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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 248 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (54 reports, 21.77% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (39 reports, 15.73% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (48 reports, 19.35% of total).
- 10/12/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 2.42% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (93 reports, 37.50% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 2019, 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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Noticed strange shape in photo I took of Mercantile Bank Building in downtown Dallas with my Samsung 9S camera phone. Note how high it is above the building (the tip of the building's spire is 531 ft). It does not look like a normal aircraft and it is far too large to be a bird.
I did not notice it while I was taking the photo, so I cannot describe how it moved or whether it made any noise.
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I walked outside down my drive way .and looked up in the sky. And i see a big blue beam of light.
Looks like a spot light but it not. Its still in the sky.
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UFO Sighting New Braunfels, Texas beginning 12/29/2019 Videos 12/29/2019 About 7pm my husband was in our from yard and saw the disc. He called me and I came out My Latitude and Longitude 29.70357,-98.
11469 to observe this. Our front yard faces West and the moon is visible in some of the videos for comparison. The disc is below and to the north of the moon.
The disc was not visibly moving it is me moving the camera although it does appear to be spinning. 1/4/2020 This we have observed every night around 7pm except for the 31 of December. I do have videos.
Am sending videos to the director Peter whom I spoke with on the phone.
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UFO or meteor? My husband and I were out on our patio. My husband said there's our bright star. I looked up and the bright light started moving east towards the gulf.
It was moving fast. The light turned green then went out.
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yellowish haze sphere seen falling from the sky and then compressing and shooting westward The object was falling like a shooting star and then stopped above the ground and compressed and thinned out and shot west. There was only one and it was round with a faint yellow haze/glow that shifted to a white and blue glow. It was seen approximately 2-3 miles off from the crossroads of HWY 281 and Lipan.
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MADAR Node 158.
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My sister was going home she stepped back inside and said come see this , my wife and I and my sister saw a red fireball. Okay my sister saw a large red fireball coming from over Galveston over tiki Island over bayou Vista on toward Dickinson Texas. Back to the craft as the red made it by inches light of the night sky like a transparent triangle with no red shine into transparent object as it passed on by there was a large red fireball in the rear of craft it smoothly went on by.
We watched till finally it was out our visual sight range. End of experience. Thank you so much.
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Green circular object no sounds no blinking lights Single green circular shape faint color no blinking lights or sound. Clear path North East headed south west. Commercial air craft passed within about of minute with obvious green and red lights and sound.
Air craft pilot would of had visual on this. Strange never seen anything like this.
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Disk of light with a crescent of rainbow colored lights I was taking my grandchildren home from school yesterday, 12/19/2019.We were traveling west along Northpark Dr. in Kingwood, Texas at about 3:45 or so in the afternoon.
We were caught in slow moving traffic, and I noticed the most unusual sight. At first I thought I was looking at the sun through cloud cover. On the left side of the sun-like object there was a crescent of rainbow colored light covering maybe the disk, like the sliver of a crescent moon.
The rainbow light glowed a bit outside of the disk area. I thought it was the sun and maybe there were ice crystals in the atmosphere diffracting the light making the very unusual image. Then I looked around the solid part of the windshield and noticed the actual sun shinning further south.
It was close to the disk. I really don't know how far away it was. The disk did not move or change.
It held its perfectly disk-like shape for several minutes. I asked the girls to look at the disk and the sun, making sure that my mind wasn't playing tricks on me. They both saw the same thing.
By the time I could get to my purse and phone, the image was fading. It didn't zoom away or disappear, it just faded. But the perfect round geometic form never morphed.
I don't know what this was, but in all of my 62 years I have never seen anything like it. Thanks so much for having a site like this.Peace.
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I was going to church Wednesday evening 12/18/2019 and it was 6:57 p.m. I hit a stop sign where i was going to turn a left.
When i looked to the left i looked up to the sky and seen yellow lights, about five of them connected to each other. They were so close to each other they looked like 5 little bulbs of christmas lights. I looked back down because there was a tree beside them, so in my mind i thought they were actually christmas lights, but when i looked up again i realized they weren’t because that tree wasn’t decorated.
Plus that tree was very tall and its not the kind of tree people hang lights on. The lights were at the very top beside the tree. I turned left and looked up again to keep track of them but they disappeared.
All this happened in a span of a minute. I told my girlfriend about them but we never saw them again. There was also a few planes in the sky, kind of close to the object/objects( i don’t know if it was one object with five lights) b! ut not to close.
My girlfriend did tell me that she had seen on facebook that someone had also posted seeing ufo’s the day before in around this area I believe.
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Tear drop object in the sky There was a tear drop looking spacecraft or object in the sky around 5:30 pm I saw it on a friends Snapchat then I looked in the sky and saw it I recorded it with a professional camera but did not show.
