middle of desert, TX - Light

Texas 1967, Triangle of lights turning around common center, with many smaller companion lights.

Driving from Dallas to Huston, the guitar player in my band, and I came upon a lot of cars parked along the highway. This was about two hours out of Dallas. Thinking there had been an accident, we pulled off the road and next to the first car on the right side of the highway. I leaned out the window and asked a guy standing there next to his car what had happened. He simply said, "Well look!" My guitarist was driving, he pulled in a little more and stopped the engine and we both got out and looked up.

There were three very bright lights at equal distance from each other, in a triangular formation slowly circling around a common center. These lights were about as bright as a very bright star, not Venus type bright by any means, never the less very noticable amongst the reat of the stars. I asked the guy standing there how long he had been watching this, he said, about 20 minutes or so, but some of the people here had been watching for more than an hour! I looked around for a moment and realised that there were alot of people there, and many cars on both sides of the highway. It was hard to keep my eyes from the sky, and I didn't really try to estimate the size of the crowd at the time. There was very little talking, most of it was in hushed voices when at all. After a few minutes a very small light came out of one of the larger ones and zoomed across the sky to the horizon, at such an amazing speed that it was incomprehensible. The guy next to us said the only other words he ever said to us then, "There's been a lot of those." Maybe 4 or 5 minutes later the little light came back from another direction. After that several more from various directions. They would just appear on the horizon and zoom back to the main lights and sort of merge with one or the other. The whole time the triangular set is turning 'round and 'round in the same spot. When the small lights would appear there was murmuring from the crowd, everyone seemed rather giddy--I know I was, I kept saying "wow", I don't know if it was out loud or not, but it was very exciting, simply amazing. It may have been as many as forty minutes that we stood and watched this, until finally, little lights began coming from every direction of the horizon. I didn't try to count them, I was simply in awe, but there were many, maybe 20, maybe as many as a hundred. They were all moving so fast, impossibly fast, taking maybe as little as 7 seconds from horizon to the main lights. After all of th small lights had converged with the big three, these merged tog! ether into one huge light, now at least as bright as Venus, and it simply went Up and away; like a shot into space. the crowd actually cheered like at a ball game or something! I did to, it was just spontanious, so exciting. I wish this could get posted somewhere, there were so many people out there that night, and I'm sure none of them would ever forget it. Maybe some would read this and write in and tell about it too.