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Meteor....Rocket...UFO? Seen Over Texas - Mass Sighting

7/18/2020

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  • When: July 18th, 2020
  • Where: All over Texas
  • What: "String of lights"

Multiple videos and reports of a "string of lights" streaming through the nighttime sky have been reported. These lights were seen all around the state, with sighting reported as early as midnight, and as late as 6:45 am. Sightings as far away as Ingram and Winkler County, Texas (that's a four-hour drive) were reported around the same time, however, at 2 AM.

Check out the original witness videos below, as well as testimony that was submitted to MUFON. Many are suggesting that these lights could be a meteor shower (perhaps the delta Aquariids or the Perseids). Meanwhile, the "South Texas Weather Updates" Facebook page is suggesting that this is a crashing Russian rocket, specifically the SL-4 rocket body, which has the ID 44799. I did confirm that this rocket was expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere on July 17th, so this theory is not far off.

Odessa, TX sighting captured on video by witness Tara ONeal, according to CBS7.com:

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Winkler, County sighting captured on video and posted to Facebook by witness Leon Stroud:

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Taken in Winkler County Texas 2:00 am on 7-18-2020. Meteor shower.

Posted by Leon Stroud on Saturday, July 18, 2020

Ingram, TX sighting, captured on video by a local sheriff (according to a source of mine), and posted to the "South Texas Weather Updates" Facebook page:

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The following video was provided to James Boyd. He was a witness. At approximately 2:01 AM on 7/18/2020 what’s believed to be Russian SL-4 ROCKET BODY (ID 44799) made reentry and was seen by many across northern South TX. Video taken from northwest Webb County, Texas. At the time it was believed to be a large satellite or possibly the ISS, but upon further review of databases and based on trajectory and timing it is likely SL-4; 44799. The SL-4’s reentry was a catastrophic reentry causing it to disintegrate.

Posted by South Texas Weather Updates on Saturday, July 18, 2020


Granite Shoals, TX testimony submitted to  MUFON (case 110213):

"Pretty straightforward. It looks similar to a string of lights like Christmas lights in a tube or the lights on a theater floor. No sound and no emission. Flying at a similar altitude as a small prop plane so pretty low. It seemed illusory like a projection"
Here's a map of where this "meteor" or "rocket" or "UFO" was reportedly seen:

Did you also see this incredible sky event? Report your sighting!

Do you have theories on what this was? A meteor? A rocket? An alien spaceship? I did find it curious that all the videos show the lights traveling upward, rather than crashing downward. That may be a clue as to what exactly happened here. As always, let me know what you think here in the comments, or on social (I'm on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook).
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UFOs Filmed Over Texas - See Clear, Daytime Footage!

10/28/2019

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According to a stratospheric balloon tracking Twitter account, there was actually a NASA scientific balloon that appeared over the Crosbyton, Texas area on October 15th. (Although this UFO was technically reported on the 14th.) As originally mentioned in the story, a weather balloon - especially if it was a giant NASA one - is a believable explanation for one of the UFOs, and it's understandable it would have been mistaken for a UFO:
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https://towerfts.csbf.nasa.gov/Maps/ConvGps703N.htm
However, I am not comfortable to identify UFO #2! It doesn't appear to be a bird, drone, or bug to me, and I've reviewed the footage multiple times. Watch the video below and let me know what you think of the explanation for UFO #1 and if you think UFO #2 can also be debunked!

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  • When: October 14th, 2019
  • Where: Crosbyton, Texas
  • What: Large transparent orb moving slowly, with another orb speeding by it

Footage showing two UFOs over a town in North Texas has been uploaded to MUFON, along with witness testimony. Check out all the detail in UFOJane's latest YouTube video:
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"It was like watching something out of Star Trek" - Multiple UFOs Seen Near Lubbock

8/1/2019

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  • When: October 17th, 2009 around 7:28 PM
  • Where: Idalou (near Lubbock in West Texas)
  • What: Three UFOs interacting with each other

A sighting of a multiple star-like objects over Texas from back in 2009 has just now been submitted to MUFON (case 102393). Check out the witness drawing and testimony here:
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https://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/102393_submitter_file1__pathillustration.png
Myself and two coworkers were starting a directional drilling job on a rig location in west Texas. My night hand came into the living quarters and asked if I would come outside and help identify what he and the directional drilling hand was currently seeing in the sky. The below mentioned is what we'd witnessed.

