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Date:

January, 20, 1989

Location:

Sterling, Illinois, United States

Summary:

1/20/89 large object (at least 100 ft wide) seen in Sterling Illinois at about 8:30 pm. This happened at a busy intersection with dozens of other people around. Someone had to see this besides us!!

Date Reported:

4/23/2006 12:26:01 PM

Sighting Time: 

8:30pm

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

2

Duration: 

1/2 hour

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

10 to 15 burning lights (like what you see coming out of the back of a jet) in a big circle. The lights (fire) were about the size of of a nickle held at arms lenght. The entire circle covered about a 100 foot diameter

Size of Object(s)

I would have to say if I stretched out my arms and speard my hands 2 feet apart would be what the size was when we were out of the car

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

It seemed like it was just feet above us. Maybe 75 to 100 feet.

Description of Area / Surroundings

At busy insection. Stop lights on all 4 corners. Gas station on SW corner. Small plaza mall on NE corner. Cemetery on SE corner. I do not recall what sits on the NW corner. Just a couple blocks from the Rock River

Full Description & Details

It was 1/20/89 and my boyfriend and I were driving from Polo, Illinois to Sterling, Illinois. We were in the front seat with him driving. My son who was 4 at the time was in back seat. We were about 5 miles outside of Polo, driving on what they call the Freeport blacktop road. There is a house there that has a 3rd story lookout. Everytime I go past the place I look and think how I would like to live there. Anyway, as I was looking towards the west waiting to see the house I noticed a bright red light in the sky. It looked like Mars, but about twice the size you would expect Mars to be. I pointed it out, and stated that "I was not an expert, but I thought Mars came out around March, not January!" I kept looking for it as we drove on to Sterling, trying to keep an eye on it between the trees and landscape. Then, when we were about 1 mile from the intersection of Freeport road, and East Lincolnway, the object was much closer to us. At this time it looked like one of those planes that drag behind it a sign. You know, one of those banners that tell you of a grand opening or big sale or whatever. I thought it looked like it was on fire. I was screaming for my boyfriend to stop, and pull over. He just kept driving like nothing was going on!!! He wasn't even looking up at it at this point. He was driving like he was in a trance or something. My son was screaming and crying "Santa Claus", "Santa Claus", "Santa Claus", over and over. I was going nuts! I was screaming!! I wanted to pull overand watch. I thought I was going to be a witness to a fire, or worse, a plane crash!! Anyway, he kept driving and the object was getting closer and closer so I started hitting his arm to get him to pull over. I just couldn't believe him! How could someone be so calm at a time like this! When we reached the corner he did pull into the gas station and we all jumped out. At this time the object was just above us, and then it just vanished! Just like that, it was gone. I looked around. I could not understand why people were not looking up. It was like we were actors in a movie, but were on the wrong set. We got back into our car. We were freaked to say the least. We decided not to describe it until we got home. At that time we both wrote down what we saw. I saw 10 to 15 burning lights (like what you see coming out of the back of a jet) in a big circle. The lights (fire) were about the size of of a nickle held at arms lenght. The entire circle covered about a 100 foot diameter. He saw not only the lights but an object that he says was like a very dark purple color sauser shape. Neither one of us heard any noise coming from object. I could not believe that this did not bring out the Air Force, and why it was not the headlines the next day. Someone had to see it! I have drawn pictures of what I saw and just how big it was. We could not of been the only ones to see this

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

NO WAY!!!!

Witness Background

College degree, I just started my own photography business this year.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I don't see how we could be the only planet with life. But I needed proof. Well I got it!!!!!

Other Comments

I will copy the picture I did right after this happened and mail it to you this week

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

just my daughter and a few friends.

Your Location: 

Mineral Point WI. USA

Age: 

52

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Date:

1987

Location:

Ashland, Nebraska, United States

Summary:

Looking North of Ashland on N 24th Street and Furnas/Euclid Street mid day noticed a light in the sky as big as the sun above a cornfield. The "sun" object was visible for several minutes then dissapeared and re-appeared two other times but in different areas and at farther distances.

