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Texas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 213 UFO sighting reports in Texas from 2023 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "orb" (34 reports, 15.96% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (41 reports, 19.25% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (48 reports, 22.54% of total).
- 07/23/23 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (22 reports, 10.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (105 reports, 49.30% of total).
Texas UFO Sighting Reports in 2023
This is a sampling of 20 Texas UFO reports from 2023, 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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Strange orb of light traveling fast in windy conditions. I noticed our street light had gone out in the parking lot of our apartment complex, I pointed it out to my boyfriend. This proposed him to step outside, next thing I know he’s telling me to hurry and come outside.
We were both shocked as we saw this white orb light traveling pretty fast- I told him to pull out his phone so he did. I’m not sure if the street light is related. He said it came from the North, we missed it turn in all the commotion but at some point it steered off West.
It was windy and beginning to sprinkle outside.
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Lumberton, Texas 9:54pm. Orb light. Single light, no flashing.
Traveling fairly fast it was windy and beginning to storm (sprinkling) Came from the south and and turned to head west just before recording the video. We didn’t see it turn. Our street lamp seen in the parking lot had gone off for a minute just prior to the sighting which prompted my spouse to step outside.
Not sure if related.
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Spinning object in the sky Noiseless, non-illuminated Spinning semi-hollow circular object rapidly spinning about a central axis. Can see a center dot amongst the rotational mass and then a hollow space between that center dot and the outer section which seems to be a semi-hollow structure like a tetrahedron spinning furiously about a center point. The kinetic energy was clearly visible with the naked eye.
Didn’t move like a ballon and doesn’t appear to be a drone. Flying much higher that FAA regulations would permit a drone to fly. Take a look at the video.
I have 15 minutes of continuous video but was only able to upload a short clip due to file size restrictions.
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Three white lights behind the clouds in triangular formation zipping around in random order I was on an electric scooter home and noticed three lights against the backdrop of the clouds. They were white faint orbs and whizzing back and forth in a triangular formation. What I mean is if each orb was A, B, and C, it looked as if A would whizz to position B, B would whizz to position C, and C would whizz to position A.
This continued for 2-3 rounds before disappearing. I saw it for a 45 seconds in complete disbelief. Once they disappeared I parked my scooter and went inside my apartment building.
This was about 20 minutes ago and I am only now processing the event. I fully believe this could be a UFO.
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Whille stargazing with nitevision monocular, spotted a curious flashing light that had a pattern to it, wasnt a plane, satellite, meteo I have spent the past couple years doing my meditation outside and (earthing /grounding to help deal with chronic pain and depression). About a year and a half back i started seeing in the night sky, flashes of light here and there mostly above 45 degrees. Some would but dim flashes some would be quite bright much brighter than jupiter or venus.
sometimes while the flash was blooming it would collapse and be followed by a short streak of light. Or there would be several short flashes in a row then nothing again. or nonlinear flashes.
I am a ham radio operator and used to tracking satellites. At first I was thinking some could be written off as iridium flares, other satellites rotating etc. Maybe some kind of star explosions? But the flash streaks I couldn’t explain.
Back then I had no way to capture what I saw as my camcorder couldn’t really see stars very well unless zoomed way in and my cell phone doesn’t really see stars well either. Too bad because back then I could almost set my watch by the sightings as they were very reliable. I was fairly sure they weren't satellites as they happened pretty late at nite or at all hours at nite.
From 8:30pm to well after 3:00 am in the morning. So they would have to be really high orbit satellites and probably pretty large to put off that much light. Also most of these sightings all pretty much clustered around arcturus.
Fast forward to current time, I recently aquired a nite vision monocular, inexpensive, but it sees the nite sky very well. Not super high definition but quite well. So now I have a tool.
But the flashes in the sky have been almost nill. Or so I thought. So during my meditation time and stargazing periods, I would occasionally pull out the monocular and just scan the sky.
On Dec 6 I saw my flashes again. Only not in a visible spectrum. Had my binoculars with me and verifies I could not see visibly with magnification.
I hit record and recorded . The camera creates 3 min vids then starts another vid etc. so I got like 4 vids of the object totalling maybe 11-12 min.
In the constellation of orion, just above and to the right of the orion nebula and slowly moving to the left. Over that whole time period, I figured if I hold my hand at arms length, and hold up 1 finger, the object traveled basically the width of my finger or maybe 1 degree of arc. So it was most likely in very high altitute or in space.
The blinking was interesting to me as it was usually two dim flashes(pulses) followed by 1 really Bight flash(pulse), and kept repeating. Being in the IR range, I don’t think it would be nav lights of anything I am aware of other than possibly military. Or maybe some type of propulsion system? My IR can see in black and white or it also has a mode where some of the IR colors can be seen thus you can see some of the color in the nebula and the colors of the flasshes are like a dim yellow red orange and the bright flash is usually very white.
