NUFORC Sighting 175850

Occurred: 2023-04-30 20:25 Local
Reported: 2023-05-20 14:51 Pacific
Duration: 3 - 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Fort Worth, TX, USA
Location details: just South-East of N. Riverside Dr and Golden Triangle intersection

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Looked like an airplane floating

It happened on the night of 4/30 which is my b-day and why I remember so well also I texted of my youngest son (and it's still on my phone) when we got to our destination at the next major intersection. So ... I turned south onto N. Riverside Dr. from Timberland BLVD and I saw a bright light in the sky and remarked to my son, "oh that sucks, look a helicopter" because the light was across the street from the Texas Health Harris Methodist hospital, we see them come and go. He saw looked up mumbled some sort of agreement. As we got closer I noticed it was in the same spot which was weird, they usually go directly onto the landing spot, and I've never seen two (that's not to say two helicopters can't/don't fly into the hospital, anyhoo...) so I kept watching it the best I could driving 40 miles per hour with other cars around.

When we reached the intersection, I kept saying, "something's not right, that's so weird". We weren't moving as we waited for the light. It was just in the one spot. The light didn't move or waver. And it was not a measly light. It is what I would expect to see and have seen on a helicopter. We could tell something was there, but the light was pointed in our direction, so we couldn't make out a specific shape. When we crossed over to the other side of Golden Triangle (still traveling on N. Riverside Dr.), we were looking at it and we realized it was an airplane with the cockpit facing toward us. it looked like a typical passenger airplane--but not quite full-size. It was low enough, I could see the pilot's window, but am not sure that I could see the pilot specifically. It did not move, as a matter of fact it did not make any noise, but the light was as bright as you would expect to see on the front of a plane. The tires were not down. We could see the left wing and the tail, but I could not see the other side wing. There were no distinct markings on it--we are close to where UPS, FedEx etc fly in so I am familiar with their logos. There is a billboard around the corner from it, and I would say it couldn't have been much higher than the billboard. We could see the dimensions to it, the rounded underside, etc.--it was not flat, like the billboard.

My son and I kept looking, me the best as I could while not hitting anyone around me. No one slowed down. No one was pulled over. Be we could see this plane just "there". There was nothing in front, behind or on either side, we could see the ground under it. It was just before a patch of trees. Once we got 20-30 feet past the trees, we could not see it anymore, I assumed because of the trees, but my son who could turn around said it was just gone. There was nothing in my mirrors. We kept on to our destination which took us about 30 min and then we came back the same way and there was nothing. Nothing in the air. Nothing on the ground. No people standing or anything. So strange. I drive by there on some of my regular routes and in daylight, I see nothing. My husband said maybe it was a blimp or balloon. Blimps still make noise, and we didn't have the radio on and heard absolutely nothing.

Had it not been for the light that I was looking at from Timberland BLVD to Golden Triangle, I would not have thought a single thing about it. I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all. Or if it been in a slightly different spot, I would have gone on thinking it was a helicopter. Sound-wise, it was just flat if that makes sense. I didn't feel anything odd other than slightly confused-excitement at whatever that was.

Looking at the questions below, again, I can't say for sure that I saw into the pilots' window, but I feel like I saw a shape that was kind of olive khaki--like a shirt, not necessarily skin color, but who knows. The plane itself was light blue or silver on the top half, the wind was a slightly darker blue. The light was so bright is caused a slight haze/glow, like how a light pole hazes the items around. Oddly there were no birds that I noticed and there are usually birds everywhere--however, I may have just missed it because of my focus on the "thing".

Posted 2023-07-10