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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 145 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (26 reports, 17.93% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 13.10% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (24 reports, 16.55% of total).
- 04/07/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 3.45% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (54 reports, 37.24% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 2021, 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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I got a picture of what is either 1 craft in triangle shape or 3 small ones forming a triangle Not the 1st time either. Not sure all dates but will post all pics of different dates aroundy yard in Alvin TX.
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Round, glowing, key lime green orb flew from southern sky to northern sky.
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MADAR Node 171 .
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Fireballs flying in formation south to north, overhead, then flying out of sight. Please view attached video, facing west/ north west They were closer, when I first saw them, I ran in to get my phone and took the photo and video.
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It was loud like rocket in a V shape. When my eyes made the craft out, I realized how huge the thing was and called my cousin and friend. We hear plane jets in the city, but this one never stopped, so I went running outside.
Once I made the ufo out in the sky, I called out the others. There were two other ships in the middle of the V-Shaped formation and the UFO was flying North/Northeast. It couldn't have been planes since the lights flew so perfectly without desynchronization.
All of the lights blinked at the same time, about 3 long apart . If you look up, raise your elbow to the sky and measure the sky from elbow to knuckle that's how big it looked right above me but in a "V" formation.
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A light that was fading in and out. Me and my grandparents we in the truck. We were 20 miles from Dallas on I20.
It still daylight but the frist light we saw was a really bright light and it faded completely out to were we couldn't see it. It came back and it was turning to a orange color . The light faded in and out several more time until it was red.
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craft moved from the east to the west a little past my location it made a flat turn (it did not bank to turn) and headed south. The craft traveled very slowly and made no sound its maneuvering was on a flat plane no banking while turning. The size of the craft stayed consistent, so no apparent elevation changes were notated.
There are other things I would prefer to talk in person about that I don't want to put on a public site.
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I was Google maping and I caught a photo it's crazy doesn't look man made and it's big.
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Unhuman By muleshoe Texas I was Google mapping and seen it and a few years ago I seen the craft in the air above my house u I also reported it at the time it was quite.
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I was randomly taking pictures of the clouds and in 2 frames is a unidentifiable object , all shots were took within the same minute I have 2 pictures. I blindly and randomly took about 10 pictures of the sky and a object appears in two pictures and I took pictures of the same section of sky.
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Sighting of odd light in night sky. While on a hunting/camping trip near Sanderson, Texas my hunting friend and I were watching satellites and meteors since there is no city light pollution as there is at home. I had just gone in the camper to wash the dishes when my friend started banging on the wall telling me to get back outside “right now.
” I ran back outside and he was pointing toward the north and asked “what the hell is that?” I looked and what I saw was a horizontal bar of light in the sky about 25° above the horizon and a bit west of Polaris (North Star). The light was a bluish white light slightly brighter than the stars around it. The light had crisp edges much like a laser and appeared to be a long distance off.
I could not see through this light as it appeared solid. I have no way of knowing just how far away the light was but it appeared to be quite distant. Whether 50 miles or 500 I could not say.
I held up my thumb at arm’s length and the “bar of light” was just over two times its width. I could see stars above, below, and to either side of this light. This was a crystal clear night with no clouds as far as the eye could see in any direction.
After a period of about 30 seconds from when I came outside and saw the light, it started to slowly fade. It faded evenly from end to end and became translucent for 3 or 4 seconds before fading completely. (Similar to turning off a light using a dimmer style switch).
My friend and I discussed how long he had observed the light before I got back outside. He estimated about 20 to 30 seconds. He also said that the light came on the same as it had gone off, slowly increasing in intensity over a period of a few seconds.
The total time that the light was visible was about a minute. The next morning I got my compass out of my hunting bag and determined the direction of the light the night before was about 330°. The nearest town (and known major light source) in that direction is Fort Stockton which is 75 miles away.
Neither of us is exactly sure what caused the phenomenon we witnessed but I am sure of several things it was NOT: 1.) Stadium lights reflecting on clouds. There were absolutely no clouds.
Stars were visible above, below and to either side. 2.) It was not Starlink satellites.
This was a solid bar of light similar to a laser or the light shining under the door of a neighboring room in a building. We have both witnessed Starlink in the past. My impression is that this probably was not a solid object as it would have to have been many miles in length.
