East Texas UFO? 2009

It's the infamous UFO video that has East Texans talking.

But the real question is, what do the experts have to say about it?

Astronomer Tom Hooton, of the Hundall Planetarium, has seen all types of objects in the sky. He thinks he may know what the East Texas UFO could possibly be.

"If you were looking in the eastern sky at 6:00 a.m., at low horizon; Venus is definitely in that part of the sky."

Hooton isn't alone on his Venus prediction. Amateur Astronomer, "Don Scharm's" telescope is almost as big as he is. So what did he think, when he saw the UFO?

"I thought, that's Venus. I knew Venus would be in the air at that time, and I said I'm pretty sure that's Venus. The reason I thought it was Venus, is it looked like they were shooting the video towards the east. Venus would be the brightest object in the sky at that time.

"Probably because of air currents and humidity in the upper atmosphere, it just bent the light rays in various kind of crazy directions," said Scharm.

Kilgore College Physics and Astronomy professor, Jerry Fuller doesn't buy it.

"I think that's that's highly unlikely. Somebody is playing with us with some sort of light source and bouncing the light off of a cloudy sky," said Professor Fuller.

Whatever "it" is; it's sure to keep moving and have East Texans talking.

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[HowlinJay]

Actually...I'm a videographer and photographer, whether or not it's Venus I have no idea, but I can tell you it's a static light source. The camera's framerate can't keep up with the shaking of the camera which makes it appear to be dancing around.

Cool video but that's all it is...

[Ralph111417]

You are so right HowlinJay. I am amazed no one has picked up on this. I guess if you've not shot low light with slow shutter maybe you wouldn't find it obvious but hey this is 2009 not 1909, almost anybody these days has a video camera right in their mobile phone. Oh well....

[Uhoh2012Productions]

"It just bent the light waves"? lol... Where do they get these douchebags? That's the best they can come up with in their agenda to disprove UFO's. lol. Lame. I've seen Venus a hundred times all different times of year. It NEVER looks like that. Go look at it yourself.

[NearlyFreeSpeech]

Looks similar to worm ufo's from mexico.

[mike6291]

Gotta love an "astronomy expert" who says 'Venus was low on the horizon'.. When did they stop using reference points and magnitude?

Also, at 0:25 secs.. is that "low" .. is that east? Should be easy to check.. go back to the same street at the same time.. so nice bit of investigative journalism KLTV.

[TriphopJunkie]

OMG get a tripod ya shakey basterd

[86taranaki]

its a flying pig

[austin209510]

It's BATMAN!!! lmfao

[GenevaSuspension]

I believe in UFOs and this is definitely Venus...just some drunk with a get rich quick scheme and Parkinson's. Make a balloon and stick your kid in it...might get more attention.

[HowlinJay]

The camera

[soulalone2010]

So is the object moving or is it the camera?