NUFORC UFO Sighting 179986
Occurred: 2024-01-07 18:00 Local
Reported: 2024-01-08 12:38 Pacific
Duration: 3 to 4 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Jewett, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Color: white
Estimated Size: unk
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: west to east
Angle of Elevation: 30
Closest Distance: unk
Estimated Speed: looked to be speed of a satellite maybe?
Explanation: Rocket - Certain
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Moving white light that cloaked itself in a cloud on a pristine clear evening at dusk

While leaving my sister's home in Jewett, Tx which is a very rural area in central Texas at around 6pm I was walking back to my house when I noticed a moving bright white light coming from the West heading East. I thought at first this was a commercial airliner with maybe one of its landing or take off lights on. As it became nearer a small cloud developed around it and I thought the thing must be flying through a cloud and then realized to myself, wait a minute, this is a completely clear pristine evening at dusk with stars starting to appear with no clouds anywhere whatsoever. I immediately called to my wife who was trailing behind me still talking to my sister on her back deck to come quick and look at this thing in the sky. She came along with my sister, and we continued to watch the thing with curiosity and thought now that it might be the space station flying over but was confused now about the small cloud surrounding it as if it was trying to cloak the light inside of it. Now this is when it got really strange. All of a sudden as we continued to watch the cloud the light was in it then spewed out more cloud in front of it and this spewed cloud made like a cigarette smoke ring and then formed into a cone shape like a megaphone with the narrower part of the cone toward the main portion of the cloud that the light was in in as the wider part at the leading edge at the very front. When this happened, we immediately started grabbing our phones and started taking pictures and a short video. By the time we got our phones out the cloud ring and cone portion was gone being absorbed into the little cloud that appeared to be cloaking the light. I'm now thinking if any kind of craft moving forward that might leave any kind of a propulsion trail of vapor residue, or whatever would definitely be to the rear and not the front. We continued to watch this thing as it continued on without altering its course or making any noise until it disappeared. It was hard to determine just how high it was in the sky, but I'm thinking if I first thought it was a commercial plane maybe then 35,000 ft or more but actually looked a lot lower, but it crossed the dusk sky at a speed which we have seen satellites to be moving. I got a picture of the light in the cloud, and my wife also got a short video of the light in its own little cloud. In researching possible other accountings of this we have now learned many across Texas are reporting this now.

NUFORC Note:

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Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 36503
Occurred: 2003-12-15 18:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-04-24 16:58 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Jewett, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

three bright lights motonless for minutes, then sped away

It was evening and I had gone out to my car to get my books (I am a college student). Three star-like objects caught my attention because it was not quite dark yet and these objects were unusually bright. They were at different elevations. Each lined up directly below the one above. They were motionless for several minutes and I could not take my eyes off of them.Then they moved northward, confirming my thoughts that what I was viewing were not stars. I ran into the house to get my mother to come out and look. She witnessed them moving off.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 56433
Occurred: 2001-11-01 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-04-27 22:36 Pacific
Duration: 15s
No of observers: 1

Location: Jewett, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Low-flying triangular craft during snow storm

I was taking out the garbage at night during a pretty heavy snow storm. The dumpster is in a well-lit parking lot. We lived in a building complex consisting of several houses in the middle of nowhere nestled alongside a large mountain-chain.

As I'm returning back to my house, I catch a glimpse of a light to my right out of the corner of my eye. I turn and I see a large triangular craft hover slowly overhead. It was clearly visible in the flood-lights in the parking lot, though no detail could be seen through the snow. It was no more than 20 feet above the tree line, and moved no more than 15MPH.

After it passed overhead and started to head off into the darkness, I was able to gauge its height above the tree line. I was also able to see a slight profile of the craft. It seemed to be triangular in shape - more like a stretched out pyramid. It could have been boomerang shape, I'm not entirely sure because of the snow, but I was able to see blue-white lights on its edges/corners shaped in a triangle fashion.

The craft made no sound whatsoever.

One thing I noticed is that my ears popped during the encounter. That could have just been a coincidence as it is common at that elevation.

My opinion is that the snow storm was too bad for any known aircraft to be flying that low.

After this incident, I seem to be experiencing a phenomenon called "street-light interference".




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2007-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 85438
Occurred: 1959-08-13 22:30 Local
Reported: 2011-11-21 20:52 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Jewett, NY, USA

Shape: Light


Tumbling zig zag pattern of a shooting "star" observed in the Catskill Mountains, NY

I remember star gazing with my brothers and friend in the evening laying out on our front lawn in Jewett New York 12444. We saw what appeared to be a tumbling star traveling in a random zig zag patter. It wasn't until I came upon this site and read another observation in Troy, NY, with the exact description of what I saw.

They pinpointed the date and in retrospect, even though I was only 9 years old, this date is probably when it happened.

I suspect it may have been another Russian Satellite that was out of control and tumbling in a free fall.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-12-12