Date Reported:

4/21/2006 10:25:38 AM

Sighting Time: 

1-3 pm

Day/Night: 

Daytime

No. of Witnesses: 

4

Duration: 

appx 15 min

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Large orange round object - glowing like the sun but you could look at it without hurting your eyes.

Size of Object(s)

First sight - hold a quarter facing the sky two inches from your eye and look past it second and third sightings - about the size of a quarter if you were to hold up in your fingers and stretch your arm out all the way

Description of Area / Surroundings

Outskirts/edge of town. Cornfields. There is a base east of Ashland a few miles then head North. Not sure exact location or what they do there.

Full Description & Details

My sister and I were playing basketball In Ashland during the summer with the neighbor's when we all noticed an object in the sky that I can only describe looking like a very huge sun. The object was above a cornfield on the otherside of Furnas Street and 24th Street .The object stayed for a few minutes and was very large. The object dissapeared and then re-appeared still looking like a "sun" but was further away and had moved north-west. It dissapeared and reappeared one more time and then we never saw it again. It was mid-day so the real sun was just over our heads. My sister and I tried to run inside our house and find the camera to take a picture but had no luck so instead just went back out and watched it till it was gone. I was only 12-13 years old or so, at that age you really question what you see. We did tell our mother who was inside the house at the time but she never came out to see what we were talking about. We never discussed the sight with our neighbors after that day. I do remember what it looked like just like it happened yesterday.

I had later found out when I was older when my sister and I started talking about what we saw that Ashland was known for UFO sightings and in fact two other people in my family had witnessed them, however, it was not the same as what we had seen that day. Another sighting had happened over the Rock Corey in Ashland and the other had happened on highway 6 as you are approching Ashland from Lincoln, NE.

One sighting was the same year as the cop from Ashland's whom is known for his details of what he saw and believes he was abducted. If I remember that was in the late 1970's.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

NO

Witness Background

I am an administrative assistant one year of college, moved out of state, got married and baby so never finished

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I was very young, had never known much about them. A few years later when I was older I started talking to family and learned more about UFO's and sightings in Ashland. I strongly believe in them and believe in what I saw. I hope someday to see another one.

Other Comments

I would be very interested to know if anyone else had seen this object that day and if the two other boys that witnessed it with my sister and I remember any other details about that day.

Reported Sighting? 

No

Your Location: 

Phoenix, AZ

Age: 

30

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Date:

1989

Location:

Luling, Louisiana, United States

Summary:

Saw a large object moving above trees moving silently

Date Reported:

4/21/2006 7:24:05 AM

Sighting Time: 

11pm

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

2

Duration: 

10 mins

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

V shape, big bright light (like a headlight) in the front. Headlight went out and flashing lights appeared on sides of the object.

Size of Object(s)

From my distance to it, the trees looked small compared to it size. It was just above the trees and it covered at least 4 full sized trees from end to end.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

There was a single story home in front of us and then the trees not far from behind them.

Description of Area / Surroundings

We were in a subdivision that has swamp area behind it filled with trees. No millitary base in this immediate area, I believe the only base close is in Belle Chasse. We rarely see any type of millitary craft fly by.

Full Description & Details

This was back in 1989. My girlfriend and I were out for a night drive in the late evenning. We live across the river from an Airport in Luling, la. so there is usually plenty of sky activity with airplanes. I had always messed with my Girlfriend by saying there was a UFO in the sky (when it was just a plane). On this night ,It was about 11pm, I saw a rather large object above the treeline with a bright light in the front (like a headlight). I pointed at it an told my girlfriend "LOOK A UFO!" I stopped the car and got out (I was thinking at the time it was just an aircraft flying low) We both were looking at it and then I noticed there were no sounds comeing from this object, it was dead silent and not very far from us just above the treeline. Then something happened that made us realize this was not a regular aircraft. The "headlight" went off and suddenly different colored lights started flashing around the sides of the object. My girlfriend started to panic and jumped back in the car. I continued to watch the object slowly move over the trees until it was out of sight. It was very large, had no sound and nothing I had ever seen before. From what I could make out it looked like it was V-shaped. It is worth noting that on that same night a local police officer also reported seeing an object above the trees not far from where I had seen it. Also a few days prior to this incident a few of us were on our way back home from the movies about 10pm. We were traveling on a four lane road HWY 90 heading to luling area. There are trees that line both sides of the road. As we were traveling we all saw two (what we thought was) shooting stars come from behind us to the front. One was above the trees on our right and one was above our trees to the left. They were moving at identical speed and also were leaving a trail behind that quickly dissipated. They were moving at a very High rate of speed and exactly parallel to each other. I thought that was a little strange. A few days later I saw the object above the trees, dont know if they were related in anyway, but it seemed odd.

