Possible UFO spotted in Central Austin

Possible UFO spotted in Central Austin

CBS 42 Reporter: Alexis Patterson
Email: [email protected]
Last Update: 11/21 10:48 pm

The Austin Planetarium is now investigating some strange sights in the sky - caught on tape. An astronomy expert is calling them unidentified flying objects - UFOs.

Some men who live in a Central Austin apartment building say they've seen bizarre things in the sky for months, but lately it's been more frequent. The men recorded their sightings on home video. Experts from the Austin Planetarium visited the apartment building area Friday night to see if they could also spot the objects.

Nothing appeared in the sky Friday that would convert any skeptics. But the home video show by Carl Lancaster and Doug McCullough may raise questions in some people's minds.

Sometimes they go fast, sometimes they go slow. They make no noise,

said McCullough.

McCullough and Lancaster aren't sure what they captured on video. The executive director of the Austin Planetarium doesn't know either.

It doesn't look like anything I can recognize,

said Torvald Hessel.

Hessel, an astronomer, says the objects don't move like an airplane.

There's a military base close by, so that would be possible, and they are not going to tell you if they're flying something special,

said Hessel.

But Hessel doesn't think the shapes are weather balloons, comets, or shooting stars.

It's an unidentified flying object

said Hessel.

I'm not saying it's little green men at all. It's just something we see flying in the air, and we don't know what it is.

The Austin Planetarium plans to try to enhance the video to see if some answers can be identified. The video enhancement will take a few days at least. In the meantime, Lancaster and McCullough say they'll keep watching the sky.

Lancaster and McCullough say they first saw the objects back in April, then didn't see them again until September. They tell CBS 42 they've consistently seen the objects since then.

Source, coverage and video: KeyeTv
Video (with interview with Carl Lancaster and Neal Evans)

Videos: longer version (the final part of this one is the most interesting IMHO)

Screenshot (November 16, 2008


Screenshots: (November 17, 2008)

First off, I received an email from Carl who is the guy that shot the actual footage. He stated that he had a lot more and wanted me to see it, plus he stated that he sees UFOs almost every evening, plus his friends see them too. Especially that last statement is especially interesting. If only one person is seeing flying things it can easily be discarded, as the guy must be drunk/stoned/on medication/etc. But if multiple people are seeing things they cannot explain it gains a lot of credence.

So, last week, together with board member Lary Cotten, we decided to head out and meet Carl and his friends, look at the footage and see for ourselves. Carl showed us a lot of very interesting footage (hopefully I will be able to post some of it on this blog in the future) and I honestly have no idea what he captured on camera. Two stood out, the first where he is following this light and all of the sudden you see an airplane crossing his field of view. This was quite spectacular, but more importantly it proved that it was not an airplane that he was following. The other was where he followed one of the objects on another evening and it came so low that it was actually between the trees. At that point you can see that the camera is in focus and you get a much better perspective of scale etc. Then all of the sudden the object makes a movement in the shape of a 'fishhook' or an upside down question mark, and flies off.

Although the footage is interesting, it is not proof of anything. It still can be an elaborate hoax. That evening we did not see anything interesting or slightly UFO-like. Anything we saw flying was recognized and Identified or therefore an IFO.

Austin Planetarium Blog
KEYE news had taken a look at some of his new footage and they are very much interested. They asked to the author of the article in the planetarium blog if he would like to be there as well and see if they can spot something together.


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Quite a lot of action over Texas isn't there?

Nice find internos, as always

This is a great find, Internos. Good footage (and probably more to come), multiple witnesses, repeated sightings and also people from a planetarium who find the objects interesting... It can't get much better than this.

Can it be that Austin Army Aviation Support Facility are testing some new technology?
www.globalsecurity.org...

Keep us posted on this one!

Wow, the methods for communicating and calling the ETs really work. I've been sitting on my back porch in Central Austin many evenings listening to my music and wishing they'd show up. I did see ufos twice, more could've shown but our large trees might've blocked our viewing them. I didn't know the news had picked up the story, thanks for the verification thought my old eyes were tricking me.

I tried to use my cellphone for photos but it's worthless and I wasn't sure what I was seeing. I'll ask my son if I can borrow his digital cam, hope it's good for night shooting.

STM

Edit to add: Just got off the phone with my son. He is loaning me the camera and my three year old grandson for the evening.

[edit on 11/22/2008 by seentoomuch]

Originally posted by internos

Internos,great post-the objects in the above image do appear similar to these freaky ones filmed in a forest in the U.S.

Cheers Karl

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Nice find Internos !... thanks

very interesting video and that ufo doesn't look like anything i have seen before. Texas sure is a ufo hotspot right now and i think we will be seeing many more videos like this. the guy that captured this seems determined to get some more footage of what he has been seeing.

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Man that was a creepy video. Nice find OP. Any theories on why Texas is such a hot spot?

Another sighting 3 months ago in the area was reported like this:

Texas-08-22-08-I was on my back porch, smoking a cigarette. From the south a solid black object was coming under the clouds. It was shaped like three black eggs or footballs bunched together forming a triangle... about as high as a small plane. It flew right over my place and when it passed my roof, I ran inside looking for my camera or binoculars.

