Comment: The following are three different witness reports form the UFO Examiner by Roger Marsh. All three sightings were on March 31, at approximately 8:30 pm in Texas.
© MUFON databaseWitness illustration from the last report (Breckenridge, Texas) in this article.
"First I saw one light...then two lights...then 5 lined up in a straight vertical line...the next sighting they were 4 horizontal...each time they lasted just a few seconds...the whole event was just about minute and 1/2. I got my wife to see witness them also," the witness stated.
The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Texas MUFON State Director Ken Cherry investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.
Texas, March 31, 2010 - Orange lights appeared...up to 5 ...in straight vertical lines...then 4 in horizontal lines...then in circles. MUFON Case # 22599.
Lights appeared south east of my house in Abilene Texas...15 or so degrees on the horizon putting them in Callahan county around hwy 36 somewhere near the Pecan Bayou or Eula area.
I was sitting on my back porch when I first saw them at 8:30 on March 31'st. First I saw one light...then two lights...then 5 lined up in a straight vertical line...the next sighting they were 4 horizontal...each time they lasted just a few seconds...the whole event was just about minute and 1/2. I got my wife to see witness them also...
She saw up to 3 lights and then went back to her TV show...I told her to bring me some aluminum foil. I'm 57 years old lived around planes all my life...I can tell you the type of jet plane flying over by the engine noise and sound...I have seen flares, afterburners, lights...these I cannot explain. They were like little 'm' s or spheres and mostly orange...they had no comet tails...they did not move once they appeared. They did appear in different locations each time...but not too far from their last appearance.
What got my attention was a plane was landing at Abilene Municipal Airport when the object appeared behind the plane... I thought the plane might be in trouble and started to call 911 to report it...I watched and the plane went on to land but the lights were still appearing behind the plane...The aircraft landing was a probably a commercial flight coming from DFW. This is the second time I have seen the lights...First time I just blew it off...told my wife and she got a good laugh...Not this time.
Fort Hood is 180 miles southeast of Abilene and I'm sure I could not see activity from where my house is...I have seen many dog fights from aircraft around Lake Brownwood area but these were not afterburners or flares that are dropped to confuse heat sinking missiles...I have seen those before at many air shows...they are like sparklers that drop in altitudes...these would just appear and disappear quickly.
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A Texas witness watched a series of lights over Dublin on March 31, 2010, that blinked white and blue, then turned bright orange, blinked the original colors, and turned orange again, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)database.
"Then those went out and the orange lights dimmed to the flashing lights again. They then began to speed across the sky and then more lights showed up. Once again they turned bright orange then dimmed and sped around then brightened again."
Texas, March 31, 2010 - Several blinking objects appeared then burst into larger orange lights then disappeared. MUFON Case # 22597.
My son and I were driving home to Dublin from Cottonwood Baptist Church on Highway 6 at about 8:30 p.m. When we got about a mile outside of Dublin proper we noticed two blinking lights in the sky.
They were blinking white and blue and were very subtle looking. Then they turned big and bright orange. They sat there for about 15 seconds then dimmed to the subtle flashing lights again. Then they turned the bright orange again. But this time just one of the orange lights had a stream of 5 or 6 lights come from it.
Then those went out and the orange lights dimmed to the flashing lights again. They then began to speed across the sky and then more lights showed up. Once again they turned bright orange then dimmed and sped around then brightened again.
Sometimes there would just be one light sometimes there would be several . . . as many as 4 or 5. Only one time did I hear a sound from them. It sounded like a jet had flown by but it came from the lights.
After watching them for about 20 minutes doing this repeatedly I had to leave. But I came back about 10 minutes later with my son and daughter this time. We looked for them again but never saw them. While we were sitting there though two jets flew by at a very high rate of speed and within 5 minutes two more flew by. I do have pictures but have not been able to download them to my computer yet. They are still on my iphone.
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Two Texas witnesses watched a series of lights southeast of Breckenridge at 8:30 p.m. on March 31, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
Texas, March 31, 2010 - Several orange/white lights appear, then disappear several times. MUFON Case # 22591.
My spouse and I saw some strange lights south/southeast of Breckenridge, Texas, at 8:30 PM this evening. The lights were in the direction of Eastland but possibly further south.
I spent the last hour before dusk, planting beans and peas in our plowed field. I had just finished for the day and was standing at the NE corner of the field, with a clear 360 degree view of the sky.
I was observing a few stars barely discernible above me when something made me look to my south. Suddenly a bright white/orange light appeared, then 4 more next to (east of) it. The four came on all at once. They all blinked off at the same time. These lights were approx. 10 degrees above the southern horizon. The lights only appeared for a few seconds each time.
I ran to the house, yelling for my husband to "Come quick, UFOs!" (I didn't know what they were at the time, still don't). I grabbed my binoculars and by the time we got to the field, the lights were gone but as we stood there, a light appeared, then 3 more in a loose triangle formation. They all blinked out at the same time, then slightly further east they all appeared again. Each time they blinked out, they would appear a bit further east until I could no longer see them because of the treeline.
Moments later, we saw at least 1 jet flying into that area and it was tiny in comparison to the lights.
After the lights were gone, my husband said, "What is that?" He pointed up at about 65 -70 degrees ESE and said, "Watch that star, it's moving." I watched it through the binoculars. I told him it was probably a satellite but then the object did something that satellites do not do, it altered course from ENE to due east and then a few moments later, it disappeared.
I contacted Robert Powell (MUFON) and described what I had seen. We discussed it and he sent me a video of flares he had taken sometime earlier. My husband (a military aviation veteran) and I watched the video. The flares in the video did not resemble what we saw tonight. My husband is adamant that what we saw were not flares and I do not believe they were either.
Evidently we were not the only ones to see these lights tonight. I have a blog called "Lights in the Texas Sky". A short while ago, someone posted to my blog what they also saw this evening and it matches very closely to what Joe and I saw.
Here is their report/comment:
"Tonight 3/31/10 around eight thirty PM we saw about 10 flashing lights. it would appear for about 1-3 seconds as a bright orange light, disappear for about the same time, then come back. But when it reappeared, rather than there only being one there would be multiple. This is about our forth time to see these things and we only see them at night but they are always the same thing. An orange light that flashes a few times then disappears and we don't see it again the rest of the night."
If I hear back from the poster, I will send any information to Mr. Powell.
I am including in this report, 3 depictions of what Joe and I saw.
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