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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: Failed to parse string: 'GREENLAND' as a scalar of type double
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2011, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 585, in write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2302, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2261, in cast_table_to_schema
arrays = [cast_array_to_feature(table[name], feature) for name, feature in features.items()]
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2261, in <listcomp>
arrays = [cast_array_to_feature(table[name], feature) for name, feature in features.items()]
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1802, in wrapper
return pa.chunked_array([func(chunk, *args, **kwargs) for chunk in array.chunks])
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1802, in <listcomp>
return pa.chunked_array([func(chunk, *args, **kwargs) for chunk in array.chunks])
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2116, in cast_array_to_feature
return array_cast(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1804, in wrapper
return func(array, *args, **kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1963, in array_cast
return array.cast(pa_type)
File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 996, in pyarrow.lib.Array.cast
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyarrow/compute.py", line 404, in cast
return call_function("cast", [arr], options, memory_pool)
File "pyarrow/_compute.pyx", line 590, in pyarrow._compute.call_function
File "pyarrow/_compute.pyx", line 385, in pyarrow._compute.Function.call
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Failed to parse string: 'GREENLAND' as a scalar of type double
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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null | DK | 2002-05-18 15:00:00.0 | 18 May 2002 Afternoon | One white object was observed by two witnesses for 24 minutes. | KOBENHAVN K | null | 5,184,739 | null | 5,196,204 | null | null | UFODNA | 001088 | '24':10 'minut':11 'object':3 'observ':5 'one':1 'two':7 'white':2 'wit':8 | null | 11 |
null | DK | 2002-05-17 00:15:00.0 | 17 May 2002 00:15 | Nocturnal lights were observed by one witness for 3.5 minutes. | HVIDOVRE | 2,619,528 | 5,184,732 | 55.65719 | 5,196,197 | 12.47364 | null | UFODNA | 001087 | '3.5':9 'light':2 'minut':10 'nocturn':1 'observ':4 'one':6 'wit':7 | null | 10 |
null | DK | 2002-04-24 22:58:00.0 | 24 April 2002 22:58 | One white rectangular object was observed by two witnesses for 24 seconds. | BRABRAND | null | 5,184,727 | null | 5,196,192 | null | null | UFODNA | 001084 | '24':11 'object':4 'observ':6 'one':1 'rectangular':3 'second':12 'two':8 'white':2 'wit':9 | null | 12 |
null | DK | 2002-04-09 21:30:00.0 | 9 April 2002 21:30 | One yellow object was observed by one witness for 12 seconds. | JUELSMINDE | 2,619,251 | 5,184,722 | 55.70876 | 5,196,187 | 10.01668 | null | UFODNA | 001078 | '12':10 'object':3 'observ':5 'one':1,7 'second':11 'wit':8 'yellow':2 | null | 11 |
null | DK | 2002-04-08 21:00:00.0 | 8 April 2002 21:00 | One white object was observed by one witness for five minutes. | IKAST | null | 5,184,718 | null | 5,196,183 | null | null | UFODNA | 001077 | 'five':10 'minut':11 'object':3 'observ':5 'one':1,7 'white':2 'wit':8 | null | 11 |
null | FR | 2001-12-15 17:54:00.0 | 15 December 2001 17:54 | UFO covered distance of 3km (from Mount Chauve de Tourette to Mont Gros) in 10 seconds, for a speed of 1080km/hr. | NICE | 6,454,924 | 5,183,740 | 43.70194 | 5,195,200 | 7.26833 | null | UFODNA | 000276 | '10':15 '1080km/hr':21 '3km':5 'chauv':8 'cover':2 'de':9 'distanc':3 'gros':13 'mont':12 'mount':7 'second':16 'speed':19 'tourett':10 'ufo':1 | null | 21 |
null | FR | 2001-11-21 13:20:00.0 | 21 November 2001 13:20 | A daytime disc was reported (Demoly, M). | LE GRAND VILLAGE-PLAGE | null | 5,183,737 | null | 5,195,197 | null | null | UFODNA | 000272 | 'daytim':2 'demoli':6 'disc':3 'm':7 'report':5 | null | 7 |
null | FR | 2001-11-02 22:30:00.0 | 2 November 2001 22:30 | Nocturnal lights were observed by one male 80-year-old witness (as reported to the police) in a residential area (Rondeau). | RIALLE | null | 5,183,734 | null | 5,195,194 | null | null | UFODNA | 000262 | '80':8 'area':21 'light':2 'male':7 'nocturn':1 'observ':4 'old':11 'one':6 'polic':17 'report':14 'residenti':20 'rondeau':22 'wit':12 'year':10 'year-old':9 | null | 19 |
null | NO | 2001-06-18 21:00:00.0 | 18 June 2001 21:00 | Photographed. | YTRE VAGSBYGD | 3,149,318 | 5,183,743 | 58.14671 | 5,195,203 | 7.9956 | null | UFODNA | 000284 | 'photograph':1 | null | 1 |
null | US | 2001-01-19 00:00:00.0 | null | One Knoxville farmer and several motorists reported that the UFO "was round, big
as a house, had no flying lights, but let off a greenish-blue light." Vibrations from
the craft could be felt in the farmer's truck as it followed him along the Victoria
blacktop about 7:00 PM. ( Skylook 41, p. 13) | ILLINOIS | 4,893,392 | 5,179,829 | 40.94782 | 5,191,240 | -90.37124 | null | NICAP | 1sg6gna | '00':51 '13':56 '41':54 '7':50 'along':45 'big':13 'blacktop':48 'blue':27 'could':33 'craft':32 'farmer':3,38 'felt':35 'fli':19 'follow':43 'greenish':26 'greenish-blu':25 'hous':16 'knoxvill':2 'let':22 'light':20,28 'motorist':6 'one':1 'p':55 'pm':52 'report':7 'round':12 'sever':5 'skylook':53 'truck':40 'ufo':10 'vibrat':29 'victoria':47 | null | 53 |
null | US | 2000-12-29 00:00:00.0 | 12/29/2000 | Three lights in triangular formation. One craft or three I could not tell.