I uploaded the videos to my youtube channel to an unlisted channel not for widespread sharing at the moment, but for the purpose of reporting. Https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh1otXudAlzhyMGOdhNC6xajELwKDuNHQ&si=NeD2wfcSv6NBqOUt This is the Monocular used - ESSLNB Night Vision Monocular 5X40 Night Vision Infrared Monocular with 1.
5" TFT LCD Take Photos and Videos Playback Function 16G TF Card Digital Night Vision Scopes. I did not use any zoom. I have worked in Aviation for about 12 years and am familiar with numerous aircraft and flight cgaracteristics.
I live in the flight path of a major airport and also familiar with aircraft flight characteristics on approach and take off and sounds etc. As well as many of the different nav lights , landing lights etc. Im not an expert but quite familiar.
I captured the object again on december 7or 8 a nite or two later in Orion near the nebula but moving up and to the right. It was cloudy so only got one short vid which I may add to the youtube ones.
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Standing on front steps of house, looking west. Seen between Mars and horizon. I stepped outside to enjoy the night before going to bed.
While standing on my porch stairs, with our dog, I noticed a very bright orb object to the west just above our storage container. I continued to watch it as it morphed into a 5 point star form and split into two seperate orb/star forms while moving from west to east, and then becoming stationary. The dog then hit the door full tilt trying to get into the house, and i noticed thst the only other thing i heard was "whooshing" in my ears and feeling my heart beat.
I reached behind and opened the door to let the dog in and called for my bf to come out and see what i was seeing. When i looked back the orbs had become one again, but closer. my boyfriend then grabbed our binoculars to tske a lpok and saw that they were still TWO orbs but very close together to look as one.
When i looked through them, i saw the same thing. They never moved again, staying stationary so we went inside. The dog refused to go back outside.
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A light grey craft similar to that of a B2 flying overhead Austin, TX, with no apparent lights and sound. Standing outside of my 12th-floor patio in my apartment building, I witnessed something approaching from North Austin with no visible lights (it was past midnight). Knowing this did not match commercial flight routes I had seen previously, I watched it fly almost directly overhead me in a south or nearly southeast direction.
The first thing that came to mind was a stealth bomber like the B2, but I wouldn't understand why it was flying so low with no lights. I could clearly see the Chevron shape in a light grey tone, but couldn't discern whether it had a full triangle that was black or a darker color. I watched it fly above me for about 30 seconds, where once it got above I removed my headphones and heard no audible noise.
At one point, I almost believed the front of the object changed shape from being a straight-angled Chevron, but I couldn't say this for certainty.
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Firework flash of light Looked like a firework initially; acompanied by some type of low whistle and then disappeared instantaneously.
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Two vertical red blinking lights with two horizontal blinking blue lights which took off towards the west at speed. At 5:50 pm, me and two witnesses saw red and blue blinking lights outside my sister's apartment hovering rock solid still, approximately 600 feet in the sky. We watched it and were amazed at how still it was.
My friend said it looked like it was on a tower. But there are no towers near there. After about 5 minutes, we decided to leave and see if we could get closer.
But as we walked toward my car, it took off at tremendous speed and was a solid, luminous blue as it flew away. There was never any sound. Could not see a solid object while it hovered.
It looked solid blue when it took off. The shape seemed oval while it flew away. I did shoot it as it hovered, but if course, it was gone way too fast to whip my phone out again to get it while it flew away.
My buddy was blown away and says he's a believer now. I don't know if my sister caught it taking off as she was leaving for another location. She called that location to tell them to film using a DSLR HD camera with a good zoom lens.
I doubt they caught it.
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Very large, 3 pronged, sometimes looking pretzel-shaped, moved in one direction, then hovered in clouds for 10 minutes before I left I noticed a large black object gliding through the sky, moving much more slowly than the airplanes in the area. It appeared much higher than the airplanes too, so it appeared to be larger than a jet airplane. Its shape looked at first like a large bird, then like a Y, and sometimes pretzel-shaped.
The shape was difficult to make out. After floating across maybe a third of the sky, it began to hover just below the clouds, and it hovered in one spot for about 10 minutes before I left the area. It seemed too large and strangely shaped to be a drone.
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Abnormal craft that kept lighting up, disappearing, and appearing back up in a different location I was driving in to Dallas on IH45 headed north with my wife and it was a perfect day without a cloud in the sky and the first thing I saw was a light in the sky that I had kinda noted but didn’t think anything of it. Then I looked away and looked up and it was gone so that was my first clue. I told my wife about it.
Then I saw it pop up again and pointed it out to her and we were just observing it for a few minutes. We would see it light up then disappear then show up in a different location and move in weird directions and would move in opposite directions. Then I saw it close and got a better view of it but thought it was maybe a plane then it lit up and disappeared again.
