NUFORC Sighting 42507

Occurred: 1975-06-23 21:00 Local
Reported: 2005-02-26 20:47 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 7

Location: Arlington, TX, USA

Shape: Triangle


Three rounded, triangular objects leisurely moving from West to North over an 8-minute period.

We were standing outside my parent's house in Arlington, Texas, facing North. The objects came in from the West, until they were over the house across the street at which time they made a leisurely turn to the North. I was at 97.xxxxxW 32.xxxxxN at the time, in fact, my parents still reside there. The objects were not at all impressive, being a gull grey in color and making no strange aerobatics.

I have a book by Robert Emenegger called "UFOs, Past, Present and Future," and it has a sighting survey based upon the Observer's Data Sheet prepared for the USAF. I filled it out at the time and am using it to provide the data I'm entering here. I still remember it well, and will attempt to properly describe it in words, though my drawing from the time would be of better use. I have scanned the photo and stored it online at; http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/ckirmser/UFOSighting.jpg

My mother and grandparents first called the objects to my attention. I went outside and was joined by my sister, her friend and my brother. We all saw them, and I had all but my grandparents sign the sighting report as witnesses. Now, however, they have nearly, if not totally, forgotten the episode.

When I got outside, I saw the objects coming in over the roof of the house to our left, westwards. I lived on a cul-de-sac, with the entrance on the east connecting to a north-south road. Our house is on the south-east corner facing the connecting road with the driveway leading to the entrance to the circle, where we were all standing.

When I saw the objects, I rushed inside to get my binoculars only to find that my sister had broken them from when she had last borrowed them; this is why the event is so prominent in my memory. I then got my telescope, a small thing from K-mart, maybe 50x, and dragged it outside. By the time I got back outside, the lead object was over the house across from our driveway, to the north, and had started its turn to the north.

I trained my telescope on the lead object and managed to get a lengthy view until it was just too much of a hassle keeping it in focus and trained, so I just used the Mark-1 eyeball until they went out of sight to the north. I had 8 minutes of clear view, except for my trip inside for my binoculars and telescope, before they disappeared into some clouds. There was only one star out at the time, and the moon wasn’t up until 9:30pm. The only other traffic I saw was an airplane on the opposite sky when the objects were almost out of view. I live near D/FW Airport, but it had only just opened back then and it’s a good bit away. Besides, I know aircraft, and was a member of the Air Force JROTC at my high school. I can’t think of any aircraft that would take 8 minutes to travel a mile, give or take.

To describe them, I think the best thing to do is to think of a Dorito chip with very rounded corners. Now, take the chip and bend the rounded corners up to form a shallow bowl shape. Put a small raised hump on top of the chip in the center (only just visible past the edge) and a small circular light on the bottom in each corner and that’s pretty much it. The view I had was a three-quarter view from the bottom, so all I saw of the seeming hump was just what poked over the edge. The bottom was very round as were the edges. The object was an overall grey, and the lights were pretty much just white spots, they weren’t bright at all, in fact, they weren’t even visible until I used the telescope and remains of my binoculars. The objects didn’t give off any light or sound and made a very slow leisurely trip across the sky; as I had said, nothing impressive at all. I still have the drawings of it, and can forward them in future if you so desire and I can get to a scanner. I reported the sighting to the police that same day, but I have no idea if they kept any record or anything. Well, that’s about it. I’ve tried to put down all I could think of and could find on that sighting survey, and I hope it helps. Feel free to contact me about it at the email address below. I have no problem with you contacting me in this fashion.

Est. Height: 500 - 1000 feet Est. Speed: 5 - 10 MPH Est. Size: 140 - 160 feet across.

Experienced Illness Post Sighting: NO




NUFORC Note:

Date of event may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD


Posted 2005-04-16

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