Updated: Monday, 27 Oct 2008, 7:36 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 27 Oct 2008, 1:09 PM CDT
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Two Austinites believe they saw a UFO flying over Austin in
October. They said they have the videotape to prove it. Carl
Lancaster and Doug McCullough were both outside their apartments in
Central Austin on Middle Fiskville Road Oct. 8 around 9 p.m. when
they both saw three bright lights. Lancaster said he saw a red
light and two white lights that flew in a zigzag pattern across the
sky.
"It was just incredible and just unexplainable," said
Lancaster. "The lights flew on top of each other and then side by
side."
McCullough captured the mysterious lights on his home video
camera.
"We've got proof," said McCullough. "It's great to finally
capture something on video."
Lancaster started waving at the lights, and he said they
responded to him by flying on top of each other and then side by
side.
"It was a UFO," said Lancaster. "E.T. probably!"
Torvald Hessel, Austin Planetarium's Executive Director,
closely examined Lancaster and McCullough's video. He pointed out
the lights made a zigzag pattern across the power poles.
"Shooting star, meteorite," said Hessel. "It's possible, but
I wouldn't be able to explain the zigzag movement."
Hessel watched the video twice and even watched it frame by
frame to examine what looked like two lights on top of each other.
He said the lights could have been from an airplane or helicopter,
although he said that was unlikely.
"It's obviously two lights, which is interesting," said
Hessel. "No idea what it is, probably not aliens over Austin."
Just recently in Stephenville, Texas, high school student
Andy Monrreal was hanging out with friends when he also recorded
what looked like a UFO.
"You could see the oval shape," said Monrreal. "Got my
friend, I said 'dude, you got to come look at this.'"
Meanwhile, Austin Bergstrom International Airport officials
said they had no reports of any mysterious objects flying over the
city the night Lancaster and McCullough saw their UFOs, but
Lancaster and McCullough said they have all the proof they need.
"When I see one, I'll believe it," said Lancaster. "I saw not
one, not two, but possibly three that night."