Size of Object(s)

about 6 feet in diameter

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

20 feet

Shape of Object(s)

disk

Color of Object(s):

dark purple

Full Description & Details

On a weekday holiday from school, when I was nine years old, some friends and I had gone "hunting" with BB guns. Returning home for lunch, standing in the back yard under some barren trees, the little kids spotted me and wanted to play with the BB gun. I refused. "Shoot that, shoot that," one of them said, pointing up. About twenty feet overhead, above the small trees, was an opaque, dark purple disk. I walked out from beneath the trees to see it better, and with a slight delay, saw the disk tilt to follow my movement. I ran inside, grabbed my Gilbert reflector telescope, came back outside, and set it up. I wanted a close-up view of the bottom of the disk, which seemed featureless to my unaided eye. Unfortunately, the telescope would not focus that close. When I looked up from the eyepiece, the disk had resumed its level orientation. In cross section it appeared convex and symmetrical. It made a small circling movemen,t then darted away, silently, at an inclination of about thirty degrees. The day was grey, uniformly overcast, and the disk moved quickly out of viewing range, in a few seconds. A few years ago, I related these events at a party for my younger brother. "Did that really happen!?" he exclaimed. "I've had bad dreams about that all these years!" He was four at the time, and was one of the little kids under the trees.

Witness Background

am now in my mid-fifties, work in high tech

Reported Sighting? 

Reported To: