UFO over Houston?

[Belize]

I didn't see a topic on this... So... Yeah.

Finally, a picture of a UFO that’s not just a poorly altered flying cigar.

And not just one image. Hundreds of people reported seeing a ring of blinking lights in the sky above Houston, Texas, during a lightning storm last week — and plenty of them had cameras.

Photographs and videos of the event have been circulating on social media, generating so much interest on social media that the Huffington Post actually ran a poll on “The Texas UFO.”

Some of the best footage was recorded by Houston musician Andrew Pena, who says he was videoing the spectacular lightning show while driving along Interstate 45 and didn’t realize what he had until he played it back at home.

The video, which shows a circle of brightly colored lights moving around in the sky, has been declared both “amazing” and “nothing” by UFO-logists and skeptics alike.

“I think the trick with UFOs is figuring out what else they could be,” Dr. Carolyn Summers, vice president for astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, told KPRC-TV. “It’s easy to say that it could be aliens. The more people who see it in different directions, the more likely we are to figure out where it is, what it is, and see if we can explain it.”

Tutual UFO Network chief investigator Fletcher Gray dismissed the object as “no more than light trapped in the side window” of Mr Pena’s car.
The UFO was reportedly hovering less than 12.5 mi from the Johnson Space Center, leading others to speculate it could have been NASA testing its latest toy, a “supersonic flying saucer” which was launched from Hawaii on June 28.

The device, officially named Low Density Supersonic Decelerator, imitates the rapid inflation technique of the Hawaiian puffer fish as a way to protect spacecraft during landings. The aim is to reduce the speed of descending spacecraft, making it easier to land on planets like Mars.

Other theories include a weather balloon, the reflection of a street light, stadium lights and an unmanned drone but so far there has been no official explanation and no word from NASA.

http://nypost.com/2014/08/20/hundred...sa-in-houston/

...Why go to Texas if you have a UFO is beyond me but I guess aliens be aliening.

[Joeygiggles]

more cows in Texas

[Kujako]

It's unidentified, so it's a UFO. But UFO does not mean alien or intelligent.

[Orange Joe]

...Why go to Texas if you have a UFO is beyond me but I guess aliens be aliening.

If this is your argument against it why would they go anywhere?

[frogger237]

looks like a bunch of night skydivers.

[Rukentuts]

Obviously aliens. Because when they're smart enough for interstellar travel they know that when you fly close to a violent population with whom you've never made contact you turn every fucking light on and let them know you're there.

[Xisa]

I didn't see a topic on this... So... Yeah.


...Why go to Texas if you have a UFO is beyond me but I guess aliens be aliening.

Because Texas is our 2nd largest, 2nd most populated, 2nd wealthiest state with a massive variety of cultures and customs compared to the rest of the United States?

[Masark]

Why go to Texas if you have a UFO

They heard that a lot of aliens were coming into Texas and were curious why.

[Belize]

If this is your argument against it why would they go anywhere?

Aliens could go somewhere more temperate and nice. IDK, the Smokey Mountains, or Italy or something.

[v2prwsmb45yhuq3wj23vpjk]

Could also be Chinese lanterns...

Or, could be something more earth based, like some weird electrical discharge in the atmosphere.

Could it be Aliens? Maybe... I do not think the Universe has just one plant with life on it... but somehow I doubt they would come here. Who knows though...

Chinese lanterns probably would not be forming a perfect circle like that. Really doubt it was any aliens, though, unless it was a test aircraft and the military has really started slacking on their background checks.

[dashflash890]

Aliens are crazy if they want to come to Texas.

[Xisa]

Could also be Chinese lanterns...

Or, could be something more earth based, like some weird electrical discharge in the atmosphere.

Could it be Aliens? Maybe... I do not think the Universe has just one plant with life on it... but somehow I doubt they would come here. Who knows though...

It stands to think that any species living in the Universe is going to have the same curiosities about extraterrestrial life as we do. It's probably as fascinating to them as it is to us.

[Sinndra]

Could also be Chinese lanterns...

Or, could be something more earth based, like some weird electrical discharge in the atmosphere.

Could it be Aliens? Maybe... I do not think the Universe has just one plant with life on it... but somehow I doubt they would come here. Who knows though...

i can understand this PoV, i think its a bit more simple in that its just a new aircraft design not yet revealed to the general public. i believe its more likely we would advance our technology to a point that we dont first recognize what somebody else invented, before an encounter with an alien race happens.

[v2prwsmb45yhuq3wj23vpjk]

Aliens could go somewhere more temperate and nice. IDK, the Smokey Mountains, or Italy or something.

This really makes no sense. Assuming they are aliens and they are in a ship, they wouldn't really give a shit about what humans think of a particular area in terms of how nice it is. They have a ship to stay in.

[Reeve]

I didn't see it. That lightning storm knocked out my electricity for a couple minutes though. And my air conditioning.

[Sinndra]

I didn't see it.

more reason to get out of the house and look up huh?

[Reeve]

Hmmm, that's roughly the same shape as Houston Freeway Lights. For reference:



These are more square, but there are others that are more round.

[Orange Joe]

Aliens could go somewhere more temperate and nice. IDK, the Smokey Mountains, or Italy or something.

Why Italy and not Missouri? Or Spain, or France or.....

[apepi]

Aliens could go somewhere more temperate and nice. IDK, the Smokey Mountains, or Italy or something.

Aliens might prefer Texas temperature from what your comfortable with.

[snaek]

If you do get a hold of them, tell them to visit other continents every once in a while too. We feel left out here in Europe. I mean, we had that blue time vortex thingy in the sky here over Scandinavia, sure, but that was apparently just a Russian rocket somehow.