NUFORC Sighting 181109

Occurred: 1973-10-15 20:15 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-04-11 09:08 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Henderson, TX, USA
Location details: About 3 miles SW of downtown Henderson, TX

Shape: Light
Color: red
Estimated Size: unknown
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: northease
Angle of Elevation: 60
Closest Distance: 3 to 4 miles
Estimated Speed: extreme high speed
Characteristics: Lights on object

Three red lights appeared in the sky, 2 were stationary, 1 was moving between the other 2.

At approximately 8:15 pm on a fall night in either October or November 1973, two friends of mine accompanied me in my vehicle on a six mile drive from my home to Henderson, Texas.

When we were about 3 to 4 miles from downtown Henderson we all saw three very strange red lights in the sky while looking in a northeasterly direction. I stopped the vehicle on the side of the highway and got out to observe what was happening. The lights were not very far away from us. They seemed to be no more than one to three miles total distance. We did not see any type of vehicle or craft shape. Two of the lights were perfectly stationary, not moving at all. The other light was moving directly from one light straight to the other light. All three were silent the entire time. The moving light would move in a straight line between the other two, stop right before getting to the light, hesitate for a couple of seconds, then move back toward the other light. This continued for about 20 minutes.

During this 20 minute period, while myself and my two friends were standing on the side of US Hwy 79 South, we witnessed an automobile traveling at a very high rate of speed coming toward us from Henderson. As it got close to us, the occupants saw us and immediately slammed on the brakes coming to a sudden stop. The vehicle then turned around, approached us, and parked behind my vehicle. Two Rusk County deputy sheriffs got out of the car and walked to us. One of my friends had a pair of binoculars we had been using to view the objects. We could see nothing with the binoculars except for the red lights. When walking toward us one of the deputies asked what we were doing. All we did was point at the red lights. Until that time, the deputies had not seen the lights. One of them immediately took the binoculars himself and viewed the lights for about one minute. He handed the binoculars back to me and said they had to go to Lake Striker about a call they got about a UFO sighting there. He said nothing else, made no report, and hurriedly drove off. We continued to watch the same movement of the one red light moving between the other two for about ten more minutes. Then, the moving red light took off at an extremely high speed in a northeasterly direction, separating itself from the other two. In no more than three seconds the moving red light became smaller and smaller and smaller until it disappeared. Shortly afterward, the two stationary red lights took off straight up at an extremely high speed, became smaller and smaller and disappeared in about three seconds.

Neither of my friends, nor myself ever made any kind of report about this incident, until now. In the 51 years since then, I have not seen anything like this again.

Posted 2024-04-27