selected ufo cases
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Student spots oval-shaped UFO over Swindon, UK
March, 12, 2007 - Swindon, United Kingdom
On two occasions on Monday night the 17-year-old spotted strange lights in the skies over Swindon. "There was this oval-shaped object, quite bright, hanging in the sky. It was really odd. "As I turned my head to look at it, it reacted like it had been seen, and it zoomed off." Chris is confident what he saw was not an aircraft, helicopter or an astronomical object such as a shooting star. View full report
Source: This Is Wiltshire - UK, 13th December 2006 ID: 1055
Case Type: PressReport Features: Silent, Interaction/Reaction, Witness Photo
White ball of light doing maneuvers over ocean, Myrtle Beach, SC
February, 2, 2007 - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States
"I saw something that was definitely not an airplane, or a seagull, or refracted light from Venus through swamp gas... It was a small, faint and hazy white light... It's path, from when I first noticed it started out parallel to the earth and traveled like this for maybe 5 seconds. Then almost a 90 degree turn at what seemed to be straight up, then another sharp degree of turn up and away at an angle, then another turn at a downward angle, and yet another at a down and backwards angle." View full report
Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center), Peter Davenport, Director ID: 1130
Case Type: RawReport
Bright blue-green ball with a white tail seen in night sky
January, 23, 2007 - Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
About 8 p.m. Wednesday, something peculiar flashed in the sky -- something twinkly, something colorful, something eye-catching. "Bright blue-green ball with a white tail," says Jim Neal of Shelby, who spotted it just west of Blacksburg, S.C., after dinner at Kelly's Steak House. View full report
Source: The Charlotte Observer,(Charlotte, N.C.), Jan. 24, 2007 ID: 1049
Case Type: PressReport Features: Witness Photo
Point of light exploded into bright white ball of light
April, 29, 2005 - Lake City, Florida, United States
An orange streak, which disappeared five minutes or so after first being spotted, followed by two points of light. The primary point continued to the North for another 5 minutes or so before exploding into a bright white ball of light with a seemingly large circumference. View full report
Source: UFO Evidence ID: 247
Case Type: RawReport
Multiple luminous spheres during thunderstorm
March, 23, 2005 - Clifton, Virginia, United States
The luminous spheres during the storm were described as a "very large object hovering over a nearby house about an 1/8 of a mile from our house. It was larger than the house, seemed to be at an angle to her view with the bottom exposed and had lights all around it evenly spaced." View full report
Source: Norman Gagnon (MUFON Field Investigator) / UFO Evidence ID: 238
Case Type: RawReport Features: Multiple UFOs
Flying orange orb witnessed by two women in New Brunswick
February, 9, 2003 - Indian Mountain, New Brunswick, Canada
It was a clear, cold early February morning when Amy Wilbur saw a flying orange orb in the sky. "It was a round orange ball in the sky hovering across the road and field to the west in front of our house," she said. "It was bright and light orange, the edges even brighter, a red-orange." The orange ball moved very slowly, downward and diagonally, said Wilbur. View full report
Source: Times & Transcript, October 30, 2003 (New Brunswick, Canada) ID: 886
Case Type: PressReport Features: Witness Photo
Noctural light with light beam; animal reactions; satellite objects
March, 4, 1998 - Southgate, Australia
Donna noticed a very bright white light just above the horizon, and an estimated 2km away. During their close observation, the light did some unusual maneuvers and some unexplainable things were observed. There was a 'wedge shaped' beam of light emanating from the object. All witnesses observed an estimated 50 smaller objects entering the main object from the left and right. View full report
Source: Barry Taylor, Network Update 06.02.98 (AUFORN, Robert Frola) ID: 1094
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Light Beam, Animal Reaction, Sound, Multiple UFOs
Ball of fire moves over 4 witnesses in boat on Bear Lake, Florida
July, 1983 - Bear Lake, Forest City, Florida, United States
The four witnesses had gone out in their boat to the middle of the lake, when they noticed a strange light that apeared as a flaming ball, orange and red with flames licking upward then like tongues of fire vanishing over the ball. The light then went out, but after a minute or two the fireball appeared again, directly over the witness' boat, before shooting away. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 932
Case Type: RawReport Features: Water-Related
