Appearance / Description of Object(s)

The lights were white in color although not very bright...kind of dimmed. But that might have been from the haze in the sky. They looked round.

Size of Object(s)

If I held my arms out I think my fingers would've been between 1/2 and 1 inch across...maybe less.

Description of Area / Surroundings

It was in an urban area, just south of a larger city (35,000). There is a papermill to the Northwest (about 1/2 mile) and a power plant to the Southwest (about 3 miles). We also have a skihill to the Northwest (about 4 miles) and they are doing road construction to the Northwest/West of us (4 miles). The lights, however, were right above my house and we live right in the middle of a small village. The area I live in has a lot of trees and is hilly.

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During the early morning hours of March 5th (I think) I looked outside my living room window to see if the snow, that we were supposed to get, had started falling. The sky was partly cloudy and hazy. I could see some stars. Something caught my eye in the sky. It was a round light that was going around in a large circle. I decided to wake my husband up to see if he saw it too. He did. I then went outside and directly to the North of the first light were four other lights...all going around in a circle, though a much smaller circle than the first one, and meeting in the middle. If their path would've stayed lit it would've looked like a four leaf clover. When the lights got to the middle area they sped up a bit. I stood outside for a while watching the lights and then went back inside. It was about 2 or 3 in the morning.

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

I'm not too sure. My hubby suggested that it could've been from the road construction they were doing on the highway. I had worked for the Sheriff's Department a while ago and I thought that maybe we had a new business opening in the area since I remember taking lots of calls of "strange lights" in the sky. The new business was using spotlights for their grand opening. We haven't had any new businesses open in our area. Also, there wasn't any light coming from the ground up to the object, like a light stream. It was just the light.

Witness Background

I am a high school graduate with one year of college. I work full time at a Steel Fabrication place as a clerical assistant. I'm also a volunteer Firefighter/EMT IV-Tech with 15 years of experience. I worked as a 911 Dispatcher for 7 years.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have always been open to the idea of UFO's, although I have never experienced anything. I have watched a lot of shows, on TLC and other channels like that, and thought it could be a possibility. I'm still open to the idea that the lights I saw might have been from a UFO....I'm just not sure. It was really wierd!

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The object was not large but had mass. It was intelligently controlled and in very close proximity to myself and my friend. It had a variable green light that would grow dim and change to bright. It weaved perfectly through all kinds of pine trees and maintained an altitude of 50-75 feet.

Size of Object(s)

perhaps 10 - 15 feet in diameter

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

100 yards away and closing, and 50 -75 feet in altitude

Description of Area / Surroundings

The area was forest like. There were many trees and a train track that had long since ceased operation.

Full Description & Details

The craft was always changing in lighting intesity as we saw it. It started as dim green and got brighter as we observed it. It was very close by as evidenced by the trees outlined behind it. It moved towards us and seemed to be under intelligent control as it came up the tracks and started to weave in and out of the trees. We got the distinct impression that it knew we were watching it and so it reacted to us. It was clearly moving in a way that we could be sure that we were the object of it's interest.

For this object to be an RC type craft seemed very unlikely as the trees would have done it in. As it hovered and slowly moved closer we could see that there was more to it than just a light. It had mass. How much mass is hard to tell but perhaps the mass of some sort of probe. There was no sound at all.

At that point my friend started to get scared and wanted to leave. Strangely, I wanted to go towards it for a better look and felt very little fear.

After thinking about this over the years, I remember that somehow, I knew we would see something that night. I knew just where to go, but I don't know why. As a matter of fact, I was quite obsessed with looking for UFO's for reasons I cannot really explain.

There it was, right in front of us.

The good thing is that Jim and I have each other to confirm that yes we saw this UFO together and nobody can take that away from us, and to this day we cannot explain it as a plane, some gaseous phenomenon, a helocopter, or an RC craft.

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

The object was too close and too low to be a plane or any conventional object. There were no houses near there at the time, and no other poeple. In the last few years the tracks have been converted to a bike path.

Witness Background

I am a Special Ed. Resource teacher

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

We live in a solar system. It is one solar system in a galaxy that is approximately 30 light years from edge to edge containing counless solar systems. Our galaxy is one galaxy amongst an infinite number of galaxies residing in and infinite universe. The theory of large numbers tells us more than the fact that we are not alone, but instead tells us that we cannot be alone in the universe. Are we being visited by UFO's? Our government should know by now so ask them. Don't expect a straight answer either. As for me, well I saw something I cannot explain and I had a witness.

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I could not tell how high it was because I had no reference for it's size, but based on how clearly I could see the bottom of the ship, it seemed it was about a couple hundred feet off the ground and so then seemed about 50 to 60 feet from wing tip to wing tip, and about 10 feet from the nose to the back, getting slightly narrower from the center to the wing tips. Like a huge boomerang flying in the direction of the nose, or center point of the boomerang. I only saw the bottom so I could not tell the height from bottom to top, but seemed relative to the dimensions of a huge, thicker than normal boomerang.

Size of Object(s)

But based on how clearly I could see the bottom of the ship, it seemed it was about a couple hundred feet off the ground and so then seemed about 40 to 50 feet from wing tip to wing tip, and about 10 feet from the nose to the back, getting slightly narrower from the center to the wing tips. Like a huge boomerang flying in the direction of the nose, or center point of the boomerang. If I stretched out my arms it would fit in about 3 or 4 inched betweed my hands.

Description of Area / Surroundings

It was an area mainly with complexes/apartments, near the UF Vet School, Shands and the VA Hospital. Which is south of the University of Florida.

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I'm reporting this now becuase I've read a previous report of a similar UFO sighted in Gainesville a few years ago and now just read the sighting of a very similar UFO seen in Ocala, which is about 30 min south of where I saw this UFO. I was walking to my home from my car after work, about 11:15pm. I was looking up at the sky since it was a clear night and almost full moon. I noticed a plane high in the distance over me, and suddenly something went inbetween me and the plane covering it for a few seconds. It was a ship that was kind of v-shaped, more like a boomerang. It was flying very low and very slow. No sound and no lights. It was so low I could see detail on the bottom of the ship, however there was almost nothing to see, it was smooth, dull light greyish, no openings, seemed metallic. It was almost completly blended in with the sky. If it wasn't because it crossed directly in my sight line while I was looking at the plane, I don't think I ever would have noticed it. I watched it move from north, north west to south, south east. I stared at it for about 1 minute. It was moving in the direction of the moon so I started to think as soon as it gets close to the moons light I will see it very clearly. It then veared off to the west and continued north and did not pass between me and the moonlight. It seemed as if it was aware it could be seen if it conituned moving straight. Hard to explain, it was like I had a feeling it noticed me looking at it. It conitnued on until I could not see it any more.

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

Definitely not a planet or stars. As for whether it was man made or not, well I don't know. If it is man made, it is not public information or technology. Judging from the feeling I got when I thought I could see it better in the moonlight and it then veared off to not get in the moonlight, I would guess it was not man made.

Witness Background

During the time of the sighting I was a hotel manager, I've since started my own production company and work freelance in film and television.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I've always been interested in UFOs and it is almost routine for me to look up when I'm outside. I have a very good understaning and knowledge base about UFOs. This sighting was my 1st and I guess I was not as excited as I thought I would have been. Not to say I wasn't excited, but I was a lot calmer than I would have guessed.

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The interesting thing is that I have read of 2 other sightings describing the same craft, traveling in the same area in the same direction between a period of 4 years.

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Very bright, highly polished metallic outer skin. The outer rim was not sharp, the center was about 14' thick. The bottom had three sections that were triangular shaded areas that looked like honeycomb. Each of these sections were about 7' on each side.

