NUFORC Sighting 158038

Occurred: 1994-06-25 10:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-07-29 01:23 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Antonio, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Black triangular craft in San Antonio

This would have been in either late June or early July 0f 1994. I was a Latin student (the "dead" language, not... you know.) We had a high school team competing in a game called Certamen -- very much like the game show "Jeapordy." After school was let out for the summer, we continued to practice, most of the time at our teacher's [huge, nice] house. But we had a few practices at my house and those of the other three teammates.

Sorry for that bloviating intro... One night I was driving myself, my brother and my best friend Jason back from our teammate Erin's house. The stretch of road we were on was not lit by streetlights, so it was really, really dark. [And a hand-me-down '76 Honda Civic can't really light things up well. I did love that car!] So we were on a dark road, and I don't remember which but either my brother or my friend looked out of the window and he was like "What the f*** is that thing? I had no clue what they were talking about -- I was concentrating on driving with virtually no visibility.

When I finally looked up to see what the heck was the matter, there was a large, black triangular 'something' flying right above us. Well, that road had a lot of tall trees, so probably the craft were flying at like 100 feet. It had one white light on each of the corners or vertices. I think they were constant instead of blinking, but I had two of my favorite people in my car, so still: drive safely.

Whatever it was, it was following my car, at 40 or 45 mph, whatever the speed limit was. I know of no aircraft which can keep aloft at that slow of a speed [and I'm an aircraft-nerd]. I think even the single-engine Cessnas have to maintain 70-75 or they'll stall out and drop.

The thing was way too big to have been a helicopter, plus it made no noise that I could hear. It hovered above us almost all the way to my friend's house, which was in a very well-lit neighborhood. As soon as we got into the lighted area: whoosh! No more shadow-craft shadowing us.

We still could see it for a minute or two from Jason's driveway, on account of the lights. I guess whoever or whatever was flying it wasn't in a terrible hurry to get away from us.

I make no claim that it were some kind of alien tech. We're in San Antonio, and back then we had four major Air Force bases. The craft may well have been some experimental USAF test-bed. But dang if I know how the thing could perfectly follow three kids obeying the speed limit.

Posted 2020-07-31