My wife and I were returning to work after a lunch break. I stepped outside and looked up to see the moon. Instead what I saw were three dome shaped lights that were moving north at a constant rate of travel. All three lights were the same color something between a subdued peach & burnt ocher. They did not blink or flash. The lights were either three individual craft moving in perfect triangular formation, or they were attached to one indistinguishable craft. All moved exactly in unison! The craft covered about 40 degrees of sky in less than ten seconds and maintained a constant velocity. No noise accompanied this sighting. I shouted over and over at my wife to "Look at this! Look at this!" She was closing the door behind me and turned and observed the craft for about seven seconds. After continuing across the sky in a straight line the UFO disappeared seemingly winking to nothing as it went into the night. My wife was extrememly shaken. I too felt this, but I also felt excitement. Disbelief. Never have I seen anything even close. I am an Army veteran and am trained in aircraft identification. This was absolutely not a conventional powered aircraft. Nor is it anything I have ever been instructed to watch for. Very chillingly this craft is a near identicle copy of a recreation I observed very recently on TV of a UFO reported all over Britain in one night and investigated by that fromer MOD official whose name I cannot recall. I believe the show was "Sightings". The event is less that 2 hours old and I am back at work, but my mind is not focused and I feel as though I am running on Auto. What do I do now?
((NUFORC Note: We assume the witness implies a sighting in Austin, TX, since that is his home. The event he alludes to occurred at Bentwaters AFB in England on the night of December 29, 1980, just 1 or 2 days after a dramatic sighting near Houston, TX, referred to as the Cash/Landrum Case. In the latter case, three people were badly burned by a diamond-shaped, extremely bright object, which was being pursued by a number of USAF "Chinook" helicopters. PD))
Shape: Formation
Duration: There were lights on the object | TEXAS | 4,671,654 | 5,199,829 | 30.26715 | 5,191,664 | -97.74306 | null | NUFORC | S11055 | '1':347 '1980':345 '2':281,349 '29':344 '40':104 'absolut':212 'accompani':120 'across':157 'afb':336 'aircraft':208,217 'allud':331 'also':188 'anyth':196,221 'armi':202 'assum':314 'attach':90 'austin':321 'auto':305 'back':287 'bad':371 'behind':143 'believ':271 'bentwat':335 'blink':72 'break':25 'bright':379 'britain':254 'burn':372 'burnt':67 'cannot':268 'case':363,367 'cash/landrum':362 'chill':231 'chinook':390 'close':140,198 'color':61 'constant':51,116 'continu':156 'convent':215 'copi':238 'could':11 'cover':102 'craft':7,81,94,101,150,233 'day':350 'decemb':343 'degre':105 'diamond':376 'diamond-shap':375 'disappear':166 'disbelief':191 'dome':42 'door':142 'dramat':353 'durat':395 'either':78 'england':338 'even':197 'event':277,329 'ever':224 'exact':97 'excit':190 'extrem':378 'extremem':180 'feel':298 'felt':184,189 'flash':74 'focus':295 'format':5,86,394 'fromer':262 'helicopt':391 'home':327 'hour':282 'houston':356 'identicl':237 'identif':209 'impli':317 'indistinguish':93 'individu':80 'instead':36 'instruct':226 'investig':259 'latter':366 'less':109,279 'light':2,44,57,76,398 'line':163 'look':30,132,135 'lunch':24 'maintain':114 'mind':292 'mod':263 'moon':35 'move':47,82,96 'name':266 'near':236,355 'never':192 'night':176,257,341 'nois':119 'north':48 'note':312 'noth':170 'nuforc':311 'number':387 'object':380,401 'observ':148,243 'occur':333 'ocher':68 'offici':264 'old':283 'one':6,92,256 'outsid':28 'pd':392 'peach':66 'peopl':369 'perfect':84 'power':216 'pursu':384 'rate':52 'recal':269 'recent':245 'recreat':241 'refer':358 'report':251 'return':19 'run':303 'saw':39 'second':112,154 'see':33 'seem':167 'seen':195 'seven':153 'shaken':181 'shape':43,377,393 'shout':124 'show':273 'sight':122,275,319,354 'sinc':323 'sky':107,159 'someth':62 'step':27 'straight':162 'subdu':65 'tell':13 'ten':111 'though':300 'three':1,9,41,56,79,368 'train':206 'travel':54 'triangular':4,85 'turn':146 'tv':247 'tx':322,357 'ufo':165,250 'unison':99 'usaf':389 'veloc':117 'veteran':203 'watch':228 'went':173 'whose':265 'wife':15,130,178 'wink':168 'wit':316 'work':21,289 | null | 400 |
null | US | 2000-09-19 03:00:00.0 | 19 September 2000 03:00 | An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One gold ball was observed. | KANSAS | 5,445,298 | 5,183,651 | 37.7528 | 5,195,110 | -100.01708 | null | UFODNA | 000179 | 'appear':8 'ball':21 'behavior':10 'convent':17 'explan':18 'gold':20 'like':13 'object':3 'observ':23 'one':19 'sight':5 'unidentifi':2 'would':14 | null | 23 |
null | US | 2000-09-17 20:55:00.0 | 17 September 2000 20:55 | Wing-shaped, flew at low altitude, very fast, very large, completely silent, black in color, no running lights. | LOUISIANA | 4,336,153 | 5,183,644 | 30.53353 | 5,195,103 | -92.08151 | null | UFODNA | 000165 | 'altitud':7 'black':14 'color':16 'complet':12 'fast':9 'flew':4 'larg':11 'light':19 'low':6 'run':18 'shape':3 'silent':13 'wing':2 'wing-shap':1 | null | 17 |
null | US | 2000-09-17 20:20:00.0 | 17 September 2000 20:20 | A V-shaped object was observed. One V-shaped object was observed. | WASHINGTON | 5,799,610 | 5,183,648 | 46.21125 | 5,195,107 | -119.13723 | null | UFODNA | 000166 | 'object':5,12 'observ':7,14 'one':8 'shape':4,11 'v':3,10 'v-shape':2,9 | null | 10 |
null | US | 2000-09-15 19:00:00.0 | 15 September 2000 19:00 | A triangular object was observed. One triangle was observed. | ILLINOIS | 4,893,896 | 5,183,641 | 41.54253 | 5,195,100 | -87.60227 | null | UFODNA | 000146 | 'object':3 'observ':5,9 'one':6 'triangl':7 'triangular':2 | null | 9 |
