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Date:

July, 2004

Location:

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Summary:

My room vibrated, turquoise blue light illuminated my room, I looked outside to expect to see a car with H.I.D.'s pointed towards my house, saw nothing, heard a low pitched noise like wind/subwoofer, and saw a ufo go by my room about 5 m.p.h. completely parallel to me.

Date Reported:

7/31/2005 7:55:24 PM

Sighting Time: 

10:30 p.m.

Day/Night: 

Daytime

No. of Witnesses: 

Myself

Duration: 

Brief, 10 seconds.

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Urban or Rural: 

Suburban Community

Size of Object(s)

12 feet long, 8 feet wide

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

15 feet

Shape of Object(s)

combination disk/orb with many lights and paneled windows

Color of Object(s):

grey/black

Full Description & Details

At the end of junior year, last year, I was in my room about to go to

sleep when my bed starting vibrating. I thought my mom had the washer

machine on so I ignored the rumbling. One minute later I felt a deep

calm, almost euphoric, but just unnaturally relaxed, it felt fake. I

was feeling very confused. A bright turquoise light illuminated in my

room, and I thought someone with blue tinted H.I.D. lights on a car

had it pointed towards my window, so I brushed it off as nothing. I

got fed up with the light, opened my curtain expecting to see a car

with its lights on. I was wrong. I saw nothing, was completely

confused at this point. I heard a low pitched noise, that sounded

like a combination of a subwoofer, and wind. I kept my eyes open, and

then saw a craft that was (big estimate, not 100% sure on size) 12

feet long, 8 feet tall go slowly by my room, about 15 feet away from

my window. I layed back in bed, completely dumfounded by what

happened, and didn't believe I saw what I did. The craft looked

almost exactly like the picture from your site dated July 7th, 1991 in

Mexico (90's, 37-45 on your site). It had the same panels, with red

and yellowish light emiting from the top and bottom. The only

difference is that the craft seemed to have more of a flatened shape,

it didn't resemble the typical "UFO" people hear about, and thinner

than the mexico photo. After I told my parents they assumed I was

just dreaming, but when I told them I was wide awake, they were

shocked and believed me. I don't talk about this incident very much,

it's just too weird, but I wanted to let you know about it, and

possibly give me some clues as to why they chose to go by my room.

Thanks.

Witness Background

I start college at the end of the summer, and up until then was the last person on Earth to believe in UFO's.

Other Comments

Please email me with any information as to what happened, why it chose to go by my house, and why my room vibrated and illuminated with blue light.

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

friends and family

Your Location: 

Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

Age: 

18

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Date:

January-February 1993

Location:

Santee-Lakeside, San Diego County, Cal. USA

Summary:

Large, roundish shape enclosed in heavy, white mist, hovered about 50ft above ground. Maybe 100-120ft diameter. About 9 p.m. on a very clear night. Many multi colored lights flying in and out and around the shape inside the mist.

Date Reported:

7/31/2005 6:21:08 PM

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

4

Duration: 

10-12 minutes, maybe longer

No. of Object(s): 

Multiple

Full Description & Details

My family and I were visiting a friend behind Santee School, in Santee Cal. and as the four of us, including our friend, went outside to the car to go home we all saw a strange mist in the air directly across Mission Gorge Road from the school.

There appeared to be a round or oval shaped solid thing inside the mist and it was a soft silver color insde the very white mist. There were numerous little lights dancing around the big thing and going inside it and coming out of it. There wasn't a cloud in the sky that night, nor any fog/mist except around the solid thing/vehicle. It was an extremely clear, crisp winter evening.

The two men, my husband and our friend, thought it was a blimp but, upon later discussion, they both agreed that it wasn't a blimp and that it frightened them so much that they had to come up with the easiet rational explanation they could at the time.

My son and I were not particularly frightened, though we were fascinated and wanted to stay to watch it but, my husband wanted to get out of there, so that was all we saw.

Now, here is the oddest thing about the incident. On looking at the area in daylight afterwards, I noticed that there was a stand of trees where the mist and vehicles? had been. They didn't show any signs of damage whatsoever and it made me wonder if what we had seen was more like a movie as opposed to something solid.

A week or so later we began to have regular sightings, stranger than this first.

