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By Billy Booth, About.com Guide to UFOs / Aliens since 2005

UFO Sightings Continue in Texas

Monday January 28, 2008
I have now looked over close to 100 sighting reports from the state of Texas lately, and here are a couple that I found very interesting. Also, very soon, I will be linking us up to a very compelling video taken over Stepheville, Texas on January 8, the night of the most sightings.

Texas-01-07-08-I was going down my inside staircase at 7:45 PM on January 7, 2008. I noticed a big, bright, light on the other side of the highway (1/2mile from my house) through the window on the landing. I looked at it for a few minutes thinking it was a low flying plane with landing lights. It didn't move. I went to the outside staircase on the top landing to get a better look. It was just a huge, very bright light not moving. As I watched, it began to move from the north to the south in a straight line. This was coming closer to my house.

It seemed to be following the fence line between my neighbor's house and mine. I was amazed at how big it was-which would be about the size of a big house. Now I could see it had lots of lights, some colored, some strobe type, some blinking, and some seemingly moving around. I was amazed because it made no sound until it got closer and then I could hear what sounded like a displacement of air. No motor or engine sound.

This thing would have been very difficult to miss. It got to a place that seemed to be on the other side of my barn but still going very slowly and it turned a very quick 45 degree turn and started picking up speed. It then sort of just whooshed off very fast going due east. My neighbor had in the meantime gotten his binoculars and I said I could no longer see it except a faint light in the east. He said definitely it was a helicopter. Any plane or copter makes a noise. One can usually hear a copter before you see it around here. I work with horses outside and know this for fact as they disrupt the horses with the noise. This was not a plane or copter or anything else I have ever seen in the air or anywhere.

I was fascinated more than afraid. I couldn't take my eyes off of it to run get a camera. I then called my sister in Montana and my Mother in Houston to tell them about it. I later heard the reports in Stephenville, Texas, and felt better about talking about it.

But still most people don't believe me and the ones that do all wish they'd seen it too. I have sent lots of these reports in to different addresses but haven't heard from anyone. It was not a mile long but definitely huge. Originally posted by Judy Siracusa, from a MUFON report.

Texas-01-26-08-I was sleeping when a loud object like a helicopter flew real low over my house. Then it did it again and again. I thought there were several objects, but I got up to look out the window and saw just one circling over and over. I went outside to get a better look. At first I thought it was a helicopter but it didn't have any searchlights turned on (no lights streaming down). It had lights only on the bottom.

There were 3 red ones in a row front to back, but in an irregular pattern (not a straight line) and a white one and a green or blue one. So a total of 5 lights on its underbelly. Its noise was loud like a plane or copter. It was flying very low and in quite a small radius, just circling the same part of my neighborhood. It did this for a long time, possibly as long as 30 minutes.

I called the police station to ask if they had received any calls and they said they had a lot of them. The dispatcher said "We're looking for somebody, but we don't see anything." I assumed it was a copter looking for a fugitive, but when I called the police today to see if they caught anyone, she claimed she didn't know anything about it and said "we don't have a press release," which I thought was odd.

When I googled the "light arrangements" of copters and planes, I could not find one that met this description, so I am sending this in as unidentified. Before, during and after this event I had a terrible headache, much worse than any I might usually have. So, was this a helicopter, or something else? Name withheld-MUFON submitter.

Comments

January 28, 2008 at 8:17 am
(1) Chance Metz says:

Aliens must love Texas!

February 4, 2008 at 10:41 pm
(2) "ltscame down" says:

hey! this is my sighting ! Thanks…please reply to me if you think it could be some type of plane or copter. This took place in Leander, in Williamson County. Contact me if you need more details.

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