UFO Sighting Report — Freer, Texas, 3 March 1966

On March 3, 1966, a civilian observer located two miles north of Freer, Texas, reported a sighting of an unidentified aerial object. The witness first noticed a bright light approximately 400-500 feet from his home at 0545 hours. Using field glasses, the observer described the object as round, approximately 100 feet wide and 100 feet high, with a color similar to a jellyfish. The object featured a plastic-like bubble on its bottom, appeared to have pit marks on its surface, and displayed lights resembling aircraft running lights. The object was observed rising from an initial altitude of 1,000 feet to 15,000 feet, maintaining a straight flight path toward the southeast. The sighting lasted for over two hours, with the object still visible at the time of the report at 0755 hours. The report was processed by the 3640th Pilot Training Wing at Laredo Air Force Base and submitted to AFSC (FTD) under Project 10073. The official conclusion reached by the evaluating agency was that the object was the planet Venus, noting that at 1145Z, Venus was positioned at 115 degrees azimuth and 35 degrees elevation with a stellar magnitude of -4.3.