About thirty seconds later, I ran to the front of the house and watched the object slowly fly over the Austin downtown area. I noticed other small planes in the same skyline and the sun reflected on them. This object moved like a plane, in a straight line, and seemed to follow the I-35 Highway that runs through town. I watch the skies often, and this was something that honestly looked manmade. I'm just wondering if anyone saw or knows if the city has some unmanned surveillance equipment. source: www.mufon.com

No footage, just an eyewitness account, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway.

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since this guy has invited people to come and see for themselves i was wondering is there any member of ATS available to go and check this out ?

somebody here must live near him. might be worth checking out if ufo's are being seen on a regular basis in this particular area ?

would like to see some IR footage of this also

Very interesting, thanks for the post Internos.

The end of the video is the most remarkable part, as you mentioned. It looks like a craft because the pattern on the 3 or 4? lights. Also, you can see it moving past stars, which shows that it is not a stationary object.

I hope more comes out of this. Ziggys post is a good eyewitness account of this as well.

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I live in central Austin and I'm borrowing my son's digital camcorder this evening. Right now it is cool and cloudy, so it'll be uncomfortable but I'll go ahead and go for it this evening. Mostly I choose nice evenings for this sort of thing. I'll see if I can borrow the cam for a week or two.

STM

Doesn't Jim Marrs and Dave Rabbit live in that somewhat area?

Usually when UFO's hanker in one general area there is a reason or they may even be attempting to hint at something

Since Georgie lives near there I would say keep an eye on him something could be in the makings with him leaving office (cough, cough)

I'm just throwing things out there!

edit to add:

Nice to see you seentomuch and want to know if you borrow that camera for a few weeks just be happy your grandchild is in school if it were summer you might have.........

[edit on 22-11-2008 by observe50]

I'm also asking that if we film anything unusual if Jritzmann would look at it for us. Hope he says yes, he's excellent!

STM

Great thread full of great pics and info. Keep 'em coming Internos! Great job!

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Great that you are willing to do some hunting for yourself! I look forward to seing what you may capture with your camera, and wish you the best of luck. May the heaven above be filled with mysterious lights for you.

Another good one Internos

I can safely rule out weather balloons for this one.....

again....

Why don't I ever see UFOs?

I have been waiting to see a UFO since I heard about them in the seventies or something like that. When I was three years old.

I only see satellites, meteorites, airplanes, planets... But no UFOs!

Ok, once I maybe saw one but I was sitting in a bus and saw it maybe for a split-second so it might have been a cloud as well...

On the other hand, maybe I have been abducted a few times while I've been sleeping, but remember nothing without some deep regression hypnosis... Heh.

Alex Jones has been talking about how so many people in Austin are being hit by allergies and respiratory infections. So here's a theory:

Austin has been hit by chemtrails recently, which setup the canvas for a holographic projection of lights from orbiting bluebeam covert satellites, not only by setting up the reflective material to light up, probably some sort of metal particulate, possibly encased in plastic, but also by spraying the people with pathogens to weaken their immune system, making a dent in their emotional resistance which will in turn dent their reasoning, making them easier to fool by lights in the sky, and also making the memories of the event less vivid, so as to more easily confabulate it.

Why? Alien false flag op and possibly the seeding of a new religion by the world elite, who feel the grasp of their age old powers on mankind weakening.

Supporting evidence: as some of you know, I have posted as a witness on several chemtrail threads. On one of these sightings I, along with another person that was with me at the time but shall remain anonymous, saw a bright light appear right where the trail had been set, shining for a few seconds like an orb in the sky, then dieing down to nothing. I first thought it was light shining of the airliner doing the spraying, but it stayed imobile in the sky long enough to refute thay hypothesis. I am just guessing, but I think it was the result of some sort of energy beam, possibly space based, or the use of some ionospheric manipulation technology such as what harp is rumoured to be, although it was lower than the ionosphere, but that could be the result of some sort of energy transfer.

None of the above is proven, it's just speculation from someone who has realised the NWO type conspiracy is true, and these people go to great length to manipulate belief systems and create false paradigms to entrap thought, and consequently action, with. Take it for what it is worth.

I guess the short message is don't believe everything you see, short of being taken onboard a flying saucer and whisked into space. It's a world of lies out there.

I live in Austin and i was driving to rehearsal when i saw this very bright light and it was moving....i thought to myself...OMG its Aliens or a Comet its happening...the beginning of the end...hah

As i got closer to the target, it turned out to be an airplane that was just hovering close to the ground...well...thats what it looked like anyway

so i think thats what this is too because it kinda looks similar....and is it me or are the planets getting closer to earth because they are really bright in the Austin Sky

I too have noticed that the stars seem brighter than I remember them to be, especially the ones which seem closer to earth. I can hardly make out the milky way most nights, but the constellations are blazing away very noticeably. Makes me think of the photon belt ideas that get thrown around so often.