Description of Area / Surroundings

My yard in Independence, KY

Full Description & Details

I was asleep, then awakened by an electrical, scratchy buzzing sound in my ears. I sat upright in my bed, the sound got louder and louder, white flashes of light, too bright to imagine were flashing in my head, my eyes were closed. The sounds and light centralized within my brain,brighter, louder and then there was an explosion of light with a boom, and feeling as if a stick of dynamite exploded within my head. I was 28 years old, it was over, I looked down to see my wife asleep as if nothing happened. I had a severe headache immediately, but managed to fall asleep sometime later.

The next thing I knew I was in my front yard, I had just built a house in the center of 4 acres, several hundred feet from the road. The craft was round, shiny and bright. A hatch opened

that formed a ramp down to the ground. The alien was a male human, long blond hair and very mild mannered, his name was Alan or Adam, I can't remember. There was a female with dark hair, but I didn't talk to her. He asked me if I would like to go for a ride, and I agreed. I could remember seeing my house from above, then all the houses in the area, then the blackness of space. Before I knew it we had returned. It felt strange to know how things looked from above because at that time I had never flown.

He explained the propulsion to me and showed me the two engines. They looked something like snails on their sides. they were about 8 feet in diameter and 3' tall. Each outward spiral was narrower then the preceding one. In the center was a generator, I believe that it was an ion generator. The flow of released energy spun outward and was compressed by the sprials where speed and pressure was increased. At the end of the spiral network the outlet manifold turned upward and rearward and connected to a propulsion plate. The plates were about 4' tall and 9' wide. These plates attracted the matter stream, collected energy, and in the center the polarity changed and created outward thrust. This is most of what I remember. I awakened and the entire propulsion system seemed as easy to comprehend as a slingshot would be to build.

I began to draw diagrams and details of the generators operation, plate construction and the connecting manifold. Is I worked, the thing got more and more difficult to understand. I finally gave up on it. I would have thought no more of it, except I saw a documentary on some show like the discovery channel about 10 years ago. The show was about a doctor in one of the western states that had a similar experience. They showed the engines that he was trying to build and they loked exactly like what I saw. The doctor had died at the time of the airing of the documentary and his assistant was trying to complete the engines from the notes left by the doctor.

I was wondering if there have been any other similar stories that you have heard of. I have considered of getting hypnotized to see if there was anything that could be recalled.

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

no

Witness Background

Business owner, currently completeing my MBA.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I new nothing about UFO's.

Other Comments

The TV documentary that reflected exaxtly what I saw has bothered me for years, I am getting older and think mabye I should talk about the experience and find others that may have encountered something similar.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

silver disk, huge very glowing windows wrapped around hull of craft low bubble like top and bottom withe the bottom bubble more flat. Windows were square, and took up most of the craft space. I saw over a dozen windows., looking at it head on /side view.

Size of Object(s)

My husband estimated it to be about 15 miles away at eye level from our view. The trees were below us ;that the craft hovered above the trees.. He believed the craft was about the size of a football field.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

200 to 300 feet,

Description of Area / Surroundings

rural mountains on highway 20 ogden utah

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I reported this sighting a few weeks after it happened on the main UFO Database site in 1998. I was driving from Washington State thru Utah on my way to Penn. We had plenty of sleep the night before in Montana. Around midnight, after passing alot of ranch exits with signs ( no gas - no service); We headed up the mountain, I saw a road sign that said : Ogden , next exit.. My husband saw something in the sky that was not blinking. He was trained in special forces in the Army yrs. before, and he is very observant of visual information. I stopped our van and pulled to the right side of the highway, heading east. I, at first, being from Washington state ( I thought I saw a building, which resembled the Seattle Space Needle). All of a sudden I relized ; it was not a building because it began to move, that is : hoover over trees very slowly. I was in shock and could not take my eyes off the sighting. ( i refused to take the short time to even pick up a pair of bonoculars near me.[ What I saw was about the size of a football field, it seemed 15 miles away,] I could see the silvery like gleen from the craft. I hate to say "gleen" because I could tell it was silver color ,but no light reflected from it. It was shaped like a disk . the top of the disk was not very high , nor the base, thou it did have a bubble shape top and bottom, we were looking at it directly from a side view. the top was a bit more bubbled than the bottom. Thou both were very flat like. The bubble like top and bottom ended as the hull with windows taking up 95% , jutted out a bit with windows being the full corners of the craft. Now, The most daunting aspect of this craft was that their were huge windows, square shaped , wrapped around the craft. Now i did not see the other side of the craft ,The windows were so very huge , took up the full space of the hull of the craft. So the windows were many and huge. The windows glowed from inside the craft. It almost seemed like liquid light, which to me means that light did not illuminate outside of the windows, the light was contained inside the windows, As white light, very different than looking at at home with the lights on. So, the windows were hugh, over a few dozen windows, and I was obsessed on wondering who was watching us from the windows, was this military or extraterrestrial. The craft hovered above the trees ,right at our eye level,