Witness Background

Artist and writer.

Other Comments

Shortly after the initial sighting reported above, I awoke in the middle of the night to see three bright lights on my son's open bedroom door. At first I thought they must be from the fire station down the street so, the next day I asked them if they had been in our area the night before and they said they hadn't gone on any runs that night and the truck was inside the whole time.

I went out in the parking lot the next evening while my husband watched upstairs in the hallway outside our son's room and I tried to see where the lights might have originated but, no matter which direction I shown the flashlight from I couldn't I recreat the lights on his bedroom door. Then my husband tried it and he couldn't do it either.

And, there was more to come.

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

San Diego MUFON around 2001

Name: 

Barbara Moody

Your Location: 

Tombstone, Az. USA

Age: 

49

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Date:

1958

Location:

Jamesburgh, NJ

Summary:

Date Reported:

7/31/2005 8:28:29 AM

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

5

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Full Description & Details

I was only 5 yrs old and in the large house my Granparents owned, specifically in the diningroom, which seated about 15 people (she ran a small boarding home for the elderly). I was with my mother, grandmother, brother, and uncle (who remembers this vividly.....we still talk about it). It was in the early fall, I believe, and I was coloring on the table. I remember all of a sudden some screaming, mostly by my mother, and she then pulled me off the chair and everyone was huddled in the corner walls of the dining room. A light had come through the window of the dining room, about the size of a basketball, and it was quite luminous but had a three-dimesional sherical volume to it.

The ball hovered above the large dining room table and floated up to the chandelier. I was crying at this stage and my grandmother kept saying to my mom..."Oh My God, Gloria....what the hell is that....what the hell is that!". It was only in the house for about a minute or so, occording to my Mother and Uncle, but it eventually went back outside the same window it came in. There has always been family discussions about this event, and there were times in the past when my Uncle thought it might have been 'Ball Lightning', but he later dismisses this, as did everyone else, since it seemed to have some kind of awareness, or was controlled in some way (not random), since it kept its distance and floated back outside the window. I still remember it like it was yesterday, but I think I was mainly frightened only because my mother was. Three witnresses to this event are still alive.

Witness Background

I am an optical engineer with a BS in Applied Physics. I specialize in the field of laser engineering (for approx. 22 years).

Other Comments

I have seen three, what I would call, spectacular experiences in my lifetime wrt sightings. The most incredible one took place in 1972 at approx. 12:00 AM near the campus of the Univ. of South FLA. in St. Petersburg, FLA. Another occured over the Barnegat Bay in 1985, and then another on Lacey Rd., late at night, in the town of Forkrd River, NJ. These were most spectacular, and I will elaborate at another time. It's just that I don't want to come across as someone who....hmmm...sees this stuff too often so as to sound 'not credible'.I don't wish to trivialize the incident I have described above, since in a strange kind of way, it has impacted the way my family has thought about 'the stranger things in life'.

Reported Sighting? 

No

Reported To: 

Merely talked about

Your Location: 

NJ

Age: 

53

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Date:

July, 21, 2005

Location:

Near Coalinga, California, United States

Summary:

Three bright lights over highway, green and red lights, an object performing aerial manuevers what I would assume would be impossible for a plane or helicopter to perform. The object darted over highway repeatedly without making any noise.

Date Reported:

7/28/2005 7:54:29 PM

Sighting Time: 

12:45

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

2

Duration: 

3 Minutes

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Urban or Rural: 

Rural

Size of Object(s)

About size of small airplane

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

200 Feet - 3 miles

Shape of Object(s)

Small lights and three large white lights

Color of Object(s):

Never saw body, only lights

Full Description & Details

As we were driving along Highway 5, at about 12:45 AM on July 21st – we were south of Coalinga when we passed or were about to pass what looked like a weigh station – truckers were parked on the southbound side of the highway (we were headed north) and all of a sudden, out of my right hand passenger window a bright object – red lights, green lights, some smaller white lights (?) shot up straight into the air. I was still thinking it was something very rational I thought it might be CHP helicopter on the look out for speeders. But as time went on I felt strange. First of all it didn’t rise gradually like a helicopter does, it shot straight up in the air like an elevator only much faster. I didn’t hear any blades turning, either.

