On an otherwise clear Texas night, three lights illuminated the sky over Plano.
A Twitter video posted early Wednesday by Frisco resident Hunter J. Gombac shows three unidentified flying objects.
Spotted from a rooftop in Plano, TX around 10:30 pm. Looking for explanations. @dallasnews @joerogan @cityofplanotx @NASA pic.twitter.com/w2rywSfmQr
— Hunter J. Gombac (@WombatGombac) June 28, 2017
The footage was shot about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday from a rooftop in Plano and includes play-by-play commentary from two people viewing the spectacle.
"Bro, what could those be?" one of them asks the other.
The witnesses marvel as the lights "move in crazy directions," disappearing and reappearing.
They spend over a minute discussing what the UFOs might be — possibly remote-controlled drones — and what appears to be "two wings on the bottom one."
The tweet attracted the attention of Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
"The universe brims with mysteries," he wrote.
Unlike the last time Tyson talked to teens in Plano, when he had a cameo in a Plano Senior High School teen's space travel film in February, this story has a less than cinematic ending.
Just across the city line in Frisco, Dr Pepper Ballpark was full of fans watching the end of the Texas League All-Star Game.
And in the sky above, the Patriot Parachute Team put on a pyrotechnic show as they jumped into the stadium for the conclusion of the game.
A Facebook commenter provided video of the parachuters' entrance from inside the park.
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The Patriot Parachute Team had a few words on the misunderstanding.
"That happens a lot," a representative said by phone. "People think they see UFOs all the time with the pyrotechnic show."
Unfortunately, it looks like NASA will no longer need to make a trip to Plano anytime soon.