And then I saw it again and caught a video. In the video, you can see it stall in mid-air, then start to descend, then speed up at a crazy fast speed, then disappear, light up, and disappear again. After we stopped filming, the craft headed towards a plane that was very obviously a plane and it appeared like they almost ran into each other.
Shortly after that, it disappeared again and we never saw it again.
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Rhythmic Pattern on Lights on Large Circular Craft 9:24 PM Nov 11,2023 Highland Village Texas. We were driving home and saw these strange lights in the sky behind the clouds. We stopped and observed the lights from the side of the road for about 3 minutes.
There was not the tell tale sign of a ground based spot light or laser from the reflecting on the clouds, but these lights were behind the clouds. The lights moved in a specific pattern. First we saw two lights and then it would dance in a shuffling back and forth revealing four or five lights approximately, then one or two sustained lights on the far side and then sequentially shine one light at a time around the full circumference of the craft.
A full light cycle lasted approximately 10 seconds. We saw four such cycles. I estimate 12 - 15 total lights around the circumference, but I could not see the backside.
Our friend observed the lights from a different location independently from us and sent us the attached clip, he was much further away from the lights than we were respectively and captured less than one full cycle.
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Large helicopter chasing an amber glowing orb I was walking my dog in the Woodcreek North neighborhood with my wife around 8pm. We heard a LOUD helicopter flying overhead which is common in the area, but this one was much larger than any I have seen and a lot louder. It was too dark to make out if it was military or not, but my hunch is that it was.
Way out in front of the helicopter was a glowing orb (amber in color) just flying, not blinking. The helicopter was in steady pursuit but not gaining on it. We watched for a good two minutes until both were out of sight.
The objects were probably about 1,000 feet in elevation.
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Craft would change from round to oval Craft hovering further than airplane distance. Would change shape from round to oval. I thought it was Space X, but there was no trail.
The craft started to drop small lights which quickly disappeared. I then thought it might me a meteorite, but it remained in the same spot for 15mins, finally disappearing.
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On a Sunday evening I was setting on my couch in the Livingroom, and I hear a loud sound over my head but didn't think any more about it. Later on, that same night around 3:30am I started to experience strong things happening in my bedroom like the light go off and on. Around 2:30am I thought I was dreaming I woke up looks and it was something setting on my bed.
It was black with pointed ears I thought it was my dog and I say what are doing in here it jumps off the bed and went under it I got up and turn on the light and looks under my bed and I didn't see anything. Much later I was waked by a sound of beeping look on the wall and seen this object that looks like a shadow has a green light around at that time I seen it face and head. What I saw was white head with big eyes and a body that was tall and very longer, hands look like a web with fingers.
And all of this I had seen in the dark I was so afraid of what I seem I just wrote it off as a dream. From that time till now I experience things in my bed like something in my mattress moving around and touch my feet. I called the police and told them that something was in my house upstairs, they came out and didn't go up there they just used their lights to look and told they told me that they didn't see anything.
I went to bed and same thing happened again. I turn off the light and seem this face and head on the wall and ceiling. I am so afraid to sleep in my bedroom.
Please help me. All of these things are going on at my house. I can tell you more if you call me.
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Bright silver object that looked almost like a star. I was driving home from work, and I noticed a bright silver reflection in the sky, I thought maybe it was a plane or helicopter but it appeared to not be moving and after starting for a few seconds I began to wonder if maybe it was the North Star because of how bright it was. After about 15 seconds, it broke into 4 other bright silver reflecting/star like light and then appeared to vanish or camouflage to the sky.
It has me so perplexed.
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A big ship like an egg but oval with lights on the bottom.
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Bright large round object that projects some type of cicular wave fying by I routinely record timelapse of sunrise and sunsets. Great condition to see 'red skies" on Monday so I broadcast the sunset live on Instagram and also recording a timelaspe to post later. Stopped all recording after sun was down.
Still really clouds flowing so I started a new time-lapse 7:37pm - 10:34pm. Downloaded the file and did a quick view before deleting as intended. The flying object showed up a 7:54.
I'm close to a small aiport so I'm seeing planes all the time gut nothing like this. I looks huge compared to the other planes flying by that night. It caught my attention immediately and then it does something that projects forward that resembles a sonic smoke right.
Captured on a Wyze 2k camera with timestamps.
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Slow flying and rotating huge Triangle As my partner and I were driving home very early that morning I noticed what appeared to be the lights from three airplanes on the approach to Hicks Field just SW of me in Saginaw, TX. I thought there was about to be a collision between the three lights until I noticed that the three white lights moved in tandem with each other. As I watched it became apparent they were part of a single craft.
