Size of Object(s)

approximately 30 feet in diameter

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

1 mile

Shape of Object(s)

disk

Color of Object(s):

silver

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On July 2, 2003, I was taking a few digital pictures of cloud formations over Lake Superior. When I got home to download the pictures, I noticed something else in the sky. I sent the picture to MUFON and they verified it as an anomaly. I did not 'touch up' the picture in any way...it is whatever it is....

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visual maybe 1 deg

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

believe out of Earths atmos

Shape of Object(s)

disc

Color of Object(s):

white

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I am an astronomer and very expierenced sky observer and former planetariumdirector.

I had my 7x35 binoculars with me and I looked at this bright object and thru the binocs saw it was a disc with- like frost streamers comming off of it and then 2 to 3 other smaller objects ( craft ? ) came away from the larger object ( mother ship? ) and as they moved slowly away from it. I had the impression I was watching a very ex atmospheric - very large disk object and the relativly smaller 2-3 smaller craft manouvering around the object. I observed this lying on my back on a picnic table in astoundment for about 15 mins. Occasionaly looking away from my binoc eyepieces to see if another campers were about to also look. Finally a couple came by and at that point after I had asked them to look up... They saw briefly the object and then when I then tried to relocate this object in my binocs - it had dissapeared. It seemed to stay relativly stationary in a very high 90 deg sky altitude and 45 deg azimuth relative to Vega and Deneb which I had by then spotted and re oriented myself to the objects relative position in the sky.

Witness Background

Now age 60, astronomer and planetarium director and now head of our Foundation for Stars for Kids of South America - to bring understanding and enjoyment of the stars to all possible kids, schools and teachers of south america using portable Digitarium planetariums.

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I am glad to have a venue to report this to now in Feb 2005. I have also seen two more very strange phenomena in the sky I would like to report as well as a connection to who I feel is a for real abduction victim I encountered when I was in the Patagonia area of way south Chile... Plz advise.

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see picture

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see picture

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see picture

Color of Object(s):

see picture

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We were just taking a picture of the bay

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US Navy Chief, stationed in Hawaii

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I would like to get a professional opinion on the picture I'm submitting

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At approx. 11:00pm a "ball" of yellow light became visible overhead in the south western sky below the low cloud cover over Baulkham Hills. My husband watched the light from our backyard swimming pool. He rushed upstairs to show me the light - after opening the western facing window I was able to view a bright star shaped orange-yellow light, approximately 10 times the size of a commercial plane as it moved overhead in a northerly direction. There was no sound at all. The light travelled at the speed of a commercial plane, and followed a similar trajectory for a minute before it ceased moving. It remained suspended over the north of the sky below the low cloud cover , and wavered intermittently for a several minutes. The wavering effect appeared to result from the light being very close to the cloud cover, and occasionally cloud passed over it. The light appeared to move slightly from left to right, but with an overall stationary effect - at times I wondered if it might be a flare. The light did not extinguish however, and slowly turned to the east. At this point I checked the distance between the light and my TV antenna to gauge its direction and movement. The light moved past my antenna, but started to become obscured by cloud. I continued to watch the light from my window until a low glow from beneath cloud cover was obscured by my rooftop.

I called Sydney airport to report the light. All aircraft had safely left the airport and there were no reports of aircraft on fire. My husband remains convinced that when the light passed overhead it looked like a noiseless craft on fire. I left my phone number and name. Sydney airport gave me a UFO report number to call.

I then called the UFO report line on a number given me by Sydney airport. The number I called: 07 3376 1780. I reported the event verbally , just as it is reported in this email. I left my phone number and name.

Next I called Castle Hills Police station and made a report, however the police officer laughed at me in a good natured way. My demeanour on the phone was neutral and calm and I reported the matter in a precise matter of fact manner. The officer said he would see if any other reports cam in before filing a report. I left my phone number and name.

Next I reported the event to Sydney Daily Telegraph. There had been no other reports at this stage.

Next I called Bureau of Meteorology. There was noone at the Bureau however I was transferred to an on-call staff member. I was told the light was probably a meteor, however I explained that the trajectory was not steep enough, and also that the light orbited the skyline below cloudline, then stopped. The gentleman was not interested and referred me to Sydney Observatory, where I recorded a message on an answering service that appears more oriented towards booking tours, than to reporting events.

Witness Background

I am a cynical, sceptical person who is scientific in methodology. I work as a Telecommunications Wireless Technical Product Development Manager, and consider myself to be well informed, articulate and non-gullible. I am seeking a plausible explanation to this event, and I am sure a rational explanation exists. I am hopeful of understanding this event, because it is unique in my experience. After 25 years in the bush and 15 in Sydney, this is my first sighting of this nature - even though I have had ample opportunity to study the night sky, meteorites, and other cosmic phenomenon.