The object (I still thought it might be a helicopter) cut very rapidly across the highway, not with a slope of plane but at an angle, I have never seen anything do this. It cut just in front of us and low over the interstate, sweeping from the right side of the road to the left. Now we started to feel strange, it was moving way too fast to be a helicopter. We seemed to lose sight for a second or two and then, moving extremely rapidly, it shot with a very high speed from the left side and back across, low over the road – as if it was crashing down into the field on our right. I yelled out, “It’s a plane crash!” We both waited for the explosion to be seen and I actually braced myself thinking I would feel the crash it was so close by. (All of this happened within a mile to less than 100 feet away I would guess) We didn’t see an explosion or hear a sound. In fact, to our unease, we never heard a sound. It made no sound that we could hear. It seemed to disappear and all I saw was darkness. Then again it surfaced, this time following along with the speed of the traffic, slowly bobbing up and down. I thought the shape might have been darker than the sky behind it but I never got a good look at any shape. Now three bright, perfectly round, large lights appeared and shone on the traffic, as well as us. This was when we went from unease to genuine fear. It was as if it was pivoted, facing the traffic on I 5 and traveling at about the same speed, sideways.

We watched it for quite a while as it did this. It gradually fell behind us and I watched it through the rear window –. I watched it for probably another 2 minutes. It looked like a 747 making a landing on the highway – for some reason this made me feel even more strange. It was obviously not concerned about being hidden, but if it had been some super-secret aircraft, why would it play dangerously all around traffic in the middle of the night? When I saw it up close it looked basically the size of a small plane, but its lights made it look huge at this distance. The lights lit up park of the road and were as big around as stadium lights, huge for some sort of plane – they seemed to hover over the road and then we passed through some foothills and didn’t see them again.

Witness Background

Have a Masters Degree (am fully employed) I am NOT making this up. I was in complete disbelief until I witnessed this event. I am telling the truth but wish to remain anonymous.

Other Comments

I really wish to remain anonymous - I hope you will still post my message since I am sure at least a few dozen people saw this object.

I can tell you I am not making it up and would be reassured to know if others have seen it as well but are uneasy about posting the information.

Reported Sighting? 

No

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Date:

August, 22, 1976

Location:

east tawas, Michigan, United States

Summary:

huge triangle shape with 3 big lights on bottom and smaller lights all around. very loud humming noise.

Date Reported:

7/28/2005 4:10:26 PM

Sighting Time: 

9:30pm

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

2

Duration: 

15 minets

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Urban or Rural: 

rural

Size of Object(s)

foot ball field in length

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

600 feet

Shape of Object(s)

triangle

Color of Object(s):

pitch black

Full Description & Details

while traveling up u.s. 23 around 9-30 we were heading north when we seen what we thought was a plane. it came from the north heading right at us with a very brite light.as it came at our car it turn right an flow over lake huron. then it turn back toward us and very very slowly passed over our car. as we stood on the side of the road other cars pulled over to see.the object was about 5 to 600 hundred feet above us at this time. as it went over you could hear that loud humming but that was all the noise it made. the next thing we knew it turned back north and was gone in the blink of an eye.i believe in life beyond this gallaxy and i know that was not of this world. like i said before it was triangle shaped and had 3 big brite lights on the bottom one on each corner and many smaller lights all around and was pitch black around the edges.

Witness Background

i am a 54 year old retired factory worker from rochester hills michigan and the father of 5 childern.

Reported Sighting? 

No

Name: 

larry childers

Your Location: 

rochester hills mi -oakland county

Age: 

54

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Date:

July, 20, 2005

Location:

Cockaponset State Forest, Connecticut, United States

Summary:

Photograph of three hovering objects (UFOs) over Connecticut forest

Date Reported:

7/27/2005 4:14:35 PM

Day/Night: 

.

No. of Witnesses: 

2

No. of Object(s): 

Multiple

Full Description & Details

Last week, my friend and I were mountain biking in the Cockaponset State Forest. I think it's in Middletown. We were riding for a couple of hours and were close to the Connecticut River and not far from the power plant (I think). Its hard to tell on the trail. It was getting dark and we were taking a short break before heading back to our cars. At first I didn't even notice these things until my friend pointed them out.

