Ball Lightning UFO Seen in Houston?

• When: September 8th, 2017 at 8:45 PM
• Where: Houston
• What: Silent bright ball of light hovering, disappearing and reappearing, changing size

A report of a "bright white sphere" growing and shrinking in size and disappearing over Texas has been submitted to NUFORC (case S136074):

Bright white sphere high in the morning sky, illuminating light grows in size, then vanishes in an instant.

I was traveling to work along Beltway 8 East in Houston, TX, this morning, Friday, 9/8/17, at 8:45am, and noticed an extremely bright light high in the clear blue sky. The illuminating light was spherical and grew in size, somewhat changing shape, then decreased in size, then completely disappeared in an instance. It did this three times within a period of 3 minutes or less.

It definitely was not an airplane; there was never any definite shape that formed, no white trail of smoke, no clouds around it, no sound (though it was very high in the sky).

I called my husband immediately to share what I had seen, as I was perplexed as to what it could be and very excited, it sounded like other UFO sightings I’ve heard described.

I’m trying to find out if there are other local reports of people witnessing the same thing.

Considering the recent hurricane activity in the area, could this be a case of "ball lightning?" TexasUFOs also reported on strange lights over Mexico during a recent earthquake, which could represent a similar phenomenon called "earthquake lights."

Many cases of bright spheres of light performing strange moves over witnesses have been reported over the years, and sometimes even seem to be intelligent or at least intelligently controlled, like the Cash-Landrum incident in East Texas during the 80s, or the many accounts of lights going into and out of volcanoes, or even a case from January 2011 in California where an orange ball of light hovered for several minutes:

What do you make of this UFO report out of Texas? Weird weather? Aliens? Reflection from the sun? Share your theories in the comments below, or on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Do you also live in the Houston area? Did you see any strange UFOs like this? Report your sighting!