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Size of Object(s)

first UFO 30-50 feet in diameter, the second UFO probably about 8-10 feet in diameter

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

first UFO 30-40 feet overhead second UFO about 300 feet away

Shape of Object(s)

first UFO a disk shape second UFO spherical

Color of Object(s):

first UFO was dark with white lights and one red blinking light the second UFO one whole light

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Me and my dad went out to feed our dog. While my dad was feedig him I was standing there and looked up in the night sky (which was and still is a habit of mine). When I looked up, there it was right over our heads, probably about 30-40 feet overhead, it was flying in a slow continuous straight line and not making a sound. It scared me and excited me all at the same time! It scared me because I didn't know something like this was right over head and so close and compleatly silent. I got excited because it was my first clear UFO. Beneath it, it had rows of lights, evenly spaced, the rows went toward the center where the red light was at, it was blinking slowly. It was heading south toward Bristol, Tenn. I was living in Bristol Va. at the time. The other UFO was ball of light, it also had no sound, it was off to my right (facing south) flying around in a field and seemingly near some newly built houses which were located on the other side. Its flight pattern was like a moth flying around a light. While the first UFO was flying in it's slow straight line, this other UFO would fly up along beside it, then it would break away from it and dip down in that field and fly in that irradic flight path again. This break away maneuver took place further away from me,in another a part of that field. This took place probably about 500 feet further south, but I could still clearly see this. I went to get my binoculars and watched the first UFO through them until they went out of sight. For some reason our dog didn't pay any attention to the first UFO, the second UFO I don't think would have had an influence on our dog because of its distance.

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I didn't see an outline of it to indicate the first UFO was a disk but the configuration of the lights indicated this. Going toward a center, etc.

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Size of Object(s)

100 to 150feet long

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

50 to 600 feet

Shape of Object(s)

banjo shape

Color of Object(s):

silver with ultra white and red lights

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watching clouds on airplane window, notice a large object moving next to airplane almost same speed. I took my camera and take a picture and soon as possible, suddenly moved upward and when out of sight

it look like vibrates or waves very fast

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Engineer

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60 feet wide, 15 feet height

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

100 yards

Shape of Object(s)

Football, changed to rectangle

Color of Object(s):

Glowing Orange

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I saw this object on Oct. 24, 1973. At that time there was a huge UFO flap going on across the country, especially in the Southeast where I lived. Just one week earlier there had been the report of two fisherman in Mississippi being abducted. When I heard these reports I was determined to see a UFO if possible. I was spending 2 or 3 hours every night looking at the sky. I got more than I bargained for.

On this night I was sitting in a lawn chair, just watching the sky. Around 11 P.M. I saw an object to the north that got my attention. It was just a small bright red object. It got my attention because it was sitting still in the sky. I could not tell what is was however, because it was pretty far away. We had Mayport Naval Base about 5 miles north of my house, and this is about where this object seemed to be. I watched this object for about 10-15 minutes and it never moved. So I knew it wasn't an airplane, and it is even doubtful that it was a helicopter or blimp. Even helicopters and blimps rarely sit in one position for very long. I tried to get my father to come out and look, but he was tired and it was late.

Then the object started moving slowly eastward toward the Atlantic Ocean which was only one mile from my home. I went in and told my father I was going to drive down to the beach and see if I could get a better view of this object. I drove down to the beach and parked beside a Holiday Inn right on the oceanfront. I walked out on the seawall and looked for this object. I did believe I spotted it out over the ocean to the Northeast. But it was still just a small red non-blinking star-like object. I really couldn't tell what it was. It was sitting still again, maybe 30 degrees above the horizon. I watched it for about 10 or 15 minutes and honestly, just got bored looking at it. It was obvious I was not going to get a close look at this. So I decided to go back home.

As I turned around to walk back to my car, I saw this very large, roughly football shaped, bright orange object coming right down the beach! It looked like a solid object. It glowed the way steel glows in a furnace. It also had a haze or fog around it that was also orange. But the object was very clearly defined. It was maybe a half-mile away. I knew this because we had a pier about one mile south of my location. This object was about halfway between. I could see it's reflection in the water below it. It was just about over the waterline. When I first saw it, it looked about the size of a quarter held at arms length. This thing was pretty big, I estimate maybe 60 feet across. It was very low, maybe 100-200 feet altitude at most. It was completely silent and was slowly approaching me. There was a car driving up the beach. This object looked like it was right above the car. But the car was moving toward me faster than this object, so it was only moving maybe 20 MPH at most.

