Canyon Lake, Texas Unusual Sighting - Three Red Lights Hovering Over
The Water
Date: Approx: 1968-70 Summer
Time: Sundown
HBCC UFO Research Note: Along with the witness for this sighting, I am
also curious to know if anyone else out there may have seen something
very similar to this sighting, if so I would certainly like to hear from
you over what it was you saw.
Location of Sighting: South shore of Canyon Lake in Texas.
Number of witnesses: 5-6
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: 3 red lights at tips of invisible triangle shaped
platform.
Full Description of event/sighting: Background Info: This happened some
time ago, but have heard you on the Jeff Rense show and just found your
website and thought I would add this to the list and see if anyone else
has seen anything like it.
We were at a picnic area and had just finished eating after an
afternoon on the south shore of Canyon Lake. My family and another couple that
are friends and co-workers with my parents were there and we all live
in San Antonio, TX about 40 miles south of this large man-made lake.
Sighting:
I was about high school age (approx. 16-17) and noticed some red
lights in the sky over toward the north side of the lake heading west. My
parents and the other couple were talking and it had just come dark in
the sky so we were about to pack up and leave since there wasn't much
light out in this small park area with a few picnic tables.
I kept watching these red lights that started to head directly toward
us at a slow rate, like slow helicopters about 500-1000 feet in the sky.
Or a height that might be reasonable for a helicopter passing over the
lake. The red lights were steady not strobing or changing in
brightness and looked like lights on top of tall building or towers to warn
aircraft. Nothing very suspicious or exciting.
However, when the lights got about closer I could see that there were
3 red lights in an equal lateral triangle and seemed to be about the
size of a jet fighter in size, but they were going very slow and I think
hovered out over the water while we were going to our cars to leave.
The big thing was that there was no noise at all, and I would think you
would hear something even from the most quieted helicopter. It was
dark enough that I could not see anything except the three red lights
moving together like attached to a platform or the tips of delta wings.
I finally mentioned these lights to my parents and the other couple and
they just thought it was helicopters and then I mentioned that there is
no engine or rotor noise. They agreed that was odd, but no one else
thought it was a big deal. I have considered it a UFO sighting, but
probably some secret Air Force technology they were playing with.
However, I have always wondered what it was and never heard of anything like
it to this day.
My memory is not 100% about the number of these things. I seem to
remember separate 3 groups of 3 lights flying very slowly in loose
formation, but it could have just been one group with slightly more lights. I
did not really believe in UFOs as extraterrestrial objects, but more as
unidentified man-made object. If you look at how advanced the Germans
and Italians were by the end of WWII, it is conceivable that very
advanced flying objects and defensive systems. However, after seeing the
UFOs on the NASA videos, I have become more open to the possibility.
Conclusion:
Although I was very interested in the three red light/triangle UFOs
for a while, one reason I let it fade from memory was that both my
parents and the other couple we were with worked for the National Security
Agency at a local Air Force base and assumed they either knew what it
was or didn't think it was anything extraordinary.
It didn't seem too impressive for a UFO sighting, but it still seems
weird that there was no noise at all, no other people around, and the
crafts came toward us and moved so slowly that they could not fly like a
plane or they would have stalled and fallen out of the sky. My only
other guess some kind of blimps or balloons, but you could not see
anything but the normal looking red lights forming an equal triangle like they
were on a frame and no strobe light that is usually required at night.
It seems like the lead middle group of lights came up very near or over
us while we were leaving and the other two stayed back almost hovering
over the lake further behind. If there was some normal noise at all, I
would have accepted them as helicopters out on some kind of training
mission, but there was no noise at all from them and I became worried
about their intentions.
CHEERS
UFOHARRY :alien:
