Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Huge, building size, silver, saucer shaped object with what looked like an upside down cereal bowl on top of it hovering in the sky about a mile from our house.

Size of Object(s)

It looked the size of a large building. I estimate 80 feet in diameter by 20-25 feet in height.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

I was about a mile away and the radio tower was probably 150 feet high and it was above the tower.

Description of Area / Surroundings

West of Odessa, rural area. Many homes but scattered not close neighborhood housing.

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Sighting Report

Occurred : 7/7/1973 18:00

Reported: 9/12/2005 6:55:20 PM 18:55

Posted: 9/15/2005

Location: Odessa, TX

Shape: Disk

Duration:1 hour

Confirmation of Odessa, TX sighting in 1973

I am filing this report in confirmation of the same sighting reported by my husband, ((name deleted)).

We lived west of Odessa, TX at the time. My husband's grandmother (now deceased) called and asked to speak to Stanley. She said she wanted him to go outside and look at the UFO she had been watching that looked like it was close to our area. After talking to her we went outside and looked to our west. There was a huge, building size, silver, saucer shaped object with what looked like an upside down cereal bowl on top of it hovering in the sky about a mile from our house. We had been outside just a few minutes when my brother-in-law, Jim (now deceased)and my sister-in-law, Georgia, screeched their car into our driveway to ask us if we had seen "it". We all looked at it for a few minutes and then Stanley and Jim decided to ride down the road and see if they could get close enough to tell anything about it. Georgia and I just sat there and watched it. It didn't move at all. it just appeared to be sitting over a radio tower. When Stanley and Jim came back to the house about 30 minutes later they told us that they stopped at the entrance to the dirt road leading to the radio tower because they were afraid if they went closer they might get picked up and taken on a ride they didn't want to take. We got the radio and tried to listen to the news and see if anyone else was reporting this or watching it. We finally found an announcer on KBZB radio station that was talking about all the static they were having on their radio transmission and how they were sending a trechnician out to the tower that was having trouble to see what as wrong. Stanley called the station and was asking where their tower was. The disc jockey was talking to him on the air and we could hear the whole conversation on the air while we were outside still watching the saucer. The disc jockey confirmed it was their tower where the saucer was. Stanley hung up and came back outside to watch. Almost an hour after we started watching it the saucer began to move toward the North. It made a turn that was a 90 degree angle and slowly moved off until it was gone. No flashing speed, just slowly drifting away. The radio station had stopped broadcasting anything about it so Stanley called the disc jockey back and asked him why did they stop telling about it, what happened? The disc jockey told him that their technician got to the tower and when he saw the size of the saucer over the tower he went into shock and left. He said they had to take him to the emergency room and get him medicated to calm him down. The disc jockey also told Stanley that he had been contacted by someone claiming to be with the federal government who told him if he didn't want the radio station to lose it's license and be shut down he better quit talking about what happened. He said he was told "Just be Quiet about it". But we were all there, and saw it happen before sundown on a bright, summer night. I had never seen anything like it, and don't know what it was for sure, but I know it was really there.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting event is approximate. PD))

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

No, it was not a light, weather balloon, star, bird or cloud. I have never seen a man made object that could hover for so long and then leave without ever making a sound.

Witness Background

I have worked in the office management and accounting fields for 25+ years and currently work at a high school.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I had no opinion before the sighting. I became very interested after the sighting and did a lot of research and study on the subject. I still don't know where they come from but I don't believe they are from Earth or are man made.

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Please also see the report and drawing submitted by the witness' husband. http://www.ufoevidence.org/sightings/report.asp?ID=6829

Description of Area / Surroundings

Normal urban area.

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On the night of 13.10.1997 I had been doing a little star watching with my Panasonic RX10 Palmcorder, while using the full X14 zoom a bright round object danced into the viewfinder.

I started to record the event, the dancing slowed after I braced myself against the wall of the house. At this time there was light broken and moving cloud cover that partially obscured the object till it descended below the clouds to take on a new appearance: A perfect circle, in the center was a black dot around this was a smaller circle, the area between this and the outer circle appeared to be spinning anti clock wise. For short time the object moved up and down through the clouds, then as if for an oncore it moved out of the clouds, except for the spinning action it sat motionless for a few seconds, I zoomed out to wide angle and it became just another star in the sky and disappeared several attempts failed to relocate it.

