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Occurred : 7/16/1967 20:45
Reported: 1/13/2000
Posted: 2/25/2003
Location: Crystal Beach, TX
Shape: Disk
Duration: 3.25 hours

Spent a Sunday in July 1967 at Crystal Beach with friends, at dusk I spotted what appeared to be a speed boat in the Gulf heading toward shore. It was not what it first appeared to be.

On a Sunday, in Mid July 1967, I spent the day at the Beach with 10 other people between the ages of 8 years and 19 years of age The skies were cloudy and we pretty much had the beach to ourselves. I was 19 years old and the oldest of the group.

We drove to the Beach in 2 cars. When dusk was approaching, 4 of the group decided to go into Galveston to go dancing, so they left in one car. Crystal Beach is located on the Bolivar Peninsula off of the road that connects the mainland to the Galveston Ferry, which takes cars to Galveston.

We, (the remaining seven of us) started driving on the sand watching the waves as the sun was dropping in the west. Two of the girls were sitting on top of the hood catching the breeze as we drove. We were in a brand new Chevy, listening to the radio.

While watching the sea as the sun went below  the horizon, my attention was suddenly caught by what appeared to be a speed boat heading straight towards land. It moved the way a speed boat moves on water. The color at first was silverish, then it turned to amber. I told the others to look at it. At some point as we watched, the driver and I realized that the object was moving far too fast, and appeared to be headed straight at us.

At this point, he had stopped the car. I told the two girls on the hood to get in the car and we proceeded to drive out between the beach houses on one of the dirt roads that connects the main road to the beach. It is a very short distance.

It was going on nine o'clock p.m. I was sitting in the front seat passenger side and watching behind us from the open window. I was startled to watch the object closing on us far too quickly and it was changing colors. As we made the turn onto the main road the object had by then caught up with us. I can not describe how fast this took place.

Suddenly, the radio stopped playing. The object then proceeded to tail us. I won't go into what was happening between the occupants onside the car, however it was not any type of craft that any of us had ever seen before, and at this point we were all aware that it was obviously a flying saucer, which was supposed to not really exist, according to our government.

We were scared (real understatement here). Since I was the oldest, everyone was looking to me for answers, I was praying. Suddenly the driver pulls over to the side of the road slowing down and coming to a stop! I was dumbfounded with that action and asked him for an explanation. He silently showed me that the key was locked into the ignition, as I watched him trying to turn the key I noticed the car lights had also gone off.

We carefully told the others that the saucer had taken the cars power and to stay calm. We rolled the windows up and locked the doors. The craft was hovering directly to the rear, very low and clearly visible. I was watching it through the rear window.

The craft had two decks and a dome on top. All three levels had portholes. At the center between the two large decks, was a wide rim which held panels of colored lights. These lights rotated around the craft constantly. The craft was translucent appearing and glowed with light. The paneled lights were green, bluish-white, and orange. The panels were rectangular in shape. The colors were pale, but seemed to pulsate as they moved around, showing more vivid color and then back to the pale color.

I could not see inside the port holes because the glass was appeared thick and dull looking, and also seemed crusted around the edges. The craft had rivets at the deck joints. I was watching closely for activity inside it while trying to keep the kids quiet and calm. I started to realize that I was becoming hypnotized by these lights going around, so I forced myself to stop watching them and told the others not to watch the colored lights as well.

The car then started. The driver took off immediately. The craft again tailed us as we drove down the road. It tailed us right up to the turnoff that would take us back to civilization and I-10 East. Ti suddenly veered off to the right (the top of craft tilted) and was gone. It left a streak even though it was night time.

Here is a strange part of this encounter: The car radio came back on and the DJ announced its 12 midnight. The loss of three hours startled all seven of us! We just could not believe it. The whole situation I just described seemed to have lasted less then 30 minutes.

We started to report it, but then decided we would probably be branded as crazy. I am reporting it after all these years because this is the first time I have found a place to report it.

A big thanks goes out to NUFORC for this sighting report.