null | US | 2000-09-09 22:15:00.0 | 9 September 2000 22:15 | Two stationary orange fiery balls. | MICHIGAN | 993,800 | 5,183,604 | -26.20227 | 5,195,063 | 28.04363 | null | UFODNA | 000082 | 'ball':5 'fieri':4 'orang':3 'stationari':2 'two':1 | null | 5 |
null | US | 2000-09-09 03:00:00.0 | 9 September 2000 03:00 | A fireball was observed before it exploded. One fireball was observed. Explanation: Meteor. | PENNSYLVANIA | 5,200,657 | 5,183,601 | 40.21426 | 5,191,763 | -77.00859 | null | UFODNA | 000081 | 'explan':12 'explod':7 'firebal':2,9 'meteor':13 'observ':4,11 'one':8 | null | 13 |
null | US | 2000-09-09 02:30:00.0 | 9 September 2000 02:30 | Bright blue-green flash lit up early morning sky like daylight. Explanation: Meteor. | PENNSYLVANIA | 5,207,728 | 5,183,607 | 40.33565 | 5,192,158 | -75.92687 | null | UFODNA | 000083 | 'blue':3 'blue-green':2 'bright':1 'daylight':12 'earli':8 'explan':13 'flash':5 'green':4 'like':11 'lit':6 'meteor':14 'morn':9 'sky':10 | null | 12 |
null | US | 2000-09-05 21:37:00.0 | 5 September 2000 21:37 | An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One light was observed at an airport. | MARYLAND | null | 5,183,596 | null | 5,195,055 | null | null | UFODNA | 000063 | 'airport':25 'appear':8 'behavior':10 'convent':17 'explan':18 'light':20 'like':13 'object':3 'observ':22 'one':19 'sight':5 'unidentifi':2 'would':14 | null | 25 |
null | US | 2000-09-02 21:30:00.0 | 2 September 2000 21:30 | Several lights were observed. | UTAH | 5,779,334 | 5,183,593 | 40.2969 | 5,194,758 | -111.69465 | null | UFODNA | 000051 | 'light':2 'observ':4 'sever':1 | null | 4 |
null | AU | 2000-08-22 01:30:00.0 | 22 August 2000 01:30 | Black cloud like 3-sided pyramid, in southeast sky. Red frigate shaped object stuck out of bottom left corner. Made weird harmonic sound like wind harp. At beach star made pinging noise, grid pattern cloud. | QUEENSLAND | 8,310,696 | 5,183,797 | -28.3641 | 5,195,257 | 153.5748 | null | UFODNA | 000346 | '3':4 'beach':28 'black':1 'bottom':17 'cloud':2,35 'corner':19 'frigat':11 'grid':33 'harmon':22 'harp':26 'left':18 'like':3,24 'made':20,30 'nois':32 'object':13 'pattern':34 'ping':31 'pyramid':6 'red':10 'shape':12 'side':5 'sky':9 'sound':23 'southeast':8 'star':29 'stuck':14 'weird':21 'wind':25 | null | 34 |
null | AU | 2000-07-07 23:45:00.0 | 7 July 2000 23:45 | Air Safety Officer incident.
An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. | QUEENSLAND | 2,155,085 | 5,183,792 | -17.67183 | 5,195,252 | 141.07721 | null | UFODNA | 000336 | 'air':1 'appear':12 'behavior':14 'convent':21 'explan':22 'incid':4 'like':17 'object':7 'offic':3 'safeti':2 'sight':9 'unidentifi':6 'would':18 | null | 22 |
null | AU | 2000-07-02 19:35:00.0 | 2 July 2000 19:35 | Yellow light over bay, passed overhead, no sound, went N to the northeast . | QUEENSLAND | 2,142,750 | 5,183,789 | -27.44527 | 5,195,249 | 153.15813 | null | UFODNA | 000334 | 'bay':4 'light':2 'n':10 'northeast':13 'overhead':6 'pass':5 'sound':8 'went':9 'yellow':1 | null | 14 |
null | AU | 2000-05-15 12:00:00.0 | 15 May 2000 | An unidentified but otherwise conventional object was sighted. One light was observed for 30 minutes. | QUEENSLAND | null | 5,183,786 | null | 5,195,246 | null | null | UFODNA | 000323 | '30':14 'convent':5 'light':10 'minut':15 'object':6 'observ':12 'one':9 'otherwis':4 'sight':8 'unidentifi':2 | null | 15 |
null | AU | 2000-05-02 12:00:00.0 | 2 May 2000 | An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One light was observed for five minutes. | QUEENSLAND | 4,867,612 | 5,183,782 | 43.35641 | 5,195,242 | -92.78903 | null | UFODNA | 000320 | 'appear':8 'behavior':10 'convent':17 'explan':18 'five':24 'light':20 'like':13 'minut':25 'object':3 'observ':22 'one':19 'sight':5 'unidentifi':2 'would':14 | null | 25 |
null | AU | 2000-04-01 12:00:00.0 | 1 April 2000 Around 2000 | Two black spheres flew at 3m above ground, only 5m away from witness. Flew diagonally upward over railroad tracks. No sound. Had smooth surface illuminated by streetlights. | QUEENSLAND | null | 5,183,656 | null | 5,195,115 | null | null | UFODNA | 000190 | '3m':6 '5m':10 'away':11 'black':2 'diagon':15 'flew':4,14 'ground':8 'illumin':25 'railroad':18 'smooth':23 'sound':21 'sphere':3 'streetlight':27 'surfac':24 'track':19 'two':1 'upward':16 'wit':13 | null | 27 |
null | AU | 2000-02-22 12:00:00.0 | 22 February 2000 | Silver elongate object over power station, had portholes. | QUEENSLAND | null | 5,183,775 | null | 5,195,235 | null | null | UFODNA | 000319 | 'elong':2 'object':3 'porthol':8 'power':5 'silver':1 'station':6 | null | 8 |
null | MX | 2000-02-14 03:13:00.0 | 14 February 2000 03:13 | An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed in a city. | TLANEPANTLA | 3,515,393 | 5,183,759 | 19.21748 | 5,195,219 | -97.13404 | null | UFODNA | 000300 | 'appear':8 'behavior':10 'citi':25 'convent':17 'explan':18 'like':13 'object':3,20 'observ':22 'one':19 'sight':5 'unidentifi':2 'would':14 | null | 25 |
null | US | 2000-02-01 10:00:00.0 | 1 February 2000 10:00 | Two boomerang shaped objects were seen moving rapidly to the and high over city on night of lunar eclipse. | TEXAS | 4,699,066 | 5,190,007 | 29.76328 | 5,188,416 | -95.36327 | null | UFODNA | 005529 | 'boomerang':2 'citi':14 'eclips':19 'high':12 'lunar':18 'move':7 'night':16 'object':4 'rapid':8 'seen':6 'shape':3 'two':1 | null | 19 |
null | CA | 2000-01-13 14:00:00.0 | 13 January 2000 14:00 | Observed twirling object pace his car in the distance. | BRITISH COLUMBIA | null | 5,185,345 | null | 5,196,813 | null | null | UFODNA | 002157 | 'car':6 'distanc':9 'object':3 'observ':1 'pace':4 'twirl':2 | null | 9 |