They were dark oblong shapes with some lights. Nothing bright and we didn't hear any noise. They didn't move for several minutes so I was able to take a few pictures. When they left they just floated away slowly. I'm only sending one because two of them didn't come out, the digital camera doesn't work well without much light and one of them you can see my friend. I didn't send that one, because even though everyone rides out here we all know we shouldn't be and I don't want to get in trouble for trespassing.

They could be helicopters or maybe a blimp of some kind, but I thought I would forward this to you for a better explanation.

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Date:

October, 25, 1978

Location:

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Summary:

Whle flying light aircraft, object emerged from cloud for 30 seconds before re-entering cloud.

Date Reported:

7/27/2005 1:50:23 AM

Sighting Time: 

1030 hrs

Day/Night: 

Daytime

No. of Witnesses: 

1

Duration: 

30 seconds

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Urban or Rural: 

Rural

Size of Object(s)

50 feet

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

2 kilometres

Shape of Object(s)

Orb

Color of Object(s):

Silver

Full Description & Details

On the 25th of October, 1978 I was flying a light aircraft slolo on a training exercise between Geelong and Warnabool Victoria, Australia. I was flying at approximately 3,000' and when abeam Cape Otway, I observed a metalic sphere emerge from the cloud in front of me. I would estimate the object to be approximatley 2 kilomentres in front and at aproximatley 4,000 feet. It appearedt to be about 50 feet in diameter and it was silver in colour with no other detail evident. The object remained stationary for approximately 30 seconds, then slowly moved back into the cloud behind it.

Witness Background

Police Officer

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

Various friends

Name: 

Byron Gainger

Your Location: 

Geelong, Australia

Age: 

48

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Date:

November, 1992

Location:

Fresno, California, United States

Summary:

Unexplained sighting

Date Reported:

7/27/2005 1:05:34 AM

Sighting Time: 

10:00 p.m.

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

1

Duration: 

15-20 minutes

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Urban or Rural: 

suburban

Size of Object(s)

huge, large as 8-10 blocks of houses

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

I don't know

Shape of Object(s)

star, then triangle shape of lights

Color of Object(s):

don't remember any color except lights were red and white

Full Description & Details

In November 1992, at around 10 p.m., I was driving alone on my way home from a visit to my parents. My husband and I lived in an apartment in the north end of town, towards the less populated area of our city. It was very dark out, not a lot of travelers on the road, and not a lot of lights, including street lamps. Suddenly I noticed what I thought was a bright aura around the moon. I glanced up further at the moon, and that is when I realized that the aura (light) I had seen at the top edge of my vision wasn't coming from the moon, but an incredibly bright star just below the moon. As I watched, that star quickly dropped down and raced northwest across the sky, traveling in the same direction as me (I had turned left by this time). I was trying to drive and watch the "star" traveling at the same time. It seemed to stop and change, so I pulled over in a residential neighborhood right next to my apartment complex. I had the impression of something very large hanging over the bank of houses, with lights in an almost cross-like configuration. I remember hanging out my passenger window, straining my eyes to see the shape of this thing beyond the lights. My crazy thought was that it was light Wonder Woman's plane, invisible but with running lights or something. There is a UFO picture on this website that reminds me strongly of what I saw--it is one of the last pictures in the 1990's decade--the ones over Germany in 1990. That is the closest to the light configuration I saw. I vividly remember the feeling of extreme vastness of the thing beyond what I could see, yet it was completely silent. It only hung there a very short time, and then it began to pull away. I gunned my engine and raced around a short corner to my apartment as fast as I could, yet the thing I saw had already risen high enough to be the bright star again and was starting to streak back across the sky. I pulled into my apartment space and, leaving the door open on my car, raced to my door and yelled for my husband to come out quickly. He did, but all he saw was the very end of the bright "star" and it was gone before I knew it. I was almost hysterical, I remember telling my husband about it and then frantically calling my Dad to tell him the same thing. He had to tell me to calm down I was so agitated. I've never forgotten this, even though it has been 13 years. What was it??? I don't live close to a military base, and I can't imagine they would have anything that could move that fast, that far, and be so incredibly huge and silent. I'll always wonder about it. I am a devout Christian who believes in Christ and how he died for my sins, so I swear to you that what I have described is true. I have told very very few people about this because I didn't want anyone to label me crazy or think I was "weird". I tried very hard to forget what I had seen, but even now I wonder about it.

