Texas UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Texas carries one of the densest and most analytically significant UAP records in North America — and it begins earlier than almost any other state. On January 2, 1878, a Denison farmer named John Martin looked up at a dark circular object crossing the sky and reached for the only word that fit: saucer. That description, published in the Denison Daily News, predates Kenneth Arnold’s famous 1947 coinage by 69 years. Nineteen years later, in April 1897, an airship reportedly crashed into a windmill outside the small town of Aurora — with a non-human pilot buried in the local cemetery and metallic fragments scattered across the property. The state’s extraordinary geography makes it fertile ground: vast unobstructed plains, a chain of major military installations from Fort Hood to Laredo AFB, a uranium extraction belt running through the Hill Country and Permian Basin, and the kind of frontier and rural settlement pattern that puts credible, early witnesses on the ground — farmers, soldiers, sheriffs, and engineers — across 270,000 square miles of open country.

What follows in the Texas record is not random noise but a structured progression through every major period of UAP activity in the modern era. The 1949 Camp Hood wave produced at least eight separate documented events at a nuclear weapons storage site — AFOSI-documented, FOIA-released, classified at the time. The 1951 Lubbock Lights, observed by Texas Tech professors and photographed in images that Project Blue Book could not explain away, became a national story in LIFE magazine. The 1957 Levelland electromagnetic wave — egg-shaped craft stalling engines and headlights across multiple independent highway witnesses over a single night — remains one of the most air-tight multi-witness cases in the Air Force’s own Unexplained category. The 1980 Cash-Landrum incident near Huffman produced documented radiation-type injuries to three civilian witnesses and the extraordinary spectacle of more than two dozen military helicopters escorting a flame-exhaust diamond-shaped craft through a pine-forest corridor northeast of Houston — a case that reached Congress. And in January 2008, more than 200 witnesses in and around Stephenville watched a craft described as a mile long cross the Texas sky at low altitude, an event MUFON’s radar analysis later confirmed and the Air Force — after initial denial — acknowledged with an admission that F-16s had been scrambled. Texas is one of the primary chapters of the UAP record, not a footnote.

• 1878: Denison, Texas Daylight UFO
• 1891: UFO Crash in North Texas
• 1897: Aurora, Texas Crash
• 1897: Josserand Texas Encounter
• 1948: ‘Tomato Man’ Photographs and Laredo, Texas UFO Crash
• 1949: Fort Hood, Texas UFO Wave
• 1951: The Lubbock Lights
• 1952: Laredo AFB, Texas BBU 2202
• 1957: The Levelland Sightings (Texas)
• 1965: Patrol Car Illuminated by UFO
• 1965: Sherman, Texas UFO Sighting
• 1967: Encounter in South Wellington, Texas
• 1967: Encounter No# 2 in South Wellington, Texas
• 1967: Encounter No# 3 in Loco, Texas
• 1967: Lake Worth, Texas Creature
• 1971: UFO Encounter over Texas uranium mine
• 1972: Silver, boomerang-shaped UFO over Fort Stockton, Texas
• 1973: Disc-shaped object hovers over radio tower
• 1973: Doraty Abduction
• 1975: Three red glowing objects near Waxahachie, Texas
• 1975: UFO with two occupants hovers over man’s car
• 1979: Near Houston, Texas
• 1980: The Cash-Landrum Case
• 1981: Cigar-shaped object with portholes seen by 7 witnesses over Northern Texas
• 1993: Round object with rotating lights
• 1994: Infant Disappears in Killeen, Texas
• 1995: America West Airlines Flight 564 UFO Case
• 2005: Cylinder-shaped object flying low at night
• 2006: Glowing white/green ball over Houston, Texas
• 2008: Dozens in Stephenville and Dublin, Texas report seeing large UFO
• 2014: Mass UFO Sighting Over Houston Texas Lights Up Social Media
• 2014: Daytime Orb filmed over San Antono, Texas
• 1947: Near Lubbock, Wilson County, Texas Encounter
• 1972: Mercury, Texas Abduction?
• 1982: Fort Worth Texas Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind
• 1955: Houston, Texas Encounter
• 2008: Delta shaped craft with lights seen near dam, near Denton, Texas
• 2008: Dozens in Stephenville and Dublin, Texas report seeing large UFO
• 2009: Arlington Texas Midnight Military Sighting
• 1914: FARMERSVILLE, TEXAS — THE GREEN ENTITY IN THE FENCEROW

From the 1957 Levelland Sightings case — Hockley County Sheriff Weir Clem, after his own observation of the craft on the night of November 2–3, 1957, as recorded in Project Blue Book investigation files, BBU 1141:

“It lit up the whole pavement.”