The Austin Planetarium is now investigating some strange sights in the sky - caught on tape. An astronomy expert is calling them unidentified flying objects - UFOs.

Some men who live in a Central Austin apartment building say they've seen bizarre things in the sky for months, but lately it's been more frequent. The men recorded their sightings on home video. Experts from the Austin Planetarium visited the apartment building area Friday night to see if they could also spot the objects.

Nothing appeared in the sky Friday that would convert any skeptics. But the home video show by Carl Lancaster and Doug McCullough may raise questions in some people's minds.

Sometimes they go fast, sometimes they go slow. They make no noise,

said McCullough.

McCullough and Lancaster aren't sure what they captured on video. The executive director of the Austin Planetarium doesn't know either.

It doesn't look like anything I can recognize,

said Torvald Hessel.

Hessel, an astronomer, says the objects don't move like an airplane.

There's a military base close by, so that would be possible, and they are not going to tell you if they're flying something special,

said Hessel.

But Hessel doesn't think the shapes are weather balloons, comets, or shooting stars.

It's an unidentified flying object

said Hessel.

I'm not saying it's little green men at all. It's just something we see flying in the air, and we don't know what it is.

The Austin Planetarium plans to try to enhance the video to see if some answers can be identified. The video enhancement will take a few days at least. In the meantime, Lancaster and McCullough say they'll keep watching the sky.

Lancaster and McCullough say they first saw the objects back in April, then didn't see them again until September. They tell CBS 42 they've consistently seen the objects since then.

First off, I received an email from Carl who is the guy that shot the actual footage. He stated that he had a lot more and wanted me to see it, plus he stated that he sees UFOs almost every evening, plus his friends see them too. Especially that last statement is especially interesting. If only one person is seeing flying things it can easily be discarded, as the guy must be drunk/stoned/on medication/etc. But if multiple people are seeing things they cannot explain it gains a lot of credence.

So, last week, together with board member Lary Cotten, we decided to head out and meet Carl and his friends, look at the footage and see for ourselves. Carl showed us a lot of very interesting footage (hopefully I will be able to post some of it on this blog in the future) and I honestly have no idea what he captured on camera. Two stood out, the first where he is following this light and all of the sudden you see an airplane crossing his field of view. This was quite spectacular, but more importantly it proved that it was not an airplane that he was following. The other was where he followed one of the objects on another evening and it came so low that it was actually between the trees. At that point you can see that the camera is in focus and you get a much better perspective of scale etc. Then all of the sudden the object makes a movement in the shape of a 'fishhook' or an upside down question mark, and flies off.

Although the footage is interesting, it is not proof of anything. It still can be an elaborate hoax. That evening we did not see anything interesting or slightly UFO-like. Anything we saw flying was recognized and Identified or therefore an IFO.

Originally posted by internos