The object was glowing bright white. It looked much like a star though seemed to have mass. This is one of the characteristics that set the object apart and kept it from simply looking as a planet would (a bright star). The object appeared to be many miles away. For comparison, if a star appeared to be the size of a penny, the object would have been the size of a softball (or a bit larger). The object almost appeared as if it was not perfectly round, though, was difficult to know for sure since it was glowing brightly.

The object was positioned high in the sky roughly 30 to 40 degrees vertically from the northwest horizon and was not moving. The sun was down causing western horizon to glow orange. Though the sun was out of our line of sight, I'd felt the position of the sun relative to the object was most likely a straight line and could cause a bright reflection of light on the surface of something like a weather-balloon at high altitude. At that moment, I felt satisfied that what we were seeing was just that - a weather balloon.

Then, all of a sudden, things got really weird. A smaller, probe-like, "child" object (looked like a pin light in comparison) appeared from the bottom of the “parent” object and began moving downward vertically. It was like watching something out of Star Trek. Was difficult to tell how far the child object moved, but, the distance must have been a minimum of 1000 feet - was likely much more than that. If I had to guess, the child object may have dropped about a mile below the larger one – maybe more. The child object then stopped abruptly and started to get brighter until it matched the parent object's intensity.

The child object then moved in what appeared to my eyes to be a perfectly straight line back up and towards the parent object above (up the same path as when it descended). At the exact same time, the parent object began to drop and move in a straight line towards the child object. As they approached each other and were roughly a quarter of their initial total distance apart, the child object suddenly changed course and moved counter clockwise (to my right) around the parent object's position while the parent object simultaneously moved counter clockwise (to my left) around the child object. In other words, they approached each other in a vertical line and then moved around each other - each in a half circle. Once the parent and child objects were back at the vertical center line, both objects moved away from each other (the child up and the parent down) on that vertical line until finally stopping at the other's original position. In other words, the two objects traded positions. After remaining stationary for several minutes, each object began to fade and eventually disappeared. The parent object was the first to disappear and both objects were gone within minutes of each other.

Some additional important things to mention... the movement of the objects was precise. Each object moved at an equal and steady speed relative to the other - as if the objects were on a track while being controlled and coordinated. Each half-circle path the objects followed was as perfect as I could visually comprehend and together they definitely drew a circle - NOT an oval. This is important because years later I'd realized that combining the consistent and steady speed of the objects with their flight pattern (a circle instead of an oval) meant to me that the circle may have been intentionally facing our direction or, perhaps, the opposite direction. This realization makes me think our sighting may have been intended for us to see as the likelihood of witnessing a circular flight pattern face-on while also having a strange and rare UFO experience seems unlikely.

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"The UFOs seem to enjoy my company" - Lubbock Sighting

7/9/2019

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  • When: July 5th, 2019 at 2:03 AM
  • Where: Lubbock
  • What: Silent, large, saucer-shaped craft

According to a drawing and written report sent to MUFON (case 10867), a mysterious and silent disc-shaped UFO appeared over a witness in East Texas. The witness believes that they may have been able to communicate with it:
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I observed a large odd craft disc shaped with a large circle and a smaller circle with bright white lights,it was traveling sideways. No sound.

I was outside looking towards the night sky, and all of the sudden i noticed an odd shaped craft, traveling sideways, it had a large circle with a smaller circle inside of it, and in between the large and small where these bright white lights, i would say these lights where brighter than a lighting strike. When i yelled hello it stopped, i told whoever was in the craft, thank you for showing me your craft, its Beautiful. and the white lights grew brighter and brighter, as the odd shaped craft moved along at its own speed. i don't know if i made a friend from beyond the stars, but the UFOS seem to enjoy my company.
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Will We Ever Solve the Mystery of the Lubbock Lights?

