This story was reported on a local TV station at 10 PM the same day and the video footage of the rescue is available at the front gate of Ellington Field.
Below is the issued press release:
Coast Guard Medevacs 3, Including 11-Year-Old BoyA UFOArea reader in Texas became interested in this story and contacted the Coast Guard.
Houston - The Coast Guard medevaced a family of three, including an 11-year-old boy, today from the Intracoastal Waterway near High Island, Texas.
A watchstander a Coast Guard Sector Houston/Galveston received a call for help over the radio at 4:45 p.m. The family was disoriented and complained that their bodies felt like they were slowing down. When asked, they could not remember their birthdays or weight.
Coast Guard Air Station Houston crews launched an HH-65C Dolphin helicopter to assist. They arrived at the boat at 5:35 p.m. and quickly hoisted the family into the helicopter. The family was then brought to Herman Memorial Hospital in Houston.
Video footage of the rescue is available at the front gate of Ellington Field.
Source:United States Coast Guard
It was indeed a surprise when the Coast Guard responded by saying that they did not have any information about this incident. When our reader called the Coast Guard again the next day, they explained that a rescue team did in fact pick up the family, but they were unwilling to provide additional information.
"I asked if there were something, they could tell us about it and they said they had taken care of it and wouldn't tell us anything else. The TV station said to go to Ellington Field and we could see the film. They would not let us see them", says UFOArea's reader.
They couldn't remember their names or weight? Isn't that a really odd thing to ask someone? What is your name? What is your weight (not where do you live, what day is it, how old are you, what year is it)? Is this some sort of code to signal something to people who read this story? Maybe that's the standard Coast Guard 'second question', but sure seems odd to me.