11/14/2008: El Paso (Fort Bliss), TX, USA

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Occurred : 11/14/2008 10:00 (Entered as : 11/14/08 10:00) Reported: 12/17/2008 8:56:04 PM 20:56 Posted: 1/10/2009 Location: El Paso (Fort Bliss), TX Shape: Cigar Duration: 10 minutes Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Cigar-shaped UFO moving south-southwest towards Mexico I was walking into the motor pool when I noticed something in the sky. The motor pool is very near El Paso airport, and I have an interest in aircraft, so I stopped to look at it. It was traveling south-southwest in a sort of "drifting" manner. It was brown, and "cigar-shaped". I waited for its angle to change to determine if it was a helicopter (a common sight patrolling the border), but it's shape was too evenly "cigar shaped" so I was certain it was not a Blackhawk, and it seemed to lack the vertical stabilizer and wings of fixed-wing aviation, so I stood there and stared at it. It was not at a very high elevation, maybe 1000 feet above the ground (I'm not a trained aerial observer, so I can't gauge elevation at all), and it seemed to be just "drifting" over the border, like a dirigible, though it's path was even and consistently south-southwest. I pointed it out to some of my comrades as I was seeing it, but they apparently didn't see it. I lost track of it when I had to get back to what I was doing. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of the sighting is approximate. PD))

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 11/14/2008 10:00 (Entered as : 11/14/08 10:00)
Reported: 12/17/2008 8:56:04 PM 20:56
Posted: 1/10/2009
Location: El Paso (Fort Bliss), TX
Shape: Cigar
Duration: 10 minutes
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object

Cigar-shaped UFO moving south-southwest towards Mexico

I was walking into the motor pool when I noticed something in the sky. The motor pool is very near El Paso airport, and I have an interest in aircraft, so I stopped to look at it. It was traveling south-southwest in a sort of "drifting" manner. It was brown, and "cigar-shaped". I waited for its angle to change to determine if it was a helicopter (a common sight patrolling the border), but it's shape was too evenly "cigar shaped" so I was certain it was not a Blackhawk, and it seemed to lack the vertical stabilizer and wings of fixed-wing aviation, so I stood there and stared at it.

It was not at a very high elevation, maybe 1000 feet above the ground (I'm not a trained aerial observer, so I can't gauge elevation at all), and it seemed to be just "drifting" over the border, like a dirigible, though it's path was even and consistently south-southwest.

I pointed it out to some of my comrades as I was seeing it, but they apparently didn't see it. I lost track of it when I had to get back to what I was doing.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of the sighting is approximate. PD))