NUFORC Sighting 181241

Occurred: 2024-04-08 12:36 Local
Reported: 2024-04-23 06:58 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Garland, TX, USA
Location details: Outside in an open parking lot

Shape: Disk
Color: Black
Estimated Size: Small aircraft or drone
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North
Angle of Elevation: 80
Closest Distance: 2000 ft
Estimated Speed: 3-4 times the speed of a normal jet

Prior to filming me and my g/f viewed a small craft flying below the cloud cover at a high rate of speed. While filming I caught another

Me and my girlfriend were getting ready to view the eclipse by our apartment in Dallas area. There was medium to heavy cloud cover during that time. Due to this we were able to view the eclipse without the filtered glasses most of the time. Right as the moon began to pass over the edge of the sun we both saw a small black, disk shaped craft flying west to east directly under the clouds at a very high rate of speed. We have witnessed many aircraft fly at similar altitudes and were taken back by the fact there was no sound and the speed it was traveling at. The entire encounter was all of about 10 seconds. It basically just disappeared into the sky as it was flying so fast and covering so much distance in the short seconds we could see it. We were both very excited and had already planned on filming the eclipse. I had purchased a phone attachment so I could mount my phone to my monocular and have a better view for pictures and videos. Within the first 10 seconds of filming my lens does something really crazy, like a massive lens flare you would get when the sun suddenly comes out from cloud cover and saturates your lens with light, but in this case it didn’t, it stayed behind significant cloud cover the entire time. Right after this I saw a small black object shoot out from below my viewing angle. It was so fast I honestly didn’t know if it was anything significant at the time. We viewed the rest of the eclipse without any other events. We had both taken tons of video and after going through them the first video I took at the beginning of the eclipse was 16 seconds long and I caught 3 different anomalies within a few seconds of each other. You have to be looking for 2 of them to really see them but when slowed down it’s obvious they are some type of craft and not a bird, dust, plane, or some other video glitch. I’m really interested in getting these analyzed by professionals to see if what I caught can be enhanced and studied to determine what they are. I was even more intrigued once other videos started coming out from the Dallas area showing other anomalies in the sky that day. Look forward to hearing back from experts on this matter.

Posted 2024-04-27