State Report
UFO Sightings in Texas
9,870 sightings on record from 1400 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
9,870
Share of US total
4.6%
Peak year
2008
703 reports
Top shape
Light
1,919 reports
Years active
623
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-12 | Austin | orb | 45 seconds to a minute | Three white lights behind the clouds in triangular formation zipping around in random order |
| 2023-12-06 | Pearland | flash | 15 min | Whille stargazing with nitevision monocular, spotted a curious flashing light that had a pattern to it, wasnt a plane,... |
| 2023-12-06 | Latexo | orb | 15 minutes | Standing on front steps of house, looking west. Seen between Mars and horizon. |
| 2023-12-06 | Austin | chevron | 30 seconds | A light grey craft similar to that of a B2 flying overhead Austin, TX, with no apparent lights and sound. |
| 2023-11-24 | Houston | fireball | 2 seconds | Firework flash of light |
| 2023-11-23 | El Paso | light | 8 minutes | Two vertical red blinking lights with two horizontal blinking blue lights which took off towards the west at speed. |
| 2023-11-23 | Dallas | other | 10-15 minutes | Very large, 3 pronged, sometimes looking pretzel-shaped, moved in one direction, then hovered in clouds for 10 minutes... |
| 2023-11-22 | Ferris | disk | 5 mins | Abnormal craft that kept lighting up, disappearing, and appearing back up in a different location |
| 2023-11-11 | Highland Village | circle | 3 minutes | Rhythmic Pattern on Lights on Large Circular Craft |
| 2023-11-08 | Wimberley | orb | 2 Minutes | Large helicopter chasing an amber glowing orb |
| 2023-11-06 | Arlington | changing | 15mins | Craft would change from round to oval |
| 2023-11-06 | Lancaster | rectangle | TEXAS | On a Sunday evening I was setting on my couch in the Livingroom, and I hear a loud sound over my head but didn't think... |
| 2023-11-01 | Victoria | other | — | Bright silver object that looked almost like a star. |
| 2023-10-30 | Lubbock | egg | In Lubbock tx | A big ship like an egg but oval with lights on the bottom |
| 2023-10-30 | The Colony | light | 2 sec on timelapse video | Bright large round object that projects some type of cicular wave fying by |
| 2023-10-22 | Avondale | triangle | 2-4 minutes | Slow flying and rotating huge Triangle |
| 2023-10-21 | San Antonio | unknown | Lasted over an hour | Lights flashing and hovering |
| 2023-10-19 | Seguin | other | Approximately 4 seconds | Metallic object with two metallic round ends with a thin body |
| 2023-10-17 | Big Bend | orb | About 7 seconds | Large orb / crescent light traveled from south to north for a few seconds then appeared to dissipate above our heads. |
| 2023-10-17 | Amarillo | light | Every morning for three w | Three lights fading in and out also moving at high speed. |