I was awakened this morning about
5:40 am here in west Houston by my 17 year old daughter who was up
early for school. She was sitting eating breakfast and happened to
notice a strange light out the back window. She said she watched
it, got her sister (15), and witnessed three distinct groups of
lights hovering over the rooftops in the distance. They said they
could see a dark object in the center of one, but two were just
hovering as changing colored lights (at different heights).
That's when they woke me. I ran outside to see and confirmed
two of these objects. At an arm's length I'd say they were about
the size of an aspirin or peanut. Fairly large and distinct with 4
or 5 lights making up a cross or diamond shape. The lights were
pulsating and changing colors: red, green, blue, white, turquoise.
I went in to get my astronomical telescope to see if I could
zero in on it. While I was trying to sight it, the one I was
watching reduced size, turned orange and began to move to my
right. I followed it around to the front of my house and watched
it slowly move parallel to the ground just above the rooftops
until it disappeared behind some homes.
The other light was gone when I looked back.
My daughter tried to film it, but could not get it focused.
However, you can see the two objects and the colors that they were
cycling through.
We have been watching news and Internet but have seen no other
reports, except in researching, I came across a description also
in Texas on your Austin web site that sounds very similar.
We don't know, of course, what it was, but the two objects I
saw were silent.
About twenty minutes later, I went back outside and saw an
aircraft approaching from a different part of the horizon and
could clearly hear that it was a helicopter. So I use that in
contrast to the silence of the first sighting.
Bruce