Photos & Videos Emerge: Mass Sighting of Bizarre Lights in Houston Thunder storm

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• hen: August 11th, 2014
• Where: Houston (particularly in the Northwest/Katy area)
• What: Mass sighting of several lights, at times appearing as a craft and at other times separate lights, hovering in a thunderstorm

With a promised show from the Perseid meteor shower and a spectacular thunderstorm coloring the night of August 11th in Houston, it’s no surprise folks had their cell phones and cameras pointed up at the sky.

But those very folks were for a surprise of their own. Specifically, an extraterrestrial visitation. Or… street lights?

Well, at least some think the photograph above – apparently taken by a local DJ Monday night and quickly spread wildfire-style all over Twitter – is really just a reflection of a nearby, similarly shaped street light. MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, says “It’s no more than light trapped in the side window.” Still, others speculate it’s one of NASA’s much-talked-about experimental flying saucers – after all, the Johnson Space Center is located in Houston.

Another popular explanation for the above photo – and the many other videos and photos to have surfaced since – is ball lightning, a new light phenomenon to scientists that is often triggered by thunderstorms. “Hoax,” of course, has been tossed around, but considering how many people have reported seeing this event, that is unlikely. Many fake photos and at least one fake video have indeed hit the web, but that tends to happen when a legitimate UFO sighting becomes such an attention grabber that others try to latch on to its popularity by pretending to have hoaxed it.

To make matters ultra confusing, an apparent pal of the original witness tweeted to him “hahah good one @djnayyz that’s actually the reflection of the highway lights on the glass door I can’t believe you fooled the news well they believe what ever  you tell them.” I can’t find this tweet.

Oddly enough, I also received the photo in question in my own inbox, but there was a different name attached to it – not DJ Nayyz’. They claimed they were harassed on Twitter and told to say the photo was a fake. In fact, the more I investigate, the more apparent “original eyewitnesses” I find.

Why all the confusion… disinfo?

Regardless, Texas UFO Sightings was inundated with dozens of UFO reports – most commonly detailing a circular shaped craft hovering over the Northwest section of Houston. YouTube, Twitter, and other parts of the web, as mentioned, were also abuzz.

Several local news outlets have already picked up on the story, including Click 2 Houston:

Check out two additional photos taken by DJNayyz (or Nathanial Xavier):