UFO Pic Snapped During Airplane Landing - Port Aransas

• When: March 17th, 2013
• Where: Port Aransas
  
• What: Large, grey, disc-shaped object with orbs hovering around it
  

A passenger aboard a plane landing at the Port Aransas Airport decided to snap a shot of the view. When they went back to review their photos, they realized they'd captured a very large, grey, disc-like object in the sky, with a few orbs hovering around it.

For some reason, this story has taken the UFO community by storm. And honestly, I'm a little perplexed as to why. Although this an interesting anomaly, one that UFO-Blogger.com is linking to another similar pilot sighting that famous ufologist Stanton Friedman covered, since no one saw this thing in motion, it can be easily debunked - latest theories include clouds and the propeller tip.

The only reason I can gather that this Texas UFO sighting has received more attention than other, more compelling ones is that this story was covered  by local news. I actually am not as amazed by the large gray object as I am the orbs that appear around it, though they could very well be birds or lens flares or smudges on the airplane window:

Here's a video showing different zoom levels:

And a few quotes from the story:

Miles, 41, of San Antonio, said he recently flew to Port Aransas to spend the day walking the beach.

"My passenger took it on Sunday as we made our final approach," he said.

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But they never actually saw the object from the cockpit of their Cessna. His passenger was simply snapping photos of their landing and they never noticed the strange streak until they were flipping through the photos at a nearby restaurant.

The object only appeared in one of the photos.

"Somebody told me it might have been moving at a speed only the camera shutter could catch," he said.