Appearance / Description of Object(s)

The lights formed a rectangle, sides were about three times as long as the ends. Overall length was slightly longer than the highway (6 lanes, 4 shoulders, median). The lights pulsated from very bright to almost out and gave off a purplish white light that was bright enough to read by.

Size of Object(s)

Guessing only, the object must have been at least 120' plus long

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

I( was withi8n a couple of hundred yards from the object and it was about 2-300 feet high

Description of Area / Surroundings

Loop 610 runs around Houston, back then the city proper did not extend out to the Loop. Houston had an AF base and multiple oil refineries

Full Description & Details

My wife, myself and our two kids were going home from an Astros game (about 10:30-10:45pm). traveling along Loop 610 West, we saw an array of lights (rectangular in shape and pulsating, kind of a purplish white color) intersecting the road about a half a mile in front of us. We pulled over, about 2-300 yards from the lights and watched as they crossed the road a couple of hundred feet over the light poles.

There was no sound although there was a feeling of being close to an electrical source (sort of a tingling sensation). It took about 10 seconds for the lights to pass from view behind some trees.

Afterwards I looked around and there were at least a dozen cars observing the light show, besides us. When we got home I called the local AFB (Ellington as I recall) and we were told it was a Police helicopter looking for someone. I always thought it strange that they listened to everything I said and had a story ready as soon as I finished my report.

I served several years in the AF and I never saw a chopper big enought to stretch across 6 lanes/4 shoulders and a median! No noise and no return glow off the body bfrom the street lights either. You couldn't see anything above the lights, just pitch black.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

I have never seen anything even remotely similar before or since. It was not a planet or reflection not any man made device that I am aware of

Witness Background

VP Manufacturing. AABA BSBA MBA

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I didn't really have an opinion before my sighting. Since I have read some on the subject but am still not sure what they are. I do not believe they are made in the USA though.

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