null | CA | 2000-01-07 19:30:00.0 | 7 January 2000 19:30 | Large red ball | BRITISH COLUMBIA | 5,741,069 | 5,185,338 | 45.67041 | 5,196,806 | -118.68359 | null | UFODNA | 002156 | 'ball':3 'larg':1 'red':2 | null | 3 |
null | CA | 2000-01-02 12:00:00.0 | 2 January 2000 | Observed craft with rotating perimeter lights and a spiralling cone-shaped light. No sound noticed. | BRITISH COLUMBIA | null | 5,185,335 | null | 5,196,803 | null | null | UFODNA | 002152 | 'cone':11 'cone-shap':10 'craft':2 'light':6,13 'notic':16 'observ':1 'perimet':5 'rotat':4 'shape':12 'sound':15 'spiral':9 | null | 14 |
null | US | 2000-01-01 12:00:00.0 | In 1965 Around 2000 | Under hypnosis recalled pulling over to roadside while UFO landed. She got out, oblivious to what she was doing. Lost consciousness, awoke being helped up by being. Touch left feeling of love. | MICHIGAN | 4,984,247 | 5,190,256 | 42.27756 | 5,189,253 | -83.74088 | null | UFODNA | 005646 | 'awok':22 'conscious':21 'feel':30 'got':12 'help':24 'hypnosi':2 'land':10 'left':29 'lost':20 'love':32 'oblivi':14 'pull':4 'recal':3 'roadsid':7 'touch':28 'ufo':9 | null | 32 |
null | null | 2000-01-01 12:00:00.0 | In 1956 Around 2000 | One object was observed by 30 military witnesses on the ocean. | null | null | 5,199,640 | null | 5,188,046 | null | null | UFODNA | 027121 | '30':6 'militari':7 'object':2 'observ':4 'ocean':11 'one':1 'wit':8 | null | 11 |
null | US | 1999-11-28 00:20:00.0 | 11/28/1999 00:20 (Entered as : 11/28/99 0:20) | At just past midnight, I observed what appeared to be a small steady white light (no blinking, no green or red); it could have also been a reflection of ambient ground lights against the body of the craft. I've satellites at twilight in space, this was not a satellite. This was within the atmosphere (2500 FT up) NO sound. It moved from NW to SE at very high rate of speed. Faster than any craft I've ever observed.
The craft appeared as a single steady white light against a clear sky. Other craft have flown at the same approximate height and higher, including jets and travel at much slower speeds, additionally they all have some blinking or colorized light which is observable. This caught my attention because of the steady FAINT white light (or reflection) AND the speed AND the silence. Things were pretty quite just after midnight! Yet this craft made NO sound and crossed my field of view within 3-4 seconds. I could NOT decipher any shape whatsoever. The light was oblong and at arms length from my distance of view and about the size of an aspirin, although it was not in space, nor near space, it was definitely between 2000-3000 feet in altitude. The local airports are directly west of my location. It came from the NW and was headed southeast, which is the Atlantic Ocean. The flight path of the craft I observed was unique. I have lived at this location for twelve years and do not recall ever seeing a craft flying along the trajectory I observed this craft flying. Unfortunately, it all happened so fast, I was unable to photograph or film the sighting. I would like to know if anyone else by chance saw this? Or, if you have an explanation, please contact me.
Shape: Other
Duration: 4-5 Seconds | FLORIDA | 4,166,232 | 5,199,993 | 25.89009 | 5,211,552 | -80.18671 | null | NUFORC | S11166 | '-3000':208 '-4':165 '-5':311 '2000':207 '2500':56 '3':164 '4':310 'addit':113 'airport':214 'along':263 'also':25 'although':194 'altitud':211 'ambient':30 'anyon':292 'appear':8,83 'approxim':101 'arm':180 'aspirin':193 'atlant':233 'atmospher':55 'attent':128 'blink':17,118 'bodi':35 'came':222 'caught':126 'chanc':295 'clear':92 'color':120 'contact':305 'could':23,168 'craft':38,76,82,95,153,240,261,269 'cross':158 'deciph':170 'definit':205 'direct':216 'distanc':184 'durat':309 'els':293 'ever':79,258 'explan':303 'faint':133 'fast':276 'faster':73 'feet':209 'field':160 'film':283 'fli':262,270 'flight':236 'flown':97 'ft':57 'green':19 'ground':31 'happen':274 'head':228 'height':102 'high':69 'higher':104 'includ':105 'jet':106 'know':290 'length':181 'light':15,32,89,121,135,175 'like':288 'live':247 'local':213 'locat':220,250 'made':154 'midnight':4,150 'move':62 'much':110 'near':201 'nw':64,225 'oblong':177 'observ':6,80,124,242,267 'ocean':234 'past':3 'path':237 'photograph':281 'pleas':304 'pretti':146 'quit':147 'rate':70 'recal':257 'red':21 'reflect':28,137 'satellit':41,50 'saw':296 'se':66 'second':166,312 'see':259 'shape':172,307 'sight':285 'silenc':143 'singl':86 'size':190 'sky':93 'slower':111 'small':12 'sound':60,156 'southeast':229 'space':45,199,202 'speed':72,112,140 'steadi':13,87,132 'thing':144 'trajectori':265 'travel':108 'twelv':252 'twilight':43 'unabl':279 'unfortun':271 'uniqu':244 've':40,78 'view':162,186 'west':217 'whatsoev':173 'white':14,88,134 'within':53,163 'would':287 'year':253 'yet':151 | null | 307 |
null | US | 1999-11-27 21:30:00.0 | 11/27/1999 21:30 (Entered as : 11/27/99 2130) | While on patrol for ((name deleted)), I was driving up one of the back roads. I saw what appeared to be a shooting star or a meteorite. I realized that it was flying much too low to be a shooting star or meteorite. It was a bright blue, almost white light. It shot across the sky, then suddenly dissappeared. This was near Westchester County Airport, so I called them to see if any testing was going on, and they said no. I then asked if anyone called about anything strange in the sky, and they said a few people called about it. This was just too strange for me not to write to someone.