Several times since I have looked at stars with the same X14 power zoom although they appear bigger in size there is no comparison to my first sighting of what ever it was.

There is a photograph on this site that bears a strong likeness to the afore mentioned:

July 8 2005. Photograph ID: 398 found in ( From 2000 to the present.)

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

No.

Witness Background

Bus driver.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

There is too much evidence of sightings thus I would be judged a believer prior to my encounter. I haven’t read a great deal on the subject until I found this site.

Other Comments

A few people have viewed the video over the years and all said I should send it to someone but I never got to do it until I found this site.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Three lights, bigger than those u can see on a plane. didnt seem circular, as the light was hard to tell. Seemed to get bigger and smaller, like they were diving down and rising back up.

Size of Object(s)

When you see planes in the sky and you see their wings, looked bigger than they do ...much bigger

Description of Area / Surroundings

It was in a small park, theres not much around to cause any reflections off, just a few trees and a children climbing frame.....the only other things around it are, farms, an old WW2 bunker, and the local hospital, which is about 2000 yards down the road.

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It was in the local park near my house. I always walk my German Shepards later on in the night, as i like to let them of the lead to run around.

Well i wasnt really paying attention to the sky , i sometimes sit on the bench while having a cigarette and i enjoy gazing at the stars. Well at this particualr time, i was throwing the ball to my two dogs, and as i said i wasnt looking at the sky.

It wasnt untill i sat down on the bench and looked up that i saw them.

They were 3 lights, In a sort of irregualr trianlge formation, not big but bigger than you see on an aeroplane in the sky.

At first i thought thats what it was, and i looked back down, but something inside told me to keep watching it. I watched it for about another 10 seconds, then i saw the lights move seperatley. I thought it was my eyes playing tricks, as the movement was slight, but then they moved again and this time away from each other.

One of the lights seemed to be moving the most, moving away from the other two, then moving rapidly back towards them.....this was repeated a few times...

Then the other two started moving more, as i said the movement looked slight, but it could clearly be seen..

By this time i became very unnerved, and i could have sworn one of my dogs looked up and barked , but that was probably my imagination. So i started walking back towards my house, which is only about a 2 minute walk....

I kept on looking up as i was walking, and i came to the point, where i was directly beneath them. There was no sound, no blinking of the lights, so i knew that it definatley wasnt Jets of any kind. By this time the lights seemed to be moving in unison again, this time in a different pattern to before.

By the time i had gotten to my back door, they were just visible going over the mountain, and by the time i had called my wife, they had gone.

Noone believes me about it, my wife just laughed and asked if i had put anything stronger in my cigarettes, and i became annoyed that she wouldnt believe me.

I do know what i saw that day, im usually a logical man, and i always think things through before coming to a conclusion, but this i cannot find any logical thing to explain it.

A few people have said it might have been a weather balloon, but not over swansea, its rare to see ONE every few years, let alone 3 all at once. Other people told me it could have been pilots in training, but there would have been sound, and the way these were moving didnt seem like a jet, it was more fluid movement, quick turns, erratic movement....not the chunky movement of a jet.

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

No

Witness Background

I am a Qualified electrician, working for a company making, all electrical appliances.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Im a logical man, and i believe that there is life on other planets, it seems scientifically impossible that there would be on ours, and not on another (what the universe being infinate), but i always discarded ufo stories as people trying to grab hold of a bit of fame. I always thought if there was intelligent life out there, the last thing they would want to do is visit a species, who are technologically inferior, and that suck their planet dry of natural resources...to other species' we must seems like parasites.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

little bright light which expanded to become glowing orange orb and glowing orange UFO shape.

Size of Object(s)

grain of rice expanded to paper punch hole

Description of Area / Surroundings

urban. no military bases, no power plants. Don't know why they were here. I have been reading a bit since seeing them and tonight I found something on the web by a person who lives in Gibsons, B.C. and saw orange orbs flying into Georgia Straight. They didn't look like they came to Burnaby on business. They looked like they were having fun. Just my impression.

