NUFORC UFO Sighting 61297
Occurred: 2008-01-29 19:25 Local
Reported: 2008-01-29 17:57 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Canyon, TX, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I went outside to smoke with my wife and saw a round object that was bright white. It was stationary and then started to move. It moved at a high rate of speed and then stopped and got alot brighter and moved to the east and stopped and then started moving north east at a high rate of speed and then slowed down and disapeared.



Posted 2008-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 57069
Occurred: 2007-06-13 23:15 Local
Reported: 2007-06-13 22:52 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Canyon, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Large white light spotted over Texas panhandle.

My wife and I were at the park near our house at 11:15pm and on our way home, when I noticed a really bright light in the sky. It was a bright white light (with a slight yellow tint). I thought it was an approaching aircraft with its landing lights on, so we parked and watched it for a while. The light didn’t move as expected, instead it just hung in there in the sky so we decided to drive in it's direction. The light seemed to go from very bright to dim and back again. This wasn't the normal 'twinkle' of a star, it was much slower, and the light was not pulsing in a normal interval.

We drove west towards the light. While driving we started thinking that it was Mars, but this thing was too big to be a planet. When we parked, I found a tower with red lights about a mile away to use as a point of reference, and the light we had been tracking was much higher than the top red light of the tower. Over the course of 30 minutes, the white light moved lower and lower (We could not see the light moving, but comparing it to the point of reference, we could tell it had moved). It would get so faint that it would 'disappear' from our sight and then seconds later be back at full brightness. We saw a plane go by and when the plane got near the light, the light completely vanished. About 45 seconds later the light was back. By 12:00am, the light was below the lowest light on the tower (there were 4 lights). It seemed like it was getting further away, flying in a West NorthWest direction. All of the sudden, it was gone. It came back, as small as a pinprick and it could hardly be seen. Then, it was gone, for good this time. We waited a few more minutes and didn't see it so we drove home.



Posted 2007-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 38891
Occurred: 2004-08-24 23:40 Local
Reported: 2004-08-25 17:29 Pacific
Duration: 38 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Canyon, TX, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Lights over canyon

Over the duration of about 38 to an hour, we spotted....strange lights in two seperate groups. The lights included three in one group and three in another, these lights all stayed within each others boundrys. Then out of nowhere, one of the lights just seemed to fly off...the rest just disapeared. After sometime of looking for the same objects in that area, we came across another light.. now this light lit up and would seem to fade out... now you can understand that i find this a bit odd...i mean, you never even see stuff like this in canyon..



NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2004-09-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 14919
Occurred: 2000-11-13 00:01 Local
Reported: 2000-11-14 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Canyon, CA, USA

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 egg shaped flying objects making a ringing noise

3 egg shaped crafts flying in a triangular formation close together and very close to the ground the crafts made a high pitched ringing sound



NUFORC Note:

Anonymous report. PD


Posted 2000-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 13214
Occurred: 2000-06-23 22:40 Local
Reported: 2000-06-25 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Canyon, TX, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Brief but clear sighting of a noiseless lighted (3, reb, blue and white) object maneuvering and hovering.