Shape: Circle
Duration: 10 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object | NEW YORK | 5,133,135 | 5,199,989 | 41.04093 | 5,211,548 | -73.71457 | null | NUFORC | S11164 | '10':118 'across':54 'airport':65 'almost':49 'anyon':86 'anyth':89 'appear':19 'around':138 'ask':84 'aura':135 'back':14 'blue':48 'bright':47 'call':68,87,100 'characterist':120 'circl':116 'counti':64 'delet':6 'dissappear':59 'drive':9 'durat':117 'fli':33 'go':76 'haze':137 'left':129 'light':51,123 'low':36 'meteorit':27,43 'much':34 'name':5 'near':62 'object':126,128,140 'one':11 'patrol':3 'peopl':99 'realiz':29 'road':15 'said':80,96 'saw':17 'second':119 'see':71 'shape':115 'shoot':23,40 'shot':53 'sky':56,93 'someon':114 'star':24,41 'strang':90,107 'sudden':58 'test':74 'trail':131 'westchest':63 'white':50 'write':112 | null | 140 |
null | US | 1999-11-27 19:15:00.0 | 11/27/1999 19:15 (Entered as : 11/27/99 19:15) | I was alerted by my son by a phone call that he spotted a UFO in the Northeast sky that was red, green and white lights which separated and made a triangle and then formed a straight line and then it dissappeared into one light showing and then again formed a triangle shape with the three lights. It remained in the same area but changed positions clearly. It stayed in the sky for at least the 15 minutes we stood outside and looked at it. we checked it again and it was still there as we looked through some binoculars about 30 more minutes. After about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Same as above. Regular guy, retired and my family was over for leftover Thanksgiving meal when my son called with the first sighting. I did check the sky tonight, 11/28/99 at same time, 19:15, and there were no unusual lights or objects in the sky.
Shape: Light
Duration: 1 hour 20 min
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object changed color, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | TEXAS | 4,682,478 | 5,199,995 | 32.88096 | 5,211,554 | -97.15501 | null | NUFORC | S11167 | '1':107,161 '11/28/99':141 '15':77,110,146 '19':145 '20':163 '30':102 'aircraft':178,183 'alert':3 'area':63 'binocular':100 'call':10,130 'chang':65,174 'characterist':165 'chase':184 'check':87,137 'clear':67 'color':175 'dissappear':42 'durat':160 'famili':120 'first':133 'form':35,50 'green':23 'guy':116 'hour':108,162 'least':75 'leftov':124 'light':26,45,57,152,159,168 'line':38 'look':83,97 'made':30 'meal':126 'min':164 'minut':78,104,111 'northeast':18 'object':154,171,173,186 'one':44 'outsid':81 'phone':9 'posit':66 'red':22 'regular':115 'remain':59 'retir':117 'separ':28 'shape':53,158 'show':46 'sight':134 'sky':19,72,139,157 'son':6,129 'spot':13 'stay':69 'still':93 'stood':80 'straight':37 'thanksgiv':125 'three':56 'time':144 'tonight':140 'triangl':32,52 'ufo':15 'unusu':151 'vicin':181 'white':25 | null | 185 |
null | US | 1999-11-24 21:00:00.0 | 11/24/1999 21:00 (Entered as : 11/24/99 t9:00:pm) | circle throwing out light.
11/24/99 9:00/pmwe were driving down 316 going toward atlanta to our left we seen a u.f.o. it look like it was about 5 miles away, it looked about the size of a large car moving n.w. in the center of the object was a very bright light shaped like a circle but you could only see this when the craft flash say ever 15 seconds it would send out a blinding flash like a large lighting strike times that by ten when it did this it would light up the entire horzion the light in the middle was then plain to see. it was very bright i looked like a small sun we went up the road about 3 or 4 miles when we came back it was gone i have never seen any rhing like it, it was very strange.
Shape: Circle
Duration: 3 min
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object emitted beams | GEORGIA | 4,180,439 | 5,199,974 | 33.749 | 5,211,532 | -84.38798 | null | NUFORC | S11155 | '00/pmwe':7 '11/24/99':5 '15':69 '3':124,150 '316':11 '4':126 '5':28 '9':6 'around':165 'atlanta':14 'aura':162 'away':30 'back':131 'beam':171 'blind':76 'bright':51,111 'came':130 'car':39 'center':44 'characterist':152 'circl':1,56,148 'could':59 'craft':65 'drive':9 'durat':149 'emit':170 'entir':96 'ever':68 'flash':66,77 'go':12 'gone':134 'haze':164 'horzion':97 'larg':38,80 'left':17 'light':4,52,81,93,99,155 'like':24,54,78,114,141 'look':23,32,113 'middl':102 'mile':29,127 'min':151 'move':40 'n.w':41 'never':137 'object':47,158,167,169 'plain':105 'rhing':140 'road':122 'say':67 'second':70 'see':61,107 'seen':19,138 'send':73 'shape':53,147 'size':35 'small':116 'strang':146 'strike':82 'sun':117 'ten':86 'throw':2 'time':83 'toward':13 'u.f.o':21 'went':119 'would':72,92 | null | 170 |
null | US | 1999-11-24 20:35:00.0 | 11/24/1999 20:35 (Entered as : 11/24/99 20:35) | Noted two airliner sized objects travelling West to Easterly across the sky within my field of view.