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I was feeling extremely harmonized one night and went out to sit on the porch. As soon as I sat down I saw two objects dancing out of the sky in the Southeast. I say dancing because they seemed to pour out quickly like water from a jug and then make an S shape tight winding motion together. Then they criss crossed and separated. When they separated they started moving slowly. One was occulted by two large trees but I could see it from time to time in between the trees. At this point they were just lights moving in the sky. However, the fact that they were like lights I thought strange in retrospect because I could see a plane and a helicopter flying around that did not look like lights. The one that was not occulted moved north a short distance. It moved very slowly then it stopped dead. The odd thing was that I had just been thinking "if it is a UFO it will stop dead". Then it did. It sat there for a while and then it began to expand into a glowing orange orb. It remained that way for perhaps 5 - 10 seconds maybe a little more. I find it hard to estimate because I was so awestruck. Then it went back to its normal size and went behind the tree. After about a minute or two it came out again and repeated the same process exactly. Then it went back behind the tree and I didn't see it again. Someone suggested I should look out the next night as well. I thought that was a bit ludicrous to think it would come back but when I went out, just as I sat down, I saw it again. It came out from behind the tree exactly as before, moved in a line across the sky, stopped dead, sat there for a minute and then expanded. This time it made the shape of a UFO. I thought it was amusing. It just seemed so unbelievable. Then it went back to its normal size and I didn't see it again except I may have seen it the following night as only a speck of light in the sky going southeast (from whence it came). I have to say this is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I did not believe it was a UFO at first. I thought it might be a manifestation of my state of being as I was feeling very harmonized at the time having just read a very nice letter from a brilliant friend. Also, since the object had stopped when I thought it was going to stop and came out both times just at the point of my sitting down I thought it must be an unusual spiritual experience. However, I did, after that, attempt to find out what it might have been. Someone suggested ball lightening. I don't think it was. It was a lovely warm clear evening after a sunny day. No one else had any useful suggestions. I searched "orange orbs" on the internet and found the Phoenix lights web site. The second day I saw it, the object when expanded looked very much like one of the pictures on that site. Its pure speculation but I believe these flying craft are not foreign to our land. I think they live here. I just felt that about them.

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

no

Witness Background

I am a lawyer. Education: B.A., took and extra year of science before going to law school.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

My mother, father and brother saw three UFOs before I was born. That's all I know. I have read some newpaper articles about them, seen T.V. shows. I didn't see anything about orange expanding orbs though. I have always thought UFOs are intriguing. But I think the UFO I saw was wonderful. It was a happy experience.

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I do get a feeling of connection to it. Is that normal?

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Gold coloured, possible metallic appearance with pattern in darker colour (like a brown/plum colour in my photo). The sun appears to be reflecting off the top.

Size of Object(s)

I do not know the size as didn't see the object at the time of walking up the road so if it could possibly be some kind of of UFO then it must have been invisible to the naked eye - at a rough guess from looking at the photo it can't be no bigger than 3 feet in diameter...but this is rough guess.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

It appears to be about 5 - 6 metres off the ground and was only about 30 - 40 feet away?

Description of Area / Surroundings

Urban area, small cobbled stoned street fairly steep slope with not many shops or restaurants around as it was in quiet area. No cars or trams on this street, only people. It was a little street down below from the castle which is on a large hill (we we walking up to the castle).

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When I got our holiday photos developed I noticed this one had a strange gold coloured sphere shape which appears to be floating in mid-air in front of a white building further up the top of the road and there appears to be a smaller version near ground level in front of some people walking (although hard to tell for sure as a bit blured). At the time I thought it may have been part of the facade of the white building (like a decorative shield) but then I had some photos of Prague taken back in July 2002 so I checked these and I had a picture of the same street and there is nothing on the white building. I don't recall there being any christmas decorations hanging around at the time (in fact the side street we were in was rather plain and quiet). At the time the photo was taken it was broad day light with blue skies and sun with no rain or snow. The only possibly explanation I can come up with was some kind of balloon was either hanging in the middle of the road on invisible ropes or was floating around after someone let it go. If you look closely, there is some kind of pattern on the object but hard to tell if an actual pattern or writing but it's coloured darker and has curves to it.

