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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 311 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (69 reports, 22.19% of total).
- January is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (48 reports, 15.43% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (59 reports, 18.97% of total).
- 01/07/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (17 reports, 5.47% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (126 reports, 40.51% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 2020, 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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MADAR Node 158.
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MADAR Node 118.
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We saw a chrome looking object approx 1500 to 2000 ft up., no clouds this day,none.it disappeared before our eyes.
Was large ,not a kite or plane.
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Amorphous and slighly oval shaped, black object seen in broad daylight. At approximately 14:!0 CST I was leaving the Home Depot in Allen, TX located at McDermott Dr and Highway 75. I noticed a strange black object (estimated 2000 - 3000ft in the air -- yet difficult to know for certain) that appeared at first to be a drone or a balloon (or even an object on a tether).
The object appeared to waffle around in a near static location. It was very difficult to understand what I was looking at, as it didn't make sense the more I looked at it. After a couple of minutes of observation, the object began to head South and appeared to gain altitude, as it grew smaller in appearance.
I attempted to take a very short video of the object in which you can see the object. However, the quality nor length was solid, as by the time I thought to film it, the object had already began to fade. While the object was staying in one location, it almost appeared that it was having difficulty maintaining flight (it was weird).
I tried to rule out the balloon theory, as the object headed South above highway 75 and according to the Aviation Weather Center, the wind barbs had the wind at 3000ft going at 35 knots from the West at the time of the sighting, which didn't line up with the direction the object was heading. I can send the very short clip of the object to the e-mail below, you have to pause the video and look closely at the left side of the video to see the object.
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Orange Orbs over Breckenridge, TX Orange glowing orbs were seen above central region of Stephens County, Texas on December 5, 2020 at approximately 21:12 CST. Event lasting around 5 minutes consisting of approximately 10-12 objects heading South/South-West. Objects were witnessed by two persons at ((address deleted)) St.
, Breckenridge, TX from the front of the residence with a clear view of the sky. Videos of the objects as they moved through the sky were taken by one witness using an iPhone 11. Objects silently traveled from the north to the south and appeared to dissipate or disappear at times.
No other aircraft were noticed in the vicinity of the objects.
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Three lights, moving in same relative direction: From NE to SW on fast but steady course 12/01/20 2200 hrs Smith Co Texas At approximately 10:00pm, I was standing in my driveway (which is orientated approximately E/W, relative to my street which runs N/S). The air was crisp, and the sky was partly cloudy with large parts clear and open. The moon was somewhere to the south of me, and lighted the clouds.
I looked up and noticed a solid (not flashing) bright white light, traveling roughly from NE to SW on a straight and steady course which I first took to be a satellite. A few civilian and commercial aircraft were clearly present and visible contrasted against the clear part of the sky as well. I could not tell how high or how fast the light was moving, but it seemed to be a similar speed to that of satellites I’ve seen on other occasions.
As I watched, I noticed two other, smaller lights, which appeared to be keeping station with the larger light. I did not notice these smaller lights at first, as there were clearly visible civilian aircraft in the sky. These other two lights were flashing in a rhythmic fashion, and at first I guessed they were also small civilian aircraft.
However, as I focused on the “satellite,” the two smaller lights began to, rapidly “crisscross” each other’s flight path (it seemed to me quite close to each other) and in a fashion I have never see done before by either civilian or military aircraft. While the smaller lights crisscrossed each other, they maintained course and speed with the larger light, neither gaining on nor falling behind the larger light. Though I can’t be clear as to speed, they were clearly moving faster than the aircraf! t I could see in the distance.
That is, of course, unless the objects were closer to me than the other aircraft. The entire event took no longer than perhaps 30 seconds to a minute. All three seemed to vanish after passing behind a tall pine tree at the SW corner of my property.
I am 58 y/o male AF veteran Husband and father Small business owner.
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Watching for chemtrails clear skies, behold a fleet of bright craft. Very high altitude and very hard to see,estimated 20 or more. Appearance bright white and possibly cigar or vee shaped Two separate clusters flying in a staggered formation.
Flying in direction from north to south. First saw middle cluster panned right another cluster ahead the first cluster noticed. Panning left one craft further away behind both groups.
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3 red/orange objects rapidly move across the sky near Dallas on Thanksgiving eve At approximately 8 PM CST we were stargazing in our back yard. While I was lining up my telescope with the moon and mars, we observed an object come across the sky. It was moving so fast I could not get it lined up in the telescope.
It moved from the southwest sky flying towards the northeast. In total, there were 3 objects, spaced approximately 2-3 minutes apart following the exact same pattern. The objects glowed red or orange as they approached and from behind.