The car exited up a ramp, but this object kept coming straight toward me. At this point I began to get a little spooked. It was late at night and there were not many people out. I also remembered the stories in the news. Now this object was only a few hundred yards south of me. Now it looked about the size of a tennis-ball held at arms length. There was a stairway from the seawall down to the beach, I was going to go down in there and hide from this object. Then, I spotted a man standing in front of the Holiday Inn smoking a cigarette. I do not believe he was aware of this object at all. He was just looking out at the ocean. I was glad to see him. I ran over to him and said, "Look at that!", pointing. He was very surprised and said, "What is that??" I told him, " I don't know, but I think it's one of those UFO's!" Then we just both stared at it.

Now, this object was about 100 yards away. Very big and close. It stopped moving toward us and just sat still for about a minute or two. It appeared as though waves travelled up through it. It would glow slightly brighter and then dim. We just looked and said nothing. Then, somehow it just changed it's shape. It went from football shaped to a long narrow rectangle. It still had the fog or haze around it, and it still would glow slightly brighter and then dim slightly. It stayed this shape for a minute or so. Then, very suddenly, it shot off to the east at the most amazing speed I have ever seen. It moved so fast that it appeared to stretch like taffy. Then it turned into a little orange ball that shot over the horizon. It seem to dive down as it went over the horizon as though it was following the curve of the earth. It left a long orange vapor trail that took 2 or 3 minutes to fade away. It was absolutely amazing. The man asked me if I thought it was a rocket. I told him no way, I've seen rockets before, and even rockets can't move that fast. Especially from a dead stop.

We spoke for a few minutes. The man asked me if I was going to report it. I told him I didn't know who you would report it to. I left and drove home. I told my father, but he was half-asleep and I don't think he heard me. I told some co-workers the next day who laughed at me. That made me angry. But I did hear some reports on the local radio station where a few people had called in and reported this object. So that made me feel a little better, and I pointed it out to my co-workers. I have no idea what this object was, but it was spectacular. I will never forget.

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I am e-mailing you a drawing.

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Size of Object(s)

about 1 and a half the size of a house

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

90 to 100 feet

Shape of Object(s)

Saucer/bell shape

Color of Object(s):

Black, non-reflective, with lights

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My Father, sister and my self saw a disc shaped craft, it looked like a classic "Bell" shaped saucer over Arlington Heights and Rolling Meadows.

In 1977, My Father, sister and my self saw a disc shaped craft. I was 7 at the time. We left the KFC that was on Northwest Hwy going NW in our car. As we got closer to the intersection of Northwest Hwy and Euclid, I spotted an object that hung in the sky and was getting brighter. It was "dropping" out of the sky in the north. I pointed it out to my sister who was in the car. She then asked my dad to look at it. I then replied that it was a UFO. My father refused and brushed it off as an airplane. To quite us he turned at the intersection prior to Euclid Ave. as to keep us from jumping around in the back seat since the streets he was taking had trees that over hung the road and obscured our view. As we were going down Sigwalt St. the craft was now closer to the ground, 100 ft or so. As we drove west on Sigwalt St. to the 7-11 store to get soda pop for dinner. We pulled in and my father still refused to look up and cater the whims of the 2 of us. He went in and as we stayed in the car, I remember Suzie Rossbeck, who lived up the same street as us, and some of her friends were at the 7-11 hanging out outside of it. They then saw the UFO, hovering with no sound, only the wind had picked up. The wind was strange, blowing almost upward in direction and in a circular motion. The face that Suzie made was horrific, as in disbelief that this could not be happening. Her knees caved in and her friend dropped to the ground, horrified. What I thought at the time was a "neat" thing now was burned in to my memory forever as a horror. My sister and I now wanted to go home, not in a panic, just a rush to get home. The disk moving slowly was now above the intersection of Sigwalt St. and Wilke St. My father exited the Store, as did the attendant. My father finally looked up to see the disc and was amazed and puzzled as to what he was seeing, as we all were. It moved over Rolling Meadows and slowly climbed upward, as fast as it came down. It was about the size of one and a half houses (for the area I live in) it was black on the underside, blacker then the night sky and not reflective of any light, other then the lights that it had moving on its edges. All different colors, but mostly yellow, red, and orange. As it climbed it the night sky, it was tilted in a way we saw the top. It looked like a cross between the classic "Bell" shaped saucer and the Bob Lazar Type Saucer. The top was reflecting the lights on the edges so we were able to see the surface reflecting and giving away the topsides shape. It never moved quickly and as far as I know no one else saw it, but the 7 of us. At the time in Arlington and Rolling Meadows when evening came most people were inside, I am not sure if this was covered at the time in the papers. Only a few times in my life I have talked to my sister and when I was young, to Suzie about it. My father pasted away in 1991, and my sister being sick, I thought I had to at least post this somewhere and see if anyone else knows of this.

