SIGHTING: SOCORRO, TEXAS (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"I was leaving my girlfriend's house in Socorro, TX at 2:30 a.m. on May 2, 2015, heading back to the main street from her subdivision, when I noticed a bright orange circle in the night sky. I was travelling westbound and the object was traveling towards me in a southeastern direction. The circle first appeared just to be a star or maybe a meteorite given the clear night sky, but it began to grow in brightness and then I noticed what appeared to be a conical exhaust coming out from the bottom of the object, which is unlike a plan that would have the exhaust visible behind it, not underneath it. I had lit a cigarette and had my windows rolled down but I heard no noise to accompany what I was witnessing in the sky. I pull over to try and get a better view of this and then the object grows in brightness and then suddenly dims and disappears and then all of my truck's lights went out, inside and outside, but my engine kept running. I switched them on and off and after about ten seconds they just suddenly came on. I noticed that the time on my CD player hadn't reset, which usually occurs when the power to the CD player is cut off (i.e. a dead battery or disconnecting the battery to work on the engine). I felt very numb and was at a loss of what to feel after witnessing that. I knew I was scared because of what I had just witnessed but was also very curious as I turned my truck around and drove around the neighborhood hoping to view the object once more or see something in the sky or on the ground that might help me make sense of what had occurred."