Passenger on
flight near Dallas, Texas spots mysterious craft
By Billy Booth
Introduction
It stands to reason that those that are closer to the
action see more than others, like passengers or crewman on an airplane.
This has happened too many times to count. Marine Pilot Encounters UFO over
Gulf of Mexico, UFO Near Miss at Manchester Airport, Do Pilots Report UFOs? and Gorman Plane UFO Encounter are some good examples.
Air Flight from Seattle to Dallas - 11-14-1997
I am writing you because of something I saw (along
with a friend) while flying into Dallas on a Friday evening. The more I
have thought about this the more I knew I should write down what I saw. I
was flying from Seattle to Dallas on Flight 18 Friday Nov. 14th, at about
6:35-6:45 P.M.
We were about a half hour out of Dallas/Ft Worth and
high above a thick, cloud cover. There was a full moon out and the clarity
above the clouds was good. As we looked out ahead and to the east (port side of
the aircraft), I noticed a few lights out ahead of us.
First Presumption - An Airplane
Naturally at first, I presumed they were other
aircraft coming right at us since the lights did not blink like wing
lights but as the head lights do at times. There were two such lights and
they looked far off but being at night, it was hard to tell just how far.
I watched for a long time watching other aircraft with
blinking strobe lights passing in various directions. These lights (the
identifiable aircraft with blinkers) were much smaller in size to the constant
lights. What started to seem strange was the fact that the original two
lights which were constant began to appear to be closer the nearer we flew,
not farther apart as it should be is we were approaching them.
Also what seemed strange was the fact that at no point
did there appear any other lights such as a green (starboard) or red
(port) lights with these two constant lights. I watched intently as I saw a
normally lit and identifiable aircraft fly perpendicular to the main light
on my left that I had been watching. The identifiable aircraft approached
extremely close and behind this light.
The light was not a distant star or light on a hill or
a beacon as my mind raced to start to explain what I was seeing. The time
span now is maybe 15 full minutes of watching these lights. We were approaching
these lights which was apparent since the lights were now directly to the
port side of the aircraft and no longer in front of us. As we
continued on, and our approach to Dallas caused us to slightly alter our
approach, these lights became directly to port from us and even closer and
seemed to rise higher above the cloud layer than before.
I had mentioned the lights to my companion several
times since I first spotted them when I had described them first as two
aircraft with their headlights on. At this point I saw a third light low in the
cloud cover below these two lights. This third light was hazy as if
slightly in the clouds and also seemed larger and closer to us. It had shape to
it, almost like it was like a soft cube shape (a cube with rounded corners
and puffed up sides. It was not just light).
Lights Unlike Any Others
I was seriously questioning that these lights were
anything I had seen before. I had made several comments to my friend
trying to explain what I was seeing since I knew they were not aircraft like
"these have to be beacon lights" or "maybe they are power
lines" always to be followed by, "but we are too high for
that."
I said to my companion that she should look at the
lights. Right about then, I leaned back as we passed the lights. My companion
leaned over me and looked now back slightly aft and to port through the windows
and said to me "You mean those lights that look like a
triangle?"
I looked out the window again and now saw that indeed
there were three distinct lights, now blinking above the cloud cover in a triangle formation. The third light had indeed come out
and was well above the clouds. As we continued to move towards
Dallas and begin our descent, the lights remained in a triangle formation even
though we continued make a left turn towards the Dallas/Ft Worth airport.
In other words, even though they were in a triangular formation while we
looked at them to port, they remained in a triangular formation as we viewed
them to aft.
Lights at 25-30K Feet
Within a few minutes we were descending into the
clouds and I lost sight of the lights. I have thought a lot about
what I saw and discussed it with my companion who also saw them. These
were stationary lights at our altitude during normal flight approach about
35-45 minutes out of Dallas or slightly higher (with the exception to the third
light) which would put them at least 25-35K feet.
The lights were stationary since while we approached
they were in front, as we continued they were to the port and then aft of
us as we passed. There were initially two constant lights very far apart when
first viewed and only slightly brighter and very much closer to each other
30 minutes later when joined by the third light from the clouds. The
lights did not seem to move, but were stationary though they must have
moved since they were closer to each other after viewing them for 30
minutes than at first.
I am a 42 yr. old businessman in Seattle and work as a
real estate broker. I was a concert promoter for many, many years and have
flown hundreds of thousands of miles. I have a good grasp of astronomy and can
identify the moons of Jupiter with my binoculars and Venus along with my
favorite constellations. I grew up with a pilot as my best friend and have
logged hundreds of right seat flying in small aircraft so I have an
appreciation for what aircraft look like at night and during the
day.
Witness Not a 'Believer"
Though I do listen to Art Bell and have read many books on Roswell and a few about other UFOs, I am not a
"believer." I am a curious observer. With thousands of hours of
staring at the skies, of flying all over this country many times over during
night and day, I have never seen anything that wasn't identifiable, at least
after 5-10 minutes of viewing.
These objects were viewed by me for nearly 45 minutes
non-stop and I have no explanation that meets any test I put to it. I have
replayed the tape in my head over and over. I keep seeing the aircraft passing
behind the main left light. I keep seeing the two lights far apart and
them seeing the triangle shape after the appearance of the third. I see
the third boxy light shrouded on the clouds then see it clearly in view
above the clouds.
These objects had to be moving, but in such a way that
they seemed stationary to the eye or the plane. There were no additional
lights associated with these white lights. There were no strobes with these
lights. While other aircraft came and went from Dallas and appeared across
the sky, these lights seemed to sit still.
I had to finally admit I saw something strange and
unexplainable with my resources. I guess in a way, I wanted to live in
denial that I saw anything weird at all, but in the end, had to write this down
and send it off as a statement of my very best recollection of what I saw.
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