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Analysis of El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings in 2009
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 "triangle" (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- May was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- Thursday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 06/30/09 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (3 reports, 50.00% of total).
UFO Reports in El Paso, Texas from 2009
These El Paso, Texas UFO reports from 2009 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:
3 unknown objects moving across the el paso sky Around 10pm and 10:15pm my husband and I were sitting in our backyard talking. As I looked up to see the big bright star, I noticed that there were three objects moving in a straight line same distance away from eachother and same pace. The objects that I saw were as bright as a dull looking star.
I couldn't really see the shape because they were far. I waited a few seconds before I told my husband because I wanted to make sure they were moving and that I just wasnt seeing things. I pointed them out to him and we continued to watch them go.
I whistled at my daughter to come out and when she did. I pointed them out to her by this time they were above my home, they were pretty high up, we thought it was impossible for them to be planes. We couldn't see them anymore after they moved towards the front of our house.
Full Report Text:
When I lived in El Paso TX, my roomates told me about this light that they see repeatedly out the window. They showed me one night, and after that, I would see it as often as they would, my roomates told me that there is no air ports or anything like that that far away. We where on the east side of El Paso looking straight south into Mexico, the object was always a super bright shining light and looked to be 150-300 miles away, and always slowly came to the surface of the earth, it took about one minute for it to do this.
Some nights I would also see it multiple times. and one night I saw the object fly up really fast in to the air then disappear. sometimes the light would have a red tint to it.
((NUFORC Note: We cannot identify the object, of course, but we have no reason to believe that it was a genuine UFO. Date in 2009 is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Triangular blueish lights seen over El Paso, TX. Three lights in blueish color were seen in El Paso, TX roughly at 2300. Lights were seen for a short time above cloud cover.
I was unable to see the actual shape but the lights did reflect threw the clouds . The lights were shaped in a trianular pattern. As I looked up i noticed the lights but heard no engine noise and did not see a red blinking light associated with commercial or military aircraft.
When I turned away the lights travel towards the north west so quick that I lost visual contact with the lights in the clouds, I tried to locate them again in a cloud break but was unable to see it again. I have no type of video or photograph item with me. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
3 lights form triangle in el paso texas well i didnt know that i was seing something diferent at first un till i noticed that it was moving slower than a plain it looked as if it was waiting looking for something it was odd to see something like that i was having a beer outside and was buzzing so i went inside to get my friend to see if he could see it too and he told me that it was a plain but then he noticed that it stayed at one place then move slow ly to another i dont know how far it was from the place we saw it it looked no biger than a pack of tick taks it was a triangle 3 lights forming a triangle and they mooved onto diferent directions too but they would keep a triangle shape when they got together. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
unmoving object hanging in west texas sky. i I spotted the object shortly after the sun passed blow the horizon. I was looking at the El Paso Star through my binoculars and noticed 2 objects silhouetted aprox.
2 mils above the horizon, at a magnetic azmuth of 275 degrees (west). one of the obeject turned out to be an airplane, and continued to watch the other object believing it to be an airplane also. After the object hadn't moved or changed for 5 min i called my wife out to look.
she whatched it for a few minutes and i continued to watch till darkness hid the silhouette. the object didn't move change shape or size, and hung in the air the way man made things don't. I am a US Army veteran.
Full Report Text:
Cluster of lights over western Franklin Mountain Range in El Paso Tx, within seconds diamond shaped blue light formation appearing. I am a twenty six year old Army Spc. stationed at Ft.
Bliss, TX. My Fiance is a twenty five year old accountant major studying in her final semester at the University of Texas in El Paso. My friend is a twenty year old Army Spc.
stationed at Ft. Bliss as well. My fiance and I were at this friends apartment in central El Paso between the hours of 1830 and 0200.
The electricity in El Paso was disrupted due to a vehicle collision with a power transformer approximately around 0015. Clear skies with stars brightly visible with a low smoggy haze in the south western end of El Paso. We stepped outside to determine if other neighboring apartments had lost power along with my friends apartment when my friend noticed an unknown number of white/yellow lights traveling across the Franklin Mountain range above the western end of El Paso.
Pointing our attention to the western skies of El Paso, my fiance and he both witnessed the cluster of lights disappearing over the mountain traveling east. I did not witness the lights due to a highway sign obstructing my exact view. Not able to see the lights in the western skies I turned my attention directly to the skies above me and on an angle looking towards the east.
I then witnessed four dull blue/white balls of lights in a diamond shape pattern approximately two to three miles above me traveling east to west at an unknown high rate of speed. The pattern of lights then slowed and came to a stop directly above me. At that time I grabbed my fiance's arm and pointed directly to the lights above us.
She witnessed the formation as well. The four lights then seemingly holding its pattern turned directly straight to the ground the forward light now at the bottom of the diamond (creating the pattern of an upside down diamond), this all taking maybe two to three seconds. It within seconds of repositioning itself continued moving towards the west at a high rate of speed.
As the pattern was heading west, the far left light darted directly out of the formation to a dis! tance ap proximately a half of one mile to the north east and then snapped back into formation within one second. The formation continued to the west until it was no longer visible. My friend did not witness these lights as he was still scanning for the lights that travelled across the Franklin Mountains.
Five to ten minutes passed while we continued watching the sky above us as well as the skies above the mountain range. My friend then witnessed and called our attention to a dull dark orange ball that was only noticeable due to the street and parking lights below it. It was approximately the size of a seventy five centimeter exercise ball hovering one hundred yards above the ground, two hundred yards to the west of where we were standing, above a one story building.
The ball darted slowly one or two feet to the left, then up one or two feet, then right one or two feet, it then slowly traveled away from us moving west at an very slow speed, possibly three to five miles an hour, until it was no longer visible due to the smoggy haze or beyond the street lights that were illuminating it. We continued watching the sky for an additional ten minutes until retreating back inside the apartment and out of the forty five degree night air.
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2009 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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Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2009 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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May | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2009 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 | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2009 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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06/30/09 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
04/18/09 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
03/01/09 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
05/21/09 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
05/27/09 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
El Paso, Texas UFO Sightings From 2009 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 | 3 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
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