Ten-yr-old daughter and I were relaxing in hot tub, just off back porch. Sighting area: to immediate west, a medium sized metal tool shed, backed by elm trees; directly overhead, some limbs from those trees; immediately north and northeast, the two-story house's southern eaves; to southeast, a huge elm tree; to east, at least 60 feet away, neighbor's house. That left only a relatively small area of open sky visible almost directly above and to the west, framed by our house eaves, the elm tree, and the neighbor's house. A lighted object came into view from among the elm branches, headed at a fairly slow speed to the north. The object appeared to be quite high and displayed three separate lights in a triangular arrangement: red, blue, and white. If it had a "nose," the blue light was at the "front," with the red light on the west side and white on the east. No actual shape of the object could be discerned. The object moved northward for several seconds, then slowed to a complete stop, where it hovered for perhaps 10-15 seconds. Then it "turned" or arced to the east for a short distance and stopped again. (Blue light pointed eastward.) It hovered for perhaps 10-12 seconds, then appeared to "back up" a short distance, then stopped again. After a few seconds it moved slowly northward for a short distance, then stopped completely again. After another few seconds of hovering, it began to oscillate, or "rock" back and forth, but a shallow or short-distance arc, moving no more than three times its maximum width or diameter. It then moved to the northwest a very short distance, stopped and hovered again. Then, it began to move northward, visibly accelerting, but still only to a very slow speed. After a northward distance of perhaps 20 to 30 times its width (that is, between lights), the three lights coalesced into a single, brighter white light for only a second or two, then the light simply "went out" or disappeared while the object was accelerating northward. I am 60 years old, am an Air Force! veteran , and have loved aircraft and watched the skies all my life. In my opinion, this was not an airplane (hovering and backing up) or helicopter (too high), nor of course was it space junk, meteors, comets, balloons, birds, swamp gas. My daughter agrees with my descriptions and her descriptions of the object, its lights, and its movements concur with mine (with no prompting). My 16-yr-old daughter and her (moronic) boyfriend were in the front yard at the same time. It, too, is overshadowed by elms. When the object disappeared (before reaching the eave of our house), I ran into the house and grabbed a rifle with a 9X scope and went to the front yard -- time about 40 seconds. I scanned the sky and wasw only a rather bright star. Without prompting,I asked my daughter and boyfriend to scan the sky and tell me if they saw anything unusual. My daughter immediately pointed to a bright "star" to the east, moving very slowly eastward along the north eaves of the neighbor's house. To me, it looked like a single light, but she said it was "three lights," one red, one blue, and one "pale yellow." We all looked through the rifle scope and both kids, with ttenaged eyes, confirmed three lights, equidistance and of equal brightness. I could still see only one light, but I could detect that the object was moving slowly eastward. It quickly disappeared into elm branches in the next block. No other unusual lights could be seen anywhere. Lighting conditions: None in back yard to interfere with view; a single street light in the front yard, catacorner and to the northeast -- overshadowed by taller elms. No clouds whatever. No haze. Stars and planets sharply defined. The occasional airliner easy to see and identify. Length of sighting: back yard, about 1.5 minutes; front yard, perhaps 1 minute maximum. Still am not 100% sure the object seen from front yard moving east was the same object. Don't doubt my daughter's flat, immediate and unprompted statement that the object had three lights, but boyfriend could! have mi micked her (he's not too bright). Note: Amarillo is 18 miles north and is one of the places where the Osprey aircraft is made. However, I do not believe what we saw was an Osprey on stop-and-go maneuvers. For one thing, no sound whatever; for another, too high; for yet another, it backed up, and I don't think the Osprey can do that. Younger daughter is writing a report of her experience for one of her favorite teachers. She did not consult me for input. When I read her story, the details coincided almost exactly with my memories of the incident. She, however, thinks she saw a round or disc-shaped outlined with the 3 lights in a triangular arrangement on its "bottom." I do not see how she could have seen the object itself. Again, no sound, no contrails, no "tail" of any kind.

Posted 2000-07-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2655
Occurred: 1997-08-12 21:15 Local
Reported: 1997-08-13 00:00 Pacific
Duration: about 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Canyon, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Summary : Two adults witness three dim yellow lights flying in rough triangle formation, moving from north to south. The three lights jockey for position, speeding ahead, falling behind, and crossing over each other.

My husband and I are working artists in the fields of traditional and computer animation. While meteor-watching in our backyard on the evening of Aug 12 he spotted three small lights moving just below the pole star. I saw them, then, and we both watched as they moved, a little faster than a commercial aircraft, from north to south, where they disappeared from sight behind the hills. The lights began in a rough line, from top to bottom, with the middle light slightly ahead of the others. As they crossed the sky, one would speed ahead, then fall behind as another sped ahead, and at intervals one would cross over another in almost a playful manner. The impression I received at first was that of a three-cornered object tumbling, but when the lights passed in front of stars it was clear they were distinct from one another and not part of a larger solid object, as the stars were clearly visible between the lights. The lights were about the brighness of the dimmest of the stars visible, and a warm yellow color. This same night we had observed several meteors and several commercial aircraft. These lights were at a lower altitude and exhibited vastly different behavior than the commercial craft we saw, and were definitely not meteorites, as they were neither bright nor fast enough and left no trails.

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 132980
Occurred: 1991-09-15 23:30 Local
Reported: 2017-03-04 15:43 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Canyon, TX, USA

Shape: Fireball


I have not been compelled to report this incident until a few days ago to the MUFON website.

I encountered a blue alien in my bedroom, at the end of my bed. I felt we were communicating. The encounter was docile and brief, the entity was dressed in military looking clothing. The alien almost appeared as a guard of some type.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2017-03-10