| Description of Sighting | We were on a trip to Marfa to celebrate our oldest daughter turning 40 and were there almost a week. That Monday night, we decided to build a fire in the fire pit and we all sat down to chat and tell stories. It was myself and my wife. Our daughter oldest and her husband and their six-year-old son as well as our daughter fourth daughter and her husband. Later our fifth daughter joined us as well. It should be noted one of my son-in-laws who was there is a Texas State Trooper and obviously trained to be observant and he is a big sceptic of these kinds of things. At some point while looking at all the stars I noticed a bright lite seeming to move across the sky until it eventually just blinked out. At first, I said aloud it must be a satellite to which the others agreed. However, as we watched over the next 30-40 minutes, we observed many more just seem to suddenly appear overhead and the eventually blink out or sometimes seem to blink in and out. What initially stood out to me was that these were like the size of shooting stars and very bright. When afforded the opportunity to see a night sky that clear in the past, I had seen what I assumed was a satellite cross the sky, but it was a tiny moving spec. None of these had blinking lights that would have made me feel it was a plane with its standard flashing lights. About 10 minutes in we saw two appear from a right angle to each other and they seemed to be heading right at each other, but one it looked like they were going to collide, they started doing what I would describe as a double helix, like a strand of DNA, going round and round of each other. At that point we all started chattering more excitedly because we knew what we were seeing was very unusual and not planes or helicopters. The icing on the cake if you will was when one of them suddenly made a 90-degree change in course, instantly. At that point I knew we were seeing something very extraordinary. I know of no objects that could survive such g force. UAPSRS ASSESSMENT: Description of objects is mostly consistent with observations of multiple satellites; the outlier is the description of a 90-degree change in direction. This potentially precludes simple observations of satellites following predictable orbital paths, although the possibility of illusions arising from the observation of more than one satellite at a time within a single region of the sky, etc, could potentially account for the apparent behaviors observed. Case status remains “unidentified” based on these unique maneuvers/behaviors. |
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