1999-12-19 - Houston, TX - Disk

I spoted a copper/amber colored object moving from the se to the west. Observed it through a telescope. Seen a cluster of 15 to 20 disk shaped objects.

I am an amateur astronomer. I started observing the night sky with my telescope Saturday night, 12/18/99, around 22:30 pm central standard time. Observing location was SW Houston at my place of residence. At approximately 01:15 am central standard time on 12/19/99 I noticed a object moving across the sky with the naked eye. At first glance it looked like a commercial airliner because the speed was about the same. But there was no sound and no blinking lights. The light was constant with no fluctuation and was copper/amber in color. The object was coming from the southeast and moving toward the west. I was facing the south and looking up. The object was at about 75 to 80 degrees. This made me curious as to what the object was. I swung my telescope around and was able to lock onto the object with my 9X50 finder scope. Then I focused my finder scope. At that point I could tell the object was not an airplane or jet liner. I could make out multiple disc shaped objects all clustered closely together. At that point I lined up the objects in my Astro-Physics 130 mm telescope. I had to refocus because I was previously observing the moon. I had to bring the focus in closer because the object was definitely closer to earth. My telescope was set up with a 22mm panoptic eyepiece. This was giving me about 35 times magnification. I tracked and observed the object across the sky. There was 15 to 20 disc-shaped objects. They were like bubbles that had been partially flattened. They were dark and transparent looking in the middle of the discs. The discs were emitting an amber colored light around the outer edge and it was constant and nonfluctuating. Some of the objects held a steady position as they moved across the sky while others swayed back and forth. All of the discs were of the same size. I followed them as far as I could to the west util my view was obstructed by a tree. By then the discs were very dim. The cluster stayed together for the duration of my observation. After I lost site of the objects, ! I contin ued to observe the night sky for another hour. There was no other objects sited during that time. I took my compass and lined it up with the direction my telescope was pointed at the last site of the objects. The compass reading was 275 degrees. This is almost due west. A this point I started writing down what had transpired since I had never seen anything like this before.