There was no noise. The object was at least 5,000 feet up and rapidly moved across the sky. We are near an airport and there was a SW flight in the landing pattern (they may have seen it) and it was significantly higher than that and the objects we saw were going much faster.
As the 3rd object passed us, I ran to the front of the house and saw it flicker and disappear a moment later.
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I had gone to the kitchen to get a drink of water and noticed that it was bright outside (it was 530 in the morning and should have been dark). I looked out the window and saw several orbs in the sky. These orbs changed colors ( from orange to white to blue) and changed shape several times.
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Sphere (orb) visible only with IR camera flying at a extremely high speed I was searching the sky with my Bestguarder IR camera when I caught a video of a sphere flying upwards at a very high speed, with no sounds and not visible to the naked eye.
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I Always Look Up In Sky Since I Was Told About UFOs.I Was Sitting In My Backyard And Noticed The Odd Shaped Flying Craft.Usually I Would Think It Be Round, Truangular Shaped Or Fottball Field One.
It Was A Straight Line With White Lights Not Flashing. Like A Flying Train. From My View, It Came From Northwest To SouthEast Diagonally.
As It Passed My Location, 15 Seconds Later It Was As If The Lights Slowly Dimmed Away And I No Longer Seen It. And Of Course As I Was Getting My Phone To Take A Picture Or Video, My Device Decided To Act Up So It Was Impossible. Minutes Later,From That Point, Right Above Me, I Noticed Two Stars From Which I Thought They Were, First One (Big)Came From NorthEast To SouthWest Out Of Nowhere Just Appeared And Moved, Then Two Seconds Later The Second One(Small) Came From SouthWest To NorthEast And As Both Came In Contact Above Me, The Big One Dissapeared Once They Crossed Eachother, Then 4 Sevonds Later The Smaller One Dissappear! s.
Now If Its Military, Why Not Let It Be Known To Not Get It Confused With A Actual UFO. Or If It Was Mufon Why Not Let Its Citizens Know They Were Performing. I Dont Know, Whatever It Was, It Was Not The Usual Plane Or Helicopter.
Its An Odd Shaped Craft No Noise Whatsoever.
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First seen directly above me. Lights only. A string of 12-15 lights.
No sound. No “trail”. Moving smoothly and steadily to the ESE.
There was no “object” observed. Moved all the way to the horizon.
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saw about 20 lights to form a circle flying above my house walked out of my house to get my husband an looked in the sky to see about 20 perfect circles all in a line more circle flying above my house. I yelled fot my husband an he say the same thing. We both watched it fly off into the distance.
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I was traveling on the 375 freeway in El Paso, south bound when I saw the formation appearing to hover in the south east direction. The formation appeared distant in the night sky. At arms length I believe I would be able to cover the formation with my pinky.
Which brings me to the formations shape. At first glance it appeared a line formation, as I stared closely and tried to focus, the formation had a slight bend at end. Which brings me to its angle .
The approx 15 separate lights in the formation had a light amber glow to them. The formation itself appeared in a diagonal direction and they seemed to be moving away from my line of sight and the lights slowly faded into the darkness of the sky.
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Stopped at intersection on 190 and 137. My son and I saw the craft over head. Approximately 500 feet long.
Flying low, craft had no wings and made no noise. Craft turned. We took a photo and drove away as craft turned to follow us.
Followed us fo less than a minute and turned again. Went back south. Had come from Northeast direction.
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Stars don't move Saw an object that looked like a star but was a different color to any star I've ever seen. It was amber in color and moved in a circular pattern. Kept watching and it would get closer the further.
The circular object that we observed moved also back and forth. The sky was clear 61 degrees outside. We took photos.
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About 12 colored lights floating in a group overhead, some purple, green, and yellow/white just within the cloud line I was out walking at night and I was on a semi busy street in the neighborhood, there were a few people by their car at an apartment across the street. Suddenly, either something caught my eye or I had the urge to look up, and about 12 (from what I counted) round lights were hovering above, heading from south to north/north west, going decently slow but fast enough to fly into the cloud line with a minute or so to where they were not visible. It was light overcast and they were hovering just within or above the clouds, to where you could clearly see the lights but through a light haze.
I remember there were a few purple, green, and I believe the rest were yellow/white?? I took a photo and the front leading lights appear to be two purple lights. I was the only person who saw and almost yelled out to the people across the street but I felt like it was for me to see if no one else saw it on their own, and I was just in awe staring at them feeling lucky to see s! uch an anomaly.
