© Getty ImagesGlowing lights floating in the sky on a foggy winter night.
According to social media videos from Texans, the phenomenon was observed in cities like Dallas, Galveston, Abilene and Houston.
Outside of state lines, people reported similar-looking sightings in North Carolina and Arizona.
A TikTok video recorded in Dallas shows three bright lights seen Nov. 30 by residents who said they were driving on State Highway 121. Beneath the figures, an airplane can be more easily identified while it flies at a horizontal angle.
"I've lived here my entire life, and I have never seen anything like this," the TikTok user captioned the post. "They would disappear and reappear in different formations."
The video's location labels that it was captured near the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, but the user was positive the lights were not airplanes, they commented.
"People don't understand how we know the difference living right here," the TikTok user said in a post.
A separate TikTok account posted a different angle of the lights from another part of Highway 121. Another user commented that when they got up around 4 a.m., only two remained, but they moved higher up in the sky.
On the same evening, a Northwest Houston resident posted a video depicting three white and orange lights forming a triangle in the sky. Recorded at 7 p.m., the video prompted further speculation among viewers about the nature of the lights.
"I don't know what those are... it's got to be jets or planes or something," the TikTok user says in the video.
On Dec. 1, a Galveston resident claimed they also saw strange lights in the night sky, this time over the Gulf of Mexico.
"There was a lot of light pollution, but they were so bright in real life, the TikTok user said in the post. "At least 15 bright lights at varying heights in the sky...saw a helicopter, and the difference was obvious."
While some viewers in the comments agreed the figures may have been unworldly creatures paying Earth a visit, others said Texans were actually just seeing airplanes lined up to land at a nearby airport, the SpaceX satellite Starlink, or drones.
In the Pentagon's latest report on UFOs, it cites that many of these items, along with balloons and birds, are often mistaken for objects of extraterrestrial origin.
The publication was released Nov. 14, one day after House lawmakers called for increased government transparency during a joint hearing by subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee.
Investigators found explanations for nearly 300 of 757 incidents of unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the government's term for UFOs — reported to U.S. authorities from May 1, 2023, to June 1, 2024.
Although hundreds remain unexplained, the report states that "to date, AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology."
"There is something out there," Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee said during the hearing. "The question is: Is it ours, is it someone else's, or is it otherworldly?"
Houston, Dallas and San Antonio are among the top Texas cities in which UFO sightings are reported, according to data from the National UFO Reporting Center.
If you're a resident of one of these cities and confident you've just observed the most indisputable sighting of a UAP or UFO, make sure you're not just standing in the eye-view of the Tower of Americas on a foggy night.
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