Witness Background

homemaker, mother of four, college graduate

Other Comments

Please do not post my name or e-mail address. Thank you.

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

my husband & my father

Your Location: 

Fresno, CA USA

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Date:

July, 23, 2005

Location:

Newburgh, New York, United States

Summary:

TWO BRIGHT WHITE LIGHTS,ONE SMALLER BLINKING LIGHT,DIAMOND SHAPE,HOVERING,SILENT,HUGE,BLACK AGAINST THE NIGHT SKY,LIGHT BEAM

Date Reported:

7/26/2005 8:15:25 PM

Comments about the image(s): This handwritten report, including more information and illustrations, was submitted by the witness, in addition to the original online report below.

Sighting Time: 

10 PM

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

6

Duration: 

2 MINUTES

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Urban or Rural: 

SUBURBAN

Size of Object(s)

AT LEAST 2 HOUSES

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

30 FEET

Shape of Object(s)

DIAMOND

Color of Object(s):

BLACK

Full Description & Details

JULY 23RD,10PM, WE ARE DRIVING ON RT 84 HEADING TOWARD CONNECTICUT TO GET HOME. WE (6) ARE IN OUR MOTORHOME. LOTS OF WINDOWS FOR US TO SEE AND LOOK OUT AT THE EVENING TRAFFIC. I SPOT THESE TWO HUGE BRIGHT WHITE LIGHTS UP AT THE TOP OF A STEEP HILL WE ARE TRAVELING UP.THESE LIGHTS ARE TOO FAR APART TO BE AN AIRPLANE. I WONDER WHAT THIS IS TO MYSELF. ARE THESE LIGHTS A TOWER? IT IS HOVERING. NOT MOVING. IT'S NOT AN AIRPLANE. I STILL AM LOOKING AT THESE LIGHTS. THEY ARE HEADING OR FACING US...HEAD ON... THIS THING IS BIG. AT THIS TIME I ASK THE REST OF THE PASSENGERS"HEY GUYS ARE YOU SEEING THIS?WHAT IS IT?I THINK IT'S A UFO GUYS. EVERYONE UNDOES THEIR SEATBELT EXCEPT THE DRIVER. WE ALL LOOK OUT THE FRONT WINDOW AND WE ALL ARE SAYING HOLYSHIT!!WHAT IS IT? WE ALL KNOW WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT BUT WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT. NOW A BEAM OF LIGHT SHOOTS DOWN TO THE GROUND OUT OF THE FRONT. IT HAS A BLINKING SMALLER LIGHT IN THE MIDDLE(ALSO WHITE). THE SHAPE FROM THE FRONT VIEW WAS A TRIANGLE. NOW WE GO TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE MOTORHOME(NOT THE DRIVER) BECAUSE WE ARE ALMOST EYE LEVEL WITH THIS CRAFT. IT IS TO OUR LEFT. STILL HOVERING. BEAM LIGHT IS STILL LOOKING AROUND. THE HIGHWAY IS FULL OF CARS IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO BE SEEING THIS THING!!! WE SEE ITS SIZE. IT'S HUGE! SILENT. NOW I RUN TO THE BACK OF THE MOTROHOME TO LOOK OUT THE BACK WINDOW. EVERYONE ELSE FOLLOWS ME. (NOT THE DRIVER). THE 5 OF US LOOK OUT THE WINDOW. I ASK " WHAT SHAPE DO YOU SEE?WHAT COLOR ARE THE LIGHTS?WHAT COLOR IS THE CRAFT? ARE YOU SEEING WHAT I SEE?WE AGREE THAT THE LIGHTS WERE WHITE. THE CRAFT LOOKED LIKE A TRIANGLE FROM THE FRONT BUT FROM THE BACK VIEW IT WAS A DIAMOND. NOW THE CRAFT IS DIPPING DOWN THE LEFT SIDE DOWN TOWARD EARTH AND THE FRONT RIGHT SIDE IS UP HIGHER. NOW THE OBJECT STARTS TO MOVE FORWARD AND DOWN THE HILL TOWARD THE NEWBURGE BRIDGE TOWARDS N.Y. WE ARE HEADING TOWARD CT. I GET ON THE CB RADIO AND ASK THE TRUCKERS IF THEY ARE SEEING THIS UFO? NO RESPONSE. I ASK AGAIN. NOTHING. THEN I SAY ON THE CB RADIO. HEY UFO WE SEE YOU . SHINE YOUR LIGHT. WE SEE YOU . WE KNOW YOU ARE HERE. NOTHING. IT'S OUT OF SIGHT NOW. WE ARE FREAKING OUT. IT WAS REAL. IT WAS NO AIRPLANE, HELICOPTOR,BLIMP OR ANYTHING FROM THIS PLANET. NO CRAFT THAT MAN HAS BUILT CAN DO WHAT THIS CRAFT DID. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Witness Background