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

Only possibility I can think of is a balloon

Witness Background

Secretary working at the British Broadcasting Corporation's World Service Division

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I am very open minded about them and know a little bit. When I was young (around 10 - 11 years old) I saw something in the sky which to this day I can't explain - it was a large dark black object shaped like a rectangle or box and was hoovering above the roofs of the local houses to where I lived in London, UK. It was not a plane because it seemed to be floating in mid air and I remember looking up at it for a while - can't remember if it moved but then it disappeared at some point out of view.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

This highly reflective object was quite large easily being over 100 feet wide. It was a cigar shape but more oval on the sides than round, being maybe 20 feet in diameter and it had spere in the middle of it protruding from the center top. The spere was more a dome on top of the body and was maybe a third of width longwise of this ship. Picture a small ball cut in half placed placed on the top center of a semi smushed cigar but all dark polished mirror surface. I could see that it was made of sections that if separated would have evenly divided the it lengthwise into four or five sections. It had no lights whatsoever or at least they were not lit and it made absolutely no sound and it moved in a perfect straight line and traveled side ways meaning the long side of the body moved forward with the dome sitting on top so there were no visible moving parts, it was solid and looked solid and clean.

Size of Object(s)

If I stretched out my arm it would be 6 inches to hold in the view of my widespread fingers. I would have to estimate the length of this cigar shaped ship to be no less than 100 ft wide, and with an oval cross section of 30 feet wide by 20 feet high with a round half dome of about 30 ft. in diameter sitting on the top and in the middle of it.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

It was flying as high as I see helicopters fly by. 400' to 600' plus or minus

Description of Area / Surroundings

We live in suburban town right outside of Houston so while on certain night we have clear skies we are limited somewhat by the light pollution that reflects off the sky. This particular night it was hazy, cool and somewhat windy. Certain bright stars could still be seen throught the hazy sky, however there were no clouds. There are now military bases that I'm aware of in this area (Zip Code 77459) only a small airport around 5 miles away which serves Sugar Land mainly for small and private aircraft. It did seem to be moving parallel with a some large powerlines that maybe a mile from our home.

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The weather had been warm and humid throught most of the month of October so when the cool front finally came into our suburb town of Missouri City, located just southwest of Houston, my wife asked me to come outside to our patio to just sit and enjoy the much awaited cool breeze. Well cool it was, somewhere in the upper '60's and breezy just enough to make the tree tops sway so all that could be heard was the wind passing through the leaves. The skies were hazy, but not cloudy almost a medium grey tone. This of course is a result from local light pollution reflecting on our skies. A couple dozen or so stars managed to shine through this haze anyhow. Well we were talking face to face and our patio is open to one end almost in the shape of a U so my right side was facing the open end. Well I was about the comment on something when out of my right peripheral vision up in the sky at about I spotted something moving so naturally I turned to see it. I sprang to my feet out of astonishment in what I was seeing. It was an object, a ship like I had never seen passing throught the night sky almost directly over my adjacent neighors back yard only it was maybe four or six hundred feet high but was of a good size. Immediately I ran to the middle of our backyard dragging my wife by her arm hardly being able to speak I cried to her to look at up at the sky and bare witness to what I'm seeing here, I pointed at it! It was moving in a perfectly straight heading in a southerly direction and moving slowly, ominously and without any noise nor any lights, it was almost invisible, nearly cloked but since I caught its movement I was able to focus on it and clearly see it's shape and what its surface looked like. Had it not been for the ambient lighting of city light pollution and the grey lit sky serving as a backdrop I might have missed it since it's surface appeared to be reflective, a mirrored surface but a dark polished mirrored chrome which reflected everything around it including the grey sky and lights off the ground. I saw it clearly for what seemed a long time but infact was more like 15 to 20 seconds. It was utterly fantastic and some what frightening to witness this. I could hardly believe it was happening and I was there at the right time. However much to my disappointment it went beyond the tree line in our backyard before my wife could see it as well but. Well we ran through our home to the front to hopefully get a second glimpse of this slow moving object but we were unable to spot again.

