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Analysis of El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings in 2003
We analyzed all 6 UFO sighting reports in El Paso, Texas to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "cigar" (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- October was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sunday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 01/16/03 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the early morning, between the hours of 04:00 - 07:59 (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
UFO Reports in El Paso, Texas from 2003
These El Paso, Texas UFO reports from 2003 are 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).
Full Report Text:
round object moving very slowly has no kem trail while another obvious jet does dissapears then NASA's jets start flyin around. I was going out to the payphone this morning and noticed something shining in the sky, i called my son over to see it and asked if he could see it.he said yes so i assumed it was a plane , but i kept my eye on it.
while i was on the phone I noticed another plane however this one was leaving a trail i looked over at what i thought was a plane and no trail at all it was a cold morning as well. when the glare was off of it it appeared round. when i went back to my door it dissapeared.
Shortly after this thing was gone NASA's planes started flying around.we have a small NASA training center here they have those zero gravity traing jets and a couple of what look like f-15 jets camoflauged in light blues these are the ones i saw flyin around right after that thing disappeared.
Full Report Text:
An unknown object was seen floating in a deserted place not far from homes. The unknown object was seen on the sky, not so high and not so low. Above a deserted area but not far from homes.
I was driving along with five other people when, I being the driver was checking what was ahead of me and that's when I saw a strange object in the sky with a bright orange/yellow light blinking on/off. That's when I told the other passangers to check that out and everyone agreed that it wasn't an airplane or a helicopter. All the passangers and I have lived in this town for quite some time and we know the difference between most of the airplanes and helicopters because El Paso has an airport, army base, and it's a border town.
We always have commercial airplanes,army jets, and helicopters in the sky so we already know how they look and sound. But this object was just floating in the sky for about 4-6 minutes in the same place. The object didn't move from that exact place in those 4-6 minutes it was just flashing a orange/yellow light on and off.
Then suddenly the object will move forward and backward in a very rapid speed. We could se it really close because it wasn't that high in the sky, and we could see the fast speed it moved forward and backward and then staying in the same place again were it was floating the first time. No commercial airplane, helicopter, or army jet I have seen in this town has moved so fast and be so low.
And I've seen all kinds of army jets, some I saw about a month ago because we had a Air Show and was able to see all kinds of jets. Then after 4-6 minutes this object suddenly moved from the deserted place to a place were there's more lights were you could find stores,malls, and fast food places. For what I saw, he was close to a WalMart in east El Paso, just floating in top and flashing the same light again but this time he was floating higher in the sky then the object continued to move further away and I couldn't see it anymore.
((NUFORC Note: Date of the sighting is unknown to us, but we assume it is not in the year 1904, as the witness/student indicates. We have requested clarification. PD)).
Full Report Text:
A large white round object moving slowly across the sky and helicopters flying near the vicinity. My 8 yr. old son and I were working on my car at about 1:15 p.
m. in the afternoon, when I heard two military helicopters flying overhead and they were making so much noise I kept looking at them. When they soon left I saw a round light moving slowly but not following the copters.
It look like the sun but smaller, maybe the size of an airplane and I couldn't tell the distance it was. It was a hazy color so anyone could look directly at it. I couldn't make out what it was.
It wasn't a plane or not even a weather balloon. But I have a feeling the military was there keeping an eye on it. I didn't hear anything on the news or paper about it.
Full Report Text:
A distant ball of blue and orange light that disappeared after rapidly moving at a downward angle. We were driving down the mountain when we saw a bright blue and orange light coming at a diagonal from the sky to the earth's surface. It did not leave any trail but was moving at a very high speed.
The bright light then suddenly disappeared but did so before getting anywhere near the earth. There were no clouds near the object in the sky so the light was clearly visible. The object just appeared to be a ball of light that left no debris as it traveled.
((NUFORC Note: We are not certain whether the sighting occurred during daylight hours, or whether it occurred just after midnight. We will attempt to verify the time. PD)).
Full Report Text:
cigar shaped craft hovering over the neighborhood After delivering newspapers I was headed to another person's home at 4:30 am. As I headed down the residentual street a large craft appeared. It was hovering and had white lights on top and red lights on the "back"- kinda like the back of a car.
It was very large and I ran to the house and woke up my friends who came out and were flabergasted at the sight. We stood in the middle of the road watching it go slowly back and forth. my friend's wife ran into the house to get a camera and by the time she came out the craft just disappeared.
It was huge, almost 5 times the size of a large aircraft.
Full Report Text:
Cigar shaped object in eastern sky. At 7:26 this morning I was pulling out of my driveway to take my children to school. As I pulled out I noticed a very bright object in the eastern sky.
At first, because of its location directly above the sun, the object appeared to resemble a bright ball of light in the sky. But after a few seconds the object started to move to the northeast revealing its true shape, which resembled a cigar. The object was tilted at a 45 degree angle as it moved through the sky.
I can only guess the altitude or distance it was from us, but from what we saw it was a very big object. It continued to move east/northeast and eventually disappeared. I did not literally see it disappear or shoot off towards the eastern sky, I discribe it this way because I turned my head to yell at my wife, who was in the garage, to look at the UFO and as I turned back to look at the object it was gone.
There was also a plane in eastern sky, but it was far off in the distance. My 12 year old daughter also witnessed the entire event.
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2003 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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Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2003 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 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2003 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 | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2003 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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01/16/03 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
10/24/03 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
11/07/03 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
08/31/03 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
07/27/03 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2003 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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Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
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