NUFORC Sighting 67738

Occurred: 1984-06-30 21:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-12-30 12:18 Pacific
Duration: 0005
No of observers: 11

Location: Oakhill, TX, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Stationary ball of bright light, changes color and moves rapidly across Texas night sky in 1984

My wife and I lived just outside Austin, Texas at the time in a small area called 'Oakhill. We were headed off to see a 10pm movie in town and were sort of in a hurry to make it.

As we came to a stop sign at HWY 290 to make a left turn towards Austin, I noticed a larger-than normal ranch light looming above the hill country/woods across the highway. I was staring at it, wondering why a ranch light was suspended so high up. My wife began asking me what I was looking at, and after I showed her, she calmly said.. 'What is it? I honestly didn't know. We kept looking at it which seemed for minutes, but no movement. I thought maybe it's a jet or plane on a extended flight path into Austin International coming straight at us with a landing light on or something making it appear to be stationary. Shortly, the Bright blueish-white ball or cicle of light began to fade down in intensity and sort of move slowly to the left ( East ) kind of parallel to our highway. Along the back of the circle were two blue rings one atop of the other. My wife and I had opened her moon-roof to try to hear better or get a better view while all of this was happening, but we never could hear any sound whatsoever. The night was a typical 'Texas evening to where you could have heard a pin drop. Not one sound, except for an occasional car passing out on the highway. No one else on the road stopped,slowed down, or appeared to notice what we were looking at.

My wife and I were not sleep deprived, drunken or under the influence of anything. We had only been in a hurry to get to a movie in town. As our object began moving, I started the car back up and took off in dirction of town as we both tried to keep track of it. With my wife and I both reasonably excited, 'her telling me to turn on my lights as well as to watch the road, the object shot fast for what appeared to be several miles, then turn at sharp angle, super fast again and then straight-up disappearing from sight. It all happened incredibly quick and within a few seco! nds if t hat. It was like watching an old episode of 'startrek when they would shoot off into space suddenly. It truly was the strangest-weirdest thing I had ever seen, and I've seen a lot of stuff in my life. I had been in the Air Force as a crewchief on fighter jets and other planes and had never seen any aircraft/jet/plane etc.. to do what I saw. Also to note, I am a very-realistic person about things and have always been a sceptic of 'UFO's in general. My wife and I DID see this object as we've told. That night, we both decided to forget the movie as we planned on seeing for as we were both excited/upset from what we saw. I was really thrown by the whole thing because I couldn't make sense of just what we saw. We drove back to our that night with me constantly asking my wife, 'Did you see that?, Did we really just see that?? I think she was more scared than anything, because she knew by looking at me that we saw something that wasn't right. After getting home, I did call the Police Dept. in town assuring them that this wasn't a prank or that we were not drunk or anything asking them if any one else had called about a strange light over the southwest Austin area, they said no, but it sounded interesting. Get this, they told me I might get a hold of the 'Air-force base or project blue book if it's still out there. I assured them that it wasn't and told them that I worked on the Air force base( Bergstrom AFB at the time ) and didn't know of any numbers there to call. I thanked them for their time. Interestingly enough, when I called the Airport and spoke to a very-interested and nice person in the tower (APP-CON) they had asked me all the times and location of my event and then directed me to our local 'Travis-county sheriffs dept. The only traffic they (APP-CON) had noticed or had been with that night was a small cessna inbound over the Lake Travis area at around 9:15PM. After calling the 'Sheriffs dept and again ensuring them this was not a prank, they asked a few questions about the incident, like time/our ! location etc.. followed by, 'No we don't think your crazy or making it up, ten or so other people have called us as well about some strange lights over your area. The sheriffs deputy said we can send an officer over if you would like us to make out a report, it's up to you. He said, what ever we saw sounded interesting, and that they had a small incident reporting checklist he would use. My wife and I both agreed, and within a few minutes, a very nice-concerning officer appeared on our street and began looking at us both, asking questions. Before the officer left, he did say, 'Whatever you saw sounds pretty cool, you and a lot of other's seem to have saw the same thing tonight based upon what you guy's described to me. I have told a few folk's here and there about what happened that night, mainly not to forget that evening, but mostly to share a very 'real experience that happened to myself and another person. For many night's after that one evening, my wife would say what's wrong? as I would stand back looking out our windows. I would tell her that I felt really strange, 'Like I saw something that I shouldn't have and it's going to come back or something. I (We )have never seen anything since that evening.

NUFORC Note:

Date in 1984 is approximate. We have assigned an arbitrary date. PD

Posted 2009-01-10