What prompted me to look up this stuff and even tell my story was a episode I saw on Unsovled mysteries they other day. One of the episodes on UFO's had some similar to what I had seen.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No, this was totally different than anything I've seen before. My brother is a pilot and I've seen a bunch of aircraft especially at night. No aircraft that I know of can be as large and as silent as it moves as this thing was.

Witness Background

I have been a Medic since 1986 and have worked on a Emergency Ambulance x20 yrs as of now, I also served as a Part time police officer 9 of those years.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I've read many things on UFO's growing up. Many of which were hoaxes and some unexplained. I had mixed feelings to whether beleive or not beleive until this incident happened, since then i've always been a believer.

Other Comments

My brother told me about the officer that seen the object the same night I did. He also stated that the dispatch center called the airport and air traffic control reported as not having any objects in that area on radar.

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

Family and Friends

Your Location: 

Des Allemands, la USA

Age: 

39

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Date:

April, 20, 2006

Location:

Maricopa, Arizona, United States

Summary:

Amber Orbs over the Ak-chin reservation

Date Reported:

4/21/2006 1:05:14 AM

Sighting Time: 

7:50 pm

Day/Night: 

Dusk/Evening

No. of Witnesses: 

2

Duration: 

10 scnds ea

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Large, bright amber orbs that were bigger than plane landing lights, but did not give off the same type of glow.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

unknown. I'd say 35 degrees from my horizon

Description of Area / Surroundings

A busy road that dwindles in traffic as it heads towards the Sonoran Desert, open save for low mountains in the distance

Full Description & Details

04/20/06 7:43 PM : Heading South down 347 from Chandler, past Riggs Road, down towards the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation, spotted 4 (or 5) large, stationary equidistant amber orbs in a zigzag pattern. They were almost directly over the road (or, if further out than they appeared, over the Sonoran Desert Natl. Monument), though how far in the distance and at what altitude I don’t know. Twilight had almost completely faded. They were not there more than ten seconds before all the orbs disappeared at the exact same time as though someone had quickly turned down a dimmer switch to ‘off’.

Less than ten minutes later another set of lights - same color but elongated in shape and more tightly grouped/farther off - appeared in succession to the Southwest of 347 and quickly disappeared in the same order. Each would come on and soon fade out as its neighbor within the cluster followed suite. We followed 347 and then 84 west to the I8 and headed South then East, seeing them further away to the SW yet again on two more occasions for no more than 6 seconds at a time, probably over the Barry M. Goldwater Range at this point. We turned south down Stanfield Rd., eventually heading into Tohono Indian Reservation (and seeing another quick, stationary-yet fade-in/fade-out series of amber lights directly in front of us, to the south) before turning around. As we headed back north, the series appeared again (around 8:30pm), this time to our South West, perhaps back over the Goldwater Range. These were even further out, and as they faded, they seemed to become flickering white lights, far in the distance, apparently unmoving, coming and going from sight. We had stopped the car, and could hear no jet noises at all, close or in the distance, and the air was calm. When nothing more happened we headed back North to the 8 and East to the I10 for Phoenix.

While the last sets of flicking white lights may or may not have been flares, I cannot be certain either way, as they were so far off. However the first set of equidistant orbs were like nothing I have ever seen in the sky before, and the succeeding groups were almost equally large and strange, instantly striking my wife and I each time as odd.

Twice, 20 minutes apart, we saw what appeared to be shootings stars cross through the general vicinity of where the lights had just been. In any case, the events were fascinating, strange, and unmistakably ‘different.’

