Austin, Texas UFO Sightings in 2001

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Firework like flash looking like one lighted point hitting another and creating short spark shower, then dissapears. Firework like flash looking like one lighted point hitting another and creating short spark shower, then dissapears. ((NUFORC Note: We believe the date of the incident might be October 31, 2001.

We have changed the date here, and we have requested confirmation from the witness. PD)) ((RESPONSE)) Hello Peter, Sorry yes you are correct it was 30 minutes past Midnight making it Wednesday AM the 31st. I don't know what I was thinking! Thanks ((name deleted)) ((END RESPONSE)).

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UFO Sighting in Austin, TX, over UT/Capital Night Before 9/11 I have kept this a secret for many years because I never knew what to do with the information. I always thought the experience was awe inspiring and that the timing of the event was extremely coincidental. But in retrospect, after flipping backwards through my journal, ANY EVENT BEFORE 9-11 is significant.

I have searched for others' reports of UFO activity on 9-10 but have found none, and therefore find it useful to finally let this information out for the universe to chew on. Here is my journal entry: "Monday 10 - Nighttime.walking back from Starbucks, I see a trapazoid shaped object flying through the sky.

underneath this object were [many] faint lights.about 600-900ft off ground." Context: I was an engineering student at the University of Texas at the time and was walking back to my dorm at the time.

I was standing right outside the University Coop on Guadalupe St., looking up above the UT Tower. I was waiting at the crosswalk and had nothing better to do other than look up, when suddenly, I noticed these lights traveling at great speed.

At first I thought I was seeing birds illuminated by the UT Tower, but then birds don't travel that high, that smoothly, that quickly. The object was flying southbound passing nearly above the UT Tower, traveling towards the Texas Congressional building. Now I'm no expert, but I would assume that any area above UT/Texas Congress would be restricted, a no-fly zone.

My memory may be hazy here but I would say it traveled about a mile in 5 seconds. That's roughly 720 mi/hr. I only say a mile because that's what I would estimate a normal person can see at night looking up.

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Conical shaped oject with purple lights on the underside seen near a Home Depot store. Conical christmas tree like shape seen floating over a Home Depot. Object moved up and down and slowly circled.

Absolutely silent, the object was witnessed by many. There was also talk of it on a local radio station this morning on my way into work. People saw the same object near Dallas, with many witnesses there as well.

The sighting in the Dallas area was near a Target store.not sure of city.

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low-flying, helicopter-sounding, aircraft or circle shaped (from underneath), and had few lights + bright spotlight We were talking around the hot tub in our backyard when we spotted what we thought was a helicopter spotlight about three houses down. The light was stopped very close to the ground and we thought that it was a law enforcement helicopter searching for something. We walked up to the back porch thinking that there might be a criminal in the area, and stood by the door.

As we watched, the light then moved towards our house and was out of my view (we were standing on the bottom deck). Once it reached the house, it came back into view. It sounded like a helicopter and my mom said that she heard it from inside her bed room.

I never saw the actual shape due to the intensity of the spotlight, but when it came up to the house, we could clearly see the bottom of the object. It was round and with a few white lights on the bottom. It appeared to be a white, or light grey color.

It flew over the house very slowly so that we had a good thirty seconds to see the bottom of it. It was a very strange looking helicopter, if that's what it was. The spotlight was very intense.

It lit the pool area as it flew by. I'm normally very skeptic of U.F.

O. sightings, and am not confinced that it was one, but would like to find something to explain this object. It was extremely low, sounded like a helicopter, shaped like an aircraft or circle from underneath, and had a few lights including a very bright spotlight.

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Driving soutth on Mo Pac Expressway, I saw two black cigar shaped objects hovering. Driving to work south on MO PAC expressway. One the west side about a mile or two away, I saw two black cigar shaped objects hovering.

They looked like blimps. At first I thought they were helicoptors but they were too high. I drove into the parking garage and made my way to the opposite side of the building where I could get a better view.