7/10/2018

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  • When: August 1951 (ongoing sightings)
  • Where: Lubbock, Texas
  • What: V-shaped string of large, bright, solid white, circular lights flying at high rate of speed (famous sighting was documented in newspaper)

While it was the eyewitness reports of three respected university professors that brought credibility to the Lubbock Lights case of 1951, it was unversity freshman Carl Hart, Jr.'s eyewitness photograph that brought the US Air Force down to investigate.
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original Lubbock Lights witness photograph http://www.texashighways.com/travel/item/2316-web-extra-the-original-lubbock-lights
Less than five years after a UFO famously crash-landed in Roswell, multiple residents of Lubbock, Texas witnessed an incredible fleet of solid, white orbs of light fly in a V shape overhead. It was Texas Tech professors Dr. Oberg, a chemical engineer, Dr. Ducker, a petroleum engineer, and Dr. Robinson, a geologist, who were the quickest to report the sighting. The three men were visiting with each other in of the men's backyards when they watched 20+ mysterious lights fly over them in a matter of seconds around 9 PM on August 25th, 1951.
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Lubbock TX 1950s https://www.pinterest.com/pin/209839663861135950/
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Professors at Texas Tech (left to right), Dr. Oberg, Prof. Ducker, and Dr. Robinson and Dr. E. L. George http://www.ufocasebook.com/lubbocklights.html
If that wasn't amazing enough, a freshman at the university the professors taught at, Carl Holt, Jr., also witnessed the same phenomenon, but several days later, on August 30th. Fortunately, he was able to snap five photos of the event, which to this day, are some of the most famous UFO photos ever taken. The photos were first published in the the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, and then in a 1952 edition of Life magazine featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover.
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Lubbock Lights evidence on record with Project Bluebook http://www.ufocasebook.com/lubbocklights.html
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Lubbock Lights edition of Life Magazine https://www.nicap.org/life52.htm


About a month after this wave of reports, Project Bluebook (AKA Project Sign), the official government organization for investigating UFOs at the time, got involved. Lieutenant Ed Ruppelt, a former Army Air Force pilot, led the Project Bluebook investigation and interviewed the witnesses directly. He later went on to write a book about the case.
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Lubbock Lights by Edward J. Ruppelt Book cover and author, who was an investigator of the Lubbock Lights http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page_id=166
The accounts and photographs of the Lubbock Lights were ultimately proven to be authentic, and the Lubbock Lights case remains open to this day.

However, early on in the investigation, many assumed that the awestruck witnesses of the Lubbock Lights had really just seen a flock of birds, specifically plovers, whose bellies were reflecting the street lights from down below. A plover, by the way, is a water bird that had indeed been seen in Lubbock that month. However, this theory was tested and put to rest eventually.
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Ed Dunens "Turnstones, Stints and Hooded Plovers" https://www.flickr.com/photos/blachswan/ & https://www.flickr.com/photos/blachswan/36539952792
Lt. Ed Ruppelt ended up concluding that there was a natural, prosaic explanation for the lights. However, he unfortunately would not reveal it. Ruppelt met with  a man who was able to explain the case via a serious of investigations he'd done. However, Ruppelt traded the man's anonymity for his silence: 
 From Roswell Books:

The lights that the professors saw—the backbone of the Lubbock Light series—have been positively identified as a very commonplace and easily explainable natural phenomenon.It is very unfortunate that I can’t divulge exactly the way the answer was found because it is an interesting story of how a scientist set up complete instrumentation to track down the lights and how he spent several months testing theory after theory until he finally hit upon the answer.   Telling the story would lead to his identity and, in exchange for his story, I promised the man complete anonymity.   But he fully convinced me that he had the answer, and after having heard hundreds of explanations of UFOs, I don’t convince easily.

This frustrating and teasing tidbit has led many  UFO researchers to wonder if the Lubbock Lights could be similar to other famous "UFO" cases that most people now believe to have a natural origin, like the Hessdalen Lights in Norway or the Marfa lights in Texas.
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Hessdalen lights http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2632650/Has-mystery-glowing-Norwegian-orbs-solved-Expert-claims-underground-battery-creates-amazing-light-show.html
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Marfa Lights https://www.livescience.com/37579-what-are-marfa-lights-texas.html
What do you think of the amazing Lubbock Lights? Do you think we will ever know what happened in August 1951 in Lubbock, Texas, or has the truth been long covered up by now? Share your theories on this case and more in the comments below, or join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!
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Kathleen Zarubin girl looking to sky https://www.flickr.com/photos/64204416@N02/5846976223 & https://www.flickr.com/photos/64204416@N02/

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