for some minutes, and hovered behind trees ,so I pulled my vehical ahead and we saw the craft again ,same position , this happened one more time and then the craft seemed to go slowly again behind trees, yet the 3rd time it was gone, with in a few sec. I moved the van again, the craft was gone completly from sight. me and my husband did not talk about the sighting ;agreeing to just draw a picture of what we saw when we get to our distination. We were surprised to see , we drew the same thing., for we are usually difer on our opinions and view on things.

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

It seemed to me to not be a craft from this planet, yet i could not tell whom was at its helm.

Witness Background

I'm a homemaker, caring for a special needs child.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I heard reports from a few people I knew personally, whom were friends. I did not believe nor disbelieve them. One of the reports sounded outlandish, so I gave it no mind. The others talked of lights , which was feasable to me.

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I believe that an investigation or thought should be on the question of how or why people could be in the same proximity of a UFO and only " one or some " of the people in the area or area's seem to become aware of the UFO/UFO's , no matter of the factor of: size-place-distance, and duration.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

It was very hard to get a good description out of her because she described it as very bright like a star but she also thinks it had an oval shape to it. I dont understand how it could be bright like a star AND have a shape because a star or any type of light glimmers and are hard to see a shape. she also said it was white with a tint of yellowness to it. she also said it had a small tail of light behind it of the same color and brightness but with no shape like the oval part she described to me.

Size of Object(s)

she says that if she closed one eye and held her hands out to their full extent in front of her face, she would put her hands 6 inches apart(wide) and 3 inches apart(height)

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

she was 100yds. away from it and the object was about 30ft. high.

Description of Area / Surroundings

It was over a large lake. very rural. alot of trees and lakes in the area. Fighter jets from Macdill in tampa fly over avon park and drop test bombs on the bombing range. from Lake Placid,FL the bombing range is about 40 min. north.

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me and my sister were on spring break, my sister was 4 and i was 8, i am now 18 and for the first time telling someone besides my emmidiate family and my girlfriend what my mother saw. me and my mom talked about her sighting and i told her i was going to report it to a website, this one being my favorite.

"It was dusk at our lake house on lake frances." it was around 6:30 at night when my mother saw something she coudn't explain. me, my sister and my dad were out on our boat on another lake(2 small canals connects 3 lakes together). my mom saw a oval shaped, bright, white ufo fly across the lake moving at around 30 mph( i had my mom watch cars drive by at an intersection to get the feel of the cars speed in relevance to the ufo's speed).

"the ufo was about 100 yards away and 30 feet high. it was above the lake and kept moving from left to right across the lake never slowing down or speeding up. it had a small tail on it also."

i am convinced that she did see something besides a plane or something having to do with the military because she is an avid church goer and a christian. my family going back generations are christians and believe in God and believe that we are alone in the universe. i myself am skeptical about my religious beliefs. so when my mom tells me she saw something that she could not explain to be a plane, etc. it is hard for me to dismiss that there is nothing out there, and hard to say that the military is all lagit.

