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Analysis of San Antonio, Texas UFO Sightings in 2003
We analyzed all 11 UFO sighting reports in San Antonio, Texas to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "light" (5 reports, 45.45% of total).
- May was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 18.18% of total).
- Wednesday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 36.36% of total).
- 08/20/03 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 18.18% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (8 reports, 72.73% of total).
UFO Reports in San Antonio, Texas from 2003
These San Antonio, 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:
Flash of light and a light hovering in the clouds then disapearing My neighbor and I were standing out side of our homes talking on the sidewalk when a flash of light flashed. It was like a camera flash, but it was from above our heads, there was no planes or helicopters in the area and a very thin cloud cover. About 1 minute after the flash we were looking up into the sky and saw a small light in the thin clouds that looked like something was above the clouds with a light and the light was moving around slowly in a circle and then disapeared.
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Triangular Formation UFO Sighting 3 starlike objects in a Triangular Formation the shot 1/2 way down the Skyline, then Stopped abruptly, made a 90 degree Left and then 90 degree Right move. They then proceeded to shoot through a 3 star constellation in the Western sky until they faded. They looked like moving stars that moved about as faster than aircraft.
The Abrupt stop and 90 degree angular moves are what indicated to me and my youngest son that they were not human crafts. NO light Trails were seen.
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I saw what looked like a green laser shoot through the sky directly above me, making absolutely no sound. I was taking my only cigarette break outside of my job, when I was staring out into the parking lot. Something caught my eye directly above me, when I saw what looked like a green laser flying through the air.
It was going relatively fast in an Eastern direction. I followed it with my eyes when it just disappeared like vapor. It didn't seem to be too far in the sky and it made absolutely no noise at all.
The conditions outside were warm and muggy with partly cloudy skies.
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STAR LIKE OBJECT SOUTHEAST OF MARS FLASHING RED,GREEN BLUE. TWINKLING STAR TO THE NAKED EYE,BLUE RED AND GREEN FLASHING LIGHTS. I WAS SITTING ON THE FRONT PORCH OBSERVING MARS.
I NOTICED A STAR LIKE OBJECT SOUTH AND EAST OF MARS I WATCHED IT FOR A WHILE THINKING IT WAS A VERY DISTANT PLANE COMMING IN. THE LONGER I WATCHED IT THE MORE I NOTICED IT WAS NOT AN AIRPLANE. IT SEEM TO BE MOVING A LITTLE FASTER THAN MARS.
I WENT TO GET MY TELESCOPE AND LOOK CLOSER,I COULD ONLY MAKE OUT A STAR LIKE OBJECT BUT IT WAS TRULY FLASHING GREEN,BLUE AND RED. IT LASTED ABOUT TWO HOURS AND I WAS TIRED SO I WENT TO BED BUT IT WAS STILL VISIBLE. I WAS SEARCHING THIS MORNING ON THE INTERNET AND FOUND THAT ANOTHER PERSON IN SAN ANTONIO ALSO HAD SEEN THE SAME LIGHT 09/30/2000.
I DONT THINK THIS COULD BE A SATALITE IT IS MOVING WAY TO SLOW. MY TELESCOPE IS NOT VERY STRONG BUT ON THE STRONGEST SETTING THE OBJECT WOULD STAY IN VIEW ABOUT 45 SEC. CAN ANY ONE CONFIRM WHAT THIS THING IS.
((NUFORC Note: We suspect a celestial body would be the first possibility to be ruled out, before we could conclude that the individual had witnessed a "bona fide" UFO. PD)).
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three metallic spheres moving at great speeds and with difficult maneuvers, watched for 5-10 minutes One evening as I was watching my two daughters swim in our backyard pool, my youngest daughter looked up and said, "dad, what are those things in the sky, it is too early to see stars and it looks like they are moving?" I quickly glanced up and saw three very bright metallic spheres moving about in no particular formation or pattern. I ran into the house and grabbed my ziess binocs and viewed these objects for several minutes before one broke away at tremendous speed from the other two and disappeared in a matter of seconds. The other two seemed to circle each other until they appeared to be one object (could have been an elevation issue) and then the two were clearly present again as two objects.
The spheres were at a very high altitude behind a very bright blue sky with a setting sun. The objects were above what I consider cirrus or cirrus stratus clouds. Those skinny almost transluscent clouds.
Other than those clouds, the sky was totally clear and blue. The two remaining spheres simply disappeared while watching them. We did not get the impression that they sped away or climbed to an altitude that would prohibit our sight because of distance.
I own my own business, my father is a retired Brigadier General USAF. I know the difference between ballons and aircraft. I know what wind can do and how fast conventional aircraft maneuver across the horizon.
I dont know what we saw, but it was not ballons nor conventional aircraft and certainly not atmospheric phenomenon (these objects reflected sunlight). ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
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I came across an article discussing your involvement in UFO research. Well, I'm the kind of person that could go either way in believing about extraterrestrials visiting earth. I have a wonderfully vivid and creative imagination and this subject is very exciting indeed.
One afternoon on my way back into Austin, Texas, with a friend of mine I happened to look in the sky and noticed a black helicopter going by. This is of interest to me because I know this fellow who believes in conspiracies and what not and as a kind of joke I took a photo of the black helicopter, to light the fire underneath my friends ass so to speak. (I used a canon powershot S200 digital camera).
Anyway when I got home and downloaded it I noticed a shiny silver metal object way above the black helicopter. It wasn't until I read this article "Daylight Photos of UfO's" that I took my very own picture a little more seriously, I really would like to have someone outside of my circle of friends and family to see them and tell me what they think. I took this picture on the 17 of June this year around 8:00 pm while traveling down the Devil's backbone (hwy 337 I believe) on the SouthWest side of Canyon Lake (in between San Antonio and Austin).
