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Carl Lancaster and Doug McCullough

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UFO sighting in Austin

Video taken of strange lights in the sky

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."

 


 

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