Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Craft was a thick saucer, and was a dark color. I was not able to see any detail other than a vague outline and the lights. There was two very bright "headlights" on the front, with four lights on the bottom that were about fifty feet apart (arrayed as if on the ends of a cross) There was a blinking red strobe on top.

Size of Object(s)

The craft was large, our house was on a couple of acres, which it almost covered as it flew overhead. It was approx. one hundred feet across and 30 to 50 feet thick.

Description of Area / Surroundings

We lived in a very rural area that was heavily forested and sparsely populated. The closest military base was about sixty miles away, and the nearest commercial airport was about forty miles away.

Full Description & Details

On the night of April 11, 1994, I had a close encounter with an UFO. I was fourteen at the time. It happened at nine o'clock in the evening. My family had been watching televison, and as the show we were watching had just finished, the family was scattered around the house, doing our thing. I had stepped out on our front porch to relieve myself (yes, we lived deep in the woods in a very rural area so this was alright!) when I was astonished to see what appeared to be automobile headlights suspended directly over the trees about about 75 yards in front of me.

My brain was in shock, and I actually thought there was a car in the sky for a couple of seconds. I shook off my momentary paralysis when I realized there was something very weird going on. I opened the house door and started yelling hysterically for my dad (who was standing a few feet away in the kitchen eating a can of Vienna sausages) to come outside. He heard the urgency in my voice and ran outside to the porch. My mother followed a few seconds afterwards.

As my parents stood on the porch gawking at the object, I ran out in the yard to be directly underneath the craft as it flew overhead. My parents freaked out, as by this point they realized that it was an UFO and they thought I would be zapped or something. I was actually at a point in my teenage angst-filled life that I actually wanted to be abducted....which is funny now that I look back on it!

I stood in the yard and looked up into the craft as it flew directly overhead at a height of no more than 150 feet. It was going at a very slow speed, about as fast as a human can run. There was no downdraft or heat felt at all. The craft made very little sound, all I could hear was a very faint hum, like the way an energy field would sound. There were four lights on the bottom that were a creamy yellow-orange color. Each light was about ten feet across and about fifty feet apart.

It was still not clear at this point what the craft looked like, as the moon was just coming up from behind the ridge behind my house, but I got the sense that the craft was circular shaped as it went overhead. As we watched, the craft passed over our house and cruised over the ridge behind, barely skimming over the treetops. The rising moon provided a light to see the outline of the craft, and indeed it was a thick saucer with a blinking red strobe on top...I'd say that it looked to be about 30 to 50 feet thick, and about one hundred feet across.

My father and I went and search for the craft in his pickup, but without sucess. The next day at school, a number of people I knew had witnessed the craft. A girl I knew and her older sister chased the craft in their car, and they said at one point it stopped and shot straight up at incredible speed and was seen no more. I even knew some rednecks who shot at the craft, doing no perceivable damage.....some people are nuts!

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

Absolutely not a natural object. If this craft was man-made, then we've got some amazing technology in development. This craft was only traveling at about 15 to 20 miles per hour (no aircraft can go that slow without stalling) and made almost no noise. There was also no downdraft of any kind. This thing was so quiet, if I hadn't been outside, I would have never known it was there.

Witness Background

I am twenty seven years of age, and am still trying to complete college. I have traveled a lot, and have only recently been in one place for more than a year or two.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have always been very interested in the paranormal and UFO's then as well as now. Both of my parents and myself were very much into aliens and science fiction, so the experience was especially enriching. It was the first and only experience of this type I have ever had, but one that I will never get over. I have been very into the UFO phenomenon ever since.

Other Comments

This experience really changed my perspective on life. Until ths point, I had always been a "believer" but afterwards, I couldn't stop talking and thinking about it. I am submitting this report hoping that someone else saw what I saw, and can be educated by my own sighting.

As a postscript, two weeks after this sighting, my mother and sister (who had been taking a bath as the craft flew overhead) witnessed a classic triangle UFO as they were coming back from a late school basketball game. It allegedly saw them and settled into a nearby river in order to avoid further detection...but that's another story.

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