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No. Th eearliest lights especially seems otherworldly or simply 'odd'. The last ones may have been flares, but it dodn't seem that way.

Witness Background

Artists/authors with degree and long retail experience living in Phoenix area for years.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I've been reading 'The Phoenix Lights' and have seen several documentaries. 'The Phoenix Lights' by Dr. Lynn Kitei describes these amber orbs vs. military flares. We've been spending thursdays of the last month searching the area, as these lights have been seen on multiple occaissions in the vicinty.

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

Mufon

Your Location: 

Gilbert, AZ, USA

Age: 

31

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Date:

August, 1991

Location:

Knox, Indiana, United States

Summary:

Object sited over Bass Lake, Indiana on the northwest side all wooded, no houses and no street lights on that side in 1991 I was about 14 yrs old.

Date Reported:

4/20/2006 2:03:43 PM

Sighting Time: 

8:30 pm

Day/Night: 

Dusk/Evening

No. of Witnesses: 

5

Duration: 

5 mins

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

saucered shaped, blue/metallic pulsin more than glowing, very dim.

Size of Object(s)

about 25 feet in a circle, and the top being saucerd shape was smaller, 10 feet hard to tell the exzact size at a half mile.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

tree top height, around 30 feet up.

Description of Area / Surroundings

rural area on a lake called bass lake, in Knox, Indiana. the lake was calm, no boats, no storm, just a clear evening sky.

Full Description & Details

I was fishing in the evening time, just as it was starting to get dark, with my friend's pete, nick ed, his sister and myself, we all spotted the same object that was a light blue/metallic saucered shaped very defined with the detail, it was only about half mile away, was pulsing more than glowing, it floated in front of the trees, we first thought it was a spot light, but then the object proceeded to go over the tree tops and behind them for 5 mins we where shocked, floating in and out, the object then floated back in front of the trees "no noise" started to hover back and forth slowly at first in a fixed postion then swayed faster and faster then shot right up into the sky, so fast, just a streak of light it was gone, noone to tell about the event, Til this very day I am now reporting it on here.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

There is really nothing to explain it, no storm event at time, no planes, no lights, not even a mouse stirring.

Witness Background

high school graduate, tech school automotive, now work in Bangkok as english teacher.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I didn;t know what to think, it's like who will believe a UFO story, but yet we all seen something that can not be explained, I always thought space was big to have more than one life form.

Other Comments

The location again was on the south side of the lake, by the fire house where I was standing, the object was seen close to the area of the public boat launch on the far wooded side of the lake.

Reported Sighting? 

No

Name: 

Eddie

Your Location: 

atlanta, ga. Usa

Age: 

28

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Date:

September, 1987

Location:

Lawton, Oklahoma, United States

Summary:

UFO seen US ARMY BASE at Fort Sill, OK

Date Reported:

4/18/2006 9:03:24 AM

Sighting Time: 

between 2 - 2: 30 am

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

Unknown

Duration: 

over 10 minutes

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Oval

Size of Object(s)

Very hard to estimate, maybe 75 to 100 feet long, 20 to 25 wide would be my best estimate.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

200 to 300 feet, altitude about 50 to 75 feet from ground level

Description of Area / Surroundings

Military Base, lots of large Military Artillery Weapons and Vehicles in plan view, Buildings, Barracks etc.

Full Description & Details

While of fire-guard duty grave yard shift, approx 2-2:30 am on a Saturday morning, I observed a strange and very bring light that gave off no sounds. The object was nothing like what I had been seeing on our Base for the last three months, it moved at a speed that I cannot humanly estimate (very fast).

It was drifting along and suddenly it would shoot across the sky above (at first I thought it was only a shooting star), but when it returned and started to osolate above head approx. 200 to 300 feet away about 50 to 75 feet off the ground, I could see very faintly with my night vision goggles moving parts like a turbine and a pinkish / yellow glowing light (possible energy source lighting up from the mid to right center of the vechicle).

I know enough about American Aircraft to know this was not one of our and why was it flying directly over-head of an United States ARMY Base.

