At the supper table of our daughter, our 4-year-old grand daughter pointed out the window and yelled "Look, look! Purple lines in the sky!" The fact that she noticed something like that surprised me as much as anything. I got up to look and there were several dark purple, elongated clouds(?) 15-20° above the horizon which were unusual and extraordinarily spectacular, but I thought were just very, long stringy clouds in the distance.

The rest of the sky was totally cloudless; but as I was looking away, something caught my eye at 30° above the horizon to the SW, a white cloud; perfectly formed like a disc; angled at 45°. I pointed it out to my wife who thought it impressively unusual, as well. We got the kids settled and I decided to go out to the backyard for a better look with the sun setting. The disc-shaped cloud had not moved at all; not in position, size or shape; and, this was over the period of an 45 minutes to an hour.I decided to take some pictures with my old 4S iPhone (attached). For this area, a motionless cloud at that angle for that length of time was, as least in my experience, most unusual.

As I was thinking this, a low-flying jet (under 500') flew right overhead; except it did not go towards the disc-shaped cloud, it headed straight for the horizon - then, it suddenly put its afterburners on - the first time I had seen that happen in person (it looked like two, close-set fire red eyes heading away from me.) I did not get a picture of that, unfortunately; but I started taking them soon after. I decided to move out away from the trees and into the pasture when I heard a helicopter heading for the horizon from the South. I started taking pictures of the helicopter heading towards the horizon and noticed the flash was on - though I doubt it would light up anything. .

After taking several flash pictures of the helicopter, it suddenly turned and headed straight for me and was getting there fast. Normally, I would stand out in the open and just watch it fly over - but something told me I should retreat to the cover of the trees; I continued to take pictures of the helicopter, but no longer saw its lights. The helicopter flew directly over the house, not more than 100' high and it was not a small craft - it was a double-blade Sikorsky-type helicopter and it was jet-black and unmarked with numbers or insignias. It was now dark and the helicopter was almost indistinguishable through the barren trees against the sky. I was really surprised as I was expecting to see an Army-green helicopter, not a jet-black one (I thought to myself “no way...”). I tried to take its picture as it flew over but it didn't take or I missed the button, probably the latter.

I went back in the house and told my wife about it and decided to go to an upstairs porch and look through a spotting scope and binoculars to see if I could see anything; but before I could get focused on anything, two low flying jets, one a couple of seconds ahead of the other passed by. I decided to go back indoors for the night after that. However, none of the aircraft flew towards the disc-shaped cloud, which remained unchanged in size, shape or position until it was too dark to see.

I cannot say what, if anything, was going on that was UFO related; but it was an anomalous night for several first-time experiences and sights for me.

I was driving down I-35 southbound from San Antonio, TX to Laredo, TX. Between 8:25 - 8:30 pm, approximately, I saw, directly in front of me, up in the sky, 3 orange balls of light. They appeared one by one, in a line. And just as soon as they appeared they disappeared. A few minutes later, I was around mile marker 60 when I noticed another orange ball of light appear and disappear...this time it was a little more to the west of the first 3. Immediately after that, they started popping up everywhere directly to the west of me. We counted about a dozen or more appear and disappear. We did not see them move...just appear in a random space, disappear, and then reappear again in a different spot.
I tried to get video with my phone but the camera would not catch the light they were emitting. I was really excited to see such a phenomenon...although, my son, who is 11, was a little freaked out.

My wife and I were driving north on Interstate 35 between Austin and Dallas this morning. The weather this morning was beautiful. Light wispy clouds. Blue skies. 54 degrees. No rain. Just perfect weather. The highway was dry—I was driving 75/80 MPH. I estimate there were between 30-40 vehicles on the road immediately in front of us. I first noticed these two objects at approximately 9:45 a.m. We were north of Georgetown, Texas and had just passed Exit 268. We exited the highway a few minutes later at Exit 275—stopping at the Flying J Travel Plaza to get gas. The time stamp on the gas receipt is 9:55 a.m. The two objects crossed the highway in front of us at an elevation of approximately 1000 feet. They were perfectly in-line with one another—approximately 3000 feet apart. It’s like they were flying on a stretched out wire—perfectly in-line with one another. They were identical in size, shape, and color. The shape and color of these two objects was contrasted against the blue sky. They were shiny—a bright white. There were no discernable wings, tails, landing gear, propellers, jet engines, windows, or lights. They were two cylindrical cigar-shaped objects with rounded nose and tails. I believe the objects were two-to-three miles ahead of us when I first saw them. They crossed just above the tree line traveling from west to east. They were in my field of view for 5-seconds and traveling at a high rate of speed. I pointed and asked my wife to look out her passenger window to see if she could see what I was watching. She watched the two objects for another 20-seconds until the topography to the east blocked her view. She said the objects did not alter their course, configuration, elevation, or speed—remaining quickly traveling to the east at a high rate of speed until they were no longer visible from her vantage point.

Long Exposure

So...last night around 11:30pm, I was doing some suburban stargazing in my backyard when I noticed an abnormally bright object which I thought to be a planet at the time. I looked with binoculars and noticed that it was emitting lights. I proceeded to take some photos with my camera and tripod. Now, I know that streaking of lights can happen when you move during a long exposure, but this is sort of odd. I've simply never seen anything in the sky that gave off so many colors of lights. I eventually got S**** and A******* to take a look at it maybe 10 to 15 minutes later, and it had moved...but barely (maybe a fist length with arm extended). So, after a teeny bit of research, I found out that satellites don't usually have lights other than the international space station (not visible from the ground) plus there weren't any abnormally bright satellites in the area at the time anyways. So, it must have been an aircraft, but moving really really slow and giving off literally rainbows of flashing lights. Odd. Also strange that the streaking of lights does not seem to affect the stars in some of the photos.