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Object was orange glow orb then transformed into diamond shape and was now a silver or white color cloning altitude at pace It was orange glowing light Would hover and change color when it did u saw it transform from a ball to Diamond shape. Color at this time was like white or silver As it transformed it began to climb altitude. Slow not in a rush as it claimed it just disappeared The day was clear no wind no clouds in sky Was not a hot air ballon or Mylar ballon due to hovering properties The sun was still out.
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Walked out side from main house to walk to my cabin "guest house" and seen it in the sky triangle form and alot of lights rig Walked out side from main house to walk to my cabin "guest house" and seen it in the sky triangle form and alot of lights right when I reached in my pocket to pull my phone out it took off and disappeared 2nd sighting and 1st sighting couldn't see a shape just lights.
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An extremely bright round object. As me and two relatives drove north on 287 from Haslet. While driving a Circular and definitely way Brighter than any star I've seen grabbed all of our attention.
It was up high on the left (west) side of the fwy. It looked like a star was falling at a fast speed then the round light seemed to have control again and started going up. The space craft seemed to do what it seemed to me like between a "J" and a "U" then dissapeared towards the end of the "J" to an extremely high speed away to what I believe was west but then dissapeared.
We have never experienced anything like it or have seen something so bazaar or so quick. Our radio also went a bit staticky but wasn't sure if it was just a coincidence.
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Walked out side on the phone seen pass really fast stopped above neighbors house than take off and lights and ship disappeared in thin air.
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Standing on back porch smoking a cigarette. I noticed a bright or or Dick shape in the sky that hovered for about 5 minutes and than bobbed up and down moving back and forth and after 10 minutes of that it was just gone. No zoom no noting, just disappeared from sight.
I heard no sounds to make me think it was a craft that was man made.
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Huge ball of light/fire appeared out of the sky. Moved towards us, did a u-turn, flew back up until we could no longer see it. A huge orange ball of light/fire just appeared out of the sky.
It moved towards us, then did a u-turn and flew off into the sky until we could no longer see it. The ufo never went down towards the ground. The entire encounter lasted 1 minute.
The ufo did not emit any sound. I have a video on my phone that captured the entire circumstance.
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UFO with video & odd sound On 12/13/19 my home camera caught this in the video. I discovered this while reviewing my videos. Not sure how long this went on.
Frirs You will first see my cat run under my truck. Listen closely and you will then hear a mechanical like sonar sound. Small bright lights will appear & bounce around on the upper left hand corner.
There is not a light in this area. No one is outside.
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Bright white orb hovering above what I believe was Garland or maybe Dallas . Flying slowly from north to south then finally hovering in slight up and down motion for about 3-4 minutes before it vanished. It was approx.
2-3x brighter than Venus.
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2 gliding objects Two objects were gliding left together across the sky. I assumed they were planes until I noticed a plane flying to the right, towards the directions of the objects. The objects didn’t have a trail, but noticed an obvious one on the plane.
Texas UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 54 reported sightings | 21.77% of all reports |
Triangle | 24 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Circle | 23 reported sightings | 9.27% of all reports |
Disk | 17 reported sightings | 6.85% of all reports |
Other | 16 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Oval | 14 reported sightings | 5.65% of all reports |
Sphere | 14 reported sightings | 5.65% of all reports |
Unknown | 14 reported sightings | 5.65% of all reports |
Formation | 13 reported sightings | 5.24% of all reports |
Fireball | 8 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Changing | 7 reported sightings | 2.82% of all reports |
Cylinder | 7 reported sightings | 2.82% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
Flash | 3 reported sightings | 1.21% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 1.21% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 0.81% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 0.81% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 0.81% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 0.81% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.40% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.40% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 39 reported sightings | 15.73% of all reports |
December | 37 reported sightings | 14.92% of all reports |
November | 27 reported sightings | 10.89% of all reports |
September | 24 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
July | 23 reported sightings | 9.27% of all reports |
April | 20 reported sightings | 8.06% of all reports |
January | 19 reported sightings | 7.66% of all reports |
May | 18 reported sightings | 7.26% of all reports |
August | 16 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
March | 13 reported sightings | 5.24% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Thursday | 48 reported sightings | 19.35% of all reports |
Saturday | 42 reported sightings | 16.94% of all reports |
Wednesday | 35 reported sightings | 14.11% of all reports |
Sunday | 35 reported sightings | 14.11% of all reports |
Friday | 32 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Monday | 29 reported sightings | 11.69% of all reports |
Tuesday | 27 reported sightings | 10.89% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2019 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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10/12/19 | 6 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
12/11/19 | 4 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
07/04/19 | 4 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
12/12/19 | 4 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
12/05/19 | 4 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 93 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 55 reported sightings | 22.18% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 40 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 28 reported sightings | 11.29% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 17 reported sightings | 6.85% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 6.05% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.