Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Glowing white...round shape as viewed form ground directly below......elongated at sides when viewed from end at distance.........no other lights other than objects glow. If you took a fifties car full wheelcover and placed it with the flat end toward the ground.and the "domed " end toward the sky....and viewed it from a distance.........that would be the shape as the object as it appeared to speed off west. The "dome "was not that pronounced though. It tipped from side to side slightly when it was speeding west.

Size of Object(s)

1 1/2 ft at initial sighting........ diameter probaby 200 ft round as sighted from ground directly below

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

500 ft overhead sighted to 3/4 mile in distance at 400-500' altitude

Description of Area / Surroundings

Suburb of Cleveland Ohio......population 30,000........residential path of object took it over a small commercial shopping center........a valley........ towards just south of Cleveland Hopkins Airport.

Full Description & Details

I was 13 Years old hanging Christmas lights at approximately 7pm that evening with my father . As I handed him a string of lights to hang on the gutter of the house, A bright fast moving light caught the corner of my eye coming from due East to due West...I was able to focus my vision on it at about 90 degrees overhead and watched it silently dart westward at low altitlude at a very high rate of speed. It "trimmed "its flight side to side as it sped westward, as was gone from site within 2 seconds of the initial sighting. The cloud cover was very low that night. The object was probably within 500 feet of the ground.I asked my father if he had seen it, to which he had replied no.

I have never officially reported this sighting to any agency to this day.

During my lifetime, I have worked in public service to many degrees, graduating with a degree in Law Enforcement in 1974, serving as an Auxiliay Police Officer with 2 agencies for a period of time in the 80s, and also graduating the State Fire Academy and serving as a part time Firefighter and EMT for a good part of the 90s.

I know what I saw was real. I know it wasn't anything that could possibly be man made. And at this time of my life I don't care if those that doubt my observations cast a doubt on it. It's their loss..

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

No Way- I am a building engineer by trade, an avation enthusiest, and quite frankly, I do not believe the US or any other world government could possess this technology 39 years later.

Witness Background

2 year Degree in Law Enforcement with experience in same.Trained as a first responder and firefighter . Married 28 years with 2 grown children.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

No belief in UFOs as a child till this sighting at age 13. I have always believed since then.

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