UFO over Texas: Camera snaps hovering 'Frisbee' with lights

(This article originally appeared on the Transcendent TV & Media site.)

(PLEASE NOTE: After an investigation by the Mutual UFO Network, MUFON, it was concluded that the photo image was a result of the camera's function and the horizontal line of lights was a reflection of the camera's internal LED lights. For follow-up information, see the article Texas 'UFO' was part of camera function?)

Dallas-Fort Worth TV station KXAS, NBC 5, reported on Aug. 25, 2010, that a local resident's infrared game camera, used to photograph deer and animals moving through the property, had caught something very unusual.

KXAS reporter Omar Villafranca's account of Lisa Brock-Piekarski's game camera explained that it photographed its intended target, a deer. But, the camera also picked up a very strange sight, apparently hovering over the landscape.

"What I see looks almost like a Frisbee," she told Villafranca. "You see several lights going around, and they're all symmetrical and lit up, and it just looks like an object in the sky."

The camera is motion-activated and uses infrared instead of a flash.

A LITTLE FREAKED OUT

Brock-Piekarski can't figure out what the object is. "There's nothing back there but trees and sky. There's no hills, no buildings, nothing back there. It's all flat."

According to the timestamps on several pictures, the odd object hovered for nearly two hours.

KXAS wasn't the only news outlet to pick up this story.

Los Angeles Times blog writer Kelly Burgess noted in her "Outposts – Outdoors, Action, Adventure" article on the incident that, "Fort Worth area resident Lisa Brock-Piekarski is a little freaked out by images she discovered on an infrared camera mounted at her family's favorite hunting spot."

Like reporter Villafranca, Burgess also noted that Brock-Piekarski's property is in Archer City, near Sheppard Air Force Base. They both report that, so far, the base has had no comment on the photos.

Was it an advanced U.S. aircraft of some kind? Or, could it be something more unusual and interesting?

STEPHENVILLE 2008 INCIDENTS

It's not the first time strange objects in the skies have visited the great state of Texas. Back in 2008, residents of Stephenville and Erath County reached out to local newspaper reporter Angelia Joiner with stories of very strange lights in the sky and solid objects close to the ground that appeared to be some kind of craft.

Stephenville is located in the rural region of northeast Texas, approximately 70 miles southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.

Dozens of citizens came forward, including respected and reliable local residents. Several local peace officers also reported UFOs.

Officers caught UFO photos on their police car dashboard cameras. One officer clocked a slow-moving UFO with his speeder radar gun (it was going 27 miles per hour).

Some officers also created a diagram of one of the UFOs. The diagram described one object as being somewhat flat and octagon-shaped, with raised portions on the top and bottom.

The object was described by witnessing officers as 400 feet long and 35 feet from bottom to top, a dull green color with lights in various configurations.

Describing the diagram, one officer stated, "This is what I and several other officers saw. I did not see the back, only the frontal view. The two large lights were bright like landing lights, but solid light blue in color similar to LED. The wing tip lights remained steady. The top and bottom tower lights strobed sporadically. It had three towers on the bottom and two on top. It was bigger than a B1 bomber. It lumbered around town then headed off towards Mineral Wells."

There were many dozens of UFO sightings throughout 2008 in the Erath County area by people who saw things from anomalous lights in the sky to solid objects near the ground. Multiple unusual radar targets were also picked up in the region that year.

Did the UFOs go away, or just become more discreet?

They didn't seem to know the infrared game camera in Archer City was on, ready to snap their picture – or did they?

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