As it got closer the lights continued to move. The triangle was slowly rotating, if I remember correctly, in a clockwise motion. So no point or side was a leading edge as it came in my direction.
It flew with the bottom slightly angled/elevated so that I could always see the three lights on the bottom. As the Triangle got almost overhead I heard what sounded like a very vague HUM. It was so soft that had there been any other noise I would have never heard the hum.
I am not sure if because it was so vague that there was a “pulse” in the hum. It was difficult to tell since it was so quiet. As the rotating Triangle began passing overhead it slowly turned in a more Eastward direction.
It was such a gentle slow turn, while rotating and so huge. It was stunning to watch. As the lights at the corners came overhead I thought how they looked “flat”.
It reminded me of recessed ceiling lights. The lights were not very bright and simply looked like diffused soft white bulbs. The lights were seamless in the bottom corners of the triangle.
As the middle of this triangle came virtually overhead what appeared to be a blue/purplish "haze like" light in the center. I tried to focus on one of the edges or corners of the Triangle as it passed. It was so dark though that without the lights on the corner bottoms I could barely make out the entire shape.
The sides and corners seemed rounded but it was so dark. Up until that moment I really considered I was seeing a low flying dirigible of the Air Force from Carswell AFB (Now NAS) in Ft. Worth.
And I thought it was extremely stupid to be flying low across the approach of an airport. That was until I realized how big it was. I have seen dirigibles many times and they are loud when that close.
This was silent. And the rotation!? The tilt? A triangle? No dirigible could fly like that. I could not take my eyes off the triangle.
It silently moved away and towards the approach of Alliance Airport runway. But as it moved East I lost sight of the lights as the tilt of the triangle was now away from me. The top of the triangle had no lights and was just a black mass disappearing away from me.
As the Triangle moved away I got out a camera I had in the back seat. I tried to get it in the viewfinder but it was so difficult to see in the dark that it was impossible through the camera. I took some quick pics of where I thought it was but the images came out to nothing.
I was telling my partner what I was seeing but he would not get out of the car. And would not look up. I have asked him for years why he did not get out and look.
To this day he just says he doesn't know.
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Lights flashing and hovering Saw flashing light over our heads and when it stopped we saw 4 lights In a square pattern and after a few min it disappeared . night was clear but only clouds were where ufo was sitting at.
Texas UFO Sightings From 2023 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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Orb | 34 reported sightings | 15.96% of all reports |
Light | 32 reported sightings | 15.02% of all reports |
Circle | 27 reported sightings | 12.68% of all reports |
Changing | 19 reported sightings | 8.92% of all reports |
Unknown | 12 reported sightings | 5.63% of all reports |
Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 5.16% of all reports |
Sphere | 10 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
Oval | 9 reported sightings | 4.23% of all reports |
Other | 9 reported sightings | 4.23% of all reports |
Fireball | 7 reported sightings | 3.29% of all reports |
Disk | 7 reported sightings | 3.29% of all reports |
Rectangle | 6 reported sightings | 2.82% of all reports |
Cylinder | 5 reported sightings | 2.35% of all reports |
Formation | 5 reported sightings | 2.35% of all reports |
Cigar | 5 reported sightings | 2.35% of all reports |
Chevron | 4 reported sightings | 1.88% of all reports |
Star | 3 reported sightings | 1.41% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 0.94% of all reports |
Cube | 2 reported sightings | 0.94% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 0.94% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.47% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.47% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2023 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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August | 41 reported sightings | 19.25% of all reports |
July | 38 reported sightings | 17.84% of all reports |
October | 38 reported sightings | 17.84% of all reports |
May | 14 reported sightings | 6.57% of all reports |
January | 13 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
February | 13 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
April | 13 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
September | 10 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
June | 10 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
November | 9 reported sightings | 4.23% of all reports |
December | 7 reported sightings | 3.29% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 3.29% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2023 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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Sunday | 48 reported sightings | 22.54% of all reports |
Saturday | 39 reported sightings | 18.31% of all reports |
Friday | 38 reported sightings | 17.84% of all reports |
Wednesday | 32 reported sightings | 15.02% of all reports |
Tuesday | 24 reported sightings | 11.27% of all reports |
Thursday | 19 reported sightings | 8.92% of all reports |
Monday | 13 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2023 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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07/23/23 | 22 reported sightings | 10.33% of all reports |
10/13/23 | 17 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
08/26/23 | 12 reported sightings | 5.63% of all reports |
01/01/23 | 4 reported sightings | 1.88% of all reports |
08/18/23 | 3 reported sightings | 1.41% of all reports |
Texas UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 105 reported sightings | 49.30% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 42 reported sightings | 19.72% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 32 reported sightings | 15.02% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 7.04% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 12 reported sightings | 5.63% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 3.29% of all reports |
All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2023
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Texas, in 2023
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Texas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Texas.