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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 188 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 2015 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (31 reports, 16.49% of total).
- January is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (27 reports, 14.36% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (41 reports, 21.81% of total).
- 03/06/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 2.66% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (97 reports, 51.60% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 2015
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 2015, 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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Four red, non-strobing lights, slowly moving across night sky. Saw the first one slowly moving across the sky and the disappeared into the low cloud coverage and the three more appeared in a line formation slowly moving and then eventually disappeared like the first one. They were red in color not changing just slowly moving.
We have low cloud coverage this night and I believe that's why they just seem to disappear. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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I was outside my job talking to some of my co-workers when I looked to the East and saw a white object in the sky. It looked like it almost had a tail, but wasn't, or didn't look like, a fireball/meteor/comet/Asteroid. It wasn't very high in the sky from where I was at.
It also wasn't going very fast. I watched it for a few minutes until I couldn't see it anymore. Also, it was flying South.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Silver cylinder crossing the sky in one minute. I was talking to one of my neighbors and he pointed up to the north asking me what was that object in the sky. Looking into the north sky I could see a silver object moving at a high rate of speed.
At first we thought it to be a airliner, but as it came closer, we could see it was a cylinder shape with no wings, no tail, no windows. There was a faint pulsing bluish band around the center of it. It was moving from north to south in a straight path at a high rate of speed.
It seemed to be about twice as fast as an airliner in the sky. It crossed the sky in approximately one minute. Object appeared to be at a lower altitude than an airliner, emitting no noise and no contrail.
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Bright star like objects disappear Standing at my back door looking east, saw bright object which appeared to be a star, just to the right of it another what appeared to be a star not as bright and to the right of that another not very bright. The object to the far right started moving downward and as I was watching the other 2 objects the large and smaller one they just disappeared. Two commercial jets flew over to the left of the area where the objects disappeared a few minutes later and it was easy to tell they were commercial planes with their flashing red lights, they were no where as high as the objects that disappeared.
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Triangle light formation flew by low, and silently but fast. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Possible hoax.
PD)).
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Multiple lights: flashing, speeding, flaring, and chasing each other. I don’t know how to measure the speed or distance of any flying objects. I can only give a report relative to my own knowledge.
I was driving on highway 116 in Texas, heading north toward Gatesville, around 8:10 pm (pure nighttime, clear skies and no visible moon). To my right (northeast) in the sky there was a flare of orange light, it appeared to be a four-pointed diamond in the sky. From my vantage point it looked about the size of headlight.
The shape then appeared to move in a horizontal fashion (left to right, or west to east) while multiplying, so that there appeared to be three aligned orange diamonds, before it merged into a single shape and then disappeared. It was about midway in the sky, well above the treeline. The spectacle lasted about five seconds.
I pulled over and grabbed my phone, but it had already ended. However, in its absence there were multiple moving lights, each about the size of a star. There were suddenly about three or four of them in the northeast sky, all moving in different directions.
They were blinking rapidly like a strobe light and moving considerably faster than a plane. There was also inexplicably a shooting star that flashed between them. I got out of my car and tried to get video but they were too dim to be recorded.
I immediately noticed that to my left (northwest) there were even more of the fast moving blinking lights, about four more. There was a rash of these blinking lights spread across the entire sky. Unlike the diamond shape, which was still horizon-level, these lights were moving freely about much higher, like satellites.
It was admittedly hard to gauge their exact direction due to their strange lighting, but it still genuinely looked like they were disappearing and reappearing throughout the sky. I called my friend and observed the lights for about another ten minutes. I saw what looked like a normal plane-large, slow-moving, and with green blinking lights- appear on the northwest, heading east.
Suddenly two more very bright, very big white lights appeared directly, distantly above me. They were about plane sized. They seemed to be high in the atmosphere but once again, I could easily be mistaken there.
The two lights were moving down, one heading toward east and another toward the west. The westbound light suddenly made a sharp turn RIGHT, heading directly toward the other light. There was a loud whirring sound, like a divebomb.
My friend on the phone heard it as well. It had a made a clear curving turn and accelerated. It was chasing the eastbound light.
Combined with the noise and the pursuing object’s speed, I thought that I was going to witness a collision. I hung up the phone to record-however, both lights (still heading east) then grew dim and diminished in size, until they disappeared. I continued to watch the skies for another twenty minutes.
While there was still an excess of moving lights (about four to six, ranging one eastern edge of the sky to the west), they were now dim and twinkling and unremarkable. They all seemed to eventually vanish. However, there was yet another orange diamond shape that erupted, the same size and location as the first one.
It simply flashed out a single orange gleam, and was gone. I waited another ten minutes, but nothing happened. By now it was around nine o’ clock.