In the general area that I observed it where a lot of Fort Sill's Heavy Artillery and Tanks and other firld Equipment, my opinion is what-ever this vehicle was it was taking an inventory of our weapons that were out in plain view.

I know it wasn't a helo, helo's give off sound this vehicle was 100% silent, I could'nt hear anything that I felt or could interpret of being man made (at least not on this Planet).

Normally man-made equipment always give off sometype of sounds, this vehicle did not. And it's shape was more of an Oval then Round, with a greyish tinting, but parts of the craft were visible but only with my night vision glasses on, which brock out curtain lights and allow you to see the object better, plus I used the termo setting which gave off a red and yellow glow, indicating a power source of sometype and moving objects from within the craft.

When it dissappeared into the night sky it gave off a rainbow of lights in sometype of sequenced order, blinking at a very fast rate then slower then it was gone.

I remembered back when first encounters came out (the movie) and in the movie such lights were used for communications, in my huble opinion this craft prior to it's departure may have tried to communicate something to me and or to some other party or thing thereon the Fort Sill US ARMY Base with these lights.

When I got back to the CQ Office, I radioed it in and my MP Buddies at the Front Gate and they just laughed at me and told me to go get some sleep when I got off duty. So I shut my mouth and never told anyone else because I was affraid of being laughed at or discliplined by my superior's.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No Way

Witness Background

Ex-Soldier US ARMY MOS 13FO10 (Forward Observer) Trained to observe and report my findings and to mark targets for destruction. Expert with Communication Equipment

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

WHile I was in the Military I reviewed a lot of writings associated with Project Blue Book!

Other Comments

None

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

MP's whom were covering radio calls that night at the Front Gate

Your Location: 

Los Angeles, CA

Age: 

41

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Date:

October, 1957

Location:

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Summary:

My mother, sister and I all saw a cigar shaped craft in the night sky from a west facing bedroom window. It was stationary and had what could be termed port holes. The portholes had an orange colour.

Date Reported:

4/17/2006 4:52:04 PM

Sighting Time: 

8.00pm

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

3

Duration: 

30 minutes

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Appeard brown cigar shape - one line of orange port holes down the centre of the side. The small craft that appeared bright were more like lights in the sky looking almost circular. This I think was due to the distance and their smaller size, but as they moved away and back again they must have been quite substantial in size being clearly visible moving across the sky.

Size of Object(s)

At 1000ft it must have been at least the length of 2/3 aircraft carriers.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

approx 1000ft high and a mile away.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Over Cheltenham town centre in an urban area. No special military or power plants but it is the centre of the government secret listening/intelligence gathering facility.

Full Description & Details

The craft was stationary in the sky for quite some time (30 minutes).

Although in the night sky, one could see it was brownish in colour with the orange coloured port holes. Just one line of portholes down the centre of the craft.

Around the cigar shaped large craft, small light coloured craft hovered. They could move from A to B in an instant. They did not have to accelerate, they just moved in an instant to another position miles away but still in view and then they would return near to the cigar shape.

We have talked in the family many times, but this web site has allowed me at the age of 60 to share the story with others for the first time.

We were in Gloucestershire, but sightings were recorded in Devon and other parts of the west country that evening, all describing the cigar shape and small craft that moved very fast.

I know what I and my family saw, but we have no rational explanation.

Philip Jones.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

We could not explain it as anything normal or man made. Its size and the way the small craft moved so fast.

Witness Background

Trained in sales and marketing and worked all my life in the technical paper industry, manufacturing special filtration media. Today I am technical sales manager, but have held managerial positions in marketing and other diciplines and today a director of the company.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

As a 10 year old child I had no idea of such things. My mother during this event told my sister and I that things had been reported previously as unidentified flying objects.

Other Comments

Since that time I have not seen anyting in the night sky more interesting than satelites!

UNFORTUNATELY!

Reported Sighting? 

No

Name: 

Philip H. Jones

Your Location: 

Gloucester - UK

Age: 

60

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Date:

2000

Location:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Summary:

While stopped at a traffic light in West LA in my car, my girlfriend pointed to something above us. I leaned forward and looked up through the windshield to see three motionless black triangles. We lost sight of them soon after we resumed driving.

