NUFORC Sighting 71468

Occurred: 2009-08-03 00:45 Local
Reported: 2009-08-03 08:27 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Haltom City, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Very bright sparkly/pulsating color-changing light in Haltom City / North Fort Worth off of Loop 820 West & I-35W

I had trouble sleeping and got up to go to the bathroom. I was thinking it was quite bright outside and looked through the blinds to get a look at the moon. As I was pulling away from the window, I noticed a very bright sparkly/pulsating color-changing light to the west. This light was quite unusual in that it was very twinkly and very bright. The moonlight overpowered the other stars so I knew it was not a star, it was not a steady light so I knew it couldn’t be a planet (i.e. Mars, Jupiter, Venus, etc), and it was in the wrong place for a plane (I live beneath the flight path for Alliance Airport and if I stand in front of my house, I can see the planes traveling to DFW & Love Field; these flight paths are very consistent)… there were no other aircraft in the sky at all (I looked) and it has been my experience that planes pretty much stop passing over my house or in front of it around 11:00pm at night.

This light stayed in the same place in the sky for the duration of time that I watched it. I did try to take pictures of it, but it only appears as an indistinct, yet bright, pinpoint. I tried to find my binoculars but couldn’t, because at one point I thought the light was ‘spinning’ and I wanted a better look. After about 45 minutes of looking at the light from various windows, I laid down and tried to sleep. When I could not sleep I got up again about 30 minutes later, and the light was gone. The light did change colors between red, orange/yellow, blue and white.

Posted 2009-08-05