Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Short cylinder, seemed to be "paved" with small reflective rectangles om the lower part/

Size of Object(s)

Relative size. Arms stretched out, 1 foot across. Actual size, I'd guess 35 feet wide and 25 feet high.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

No more than a hundred yards away and I guess 150 - 200 feet high.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Initially, it was hovering over a loop area with no businesses or houses for several hundred yards. After that, we found it in a residential area with heavy business traffic only a few blocks away.

Full Description & Details

Summer 1977. A friend and I were driving and noticed an object that seemed to be hovering over a highway near our neighborhood. We drove toward the object and it started moving towards another residential area then out of sight.

We drove the direction we saw it go and lost it. Finally when we decided to head back home, we saw it above us again in a residential area. We stopped and got a good look. It shape was like a steel coffee can. If you can imagine a large can of coffee with the top 1/3 cut off.

It appeared to be reflective or shiny on the lower part almost like it was "paved" with small rectangular, reflective plates. After about 20 seconds, it moved away and out of sight.

We were freaked out to say the least. When I shared what happened with my parents, they dismissed the "sighting" as a satellite or my imagination.

I've told only a few close friends whose responses usually are "I've never heard of a flying cylinder UFO.

I saw tonight a picture of the gulf breeze UFO and this was the closest thing I have ever seen to what we saw and decided to write about it.

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

I guess I should add there was a SAC base there in San Angelo at the time. Possibly some Air Force plane etc

Witness Background

I was in Jr. High at the time of the sighting. I am a sales professional now and have been for more than 20 years.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I was 15 and had no real knowledge of UFO's. I have never read a book on UFO's before or after and while I read about various subjects on the Internet regularly, I only searched about UFO's tonight and saw the object that closest represented the thing we saw that night.

Other Comments

I always wondered what we saw and nothing I ever heard of or saw on TV matched, so I have mostly kept this to myself.

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