2009-09-21 - Bastrop, TX - Sphere

9/21/0Blinking colored lights forming perfect spherical-shaped object in night sky; moving slowly from sw to north, back to south

Originally around 9:30 p.m. saw what appeared to be a twinkling "star" in south/southwestern sky immediately above tree line from back yard. Noticed redish tint, then green and blue blink off to edge and red again with white intermitting. Went into house for binoculars; using 7 x 35 mm wide angle lenses, the image popped immediately into a sphere covered with a network of lights that were "chasing" in patterns across the exterior of this perfectly-formed globe. I couldn't even begin to guess size, thereby distance, but it seemed to hold quite still for periods of time and as I saw it float gently to north, staying ever to my west, I ran to street, calling everybody I could think of at a rather late hour for most of my friends. I found one who lived to the west of me about an hour's drive, approximately 45 miles direct route.

I kept her on phone for moral and mental support as I went back to house, got in car and drove to river, one block away, parked and turned off all lights to get clear view. It was a very visible globe, confirming the viewing of earlier, red, green and blue lights chasing one another in blinking fashion, much like chasing christmas lights; only with a peculiar pattern. The largest band of lights was around the center of sphere, and that was red, never changing but at times dimming to what appeared to be a muted tone; nearly black and white in color. Then green would appear in 2-3 rows on the lower left quadrant and blue was blinking in ring above and below the red ring, with a smattering of colors continually blinking about this globe. Imagine the framework of a geodesic dome that is a complete globe and the intersecting pieces of framework would be the positioning of the lights. They always traveled in this perfect web of lights but not in a pattern that I would be able! to identify was anything beyond random, with the exception of the repeating of the red blaze from right to left from time to time. That was dependably consistent. It then moved from due west to southwest once again and seemed to move from that point south, and away. Around 11:00 when I went back out to climb on roof to again search, I found absolutely no sign of it.

I know what I saw; it appeared to be a hollow globe, the shape defined and formed by a network of connecting lights on a grid. I'm not sure if the illumination showed interior of globe or exterior. Too far away and binoculars showed clearly the shape and color but not depth or distance.