting from the center, it expanded outwards and then back to the center. All the lights in the street had turned off including my dashboard on the truck. That's when I knew something was wrong.
I was in so much shock, I asked my friends if they saw it. It was four of us and only one other had seen it along with me. That's when I knew it wasn't a joke and what I saw was real.
It was far up in the sky which is why I know it had something to do with UFO's and wasn't anything caused by humans.
Texas UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 66 reported sightings | 21.22% of all reports |
Circle | 38 reported sightings | 12.22% of all reports |
Triangle | 37 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
Unknown | 25 reported sightings | 8.04% of all reports |
Other | 22 reported sightings | 7.07% of all reports |
Fireball | 18 reported sightings | 5.79% of all reports |
Sphere | 16 reported sightings | 5.14% of all reports |
Disk | 13 reported sightings | 4.18% of all reports |
Oval | 11 reported sightings | 3.54% of all reports |
Rectangle | 10 reported sightings | 3.22% of all reports |
Cylinder | 9 reported sightings | 2.89% of all reports |
Formation | 9 reported sightings | 2.89% of all reports |
Changing | 8 reported sightings | 2.57% of all reports |
Flash | 5 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Chevron | 4 reported sightings | 1.29% of all reports |
Diamond | 4 reported sightings | 1.29% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 1.29% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 0.96% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.64% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 0.64% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 64 reported sightings | 20.58% of all reports |
October | 39 reported sightings | 12.54% of all reports |
August | 30 reported sightings | 9.65% of all reports |
January | 29 reported sightings | 9.32% of all reports |
May | 27 reported sightings | 8.68% of all reports |
September | 27 reported sightings | 8.68% of all reports |
April | 21 reported sightings | 6.75% of all reports |
November | 21 reported sightings | 6.75% of all reports |
June | 18 reported sightings | 5.79% of all reports |
December | 13 reported sightings | 4.18% of all reports |
March | 12 reported sightings | 3.86% of all reports |
February | 10 reported sightings | 3.22% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2014 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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Saturday | 87 reported sightings | 27.97% of all reports |
Friday | 48 reported sightings | 15.43% of all reports |
Wednesday | 42 reported sightings | 13.50% of all reports |
Thursday | 37 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
Sunday | 37 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
Tuesday | 33 reported sightings | 10.61% of all reports |
Monday | 27 reported sightings | 8.68% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2014 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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07/12/14 | 30 reported sightings | 9.65% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 9 reported sightings | 2.89% of all reports |
05/01/14 | 6 reported sightings | 1.93% of all reports |
07/19/14 | 5 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
09/21/14 | 5 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 170 reported sightings | 54.66% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 47 reported sightings | 15.11% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 39 reported sightings | 12.54% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 28 reported sightings | 9.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 14 reported sightings | 4.50% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 13 reported sightings | 4.18% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2014
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 2014
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.