There was no frame of reference for me to determine how far away it was but my impression was that it was very far away. Although it appeared solid while at peak brightness, it became somewhat transparent as it began to fade out.
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Looking straight up into the sky before 6:24 PM on December 3 we noticed lights in a tall and thin formation built of 20 tictac shapes. Three adults and a few children we’re looking straight up 20 miles east of the Austin airport when they noticed from the west to the east that this very tall sand connection of 20 TicTac shaped building structure like a skyscraper or a long row of lights. It appeared that these objects were flying in synchronicity together or possibly connected in an extremely and abnormal quick way.
There were no sounds, and no propulsion smoke. The adults had to look straight up to see it. An airplane was much lower in the background leaving Austin in a south-southeast direction.
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Line of lights. My husband saw a line of lights in the sky and ran in to get me. I ran out and also saw it.
There were maybe 10-16 yellow/white lights with a gap in the middle in a diagonal line to the northeast of us. They looked close, and it looked BIG. It slowly moved across the sky and back away from us and then slowly up and back until it faded into the atmosphere.
There was also an airplane to the north and it was way smaller than the thing we saw. We got a photo and short video of it on my husband’s phone, but the quality is not great as it was nighttime and his phone is just an XR. Still got some proof though! You have to turn the light all the way up on your phone or computer to see it in the video.
My husband is a lineman for a powerline company and I am a stay at home mother. He was out just starting his motorcycle when he saw this and ran in to get me to look.
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A star-like object seen flitting around at 8am. It got closer & I was able to get pics. At 8pm a LG ship which morphed several x seen.
A 7am morning sky was busy with military aircraft & a grand array of contrails as far as my 11 year old daughter's & my eyes could see. Leaving my neighborhood, we spotted a lightning bolt-like imprint from mid-sky to the ground in a field nearby. I parked at a place I knew the view could be vast.
At 8 am, as multitudes of jets & US Gov aircraft flew back & forth, a star-like object was seen flitting around. It then got closer & I was able to get several photos. They show an oval-like shape with 3 rectangular lights, but each image looks a bit different.
That could be because it was a "lightship" and/or because it was moving so quickly. The skies were busy with jets & planes all day. In my backyard at 8pm, I witnessed what looked like a large dark ship, oval or rounded square, with changing lights, stationed above the horizon.
I got in my car in hopes that I would get to it. On my drive, my daughter counted 23 jets. I noticed that the closer I thought I got to the ship, the smaller it became.
I originally thought that was because it was moving further away, but then realized that it was also changing locations in the sky. As jets got closer to it, it would quickly move locations, as if in the speed of light. It also seemed to morph into different shapes & the changing colors were brilliant & bright.
I am a channel for information and light language between realms or higher dimensions, so this has been exciting for me. Here is video documentation of everything. https://youtu.
be/V2iR0UMpWUc .
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UFO on a star with men in red armored uniforms about 60-100 UFO flew over zapping a sting ray hologram made of light with a light beam and the stingray with tusks disappeared along with the large saucer right after seeing a grey alien detained by the men in red uniforms 1 strong one shoved him into a compartment he looked like a little grey boy 7 years old he was looking at the ground smiling and the man approached him from behind. I was out of body very reAl and very much realistic the way the uniforms looked it was all too real to deny it happened…for fact.
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GLOWING orange balls in V shape format moving slowing. They stayed in format but changed shape and i saw 3 more single after the first Orange glowing spheres. These were not stars or airplanes not a drone either.
They came from North side of my neighborhood moving in a Vshape formation, it seem to be coming towards our house, they were about 300 yards away and low in the sky. We tried following the ufo through town as we came into open field by the airport it disappeared. They looked like they were moving slow but upon chasing them they were moving faster than we thought.
As we returned home from the chase we stood outside our porch in Awe.i seen one coming from the same direction and two more following about 1 minute after. They changed direction heading east towards our airport.
Ive never seen anything like this before and i do have a small telescope to watch meteor showers and star gaze so i know the difference, the orange glow was similar to a lit cigarette like fire balls in the sky. I called the airport but no one answered so i left a message i called the local police station to ask if any flight drills were going on at the airport but they said no. Both my sons husband and a friend or ours including myself witnessed this sighting.
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I was taking pictures of the eclipse when I saw it. I took one picture of the eclipse and when I went to review the picture I saw it. When I looked up it was still there and flew off qui klu before I could take another picture.
