Last week, the Pentagon released a trove of documents relating to reports of UFO sightings around the country, including one of particular interest near a nuclear weapons facility in North Texas.
The Lone Star State incident occurred in September 2015 at the Pantex nuclear facility in Amarillo, according to documents detailing it at the time. The Pantex plant is the United States’ only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility, according to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services.
According to a report by Pantex nuclear plant officials, the unidentified object traveled near the facility at approximately 10 to 15 mph, prompting a lockdown of the plant as officers assessed the object.
“On September 1, 2015 at approximately 0710 hours, the Pantex Ground Surveillance Radar (GSR) detection system identified an unknown flying object flying in a non-threatening manner west of Pantex facilities in a northerly trajectory,” the report stated.
According to eyewitness accounts from employees at the facility, the object was approximately two feet high and four feet wide. Ground surveillance photos from Pantex captured a grainy image of the object in flight. Sandia National Laboratories, a research and development facility for the U.S. Department of Energy, then provided an enhanced image of the object, which was also included in the report.
The 16,000-acre Pantex site assembles, dissembles and stores nuclear weaponry. It also dismantles nuclear weapons being retired from the national stockpile. Site activities include handling high explosives, such as significant quantities of uranium, plutonium, and tritium, as well as a variety of non-radioactive toxic and explosive chemicals, according to DSHS.
Security personnel attempted to follow the object to gather more information on it, the report continued. A lieutenant and a security officer followed the object for several miles as it traveled north of the nuclear facility. Eventually, the pair lost sight of the object due to road access issues, according to the official account.
“Although they were unable to catch up to the object, they stopped their vehicle and got out. Once outside, they noted that the object did not make any sound,” the report stated.
“Furthermore, the [lieutenant] and [security officer] stated that they were unable to identify any type of propulsion system on the object while using binoculars to assess the object,” the document added. “It was noted that the object seemed to increase in speed and changed direction as it was being followed.”
The Texas incident is one of many UFO-related sightings disclosed by the Pentagon last Friday. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell stated in a press release that the Defense Department is “actively working on the next release of UAP files,” adding that the department will continue to release UFO reports “on a rolling basis.”
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