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

The shape of this flying object was one like I have never seen before. I've seen many military experimental craft and am a Sci-fi fan but not even in any movies have I seen such a shape. It was running under power as it took a steady course flying at an even altitude and maybe traveling 100 mph or less. It was moving slowy but steadily and was almost unoticable if you didnt catch its movement. Think Predator from the movie, you can see the outline and that it reflects it's environment, practically cloaked. Just amazing in size.

Witness Background

Designer for Civil Engineerig Firm, 4 Years College

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I'm 39 years old and as a youth always dreamt of journey's to the stars in make believe of course. I've been a Star Wars fan since youth so yes I looked up many nights wonder what is out there. Through out my life I witnessed maybe one other time what seemed to be lights that seemed to dance across the dark sky but they were too high an altitude see other than what looked like bright stars zipping back and fourth. There were three of them and they traveled back and fourth like no airplane could and finally just zipped off in separate directions. I was a young teenager when I saw these walking home one night while looking up at the heavens. I never saw them again, only in dreams of course but who doesn't. I'm not one to dismiss the possibility of UFO's and I am intrigued by the whole notion but I have never really seen something so amazing real with my own two eyes. I believe there many things with no explanation but I'm a rational average man with a family. I would like to see it again but since that night a few days ago have not had any luck. I am fortunate to have witnessed this and would like to know if any one else might have seen this particular shaped flying object. I have a sketch I drew up the very next day and would be happy to scan it and send it to you. Thanks for your time

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

A round orange red solid ball or globe.

Size of Object(s)

For relative size, it would probably have been about 1/2 inch to 1 inch. For actual size it looked to be at least 1/10th the size of the full moon.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

These distances and altitudes are given in the report above.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Description given in report above.

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My Girlfriend and her brother and his girlfriend and myself, (4 people in all), were out on a double-date and it was getting late, about 1:00 a.m. in the morning. We were out on a lonely country dirt road with hardly any traffic and there were open , fenced pastures on both sides of the road with very few trees around us. We had just pulled over to talk awhile about the country band we were in at the time and other things when all of a sudden, something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye and when I turned my head from the direction of my girlfriend to look through the windshield, I witnessed a round orange red ball or globe, which looked solid, rising up from below the horizon slowly and stopping right next to the full moon at about the lower left hand corner of the moon, which, itself was just above the horizon.

Judging from the distance it seemed to be from the moon and from the earth, this thing must have been gigantic in size, a mother-ship, if you will. If it was truly next to the moon, it looked to be at least 1/10th the size of the moon.

I regret that we did not have a camera with us that night, but there were 4 of us that all agreed that we each saw the same identical thing that night. (No Alcohol was involved).

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

We all 4 agreed to this: This object did not come from this planet with our limited technologies. We could not make anything that tremendous in size and then break it loose from the earth's gravitational pull ! Uless we had some kind of anti-gravity device on board.

Witness Background

United States Navy, Retired, Disabled Veteran.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I just sort of thought of them as maybe the government might be experimenting with new types of aircraft or something of that nature. I just read a little about them and also visited the u.f.o. museum in Roswell, New Mexico.

Other Comments

No comments, just a question. Where from and how can I get a copy of each of these photos ? I will gladly pay for them, if they are not too high in price.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

A silvery disk,higly reflective. and a dark black triangle. Flew very slowly and did not make any abrupt or sudden movements.

Size of Object(s)

Relative Size:I could cover their entire size put together with my thumb. Actual Size:????????????????????????

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Distance: Hmmm,About 1to 2 miles. Altitude: a rough guess would be 10,000 Ft.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Out in the country,not far from town,lots of trees so keeping track of the objects was hard.