The objects were gone but in thier place where three contrails intersecting to form a triangle around the area where I saw the objects. One of the contrails had been formed by a jet that was still visible. Once I made my way into work I looked out the window and saw another jet making its way to the same general area.

The objects couldnt have been blimps because the dissapreared to quickly and they couldnt have been helicopters becaue they were hovering pretty high and there were no visible rotors.

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HUGE blazing falling object (NOT the Mir). OK, this was not so much a "craft", per se, as something enormous burning and fallng very slowly to Earth. NOTE: This was NOT the MIR, as this event was the Monday before.

At sunset this past Monday, several people including myself, all abslutely stone-cold-sober, were at a Texaco gas station located on a high hill, at the intersection of "Exposition" and "Westover" in West Austin. "We" consists of myself, a 50-year-old semi-disabled retiree and college student; my son, ((deleted))l, 28, who works for a prestegious ((deleted)) company, doing precision ((deleted)) work; ((deleted)) friend and co-worker, ((deleted)); two adult male Service Station mechanics. They were fixing a truck my sonhad just bought the day before at an auction, and we all met there to check out the progress.

My brother, ((deleted)), a photographer, who didn't have his camera and I could just kick him, had just been there to check out Joel's truck and had just driven away. A few minutes after ((deleted)) left, around 6:30pm or so, he called on this cell phone very excitedly and told us to immediately go out and look to the West in the sky. He said there was this amazing streak of fire falling really slowly toward the horizon.

By the time we got outside, whatever it was had just broken up into three distinct pieces, all of which continued to fall incredibly slowly to the horizon. I guess they wer e at about 40 degrees or so up from the horizon when we first saw them. ((deleted)) rported it was higher when he saw it, and it was falling very rapidly.

apparently when it broke apart, it started falling more slowly? Anyway, we first assumed it was the "Mir" falling (we obviously weren't real up on the details about when that was supposed to happen last Monday, although we know all about it now), but then we were reminded that "Mir" wasn't going to fall for a few more days. I was immeditaely concerned that it could be our space shuttle, which was also up there somewhere. But whatever it was really seemed like it must have been bigger thaftn that.

We were amazed at how high and HUGE this object must have been, since it was probably 15-20 minutes at least before it finally disappeared into the horizon. We rushed home and swiched on the news, but, amazingly again, ther was NOTHING!! We've watched all week, but NOTHING (but the "Mir", big deal. This object looked to be WAY West of Austin, Texas, as we were looking pretty much due West, I think.

It wasn't dark yet, and we could all clearly see that this was in no way anything but something ON FIRE, not contrails or anything "routine". We've ALL been walking around in question marks all week! Help! Has anyone else reported anything? For the sake of our fragile sanity, we'd sure appreciate a quick response of some kind, if only to tell us you're checking on it.

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This is in response to the orange lights seen west of Austin. This is exactly where Fort Hood is located. The largest ARMY base in the free world does " field " exercises and they send up tons of flares .

Trust me I believe in ufo's etc. but, I am from Fort Hood and am well to aware of what you described seeing :-).

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two others and I saw a number of lights in the sky A friend and I were driving back to Austin from Lockhart on Highway 183 heading north when we saw a small "group of lights". We acknowledged the lights for only a second at first, until they got so bright we pulled over. It was one'o clock in the morning but the lights were so bright we could see all around us like it way day.

When we pulled over another car parked and watched with us. Then our car radio began making this noise, not at all like static, but a banging frequency sound is the only way to describe it. There were about four to six of them, hovering the sky above us.

They were vey small but were very bright. They were red at when still but a whiteish-blue when moving. They had no particular shape to them, round when still and flat when moving.

They "whistled" when they moved, a very high pitched sound. They were so close at one time we had to cover our ears because of the sound. They were flying in all angles, speeding and stopping freely.

They had no particular formation but they stayed in a close group. Lights shot out from them that looked like it was behind them but wasnt. They stayed directly above us, and it was strange because we were the only part of the area that was lit up.

This lasted for about half an hour then they shot across the sky and vanished.