NUFORC Sighting 55593

Occurred: 2007-03-08 22:30 Local
Reported: 2007-03-08 12:54 Pacific
Duration: 30-45 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Columbus, TX, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Unuaual aircraft flies in snake like formation breaking the sound barrier

I live out in the country on a small ranch. I went out in the backyard around 10:30 PM to take the dogs out, a normal routine prior to going to bed. I usually have a great view of the sky and love to star gaze.

Blinking lights on the NW horizon amongst the trees caught my attention. At first I thought it was bright stars in the distance. But I noticed they would disappear while I stood in one place and reappear in another. As I moved to find them they would appear and disappear.

I tired of this event and began looking straight up at the brilliant stars hoping for a shooting star when a series of flashing lights appeared in the western sky. At first glance it looked like a plane but as it got closer overhead I began to watch and follow its unusual movements and shape. The object was moving from west to east at a speed that was faster than an airplane, its shape was unrecognizable even though there was a full moon.

The object moved in an erratic nearly snakelike formation. Many lights could be seen flashing across its middle girth in a very random, flickering red and white pattern. I couldn’t judge its distance from earth nor its size but I believe it was larger than a plane.

Once the object disappeared in to the eastern horizon, I heard the tremendous trailing noise of a jet-liner back to the east where the object first appeared. I noticed a flash of dull white light, similar to a lightning flash, illuminating a cloud in the sky, as the rumbling of the aircraft tried to catch up to the object.

Could it have been traveling faster than light? I watched the object for 20-30 seconds and the noise lasted nearly as long.

Posted 2007-03-08