I currently work in International Air Freight Transportation, and with the understanding I have now of the landing patterns for O'Hare Airport, I now know it can not be explained as a Airplane as it Crossed the landing pattern for the North West Runway. It was to quite to be a helicopter, and too slow to be a small plane. The only reason I can give as to why it Dipped down, close to the ground, was that the UFO was avoiding the area of space in the sky where a landing plane would endanger it and collide with it.

Keith J. Kocher

Age 35

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Elk Grove Village, Ill

(formerly from Arlington Heights, Ill)

Witness Background

I am 35 years old. Lived in the Northwest Suburbs Of Chicago all my life (Arlington Heights, Elk grove Village, and the surrounding area). I have worked in Retail, the nutrition industry, and currently in the International Air Freight Industry. I have some Collage under my belt.

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I will send a sketch if you wish. If you want me to show you area it was spotted please contact me.

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It was very very high in the sky. I initially thought it was a star.

Shape of Object(s)

Triangle.

Color of Object(s):

Red, Green, and white (Lightbulb white)

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I was watching TV in the dark, from my couch in the living room, and noticed a very bright star through the skylight. I thought at first, wow...that star is really really bright. It caught my attention from being so bright. Then, all of a sudden, I saw 3 to four red lights flash in tandem on both the left and right side of the main object. At that point, I thought, this is not a star. I immediately went for the binnoculars. At this point, I settled back on the couch to view this object though the binnoculars. I thought, if this is a plane, I would be able to see it fly in, and move in another direction, at some point, as it came in for landing. It was at this point I discovered the object was triangle shaped, and that each side of the object had a colour. At this point, i can not tell you which side had what colour, but, in the context of a triangle, the / (denoting the left side of the triangle) was either red or green, and the \ side of it was the opposite, red or green. I also began noticing smaller bright objects flying away from the main object, flying away from it, and returning shortly thereafter. There were more than one of these "bursts", which I had originally attributed to possible gaseous bursts as if from a planet. However, I dismissed this concept when the "bursts" returned to the main object, and witnessed one fly out of my line of vision, only to return moments later to the triangle.

I watched these series of events unfold for the better part of an hour, when the object began to move out of my line of vision through the skylight. (note, I also looked at the object from the upstairs bedroom window, and from outside to dispell any thought of reflection off the skylight window.)

I don't know what it was, or if anyone else had witnessed this, however, I am interested in knowing if you'd received any other sighting reports from this time frame, and of the same kind of discription.

Witness Background

HS Graduate, Government employee. Not prone to fantasy. Looked for normal explanations, and finding none, am still a little skeptical on what I saw. However, it was a strange occurance, and it's strangeness is what prompted me to find out if anyone else witnessed this.

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I'm still not sure if this was an unnatural occurance. In contemplating it for a couple of days now, I can not find alternative explanation for what I saw. If you still wish for me to sketch what I saw, please email me.

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Size of Object(s)

Unknown

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Unknown

Shape of Object(s)

creates different shapes when spin or angle

Color of Object(s):

Before sunset black and white. After sunset multi colors

Full Description & Details

During the day time, sometimes as much as fifty flying objects together will travel faraway in the sky. In day time the objects has black arround and the center white. By the time sunset those flying objects will spred in certain ares of the sky and stay on one place with colorfull lights on. We will see the flying objects and the planets altogether as stars in the night sky. That's how another lifeform who has a connection to the mankind because of the performance of the star of Bethlehem, have managed to watch us day and night everyday. The white bottom of the object is a huge light that they will watch the activities on the Earth. Sometimes shoots a beam of light. The light balls that the people have seen and video taped while making crop circles are the end of this long light.

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On a clear day by the time that sunset check for big bright stars in the sky. If you see any remember the area and wait untill next day. Next day before sunset check the same area in the sky and if you see any use a Camcorder, Binoculers or a Tellescope. You will see a flying object. To the naked eye you could see the object will move side to side. Actually when these flying objects stay on one place it will continuously spin. I believe them as the Teachers of the mankind and all the mysterious crations on the Earth are a work done by them.

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