At approx 20:35 I noticed two objects passing overhead without noise going West to East, they were sighted just as the moon was low on the visible horizon. Semi-foggy sky. I noticed due to alternating white wingtip strobes,no other illumination seen, either by naked eye,or with my 8 magnification scope I carry.(Art Bell listener,so I carry one).They were approx. 5000 (5Kft.altitude)feet.Over the Police copters in the general area,but under nearby light aircraft in area. This is the general flight path of Sacto.Intl.Airport and NOT,A COMMERCIAL FLIGHT. They were completely noisless,and ONLY using two white lights on wingtips,each craft.Also note: SECOND NIGHT IN A ROW SIGHTED.PREVIOUS NIGHT ONLY ONE NOTED.
Shape: Chevron
Duration: 45 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,389,489 | 5,199,981 | 38.58157 | 5,189,893 | -121.4944 | null | NUFORC | S11159 | '20':20 '35':21 '45':143 '5000':85 '5kft.altitude':86 '8':70 'across':10 'aircraft':99,154,159 'airlin':3 'altern':55 'approx':19,84 'area':94,101 'art':75 'bell':76 'carri':74,80 'characterist':145 'chase':160 'chevron':141 'commerci':113 'complet':117 'copter':90 'craft.also':128 'due':53 'durat':142 'east':33 'easter':9 'either':63 'eye':66 'feet.over':87 'field':15 'flight':106,114 'foggi':49 'general':93,105 'go':30 'horizon':46 'illumin':61 'light':98,124,148 'listen':77 'low':42 'magnif':71 'moon':40 'nake':65 'nearbi':97 'night':131,136 'nois':29 'noisless':118 'note':1,129,139 'notic':23,52 'object':5,25,151,162 'one':81,138 'overhead':27 'pass':26 'path':107 'polic':89 'row':134 'sacto.intl.airport':109 'scope':72 'second':130,144 'seen':62 'semi':48 'semi-foggi':47 'shape':140 'sight':36 'sighted.previous':135 'size':4 'sky':12,50 'strobe':58 'travel':6 'two':2,24,122 'use':121 'vicin':157 'view':17 'visibl':45 'west':7,31 'white':56,123 'wingtip':57,126 'within':13 'without':28 | null | 149 |
null | US | 1999-11-24 20:05:00.0 | 11/24/1999 20:05 (Entered as : no/24/99 20:05) | fireball nnw of city as bright as a streetlight falling at a
wife a middle school teacher and I were taking our nightly walk on the field at highlands middle school kennewick washington. When she pointed out to me a object of bright light falling though the cloud cover nnw of where we stood. I focus my eyes on it and saw it chang colors from a blue/green though green to yellow before it went out. It was as bright as a street light seen in light fog from a range of forty feet. It fell at about angle of 70degs from 30degs off the horizon to about 10degs off the horizon.
Shape: Circle
Duration: 5seconds
Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object | WASHINGTON | 7,289,169 | 5,199,973 | 46.2454 | 5,197,398 | -119.19617 | null | NUFORC | S11154 | '10degs':109 '30degs':103 '5seconds':116 '70degs':101 'angl':99 'around':124 'aura':121 'blue/green':68 'bright':6,43,80 'chang':64 'characterist':117 'circl':114 'citi':4 'cloud':48 'color':65 'cover':49 'durat':115 'eye':58 'fall':10,45 'feet':94 'fell':96 'field':27 'firebal':1 'focus':56 'fog':88 'forti':93 'green':70 'haze':123 'highland':29 'horizon':106,112 'kennewick':32 'light':44,84,87 'middl':15,30 'night':23 'nnw':2,50 'object':41,126 'point':36 'rang':91 'saw':62 'school':16,31 'seen':85 'shape':113 'stood':54 'street':83 'streetlight':9 'take':21 'teacher':17 'though':46,69 'walk':24 'washington':33 'went':75 'wife':13 'yellow':72 | null | 126 |
null | US | 1999-11-23 23:55:00.0 | 11/23/1999 23:55 (Entered as : 11/23/99 23:55 pm) | I was out with my dogs and notice at first two objects in the south eastern sky, then three and then four lights.
I was out with the dogs and noticed two lights like stars in a line then all of a sudden there was three lights then four and back to two. I tried to get them on my video camera but I just got it and I don't know how to record properly. I took pictures and hope that they came out. The lights were just there and then gone and came back. I watched this for fifteen mimutes and then they were just gone. They were white lights and then the ones in the center came from white to reddish. They didn't move but stayed in one spot the whole time. There was no noise and no airplanes in the sky at all. When they disappeared it was like someone just turned them off and then the sky was dark again.
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 15 minutes
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object changed color | ARIZONA | 5,287,565 | 5,199,963 | 35.14778 | 5,210,721 | -114.5683 | null | NUFORC | S11148 | '15':170 'airplan':143 'back':51,96 'came':84,95,120 'camera':62 'center':119 'chang':181 'characterist':172 'color':182 'dark':165 'didn':126 'disappear':151 'dog':6,29 'durat':169 'eastern':16 'fifteen':101 'first':10 'four':22,49 'get':57 'gone':93,108 'got':66 'hope':81 'know':72 'light':23,33,47,87,112,175 'like':34,154 'line':38 'mimut':102 'minut':171 'move':128 'nois':140 'notic':8,31 'object':12,178,180 'one':116,132 'pictur':79 'proper':76 'record':75 'reddish':124 'shape':167 'sky':17,146,163 'someon':155 'south':15 'sphere':168 'spot':133 'star':35 'stay':130 'sudden':43 'three':19,46 'time':136 'took':78 'tri':55 'turn':157 'two':11,32,53 'video':61 'watch':98 'white':111,122 'whole':135 | null | 180 |
null | US | 1999-11-23 18:10:00.0 | 11/23/1999 18:10 (Entered as : 11/23/99 18:10) | Three bright lights in the front and sides and a red light at the bottom on the object.