I drove for another ten minutes to my destination. While there I waited outside and continued to watch the stars. Sure enough, in the east there was a blinking white light jetting across the sky toward the west.
This light was about plane sized. About midway across (at the northern point) it suddenly seemed to stop, but it was in fact only moving very slowly. It had very instantaneously dropped its speed- however the blinking rate of the lights was still the same.
It then slowly flew eastward until it was out of sight. Though I watched for more, nothing happened afterwards of note.
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NOT A REPORT - FYI FYI: The report from the female driver on Texas Highway 116: The area to her northeast would have been over Fort Hood. Fort Hood is not only a huge base, but it is home to several army specialty units & test projects. I do not know what she saw as this general area has produced a large number of reports, including many that sound credible, but I suspect she witnessed some military activity.
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Pictures taken of sunset and clouds, UFO captured in photo over Arlington, TX. Driving home from work I was trying to take some photos of the sunset and the clouds and after looking at the pictures I found something strange as it appears to be an unidentified flying object that was not visible in the sky when the picture was taken. This was around 6:45 in the evening.
There were NO Airplanes or HELICOPTER in sky at the time either.
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High altitude / velocity cigar shaped craft over North Texas without contrail I was walking back from the mailbox and was looking at the contrails and cirrus clouds. I noticed what I thought was a jet in the western sky flying from east to west, but then noticed it wasn’t making a contrail. I stopped to look more closely and saw that it was an oblong (short cigar shaped) object without wings.
It was slightly too long and thin to be any of the blimps/dirigibles I had every seen. It was very high, guessing somewhere above the level of the contrails and moving very fast for what I thought the altitude to be. It appeared very light grey/tan, just a little darker than the clouds.
I was hoping to get another look after it passed behind a very wide contrail, but never saw it again.
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I was driving down Morris road and saw a big fireball fall fast across the sky at 8:50pm. I know others on the road saw it because we all slowed down to a near stop. It was to large to just be a falling star.
Please don't delete this. Something came down! ((NUFORC Note: Source elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We can't help but wonder whether this might be a hoax.
PD)).
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Like a huge shooting star but bigger and falling after a cluster of airplanes flew by. ((NUFORC Note: Source elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We can't help but wonder whether this might be a hoax.
PD)).
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Please see video, can clearly see flying object Was leaving work at 101 s 1st and looking back to the west over Lone star state bank and first Baptist church saw this object flying. Turned on camera on phone and recorded. Have shown to lots of people and no one has any idea what it is.
Could not hear any sound that is was making.
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Although DFW airport is close to the area, there was more activity than usual. Planes lined up close together. Some flew super fast and some lined up hovering real slow.
One some looked different than usual in size. ((NUFORC Note: Source elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We can't help but wonder whether this might be a hoax.
PD)).
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We saw fly over our house a boomerang shapes craft that appered to float through the sky no lights where seen on the craft and it seemed to only be light by the reflection from the city lights also there was no sound associated with it we saw it twice this night with in an hour and once the night before.
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With my naked eye appeared to be a white bright (LED type). However, my camera showed a blue purple and red color to it while I filmed it.
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Brilliant glowing orange large fireballs, appeared to be 7, hovering over Dallas in a V-shape formation, gets brighter than descends. I live in highrise building in downtown Dallas, TX. At approximately 19:05PM I was looking outside my large ceiling to floor windows facing North towards Uptown/Arts District when I saw 7 large round orange bright glowing fireballs in the sky at a relatively low position in the sky.
The 7 separate bright glowing fireballs appeared in a V shape where the first glowing orange fireball was the apex or point of the V shape. There were then 3 of the same objects on each side forming a V. They hovered in the sky, and one at a time the fireball would get larger and radiate more brightly like a orange diamond.
I have never seen such a brilliant gleaming shining light in the skies as this. One by one, they took turns growing larger in size and brighter in appearance and then would slowly fade away as they seemed to get lower to the ground. I lost sight as they kept going lower because of a highrise building.
This lasted about 20-30 minutes and they were stationed at ! the same position in the sky, a low hovering V shape position.
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Two oval objects, 10-15ft long, seen above road during drive home at night. Date and Time: November 12, 2015. Some time between 11:30pm and 12:15am at night.
Location: Texas, Brown County. Three separate locations on Hwy 183. I was driving.
First appearance: At roughly the following coordinates, 31.8792102,-98.918499 Second appearance: I was still startled by what I had seen so I wasn't really paying attention to exactly where I was.
But it was somewhere between the coordinates listed above and the coordinates of the third appearance. Third appearance: At roughly the following coordinates, 31.9639032,-98.
