Appearance / Description of Object(s)

The object was a bright white light. The actual shape could not be determined because it's speed made it appear as an elongate blip of light.

Size of Object(s)

I would not guess the size of the object.

Description of Area / Surroundings

The sighting occured in a flat rural area with no trees or other objects to block our view. At the time Ellington Air Force Base existed about 50 miles to the south. There were no other features other than a few one-story rural homes nearby.

Full Description & Details

I am providing this sighting publicly for the first time because I read the account described just recently by an observer in Roseville, CA on Feb. 10th of this year. What caught my attention was the zig-zag or flea-jumping movement of that object. I had a similar experience many years ago and have not read of a description like it until now.

In October of 1959 I was in my sophomore year of High School in Hardin, Texas, a small rural community located about 65 miles east northeast of Houston, Texas.

The sighting occured in early evening on a cool moonlite night while a friend of mine and I walked from his home to mine to watch one of our favorite TV programs. The sky was clear and beautiful that night with a large brilliant moon. I remember seeing the vapor trails left earlier by high flying aircraft criscrossing the moonlite sky.

My friend and I were looking toward the sky talking about how nice it was that evening when suddenly we were alerted to a fast moving blip of light moving northward at a high speed just a little to our right from being straight over head. The light disappeared and at first we thought we had seen a shooting star. But it suddenly reappeared a little further to our right but still moving northward then disappeared again only to reappear back to the same position in the sky we had first seen it but farther north. We watched the object move rapidly northward in this zig-zag motion until is was completely out of sight on the horizon to the north. It took about 2 or 3 minutes for it to get far enough that we could no longer see it.

About 2 minutes after the UFO disappeared on the northern horizon my friend and I heard a lowflying jet aircraft speeding northward but we could never visibly locate the aircraft.

Remarkably, my friend and I said little or nothing about the incident to each other or anyone else that night. At the moment I think we were both in deep thought and silence made us feel the safest. I told a few friends and family members about the occurance years later.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

Absolutely Not. I've tried for 50 years.

Witness Background

I am currently retired. I am almost 63 years old. I have a high school education with some college. I worked at various jobs in my youth but spent 27 years employed by the local electric utlity in Houston, TX. I worked in the engineering department and worked 20 years planning the right-of-ways for the companies large transmission lines.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I had no previous views about UFOs before and new little about them. All I can say is that I have a firm understanding that there is an existing reality that is not easily explained with current scientific knowledge. What I saw was under intelligent control using technology far superior to anything we have and can only imagine in theory or hypothesis.

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