One night in 1973, I was night fishing for catfish on Lake Lewisville (formerly Garza-Little Elm), near Tower Bay, Tx. It was about 2:00 AM, on a cool Oct. night, and my youngest older brother was there with me. We always watched stars a lot, and on this night, the sky was especially clear, with millions of stars, everywhere. This was back in the days before they gated off lakes, and marked them “Day Use Only”, and there were no streetlights installed, or camp sites, and you could fish without being bothered by anyone…I had just put a channel cat in the fish basket, when my brother called my attention to the sky.
There was a very bright light, much brighter than all of the stars, and globe shaped. It very much resembled an opaque hollow globe with a light inside of it. It was hovering at our 9:00 high position, to the East. I couldn’t be sure of it’s altitude, because there was nothing close by it to judge it’s size by, but I guessed it was about 30’ in diameter and around 500 ft altitude. It started out as orangish-white, but shifted to a reddish hue, and back to white, occasionally. It was not the moon, because the moon was also clearly visible in the east, and was only at the 1/4 phase. There were no other markings on it that we could see. Our dachshund, Bruno I (I still have one of his grand-puppies, Bruno III…he was a great dog, and so is his grandpup), started yapping at it vigorously, so it was obviously really there, or he was hallucinating, too. There was no sound other than the wind and the trees. The wind was blowing from the E. at around 5 mph.
The object hovered over the lake for a few seconds, then moved to the west, for a few miles, not fast, but deliberate. It hovered a bit near the Tower Bay water tower (about 5 miles away), then moved back to it’s original position in the east. I guessed it’s speed to be no more than 150 mph, at that time. It made a few more identical passes from east to west, hovering for as much as a minute at each end. After the fourth pass, it shot rapidly straight up, and disappeared, from view, in less than 2 seconds. About a minute later, 2 F-4 Phantoms with 301st Tactical Air Wing (out of Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth, Tx) insignia (I had just returned from a tour in Vietnam, so I was familiar with A/C markings) screamed by at around 1500 ft altitude, from east to west, and made hard climbs, out of sight, after passing the water tower (at Tower Bay, Tx.). After that, things returned to normal, and my brother and I went back to fishing, and discussed the incident.
To this day, neither one of us has ever found out what it was we witnessed. My guess is that it was some sort of rare natural phenomena that triggered a SAC radar scope somewhere, and the Phantoms were dispatched to check it out.
That's probably the weirdest thing I've ever seen while out fishing.
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