If you are looking to see a UFO in the sky, you might want to make your way to the Lone Star State because it’s the fourth-best place in the country to catch a glimpse.
UFO sightings in Texas began to increase in the late 40s and early 50s. With the recent shootdown of four unidentified objects in a week by the U.S. government, the defense office said there’s “no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns” during a media briefing.
Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Northern Command, Gen. Glen VanHerck, said, “We’re calling them objects for a reason. I’m not able to categorize how they stay aloft,” according to KXAN.
The sightings range from disk-like shapes to mysterious lights. There have been 5,862 reported UFO sightings across Texas since 1949, according to the National UFO Reporting Center. 227 of those sightings were in Dallas.
Kenneth Arnold was the private pilot who reported the first modern-era UFO sightings in Washington on June 24, 1947. Arnold claimed he saw a chain of nine silvery objects while searching for a military plane crash.
The most sightings over the last two centuries were reported in 2008. That year, 367 people reported seeing UFOs in Texas. A new series on HULU called UFOs: Investigating the unknown by National Geographic features an episode discussing dozens of giant UFO sightings in Stephenville, Texas, that year.
In the episode, producers interview Steve Allen, a private pilot claiming to witness this phenomenon. He recalls seeing seven lights blinking as the unidentified object approached Stephenville before blowing up into flames.
“It had two large bright intense lights with a bright light in the center of it and it had two military jets behind it that everybody saw in town,” said Allen. “It happened 12 ½- 13 years ago and I still think about it often. I’m still trying to find out and discover what the cause of it was.”
If you think you see a UFO, the FAA has provided options on their website, “Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a UFO/unexplained phenomena reporting data collection center, such as the National UFO Reporting Center, etc. ”
In 2022, the Pentagon created the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to analyze unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). By law, a report of UAP sightings must be reported to congress by The Department of Defense.