Date Reported:

4/17/2006 11:11:15 AM

Comments about the image(s): From the witness: "Here is a computer rendering of my sighting recently reported."

Sighting Time: 

6:00PM

Day/Night: 

Dusk/Evening

No. of Witnesses: 

2

Duration: 

30 seconds

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Black triangular objects with no markings, lights, reflections or familiar aircraft features (stabilizers, etc.).

Size of Object(s)

At arms length, the objects appeared to be less than 2 inches across. The actual size appeared close to that of a private or fighter jet. The objects appeared to be equilateral triangles with less than 100 feet per side.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Directly overhead. My guess would be around 7500 feet in altitude.

Description of Area / Surroundings

West Los Angeles (urban) just west of the intersection of Pico & Sawtelle Blvds close to Santa Monica airport.

Full Description & Details

In the summer of 2000, I was driving with my then girlfriend late one afternoon before sunset westbound on Pico Blvd. just west of Sawtelle Blvd.. While stopped at a traffic light, she pointed to something she saw in the sky which was almost directly over us. I had to lean forward to be able to see up through the windshield to observe 3 identical black triangular objects. I observed them for less than 30 seconds. The objects were motionless and we could not hear any noise from the objects. There were no markings, lights, reflections or familiar aircraft features (stabilizers, etc.), just a solid black object. The objects were in a loose triangle formation separated from each other by a distance of approximately 5 times their individual width. What struck me most was their stillness and almost silhouette-like appearance.

My impression is that the objects were the size of private jets or fighter planes. They were significantly higher in altitude that the normal Santa Monica airport traffic that occurs regularly in that area, enough so that a closed fist at arms length could have covered two of the objects (were they spaced tip to tip).

While observing them, I moved my head to change my viewing angle so as to verify that this was not caused by debris on the widshield or reflections. These were definitely airborne objects.

Once the traffic light changed to green, I resumed driving, but was unable to see the objects again since they were nearly directly overhead. Once we had driven a few blocks so that the objects should have been easier to view from a shallower angle, the sky was empty where thay had been.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

Given the shape of the craft, their hovering behavior and sudden apparent disappearance, I assume that the objects were either undisclosed advanced aircraft or extraterrestrial craft.

Witness Background

At the time, I was working in the entertainment industry as an artist for an internet animation studio. I have a bachelor's degree in Fine Art and am currently self-employed as an illustrator.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have a strong interest in UFOs, both before and after my sighting. I have read several books on the subject and seen several documentaries, as well as listened to the Coast to Coast radio program. I have found that this interest and the knowledge I have acquired has made me more of a skeptical observer than I was before since I am more aware of the conventional sighting explanations.

Other Comments

My sighting is consistent with other "Black Triangle" sightings listed here and on other UFO sites.

Reported Sighting? 

No

Your Location: 

Towson, MD, USA

Age: 

31

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Date:

January, 1983

Location:

Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Summary:

Large, low flying , silent and slow inverted trapezoid witnessed by two other people that I know of (who chased it in a car through Stoke village) as well as two other members of my family.

Date Reported:

4/17/2006 10:37:43 AM

Comments about the image(s): Drawing by the witness. (Note that the object in the drawing is not proportional in size to the airplane or houses.)

Sighting Time: 

20:30

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

3

Duration: 

15 - 20 minutes

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

From my sister's description (she observed it firstly and in greater detail) it was a large inverted cone with an obtuse (flattened) triangular base - the top of it which bore the red lights moving from corners to apex and back again. I.e. an inverted trapezoid.

Size of Object(s)

I'd estimate 100 ft across and 200 ft deep.

Description of Area / Surroundings

We were living in Crownhill which is a high up part of Plymouth overlooking a valley between residential estates and the naval base in view towards the west , the ufo seemed to be traversing from a south west to north west trajectory over the city.

Full Description & Details

It was my younger sister who alerted us (my mother and I) to come and view a large 4 sided trapezoid, like an inverted cone with a triangular rather than flat bottom. My sister saw more of it than I saying she saw lit up windows on it and it was apparently following a dash 7 commercial airplane on route to land at Plymouth airport.

