NUFORC UFO Sighting 183641

Occurred: 2023-08-08 22:00 Local
Reported: 2024-10-21 09:11 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Elgin, TX, USA
Location details: Back door stoop facing Northwest with Ursa Major as the backdrop of the event on a clear night.

Shape: Sphere
Color: Blueish-white
Estimated Size: ~50-75 feet in diameter
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Northwest
Angle of Elevation: 60
Closest Distance: 3 miles
Estimated Speed: <11.2 km/s
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

20 or more blueish white orbs in groups of 4 ascended straight up into the sky,

I walked out my backdoor onto our little stoop around 10pm to bring my dog back inside. As I turn to my right to call out into the yard, I saw 20+ blueish-white orbs in groups of 4 ascending straight up into the sky. As someone who has seen many types of aircraft, from prop-planes, to jets (including an awesome Blue Angels show at the Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum), to commercial airliners, to helicopters, and having observed many low-orbit satellites such as the Starlink satellite train in the summer of 2021, I have never before witnessed something like what I witnessed on this night.

In shock and awe, I call out (screech) to my wife to come outside and look at what I am seeing. She comes outside onto the stoop with me and observes the same phenomenon I am witnessing. She asks me what we are seeing and I immediately replied that I had no idea.

The next thing I witness is some of the orbs making erratic aerial maneuvers once they had reached a certain altitude. These orbs would then take off at incredible speed, to the point that the eye could not follow them wherever they were headed. Each of these orbs took off in different directions, while the other orbs continued ascending higher into the atmosphere to the point that they could no longer be observed.

Posted 2024-11-08