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

she said it was not a fighter jet because she has seen them fly over. she said it wasn't a bomb or missle because it was moving to slow and it was moving from left to right parallel to the ground. she said it wasnt a star or shooting star because it was to close. she said it wasnt any type of plane or commercial jet.

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im a senior in high school and my mother is a administrative secretary to the principal at a middle school in our hometown

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

ever since my mom told me about her sighting 4 years ago i have been interested in UFO's and cover-ups. after my mom saw the ufo she rented a video on them and i watched them with her when i was young(around 8 or 9) and became interested in area 51 and ufo's but never knew my mom saw something until about 4 years ago.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

black slow moving and triangler in shap with two side longer than one dim lights white in the corners

Size of Object(s)

relative would be 2 to 3 feet i think it was at least 300 feet long maybe more dont know 3/4 as wide mabey more

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

over 500 feet directly above me

Description of Area / Surroundings

beetween mt ranier and the puget sound it has everthing boeing, navy, airforce, army, nuc silos, rulal areas, citys, power plants, harbors everthing

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i would sayit was over 500 feet of the ground dont really know. but you could tell it was large maybe 300 feet give or take, black and triagler in shape with two sides longer than one. the direction it was traveling would make the back narrower.I was young it was the early 90s and was suposed to go to bed. The head of my bed was under my window and i used to whatch the stars.there was a large garage next to my house so i didnt have a good field of vision. when the stars started to be blotted out i watch this black triangel slowly move across the sky without bobbing or weaving it had dim lights in the corners and it was a clear night i could totally make it out. it was moving so slow it seem like an eternity but it probably was onley 10 15 minutes i was terrified but had to watch then as it was passing over my house 3/4of it out of my veiw i shut my eyes tieght and when i opend them it was passing from my veiw. i onley told someone about this in 2002 and never said anything agian it was something you would never forget . This week on friday 3/17/04 someone at my job was talking of ufos and i was telling him he was full of it when he told me he had seed what he called a black triangle (no idea) he explained it and i had goose bumps all over.this is the second time ive told this story but the thousandth time i have thought about it. there is weird *%$# going on all around this mountain and i didnt want to be another one of (those people).

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

it was was mad it was light enough by the moon to see it had sharp lines it moved so slow that if it was a blimp it should have swayed or drifted but it stayed a course.

Witness Background

man, master of nothing jack of all

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

used to belive because of this but after getting older i have seen photos change with the times and the storys always come from(no ofence)small minded,slow or attention seeking people.i am open minded people have mocked genius, hated facts ,deined truths but im a fact guy.

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i am srtaight, level headed, educated. i know things can seem unatrual when theres a simple explanation but this was'nt gas or a balloon it was large obgect. The only thing is why move so slow, if its trying to look at something why not from higher. I only told my current chick and would have never wrote this but the guy i work with told me there was hundreds of reports. I was like really and he told me to look on the web you are the second site i looked at after i realized this is'nt bs

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Brighter than venus, may be twice as bright, while approaching. Reddish in colour while receding.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

a very-very rough estimate , 20,000 - 50,000 ft.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Desert, No city lights. Oil field. Prohibited for people not working here.

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About a month ago, in the evening about 19:00-19:30 hrs., I was standing outside our site office at Bu-Hasa (which is actually a desert), chatting with some of my colleagues. I am not sure, what prompted me to look upwards in the sky (perhaps my subconscious mind) but what I saw was something I had never seen in my life. Just vertically above where I was standing, I saw a bright patch of light (more bright than the Venus, the color of light was similar to that of Venus to the naked eye) which appeared to be coming down (as the brightness increased momentarily).

I prompted my colleagues (2 nos., Mr. Vishwanath Gajinkar and Mr. Hemant Pawar) to look upwards and watch the object.

As I turned my head again upwards and we all looked, the brightness started diminishing and it appeared that the object had suddenly reversed the direction, and started proceeding vertically upwards. While receding, it appeared reddish and within moments 2-3 seconds or so the object was invisible.