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Reflective Sphere in the sky On Nov 21, 2020 around 1:09PM in the afternoon I was walking my dog and the sun went partway behind this big cloud. I looked up and saw some pretty colors like the aurora lights, close to what I can describe. I took a few pictures and then continued walking my dog.
Later I looked at the pictures and to my surprise there was something in the picture. I never saw it because sun was pretty bright and I was looking at the colors and not above the cloud. I don’t know if this is anything or not but thought I would send in and see.
Just really interested in what it is. I am sending in a couple of pictures. One you can see it clear but the other you can barely see it at the top of the cloud head.
It looks like a sphere with some reflective mirrors on it but could be just a play of lights. I’m not sure so I’m sending to the experts. I did not hear anything just saw the pretty colors in the clouds.
Thanks for looking into this.
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Saw hovering disc above Denny’s that vanished. I was driving with my fiancé to the Denny’s in Huntsville on Highway 30. The sky had light, wispy cloud coverage and it was bright and sunny.
As I crossed the I-45 overpass, I witnessed a stationary object at around 315 degrees northwest west above the Denny’s restaurant. It appeared to be 200-300 feet in the air, but its hard to estimate accurately. I will say it appeared to be in front or in between low hanging wispy clouds.
We had a light rain the previous night. The object appeared black on the bottom and silver/mirror reflective on the top, but again, it was difficult to see details due to my distance from it. It hovered as I headed towards the Denny’s and I shouted to my fiancé to look and she ignored me 😂.
What gave me pause was the fact that I simply watched it vanish. It literally blinked out of reality within seconds of me talking about it. It looked as large as a commercial airliner in terms of width.
The experience happen very quickly but! I’ve never seen anything like it. It didn’t look like any recognizable aircraft. It’s stillness was very zen, like it was just mounted perfectly there in the sky.
I couldn’t discern any movement at all or see any exhaust fumes. I’ll make a drawing of what I saw.
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Two lights over Austin Looking South from N/E Austin neighborhood - saw bright light, thought it was ISS - but it slows and changes trajectory - then we noticed there is smaller light following same speed and trajectory - as it made its way west is become more and more dim until both lights faded away.
Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 69 reported sightings | 22.19% of all reports |
Circle | 29 reported sightings | 9.32% of all reports |
Sphere | 27 reported sightings | 8.68% of all reports |
Formation | 24 reported sightings | 7.72% of all reports |
Other | 20 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
Unknown | 19 reported sightings | 6.11% of all reports |
Triangle | 19 reported sightings | 6.11% of all reports |
Changing | 13 reported sightings | 4.18% of all reports |
Oval | 10 reported sightings | 3.22% of all reports |
Disk | 10 reported sightings | 3.22% of all reports |
Fireball | 9 reported sightings | 2.89% of all reports |
Diamond | 7 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Cigar | 7 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Rectangle | 6 reported sightings | 1.93% of all reports |
Chevron | 4 reported sightings | 1.29% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 1.29% of all reports |
Orb | 3 reported sightings | 0.96% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 0.96% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.32% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.32% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.32% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 48 reported sightings | 15.43% of all reports |
April | 43 reported sightings | 13.83% of all reports |
August | 32 reported sightings | 10.29% of all reports |
February | 31 reported sightings | 9.97% of all reports |
October | 27 reported sightings | 8.68% of all reports |
May | 27 reported sightings | 8.68% of all reports |
July | 21 reported sightings | 6.75% of all reports |
November | 21 reported sightings | 6.75% of all reports |
September | 20 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
March | 20 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
June | 15 reported sightings | 4.82% of all reports |
December | 6 reported sightings | 1.93% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 59 reported sightings | 18.97% of all reports |
Tuesday | 52 reported sightings | 16.72% of all reports |
Thursday | 50 reported sightings | 16.08% of all reports |
Wednesday | 47 reported sightings | 15.11% of all reports |
Sunday | 40 reported sightings | 12.86% of all reports |
Friday | 33 reported sightings | 10.61% of all reports |
Monday | 30 reported sightings | 9.65% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 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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01/07/20 | 17 reported sightings | 5.47% of all reports |
01/06/20 | 6 reported sightings | 1.93% of all reports |
04/16/20 | 6 reported sightings | 1.93% of all reports |
01/01/20 | 6 reported sightings | 1.93% of all reports |
09/03/20 | 6 reported sightings | 1.93% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 126 reported sightings | 40.51% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 62 reported sightings | 19.94% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 43 reported sightings | 13.83% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 41 reported sightings | 13.18% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 20 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 19 reported sightings | 6.11% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.