It sure does look alot like the ones on the web site. I did take these pictures from a vehicle and the window was rolled up, as far as I can tell there was no object on the window itself to cause this type of reflection and I had no need of a flash so none was used. post the picture if you'd like but I'd like to remain anonymous.
Write back with your comments if time permits. Photo of this object can be found at: http://www3.telus.
net/public/wilbur8/united_states_ufo_reports.htm Thanks, Personal Information deleted by HBCC UFO) I would like to extend my thanks to the person you sent in the photo and story. Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research Canadian Toll Free UFO Hotline 1 866 262 1989 - Free call.
Editor: Canadian Communicator - Paranormal Magazine email: [email protected] Website: http://www3.telus.
net/public/wilbur8/hbcc_ufo_research.htm http://www.geocities.
com/hbccufo/home.html.
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Orbital Sighting Not Satellite or Meteor Was waiting for the International Space Station Pass to start at 22:05. Just after the ISS was to hit 10 deg alt, a steady light (sun reflected) passed from NW to E at a high rate of speed. The light moved faster than an unpowered satellite and was not a meteor.
There was a thin overcast of clouds but the craft still reflected at about 2 magnitude with only a couple of stars showing. The ISS followed on time and looked normal. ((NUFORC Note: One of two sighting reports from same source.
PD)).
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Orbital Sighting Not Satellite or Meteor Was waiting for the Hubble Space Telescope pass at 21:04. A sun reflected orbital light appeared from the WSW but picked up speed. It was much faster than an unpowered satellite.
As it reached SE it was joined from the south by a second orbital craft and then both sped to the east. The entire pass was approximately 50 seconds. The HST was behind them and on-time.
I've watched satellites for years and was shocked by the speed. It was my first unidentified sighting. I didn't report it sooner because I needed a second sighting (06/09/03) to erase doubt.
((NUFORC Note: One of two sighting reports from same source. PD)).
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The only dissapointment of it all is i DIDDNT have my camcorder on me. This was a weird experience and difficult to explain, but here it goes.My friends and I were sitting on the back porch of my friends apt complex.
We noticed a stream of smoke coming from the ground up, from a Jet. From the angle of it, and how it was flying gave the impression of a missle being launched in the middle of the city.sounds stange but totally true.
It looked like a missle being launched or a rocket, even the space shuttle. But it had to be just a jet flying over head?? Anyway, as we were sitting on my friends back porch talking about this, One of my fiends spotted a dark odject floating in the sky and moving right toward us, but way up high. And moving fast.
Not real fast but fast. It seem as if it were being propelled by wind like a kite or a balloon,but is was moving very directly.this is hard to explain but thats how it was.
The sun was setting at this time but there was still plenty of light. And this thing flew right over us.still way up high.
at this point we were able to see that this thing looked like a large bat wing.kind of like Batmans bat jet from the movies. It was dark, solid, and had no lights on it at all.
and it was silent. no sound at all could be heard from it. Stranger still is the we live in San antonio city, the whole city was awake and moving and I dont think anyone else in this whole city saw this incredibly amazing weird flying thing.
just us. ((NUFORC Note: We will request that the witness have the other individuals who saw the object submit reports. PD)).
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Red and green beams of light coming from a central bright (headlight appearing) object moving erratically in night sky. I was lying in bed looking out my sky window at the stars. I noticed one in particular that had a bright white light like headlights with what appeared to be red and green beams coming out of it.
They looked like spotlights. It was also a little cloudy that day but had cleared up. The object moved erratically and hovered.
I could see what I thought were sparks coming out of it as it moved or jutted around. It moved slowly like a helicopter but was too high in the sky to be a plane or helicopter. My husband also saw it and thought it was a star until he could see the colors of red and green.
It did not twinkle like a star. It moved very slow and all of a sudden would jutt left or right. I had been home most of the evening and my husband had come home a little later from work.
I thought about getting my video camera but it was late and my daughter was asleep. Did not want to wake her. ((NUFORC Note: If the witness was looking to the south, she may have been looking at the star, "Sirius," which is very bright, and quite colorful.
PD)).
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TWO STAR LIGHTS MOVING FAST AND VERY HIGH NORTH TO SOUTH I AM REQUIRED TO GO TO WORK EVERY OTHER WEEK AT 0530 WELL MONDAY I WENT IN TO WORK AS IM REQUIRED TO OPEN THE SCHOOLS SWIMMING POOL I DID THAT THEN I WALKED OUT AND WAS FACEING ROUGHLY ABOUT SOUTH EAST IN THE NIGHT SKY I COULD SEE A VERY BRIGHT STAR WHICH LATER I FOUND OUT WAS VENUS BUT AS I LOOKED AT VENUS I TURNED SOUTH I COULD SEE A LINE OF ABUOT FIVE STARS AND THEN SUDDENLY TWO BEGAN TO MOVE DOWNWARD OR FURTHER SOUTH AND THE ONE TO MY RIGHT BEGAN TO MOVE FASTER THAN THE ONE ON THE LEFT AND BEGAN TO GET BRIGHTER AND THEN THEY JUST FADED AND DISSAPEARED WHAT WAS THAT?.
San Antonio, 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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Light | 5 reported sightings | 45.45% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
San Antonio, 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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May | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
San Antonio, 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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Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 36.36% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
San Antonio, 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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08/20/03 | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
02/09/03 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
06/17/03 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
09/23/03 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
05/29/03 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
San Antonio, 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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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 8 reported sightings | 72.73% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Other Years with Reported UFO sightings in San Antonio, Texas
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All Texas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2003
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