I am quite sure that it was not a comet (as I have seen comets innumerable times and they appear to be flying horizontally), nor a passenger plane as no passenger plane can appear to be as bright as the object I saw. It could have been some military aircraft, but I am not sure if there are any military aircraft that can move vertically up and down and reverse their direction of flight within few seconds.

I have also seen satellites with naked eye, but they appear to be moving at a slower speed horizontally. This object appeared to be coming first vertically down, and then suddenly appeared vertically moving up.

My colleagues (2 of them) and I wondered for sometime what it could be and then agreed that it could be a UFO.



The next thought that struck me was that perhaps the object had thrown some light to attract our attention and then vanished after taking our photgraphs (This was more of a self congratulation than anything else).

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

Not within the parameters of knowldege that i posess.

Witness Background

My name is Arvind Kaushik, I am an Indian, age 40 years, male. I am a Chemical Engineer, employee of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), an Indian company in the business of Engineering and Construction. At present we are executing a job for Abu Dhabi Gas Company (in short GASCO) and I am located at Bu- Hasa, about 200 km from Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

No hard views. I don't believe in them to be extra terrestrial. Not much knowledge, though I have read few articles out of curiosity.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Nearly black triangle, possibly a slightly blue or violet tent. The underside appeared to be smooth and flat with no obvious features.

Size of Object(s)

I cannot not even estimate. It was either small, close, and slow, or big, high, and fast, but my first impression was something on the scale of a B-2.

Description of Area / Surroundings

suburban area 4 to 5 miles north of Luke AFB.

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It was aproximatley 7:30 pm. The sky still had some light to the west. I was sitting on my back patio, when movement in the sky caught my eye. Something must have struck me as odd because I stood up and moved to investigate. The object I saw was a triangle, somewhere between an equilateral and a 45-45-90. The color was dark so it was fairly difficult to see even though it was nearly directly overhead. It was moving in a straight line consistent with the flight of an aircraft. I considered a B-2, but this object had no jagged trailing edge, and was dead silent. I then considered some sort of trash being blown aloft, but the winds at ground level were only slightly breezy. I also considered a kite, but dismissed it, due to the straight line progress of the object and again the wind didn't seem strong enough. As I watched the object it blended in completely with the night sky, it seemed to disapear. I continued to search the sky along the its projected path and was again able to make it out further along. I watched a few moments longer until again it completely blended into the night sky.

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

It could have been some secret aircraft.

Witness Background

Stay a home dad with a Master's in Psychology and part-time christian worship leader.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I am open-minded in regards to UFOs. It doesn't matter to me from where the object originated. I'm just currious as to what it was. I don't read about UFO's but do enjoy the shows on the Discovery channel.

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This object flew across the flight path of Luke AFB. The Luke planes fly from north to south, this object traveled from west to east, across the flight path.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

As large as two silver dollars in the sky, a neon red/orange color, it had no glaring edges, no starlike edges (this would more or less have constituted a common aircraft light coming towards me). This was seen at night.

Size of Object(s)

As large as two silver dollars

Description of Area / Surroundings

Urban to slightly rural. 1 Power plant. Major highways, Garden State Parkway. NJ Pine Barrens. It only once went anywhere near it, but I do with 60 miles of where I live have an Airforce base.

