Published: 12:21 PM 7/26/2009

Texas - 07-24-09

While walking at night from my house to my friend’s nearby apartment, my friend and I witnessed an unidentified flying object. I was looking at the stars, identifying constellations, when I turned to look at the sky in the southeast.

Over the top of a building I saw a flying object enter my field of vision. The UFO flew seemingly in complete, eerie silence, at a low altitude probably around a few hundred feet and looked to be around slightly less than half the altitude I normally see planes at.

It moved at an unusually slow, constant velocity, which is difficult to estimate, but safe to say that it was definitely the slowest aircraft I have ever observed, maybe around the speed of the average bird.

The object was dark with three large bright white lights in a triangular configuration on its underside, one toward the front, two in the back. It was somewhat difficult to make out the exact shape due to its angle, the prominence of its lights, and the darkness of its outline contrasting little with the night sky.

However it appeared to be flat and triangular, with each white light close to a vertex. The size appeared to be around that of a large helicopter but wider. There was one faint, small flashing light towards the front on the right side of the object (the only side I could see) which seemed to emit multiple, alternating colors of which I remember green, white/yellow, and blue.

The object flew over us westward toward the university campus and was visible for around one and a half, possibly two minutes. My friend, who was about 30 feet in front of me and who witnessed it for around 30 seconds, saw the same object.