Mysterious lights were spotted Thursday evening north of Austin over Brushy Creek and Cat Hallow.
Video was despatched to FOX 7 by Gus McGiven. He was out strolling along with his good friend Kyle Gomez close to Cat Hallow in Spherical Rock.
“In actual life while you see it, it’s so much brighter than it truly is,” mentioned Kyle Gomez.
Emily White says she and a good friend have been close to Brushy Creek, near Cedar Park, on the time. Additionally they recorded a video clip of the lights.
“It was mesmerizing, truthfully. It was so silent as a result of if it was one gentle, then I’d have possibly thought, ‘Oh, a helicopter, a aircraft, one thing like that.’ However like there was so a lot of them collectively,” mentioned White.
FOX 7 requested White if she questioned if she was having an in depth encounter.
“I’ll be trustworthy, form of. I don’t know if I consider in all that, however, I don’t know. Possibly, I hear a number of it in like America that that form of issues occurs. I believe it’s simply due to prefer it didn’t make any noise in any respect, which I simply thought was actually odd. However, yeah, undoubtedly, undoubtedly felt prefer it was just like the alien invasion or one thing on the way in which,” mentioned White.
Gus McGiven and Kyle Gomez have been additionally left with questions.
“I’ve by no means believed in UFO’s or something like that, however I imply, I would, I would now. I don’t know, I’m unsure,” mentioned McGiven.
The “UFOs” may very well have been UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Autos.
“I must say there’s nothing extraterrestrial concerned with this. However I’m not to say that that couldn’t be a risk,” mentioned drone knowledgeable Gene Robinson.
Robinson, who lives in Wimberley, trains drone pilots and flies a number of varieties of UAV platforms. He reviewed the video despatched to FOX 7.
“My preliminary tackle that is that it is vitally probably a drone based mostly phenomena,” mentioned Robinson.
At one level, the lights in a single video clip zoomed off. Some individuals assume that what was within the air was projected by a laser. However Robinson famous it doesn’t look like there was something for a laser to mirror off of.
“That’s fairly unlikely. So, I’m nonetheless considering that this can be somebody testing their do-it-yourself drone swarm,” mentioned Robinson.
A drone swarm is an enormous gentle present. They began chickening out about 2 years in the past. Drone swarms can fill the sky, like people who flew over Shanghai in 2020. Galveston had one for a Fourth of July occasion. In March, at SXSW, a drone swarm generated plenty of buzz.
“Just about anticipate this to be the way forward for evening gentle reveals, is these drones are going to be swarmed in as we’ve seen 100, 200, 300 drones,” mentioned Robinson.
Gus and Kyle, after watching the SkyFOX Drone fly Friday afternoon, say what they noticed was most likely UAVs, however aren’t completely dismissing the UFO concept both.
“It was mesmerizing, truthfully. It was so silent,” mentioned White.
The FAA requires a waiver to fly at evening, particularly in a swarm configuration. Officers with the company say they’re checking to see if a waiver was granted.
Spherical Rock police say they didn’t get any calls concerning the lights.