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I'd like to start this description by saying that I am a helicopter pilot so I've kept this on the "Down-Low" for fear of scrutiny. I am therefore familiar with gauging aircraft in the sky in aeronautical miles. I also live in an area with heavy military air traffic (Lakehurst Naval Base/McGuire Airforce Base) and I can differentiate from commercial traffic, to military traffic and this is by far something completely "NEW" and unexplainable in my perspective due to what I saw and the nature of the activity of this 'aircraft/UFO'. I'm also the type of person that would try to either prove or dismiss a sighting I had as a natural occurence rather than jump to conclusions. Anyway, between the hours of 7:30 and 8:00 PM, on the night of March 14th, 2006, I was driving south on Rt. 35 coming through Seaside Heights heading towards the bridge when this sighting took place. I was returning from having dinner with my father where we had dinner at 'Caraba's' in Bricktown, NJ, therefore he was also witness to this as well. As I approached the overpass that connects Seaside Heights and Pelican Island/Seaside Bridge, I noticed an eccentric looking light over the Oyster Creek area. As the crow flies, this would be 40 statute miles from where I was seeing this occurence. Just to add, Oyster Creek is a town that contains a nuclear power plant. I said to my father to take a look at the light and at that moment, this light which was the size of two silver dollars combined (smaller than the moon but far bigger than any other star out that night......including Venus which is the biggest star in the sky) faded in a matter of 1-2 seconds respectively and then reappeared (or rather faded INTO sight) over the Bayville area which in statute miles, is about 10-15 miles respectively from the Oyster Creek area. At that point my father said rather attentively, "Did you just see how that light came and went?" Exactly after he said that, the light again, withing 1-2 seconds faded away and then faded again into sight withing 1 second over the South Toms River area which from Bayville (and I'm taking educated guesses as to which town this aircraft was hovering over) is about another 10-15 statute miles. Then as quick as it appeared, it disappeared and then reappeared over the Barnegat Light area, which from South Toms River, is like 40-50 miles away. At this point I realized something wasn't right about this because I tried to dismiss it as a rather mundane occurence and couldn't.....and I'll explain why. First of all, this 'thing' was hovering at a rather constant altitude around 2,000 to 2,500 feet (give or take 2-300 feet) so therefore it would probably constitute a helicopter as it didn't move up or down, forward or backward or side to side AT ALL. The problem arises (since if you recall I fly helicopters), is that that night the winds were around 18 knots and gusting up 25-30 knots. Helicopters 'CAN' suffer from a condition called 'Retreating Blade Stall" in wind conditions such as that. That condition is VERY dangerous and pretty much always a fatal condition of flight due to its nature so therefore I didn't see ANY other helicopters out that night (I'm sure there could have been) and believe me I looked to try and account for what I was seeing. Also, in those wind conditions, a helicopter would have trouble maintaining constant altitudes and attitudes due to the wind conditions. Further, by FAA regulations, an aircraft has to have it's anti-colloision system, navigational lights and 'possibly' it's landing lights on after dusk and until dawn. The light that I saw looked NOTHING like any of these lights nor like ANY color of ANY aircraft light that I've ever seen nor do aircraft system lights fade on and off the way these did AND to have them off at all would be detrimental to a pilots record were he caught and reported. Oh, and most convicingly, NO WAY IN HELL could a helicopter travel between 15-30 statute miles in 1-2 seconds respectively ESPECIALLY without seeing it move at all in the sky. NO MATTER WHAT model of helicopter. That high rate of speed in helicopters is also restricted by 'Retreating Blade Stall". My second thought was the possibility of aerial practice drop flares (military) but this was completely thrown out for three reasons. One, they would never be dropping them THAT low over populated areas, if at all. Two, once again due to wind conditions, these lights were positioned in to much of a constant manner, is these were practice flares, they would have been at different altitudes and would have been being flung ALL OVER the places due to 15-30 knot winds. Three, and still most convincingly to me is that NO aircraft could have traveled fast enough (remember in 1-2 second appearing intervals) to have spread these flares far enough away from each other as I saw them. After watching this happen (and my father is an extremely skeptical, but also sharp and aware person, about UFO's or unatural phenomenom) we both had NO explanation to what we were seeing, nor have we either EVER seen anything like this. I witnessed this from Seaside Heights until I got into Toms River.

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

No, and I elaborated on those explanations above

Witness Background

Helicopter Pilot

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I believe in there possibility and I have read on the subject. But as I said above, if I see something unusual, I will try to debunk it as something natural long before I would consider a UFO. That is if I cared at all to even look at it or watch it.

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If anyone could or would somehow have info on this sighting or as to what it was, please somehow reply so I could at least have a better understanding what I saw.

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