NUFORC Sighting 21500

Occurred: 1968-08-15 05:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-01-21 16:16 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 7

Location: Austin, TX, USA

Shape: Disk

Early morning in August, several of my teenage neighbors and I were waiting for one more person to show up, in order to begin our paper routes. While waiting, we noticed overhead, no more than 1/4 of a mile up several large discs progressing westerly under their own power. The only sound I heard was more of the craft moving the air and very little else. These objects had now lights and appeared to be shaped to cut through an atmosphere at very high speed, although the speed they travelled at this time appeared to be maybe 50 miles an hour. These craft came into view only at a near direct overhead angle and seemed to vanish into the darkness at the same angle at which they appeared. We were awestruck. The person we were waiting on arrived and had seen them also. An old man who lived on this corner was going to work at this time. We saw him staring up at the sky and asked him if he saw them.

He said, "see what?" We said "the flying saucers". He said that he thought he was going crazy when he saw them and wasn't going to tell anyone.

We reported this sighting to the police and to the Air Force as these saucers probably flew directly over or near Bergstrom Air Force Base. Two months later the Air Force sent a uniformed colonel to our house to inform us that we had seen "space trash that landed later in Kansas." He even brought an "official report" with him. We laughed him off the premises. We anticipated that the Air Force would be interested in hearing what we saw, not telling us. As far as I know, only the old man has since died, and the rest of us remember what we saw. However, the six saucers I saw were flying in a line, some of the other guys said they saw others off to the sides.

Cool, huh.

NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. We have assigned an arbitrary date in August 1968. PD

Posted 2002-01-29