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I was outside reading,when I saw a strange silver object in the sky.I thought it might be an airplane so I ran inside,grabbed my trusty binoculars and my Aircraft Identification Book,I am an aircraft enthusiast,and looked at the object while thumbing through my Aircraft Identifcation Book to see if it was in there.To my surprise,I noticed that the craft was at the same hight as a few jetliners I have observed that left behind contrails.This craft did not,indeed,it was going verrrry slowwwwly and making no sharp manuvers.I also noticed that the craft had a circular,disk-type,shape and it did not make a sound.Then I saw a triangular shaped object following the disk.A neighbor came down to drop off a package for my parents,so I pointed out the craft to them.They were also perplexed at the objects.They left and I observed the objects for about 10 to 15 minutes more and then they were out of sight.

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

No,because I know the shapes of fighter planes and commercial planes,and these objects didn't look a thing like them

Witness Background

Hobbie: Railroading,the space programs,moving structures such as cars and trains,and of course,UFO's.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have read a lot of books containing UFO's and know a great deal about them. I am sort of a believer and sort of a skeptic.

Other Comments

Thanks for listening.

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Hard to say with the light conditions. It was not the usual disc shape, more sharp sides. (again, I keep wanting say cubed shaped). The light following closely to the object was about the same size as the brightest star in the night sky

Size of Object(s)

Relative - 1/2 inch. Actual - 15 foot

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

It flew directly over our heads but I have no idea of the altitude.

Description of Area / Surroundings

In the middle of an Industrial park (Offices,factorys etc) There is a main power station about 200 m from my work. The object was moving west of the power station

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I was working the graveyard shift at work with a fellow collegue. At approx 3 am, we both went for a smoke break when I happened to notice a shape (object) in the corner of my eye. Of course, it was dark but the object was quite low to the horizon (below the clouds) It was moving very rapidly. I couldnt make out the exact shape, but it was deffinately a "solid" object. (It looked almost cubed shaped but I cant be sure) The most unusual thing was the strange "light" that "buzzed" around the solid object. The light seemed to jump from one point to another in the blink of an eye but always staying very close to the solid object. There was NO noise what-so-ever and it took approx 15 sec from my first sight to the object getting to far away to see.

Of course, both me and my friend looked at each other and said "did you see that or was I imagining it"!!

Needless to say we were the laughing stock at work the next day but we both know what we witnessed!!

It makes me chuckle to think that if there was intelligent life looking down on us two at the same time they would have seen two shocked men with ciggarettes hanging from our bottom lip looking dumbstruck!! "No intelligent life here" they will say!!!

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

Perssonally......... NO

Witness Background

I work for a laser company, manufacturing high power copper vapour lasers.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have always had an open mind about such things, however since it happened I have taken an interest in the phenomina

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Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Refer above: Nothing tangible, just round colored lights moving in formation. I may not rembember correctly but it seems that there was one purple one, one orange and the one on the very end was red.

Size of Object(s)

Size estimates from a 50 ft circle, to 40, 30, 20 and ten, like that.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

They traveled at ground level

Description of Area / Surroundings

Forested near a coal mining town. test edit

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My father and I were coon hunting which was popular at that time and place. It was at night approximately three miles east of Dunbar, VA. We were walking along the railroad tracks and down from this mountain came several balls of different colored lights with a little red one bringing up the rear. They were all round and going from large to small with the large ones in the front leading the way. They had no source that I could acertain. It seemed that they were their own source of light. They were not three dimensional and did not travel in a straight line. They moved down the mountain, then down the river and back up the other mountain. They made no sound. Whoever came up with those lights in that movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind must have seen the same thing before. It was exactly like that. Very strange and I've pondered on that often but can come up with no explanation.

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

No, nothing conventional that I can relate to,,,,,, weirdest thing I ever saw

Witness Background

I have no formal edcucation. Just a year of college but am well read. I read all the time but usally nothing much in the way of Sci-fi. I'm more into books from Authors like Grisham.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have always been a skeptic, at least in the sense that they are extraterrestial in orgin, owing to the distance factor and the exact speed of light. That makes it kinda difficult to think that they could have come from another solar system. The best I can come up with is that maybe it's something from another dimension but I have trouble even conceiving anything like that. All I know is that I DID see them and I cannnot explain it.

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