Object low in sky. At first thought it was an airplane flying extremely low or about to crash and as I got closer it was stationary and made no sound. There were three large lights that were very bright and larger than any light I had ever seen in the sky on an object and on the underneath side of the object was a red light that did not blink and the object looked oval in nature. It was about 200-300 feet above the tree lines over a field. I turned the corner to get a closer look and it was gone. Nowhere to be seen.
Shape: Oval
Duration: 5-6 minutes
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | MISSOURI | 4,376,482 | 5,199,951 | 38.81195 | 5,193,034 | -94.5319 | null | NUFORC | S11141 | '-300':100 '-6':130 '200':99 '5':129 'airplan':29 'blink':88 'bottom':15 'bright':2,57 'characterist':132 'closer':41,116 'corner':112 'crash':36 'durat':128 'ever':65 'extrem':31 'feet':101 'field':108 'first':24 'fli':30 'front':6 'get':114 'gone':121 'got':40 'larg':52 'larger':59 'light':3,12,53,62,84,135 'line':105 'look':92,117 'low':20,32 'made':46 'minut':131 'natur':95 'nowher':122 'object':18,19,72,80,91,138 'oval':93,127 'red':11,83 'seen':66,125 'shape':126 'side':8,77 'sky':22,69 'sound':48 'stationari':44 'thought':25 'three':1,51 'tree':104 'turn':110 'underneath':76 | null | 136 |
null | US | 1999-11-23 17:20:00.0 | 11/23/1999 17:20 (Entered as : 11/23/99 17:20pm) | looked out window at an object the color of a setting sun moving west to east at a slow speed.
Object was in no hurry as it moved west to east.Bright orange with blinking lights.
Shape: Disk
Duration: 5min
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,391,959 | 5,199,953 | 37.77493 | 5,190,120 | -122.41942 | null | NUFORC | S11143 | '5min':39 'aircraft':49,54 'blink':34 'characterist':40 'chase':55 'color':8 'disk':37 'durat':38 'east':16 'east.bright':31 'hurri':25 'light':35,43 'look':1 'move':13,28 'object':6,21,46,57 'orang':32 'set':11 'shape':36 'slow':19 'speed':20 'sun':12 'vicin':52 'west':14,29 'window':3 | null | 57 |
null | US | 1999-11-23 16:45:00.0 | 11/23/1999 16:45 (Entered as : 11-23-99 16:45) | i was arriving at a 4 way stop when i saw a blue green haze in upper right hand corner of windshield,i first thought was my engine overheating when realized it was a haze in the sky, i pulled over as the object moved past my field of view. i exited my vehicle, along with another driver, who had seen the object, in time to watch a bluish green, luminescent glob( about size of fist at arms length) move southeast slowly for a few seconds before suddenly shooting straight up into the sky and out of sight, the other fellow was as glad as me that someone else was there to see it.it had no lights but seemed to glow from within, it seemed very large as it also seemed very far, i couls see it clearly in the dusk sky but could not make out any more details
it seemed more like a changing blob than a solid object, no lights but it glowed green then blue from within it it seemed, it also seemed to move around within while it moved straight through the sky, like a water balloon filled withjello, it went in a straight path before suddenly shooting straight up at a terrific speed till it was gone
Shape: Changing
Duration: 15 -18 seconds
Characteristics: The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object changed color | KENTUCKY | 4,283,128 | 5,199,968 | 36.86648 | 5,211,525 | -83.88881 | null | NUFORC | S11151 | '-18':218 '15':217 '4':6 'along':55 'also':130,176 'anoth':57 'arm':78 'around':180,232 'arriv':3 'aura':229 'balloon':192 'blob':157 'blue':13,169 'bluish':69 'chang':156,215,237 'characterist':220 'clear':138 'color':238 'corner':20 'coul':135 'could':144 'detail':150 'driver':58 'durat':216 'dusk':141 'els':109 'engin':28 'exit':52 'far':133 'fellow':101 'field':48 'fill':193 'first':24 'fist':76 'glad':104 'glob':72 'glow':121,166 'gone':213 'green':14,70,167 'hand':19 'haze':15,35,231 'it.it':114 'larg':127 'left':223 'length':79 'light':117,163 'like':154,189 'luminesc':71 'make':146 'move':45,80,179,184 'object':44,63,161,222,234,236 'overh':29 'past':46 'path':200 'pull':40 'realiz':31 'right':18 'saw':11 'second':86,219 'see':113,136 'seem':119,125,131,152,174,177 'seen':61 'shape':214 'shoot':89,203 'sight':98 'size':74 'sky':38,94,142,188 'slowli':82 'solid':160 'someon':108 'southeast':81 'speed':209 'stop':8 'straight':90,185,199,204 'sudden':88,202 'terrif':208 'thought':25 'till':210 'time':65 'trail':225 'upper':17 'vehicl':54 'view':50 'watch':67 'water':191 'way':7 'went':196 'windshield':22 'within':123,171,181 'withjello':194 | null | 237 |
null | US | 1999-11-23 11:15:00.0 | 11/23/1999 11:15 (Entered as : 11/23/99 11:15am) | 70+ chevron-shaped aircraft, approx. 40,000`, flying from northeast to southwest over Half Moon Bay, CA, like someone opened up at box and they all escaped out of it. No sound. No contrails or chemtrails. All white. Several "stalled" or "stopped", then surged forward at a greater velocity than the others. A commercial jet airliner flew approx. 20,000 ft. beneath them, making usual noise. Asked others on the beach to look at them...they didn't want to be bothered.
I pretty well covered it above.