EARTH PERSON EAGER TO KNOW WHY THEY ARE VISITING US

Other Comments

I'VE BEEN WATCHING THE SKIES ALL MY LIFE. I FINALLY HAVE THE EYE WITTNESS PROFF OF SOMETHING I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED TO BE TRUE. THERE IS OTHER LIFE OUT THERE. WE ARE NOT ALONE. I'M NOT SURE WHO WAS FLYING THIS CRAFT BUT, THIS THING WAS NOT OF THIS EARTH. NO DOUBT IN MY MIND!!!

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

MANY UFO SIGHTING SITES

Name: 

J. W. O.

Your Location: 

marlborough ct hartford

Age: 

45

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Date:

1985

Location:

roughly 18 deg N. 65 deg W.,

Summary:

It was a single, bright, white flash of light coming from just beneath the ocean's surface.

Date Reported:

7/26/2005 7:30:45 PM

Sighting Time: 

0200 to 0300 local

Day/Night: 

Nighttime

No. of Witnesses: 

2

Duration: 

one second

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Urban or Rural: 

at sea

Size of Object(s)

2 to 3 feet

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

30 to 40 ft from bridge wing

Shape of Object(s)

circular flash

Color of Object(s):

white

Full Description & Details

I was standing the mid watch as OOD underway, on board the US Navy destroyer I was serving on at the time. That particular night our ship was just killing time, cutting three knot circles in the water, while waiting for morning. (At dawn we were scheduled to steam in to the anchorage at Roosevelt Roads for shore leave.) Everything had been quiet since the watch change. The skunk board was clean for a change, and there were no contacts, surface or air, anywhere on the scopes.

At the time of the incident, I was on the starboard bridge wing, leaning against the rail, passing the time in quiet conversation with the Quartemaster of the Watch. Both of us happened to be looking just outboard of the ship, staring at the water as we talked. Suddenly, just below the surface of the water, and roughly ten feet from the hull, we both saw an extremely bright, white flash of light. It made no sound, and was over almost before it had started. It startled us, however, making us both take a step back. Looking at each other in puzzlement and some alarm, I heard the quartermaster ask, " What the hell was that?" I could only shrug my shoulders. Neither of us had the faintest idea what it had been, or what could have caused such an event out there in the middle of the ocean. One thing I did know, however. I felt safer standing the rest of that watch inside the bridge, with the bridge doors closed and dogged.

It has been suggested to me from some of the people I've told this story to that it might have been bio luminescence. I have seen that particular phenomenon many times at sea, during the night hours. Whatever it was that flashed us, it was far brighter than any bio luminescence I've ever seen, before or since. It was more like a powerfull strobe light.

Witness Background

I served onboard the USS Semmes DDG-18 from 1981 to 1985 as a junior reserve officer. I was the ASW Officer for my first three years and finished my last year onboard as the Comm Officer. In both roles I was custodian of materials ranging from Confidential to Top Secret. At the time I left the Navy with an Honorable Discharge, I was a frocked lieutenant. I am currently employed at HP as an Offsite Support Engineer Level III.

Other Comments

It's been a long time, and I no longer remember the exact date. I only have a ballpark figure. I also have forgotten the name of the quartermaster who shared that experience with me.

Reported Sighting? 

No

Your Location: 

Lawrenceville, GA, USA

Age: 

49

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