My sister, who lives on the same property, stepped out onto her porch to smoke, called and woke me and said "Get up now and look out your back door. She seemed frightened so I jumped up and looked through the window in the door and immediately saw what she was upset about. There was a large object in the sky visible just over my storage barn that looked like an explosion of some sort in slow motion.

She and I watched it for several minutes (her on her front porch, me on my back porch) then I got my wits about mem and went in and got my camera.

It looked like a cloud with brightly colored lights tumbling randomly around inside it. It was in constant motion, but seemed to remain stationary as if it were hovering in the same place. The object also had a kind of halo around it. I took about a dozen pictures of it thinking that my inexpensive digital camera (Kodak Z740) would not pick it up, as it does not get good photos in low light and this was in the middle of the night.

I then went in and got my video camera and got a few minutes of it, but it was so cold and I was pretty scared, so I was shaking and it was hard even with bracing in my doorway to keep the camera on it.

After almost an hour and a half, it began to move due west away from us, and in about five minutes it was gone. I remember thinking at the time to be very quiet and to keep my lights off because I didn't want to alert it to my presence.

Late February, Around 3:00 AM

My sister called to say the same thing was back but I got outside only in time to see it moving off to the west and got no photos of it.

March 22, 2007

Around 11:30 PM, I was again alerted by a call from my sister that the odd thing in the sky was back and in the same place. This time knowing that my camera would pick it up, I got it and my tripod, and set them up on my small back porch. Not being camera savvy, I took several pictures using different settings or modes and ended up with about 25 photos. I also took some more video tape.

Having told him about our previous experience, I telephoned my brother who lives about 100 miles south of us in Jacksonville, because he said if it happened again he wanted to check and see if it was high enough for him to catch sight of, but it was not.

We watched the show it put on for about 3 1/2 or 4 hours, and this time when it began to move away to the west we felt braver and tried to follow it in my car but soon lost sight of it.

April 20, 2007-About 10:00 PM

I was walking through my living room on my way to bed and when I turned off the lights, I saw the glow from the object again-this time from my window. So, I called my sister and once again set up my tripod and got about 25 pictures of it. We watched it for a couple of hours, but having convinced ourselves it must be some kind natural occurrence, we went on to bed.

It was not until some time later that while talking to my step daughter about it and sending her the pictures over the Internet via Google's Picasa program, that shows you the information on each photo such as when it was downloaded, that we realized that we were seeing this at or about the same time every month.

To be honest, I had forgotten all about it until my brother called and said he had happened to see a program on the history channel called UFO Hunters, Episode: 2008: Texas UFO.

He wanted me to watch the rerun of it because the pictures looked shockingly similar to mine. And I must agree they do, and with the whole thing being totally silent the same way that the people described on the show, I thought they might be the same. The photos do not give the live occurrence justice, but I hope they will be of some help.

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