NUFORC Sighting 104796

Occurred: 1965-08-15 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-11-26 18:08 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Vernon, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Orange/Red Light in sky defies laws of physics.

Five of us were in a car driving around in the country late at night when the object was spotted. At first we thought it was a helicopter until it started maneuvering unlike anything we had ever seen.

The object was a light in the sky. The light was an orange/red color. I always thought the color looked like a window that had an oil lantern burning inside.

It could fly very slow and even stop and hover. It could take off at high speed and then stop immediately. It could go straight up to very high altitude and then stop or make 90 degree turns at speed.

It mostly just went very slow at low attitude like it was searching for something. It would sometimes blink off and immediately back on somewhere far away. We could see for miles and miles from where we were as we watched it.

We had stopped on the country road and were just watching it for maybe an hour when it came to a stop down the road we were on. The driver then said I am going to catch it and took off as fast as the car would go toward it.

Then the light just blinked off and then back on right in front of us. The light just filled up the windshield and car and surrounding area with its bright illumination and scared all of us greatly.

The driver put the car in reverse well before we stopped and floored it to try and get away from it and we finally started going backward at high speed. The light blinked off and back on in another location.

We all decided that the device was just warning us off and we took the hint. We watched a little longer than went home. I need to mention that the device made no noise at all and of course could defy our laws of physics as it flew around the county side.

We could not tell anyone about this for a couple of reasons. People that reported UFO’s were nuts and made fun of back in those days.

We looked in the newspaper the next day to see if anyone had reported anything but there was no news.

Later in the day, the Wichita Falls, TX, rRadio station reported on the news that a truck driver reported a UFO in the Red River area. This was maybe 40 miles from us.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD

Posted 2013-12-02