I was standing outside of the hotel when I took the picture so it could not be a reflection or anything like that.
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White, sometimes shiny oval object flying into the clouds. Interestingly, I was out in my backyard sky-gazing. I had previously seen another object in the sky that I could not identify.
That took place on 10/29/2021. Unfortunately, I did not have my phone available to film that object. However, on November 18, 2021 at approximately 3 pm, I went into my backyard and noticed an angel/cross cloud and started filming it, along with the rest of the sky.
The sun was very bright, making it almost impossible to see what I was filming. As I was panning my phone across the sky, I noticed a metallic flash of light with my naked eye, the duration maybe a second. I tried to locate it again with my naked eye but it was gone, or so I thought.
I focused my camera in the area where I saw the flash and beyond, not knowing what I was capturing. I reviewed my video that night multiple times and at different speeds, backwards and forwards. It initially appears stationary, then started to fly upwards and then made a very distinctive turn headed right/south where it “hid” in the clouds.
You can barely make out it’s moving through the clouds. Since I didn’t know in real time that I was filming this object, I panned over to the right too soon after it went into the clouds. I panned back to the same spot and I could no longer see it.
The entire video is five minutes, the object appears at the 3:21 mark. I tried to upload my video to this site but it said exceeded max size.
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Went outside looked up there was a huge space craft floating in the air took off right away. All I seen after was a streak of light Walked outside and seen a huge air craft floating in the air. Seconds later it disappears with a streak of light.
I ran inside the house scared I told my girlfriend what I saw. To this day in scared of what happened. I really don't tell comfortable talking about it because idk what can happen to me.
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There was a very dim light moving extremely fast while star gazing. It headed north east and shot up fast shortly after leaving my view I was in a small field next to parkgate street. There was a very dim, yellowish, Amber like light, moving very fast and you could tell it was very high.
It was small, but not small enough to resemble a star. It headed north east at a fast pace and left my view. Shortly after (seconds), i seen a light shoot up.
It barely got brighter and resembled a shooting star going up. I looked at the ufo map and seen i wasn’t the only person to see this light in a 30 mile radius. That’s what made me find a way to contact my sighting.
My girlfriend was with me, but wears glasses and could barely make it out for less than a second. There is no need to contact me, but if needed, i do not mind. I’m a 20 year old male from mexia texas.
I have no criminal record as-well as no psychological problems.
Texas UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 26 reported sightings | 17.93% of all reports |
Circle | 19 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Sphere | 10 reported sightings | 6.90% of all reports |
Unknown | 9 reported sightings | 6.21% of all reports |
Oval | 9 reported sightings | 6.21% of all reports |
Other | 9 reported sightings | 6.21% of all reports |
Disk | 8 reported sightings | 5.52% of all reports |
Triangle | 7 reported sightings | 4.83% of all reports |
Formation | 7 reported sightings | 4.83% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 4.14% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 4.14% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 3.45% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.38% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.38% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.69% of all reports |
Star | 1 reported sightings | 0.69% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 19 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
April | 16 reported sightings | 11.03% of all reports |
May | 15 reported sightings | 10.34% of all reports |
December | 15 reported sightings | 10.34% of all reports |
February | 12 reported sightings | 8.28% of all reports |
July | 11 reported sightings | 7.59% of all reports |
August | 11 reported sightings | 7.59% of all reports |
September | 10 reported sightings | 6.90% of all reports |
March | 10 reported sightings | 6.90% of all reports |
November | 9 reported sightings | 6.21% of all reports |
January | 9 reported sightings | 6.21% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 5.52% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 24 reported sightings | 16.55% of all reports |
Friday | 23 reported sightings | 15.86% of all reports |
Sunday | 21 reported sightings | 14.48% of all reports |
Tuesday | 20 reported sightings | 13.79% of all reports |
Monday | 19 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Saturday | 19 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Wednesday | 19 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2021 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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04/07/21 | 5 reported sightings | 3.45% of all reports |
04/26/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
12/03/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
09/10/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
05/08/21 | 2 reported sightings | 1.38% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 54 reported sightings | 37.24% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 32 reported sightings | 22.07% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 19 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 19 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 11 reported sightings | 7.59% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 10 reported sightings | 6.90% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.