By the time I and my mother came out to see it, it had moved over the other side of Whitleigh valley and seemed to have descended to a very low height, skimming over rooftops. I estimated its size to be about 100 -150 ft across. The top of it had two red lights which moved from the object's two top corners in sequence towards the apex of the upper point of the inverted cone and back down again to the corners. As it was night this was the only way it could now be tracked as the lit 'windows' were not observible. My mother and I watched this silently slow moving ufo traverse in a north-easterly direction until it faded from view. The local paper the next day reported that a couple of women in a car had also observed this object and attempted to follow it as far as they could in their vehicle. I believe it had also been observed flying over the local naval base which is a refitting yard for nuclear submarines. There have been numerous other sightings of ufo's around this dockyard area.

I was most impressed by the object's size and ability to float silently and so low over the Whitleigh and Crownhill estates apparently mere metres above the rooftops!

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

It was far too big and too quiet and too slow to be explained terrestrially and also too low to be an airship or balloon with those moving lights it was inexplicable .

Witness Background

I am a trained laboratory technician with a university background. I was only 13 years of age at the time of the sighting

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I was open-minded, my grandfather had told me of a saucer-shaped sighting he made in Coventry during the 1950's, the experience was very enlightening unlike anything before and has changed my outlook on life. I was a sceptical enquirer before the encounter which turned me into a believer.

Other Comments

I make this report mainly because I have not come across many reports of ufo's which conform to this particular configuration. I mainly hear about saucer or disk - type or cigar shaped objects. Yet, this inverted trapezoid object which was so apparently huge seems totally extra-terrestrial and I hope that it stimulates others to report objects they may have observed no matter how outlandish and incomprehensible that they might have witnessed.

Reported Sighting? 

No

Name: 

T. Tyler

Your Location: 

Plymouth

Age: 

36

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Date:

October, 1975

Location:

St. Joseph, Missouri, United States

Summary:

A bright, round red-orange yellow ball of light.

Date Reported:

4/13/2006 1:23:30 AM

Sighting Time: 

1:30 a.m.

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

2

Duration: 

1hr 45min appox.

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Round, bright redish yellow and orange

Size of Object(s)

Appeared to be the size of a basketball, but I imagine from the view this thing was immense.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Directly over the neighbors house, in all likelyhood, on the edge of the atmosphere.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Typical neighborhood for St. Joseph. There are no bases or installations anywhere near our home.

Full Description & Details

In October of 1975, I was 16 years old. My twin sister and I had been on a Hay Ride with some friends, and had returned home and went to bed. My father called me downstairs at around 1:30 am and was standing on the front porch looking up over our neighbors house across the street. I walked out on the front porch, and was just flat amazed at what we were looking at. There was a bright, red-yellow-orange ball of light above the house across the street, but it was a great distance up in the sky. This thing was huge. It Looked like a basket ball hanging in the air. I tried to focus in on it with my telescope, and a pair of binoculars that belonged to my father. I was unable to do so. We watched this thing for the better part of an hour. The next thing we saw, for lack of a better description, was a flash of silver, like a shooting star, come out of the side of this thing. Then a small silver dot was there next to the ball of light. After a few seconds of hanging there, the small dot shot off at a high rate of speed directly east, and was gone. Then this ball of light started to get smaller, as if it was moving away from us. I watched this thing get to the size of a star and then disappear. In all my years of studying this phenomenon, I have never seen anything like it since. With all the photographic evidence, not once have I seen anything similar to what I saw over thiry years ago.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No way in hell. This thing was not from here.

Witness Background

My father has been deceased for 6 years now.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I did not know much about the phenomenon before the sighting, but after thirty years of reading on the subject, I know plenty now.

Other Comments

This thing came from space out past the planet earth. It appeared to be delivering a smaller craft to this planet and then left. Thats the way I saw it happening, and thats what I believe to this day.

Reported Sighting? 

No

Your Location: 

St. Joseph, Mo. United States

Age: 

47

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