Hi all, I've been a long-time researcher of ufos but I haven't had a personal sighting until recently. I think this would be a good forum to tell the story and get some feedback.
It was Friday March 9 at around 7:30pm (early evening) in Houston, TX. My girlfriend and I were driving to our dinner reservation, and as I was going along my street I saw a bright star off to my left. I'm always looking out for ufos so I made some comment about this star to my girlfriend (who kindly tolerates my obsession), and she replied to stop looking at it and look where I was driving.
At the next intersection I turned left, and now the object was in the sky in front of us (and slightly left of the road). The light had grown and now it was no longer a star, but many blinking lights. Its altitude in the sky was much lower than a plane, maybe between 500 and 1000 feet up. My first thought was "Damn that thing has lots of lights" but I actually wrote it off as a plane because my eyesight is poor and I couldn't see any detail. Then a few seconds later my girlfriend (whose eyesight is better than mine) said "What the hell is that?" I looked over at it again and I asked her to tell me what she was seeing. She could actually see the solid object and said it was grey and egg shaped, and covered with blinking lights. It was flying about as fast as a plane or a helicopter, but erratically. I could see the blinking lights, which were multicolored (there were at least a dozen lights to my reckoning), but my eyesight was not good enough to discern the shape.
By this time it had flown further to our left. I said "screw the reservation!" and I took the next left to follow it. The trees obscured our view temporarily but I drove in the direction that it was in the sky. As soon as we got to a clearer view, the object was nowhere to be seen. We were both very baffled, because it should've been visible in the sky.
The irony of the whole thing is that I'm kind of obsessed with the ufo subject, and I was totally going to write off that ufo as a plane until my girlfriend brought it to my attention again.
If you guys have any comments, opinions or questions I'm up for it. Also, what would be a good website to log this sighting, so that I could perhaps check if anyone else in the Houston area saw it?
It was Friday March 9 at around 7:30pm (early evening) in Houston, TX. My girlfriend and I were driving to our dinner reservation, and as I was going along my street I saw a bright star off to my left. I'm always looking out for ufos so I made some comment about this star to my girlfriend (who kindly tolerates my obsession), and she replied to stop looking at it and look where I was driving.
At the next intersection I turned left, and now the object was in the sky in front of us (and slightly left of the road). The light had grown and now it was no longer a star, but many blinking lights. Its altitude in the sky was much lower than a plane, maybe between 500 and 1000 feet up. My first thought was "Damn that thing has lots of lights" but I actually wrote it off as a plane because my eyesight is poor and I couldn't see any detail. Then a few seconds later my girlfriend (whose eyesight is better than mine) said "What the hell is that?" I looked over at it again and I asked her to tell me what she was seeing. She could actually see the solid object and said it was grey and egg shaped, and covered with blinking lights. It was flying about as fast as a plane or a helicopter, but erratically. I could see the blinking lights, which were multicolored (there were at least a dozen lights to my reckoning), but my eyesight was not good enough to discern the shape.
By this time it had flown further to our left. I said "screw the reservation!" and I took the next left to follow it. The trees obscured our view temporarily but I drove in the direction that it was in the sky. As soon as we got to a clearer view, the object was nowhere to be seen. We were both very baffled, because it should've been visible in the sky.
The irony of the whole thing is that I'm kind of obsessed with the ufo subject, and I was totally going to write off that ufo as a plane until my girlfriend brought it to my attention again.
If you guys have any comments, opinions or questions I'm up for it. Also, what would be a good website to log this sighting, so that I could perhaps check if anyone else in the Houston area saw it?