920559 What I saw: Two objects, possibly one, above the road. One long, oval shaped object with a shorter oval shaped object directly below it. The reason I say 'possibly one' object is because each time I saw it, it was identical in shape (though not in size) to the time before.
Which leads me to consider the possiblity that what I saw was a singular object with two oval shapes or projections that may have simply been more obvious than the remainder of the object which I may not have been able to see. On the first appearance, the object about 20 feet away from me. It was directly above the road.
From the top of the larger oval shape, to the bottom of the smaller oval shape it was possibly 10 feet long. It was stationary as I drove directly under it. If I had got out of the car and approached it I might have been able to just reach the bottom of it and touch it.
However, when I turned back to see what it was, the object(s) had gone. The first time I saw it, the object(s) was not particularly bright. That is, it did not seem to shine its own light, but was well illuminated by my headlights.
There was another car behind me who had to have seen it as well. Oddly, I hardly remember the second appearance. I only remember that I saw it and it looked was smaller.
As I sit here writing this, I'm trying to remember, but I just can't. On the third appearance the object(s) was to my left, about 5 feet from the ground and about 10 feet away. This time it seemed about 15 feet tall from top to bottom and seemed to be brightly illuminated from within.
I went back to try to get a better look, but again, the object(s) had gone. During this drive I was traveling at about 55mph. When I turned off of Hwy 183 onto the road that leads to my house, I drove at about 30mph, hoping that I would see the object again and be able to stop before I passed it, but the object(s) did not reappear.
I'm curious to see what happens tonight on my way home.
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UFO looks like plane, previous UFO light sphere see One night this past month, my boyfriend and I were driving out to my parents' house. As we drove down the road we always drive down, we could see a plane right above us. Literally we were driving underneath this thing that looked like a plane (from the bottom).
We were able to look up at it as we passed it, it just hovered there. That's when we figured it's a UFO. No plane on earth can hover that low to the ground.
A few months before, about 6, I witnessed what I also believe to be a UFO. Late night driving once again to my parents, I caught eye to a white light above our neighbors house. In all honesty it looked like an enormous round light.
I couldn't see any edges or outline of a craft. It was just pure light. By the time I realized what I was seeing, I turned around to drive back and get another look it was gone.
I haven't seen any light since, so I now confirm it truly a UFO sighting. Hope y'all enjoy my experiences. It's nice having someone to talk to.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
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UFO? A blue ball of fire with red trails formed out of no where. It was roughly 50ft above my vehicle. It disappeared with in seconds.
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Bright orb light racing across skyline At approximately 7.58 pm on November 8 I witnessed an orb like light above the tree line in my backyard. It traveled at a very high rate of speed.
I also witnessed an orb type light going in the opposite direction a couple of nights ago but it was much brighter and was traveling in the opposite direction also at a high rate of speed. There was no noise associated with either.
Texas UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 31 reported sightings | 16.49% of all reports |
Circle | 26 reported sightings | 13.83% of all reports |
Unknown | 16 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Triangle | 15 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
Fireball | 15 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
Other | 15 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
Oval | 13 reported sightings | 6.91% of all reports |
Cigar | 11 reported sightings | 5.85% of all reports |
Disk | 7 reported sightings | 3.72% of all reports |
Teardrop | 6 reported sightings | 3.19% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 3.19% of all reports |
Sphere | 6 reported sightings | 3.19% of all reports |
Chevron | 4 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2015 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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January | 27 reported sightings | 14.36% of all reports |
October | 24 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
September | 21 reported sightings | 11.17% of all reports |
March | 19 reported sightings | 10.11% of all reports |
June | 18 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
November | 17 reported sightings | 9.04% of all reports |
April | 15 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
August | 11 reported sightings | 5.85% of all reports |
May | 10 reported sightings | 5.32% of all reports |
February | 9 reported sightings | 4.79% of all reports |
July | 9 reported sightings | 4.79% of all reports |
December | 8 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 41 reported sightings | 21.81% of all reports |
Friday | 37 reported sightings | 19.68% of all reports |
Thursday | 33 reported sightings | 17.55% of all reports |
Wednesday | 27 reported sightings | 14.36% of all reports |
Sunday | 24 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Tuesday | 15 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
Monday | 11 reported sightings | 5.85% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2015 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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03/06/15 | 5 reported sightings | 2.66% of all reports |
01/03/15 | 4 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
11/20/15 | 4 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
01/16/15 | 3 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
03/14/15 | 3 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 97 reported sightings | 51.60% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 28 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 24 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 14 reported sightings | 7.45% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 10 reported sightings | 5.32% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2015
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 2015
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.