Las Colinas/Irving Texas Strange Cloud In A Clear Sky

Posted: January 19, 2008

Date: August 3, 2006 Time: 12:47 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 1 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Rectangular cloud.

Full Description of event/sighting: It was lunchtime, and I was sitting in traffic, about four or five cars back from the stoplight. The overhead thermometer read 93 degrees -- not too bad for 12:47 in the afternoon in DFW, TX, I thought. As my eyes slid back down to take stock of the traffic and the lights, I happened to gaze at the horizon. The road I was on is a decent-sized artery that stretches across several major hi-ways; where I was at the moment, was coming out of a large business park and approaching one of these major highways, so my truck was idling at a slight incline, and this being TX, there weren't any trees or buildings to block my view of the next traffic light up the road.

I was thinking about what I was going to buy at Kohl's with my $60 gift card, my mind wandering between thoughts of dishes and clothes to shoes and jewelry, when my eyes happened upon a small, rectangular cloud, low and close to the horizon. This cloud was smog-colored, perhaps a shade darker than the cloudless smoggy sky that stretched across the horizon in front of me. Cars and trucks drove back and forth beneath and in front of this cloud, the size of them about the same as a pencil eraser held at arm's length. For a moment I didn't think much of anything other than, "hunh, that cloud is sure moving fast" and then I realized there were no other clouds in the sky at all, much less along the horizon... and then I realized how large this cloud was must be in relation to the eraser-sized cars and trucks in the foreground (considering I could tell that it was much further away than the cars and trucks I saw passing 'beneath' it)... and how fast it was going (in an easterly direction). "Moving as fast as an airplane" I thought, and yet it did not change shape or size at all, until about three or four seconds passed and it faded from view... as if it went invisible. At this point I pulled my sunglasses off and squinted into the distance trying to see it again and I said aloud "What was that?" Bemused, I drove off as the light changed and didn't think much more about it.

I told my husband about it later in the day and he really had no explanation except it could have been a mirage or something heat related. I simply said it was something I could not explain and left it at that.

Thank you to the witness for their report.

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