These videos would make E.T. phone home.
In 2023, the National UFO Reporting Center cataloged 4,186 eyewitness accounts of close encounters around the globe.
They ranged from riveting to ridiculous, like an Alaskan who mistook a diamond-shaped bird in his photo for an alien.
But the Center also pointed out to The Post the two most intriguing videos it received in 2023: A spooky sighting in Texas and a daring duel in Utah.
The Lone Star incident occurred on Jan. 4 over the small town of Forney at about 9:20 p.m.
The vessel resembled a glowing computer cursor in the sky.
“That is not a motherf–ing airplane!” the unknown Texan — the Center does not publicize the names of purported witnesses — is heard exclaiming on the 13-second video.
He later explained to the Center: “I was outside smoking a cigarette. I noticed a large chevron shape hovering in one spot. It had lights running along the outer edge and at times appeared to move from left to right. I see low-flying aircraft all the time and have never seen something so large at this elevation.”
He continued: “The object dropped lower and I went to my backyard to film some more and by the time I got there it was gone.”
The poster added there was a “cylindrical vase-like structure sitting inside the chevron shape with a hole in the center.
The object at the time can be seen emitting a tail from the center at times in the video and the lights appear to also pulse brighter and softer at times.”
The Utah sighting was reported in June, but the incident — which resembled a scene out of “Top Gun” — took place near Moab in May 2021.
The town is the gateway to massive red rock formations in Arches National Park.
The minute-long clip captured “two spherical metal objects fly by, both following the same flight path.”
The unnamed videographer said he was “filming the sunset using a drone at approximately 200 feet elevation … From the ground, I saw what appeared to be a large metal basketball fly past my drone. I turned to watch it fly over the horizon within a few seconds, noting this as the setting sun made the object reflect as if metal as it flew away from me.”
“Upon reviewing my video I noticed I captured two of these objects, the second following a little lower in elevation but at the same speed and trajectory as the first. Both seem to emerge from over rocks on the horizon and fly past the camera.”
The Center’s webmaster Christian Stepien said the Texas and Utah videos are the real deal.
“There’s certainly a sign that there’s something anomalous going on and it would be nice if the government paid more attention and did some serious research,” Stepien said, adding, “You can tell by the way that one guy [the Texan] is talking that he’s pretty blown away by what he’s looking at. A V-shaped craft.”
The states with the most sightings in 2023 were California (440), Florida (293), Texas (230), Washington (212) and New York (156), the Center reported.
Overall, the sightings reported in 2023 (4,186) were down 19% from 2022 (5,174), the Center said.
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