Shape: Chevron
Duration: 5min.-+
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,354,943 | 5,199,940 | 37.46355 | 5,191,606 | -122.42859 | null | NUFORC | S11128 | '000':8,61 '20':60 '40':7 '5min':93 '70':1 'aircraft':5,97,102 'airlin':57 'approx':6,59 'ask':68 'bay':17 'beach':72 'beneath':63 'bother':83 'box':24 'ca':18 'characterist':94 'chase':103 'chemtrail':37 'chevron':3,91 'chevron-shap':2 'commerci':55 'contrail':35 'cover':87 'didn':78 'durat':92 'escap':28 'flew':58 'fli':9 'forward':46 'ft':62 'greater':49 'half':15 'jet':56 'like':19 'look':74 'make':65 'moon':16 'nois':67 'northeast':11 'object':105 'open':21 'other':53,69 'pretti':85 'sever':40 'shape':4,90 'someon':20 'sound':33 'southwest':13 'stall':41 'stop':43 'surg':45 'usual':66 'veloc':50 'vicin':100 'want':80 'well':86 'white':39 | null | 99 |
null | US | 1999-11-22 23:30:00.0 | 11/22/1999 23:30 (Entered as : 23:30 23:30) | a most spectacular sighting over central florida
while heading s/e/ in the north side of bradenton. a brilliant orange ball with a tail was seen. the sky was crystal clear and a full moon was visable to the north. the ball was 1/2 the size of the full moon. it had a tail that was the length of your hand closed. it was headed up at a 45 degree angle and to the south east. it changed to a dark red and immediately reversed direction to the north on a horizontal plane. the tail was now angled 45 degree's back to the s/e and down. there was a bright white flash and the color of the ball changed to blue. there was now a white cone around the ball oposite the direction of travel. it appeared to have dropped components ( shields?) the tail had dissapeared at this point. it again changed directions and headed away and up from it's last direction. it got smaller and started to flash rapidly between blue to white . it then flashed, doubled it's size and white lazer lights appeared from the sides. it then dissapeared from sight behind the trees. the sighting took two to three minutes to play out.
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 2-3 min
Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object, The object emitted other objects, The object emitted beams, The object changed color | FLORIDA | 4,148,708 | 5,199,950 | 27.49893 | 5,192,414 | -82.57482 | null | NUFORC | S11139 | '-3':213 '1/2':43 '2':212 '45':68,98 'angl':70,97 'appear':137,187 'around':128,222 'aura':219 'away':156 'back':101 'ball':20,41,118,130 'beam':233 'behind':196 'blue':121,173 'bradenton':16 'bright':110 'brilliant':18 'central':6 'chang':77,119,152,236 'characterist':215 'clear':30 'close':61 'color':115,237 'compon':141 'cone':127 'crystal':29 'dark':80 'degre':69,99 'direct':85,133,153,163 'dissapear':146,193 'doubl':179 'drop':140 'durat':211 'east':75 'emit':227,232 'firebal':210 'flash':112,170,178 'florida':7 'full':33,48 'got':165 'hand':60 'haze':221 'head':9,64,155 'horizont':91 'immedi':83 'last':162 'lazer':185 'length':57 'light':186 'min':214 'minut':205 'moon':34,49 'north':13,39,88 'object':224,226,229,231,235 'oposit':131 'orang':19 'plane':92 'play':207 'point':149 'rapid':171 'red':81 'revers':84 's/e':10,104 'seen':25 'shape':209 'shield':142 'side':14,190 'sight':4,195,200 'size':45,182 'sky':27 'smaller':166 'south':74 'spectacular':3 'start':168 'tail':23,53,94,144 'three':204 'took':201 'travel':135 'tree':198 'two':202 'visabl':36 'white':111,126,175,184 | null | 235 |
null | US | 1999-11-22 23:00:00.0 | 11/22/1999 23:00 (Entered as : 11/22/99 23:00) | First craft was hovering over backyard approximately 100 ft off the ground then slowly headed for the mountains.
I was watching T.V. in the living room when I went to the kitchen, I looked out the slidding glass backdoor and saw bright lights hovering over the trees in the backyard. I looked closer and realized what I was seeing and asked my mother if she wanted to see a UFO up close. Then I awakened my Mother-in-law and my husband, when we came back upstairs it was heading slowly off towards the mountains. When it reached the mountains it turned sideways to where the "bottom" of the craft was facing the house, the clouds arond the mountains were glowing with the light from the craft. The first craft then desended behind the mountain and a few seconds later the second craft, coming from the southeast, approached the first at a high rate of speed and desended behind the mountains in the same area as the first. The clouds stayed aglow for about forty-five to fifety minutes after they were no longer visible from behind the mountains, then the light just vanished. The first craft was only about a half a mile from the house when sighted, we live on five acres. The craft was scaucer shapped with a small dome on the "top", with extremely bright "yellow" and "white" lights around the exterior circumfrance of the craft and illuminated almost the entire five arces. The "bottom" of the craft had a triangulare shape within the circumfrance of the craft with a red light in the center of the trangle. Only the "yellow" and "white" lights rotated, or pulsed, counter clockwise around the craft, the red light was constant and glowed. The second craft was the same configuration as the second where the lights are concerned, yet it was much smaller than the first.
Shape: Circle
Duration: 1 hour
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object landed, There were electrical or magnetic effects | MONTANA | 5,660,340 | 5,199,980 | 48.19579 | 5,198,037 | -114.31291 | null | NUFORC | S11158 | '1':322 '100':8 'acr':216 'aglow':173 'almost':245 'approach':149 'approxim':7 'arc':249 'area':166 'arond':118 'around':236,286,337 'ask':61 'aura':334 'awaken':75 'back':87 'backdoor':39 'backyard':6,50 'behind':134,160,189 'bottom':108,251 'bright':42,231 'came':86 'center':271 'characterist':324 'circl':320 'circumfr':239,261 'clockwis':285 'close':72 'closer':53 'cloud':117,171 'come':145 'concern':310 'configur':302 'constant':293 'counter':284 'craft':2,111,128,131,144,199,218,242,254,264,288,298 'desend':133,159 'dome':225 'durat':321 'effect':348 'electr':345 'entir':247 'exterior':238 'extrem':230 'face':113 'fifeti':180 'first':1,130,151,169,198,318 'five':178,215,248 'forti':177 'forty-f':176 'ft':9 'glass':38 'glow':122,295 'ground':12 'half':204 'haze':336 'head':15,91 'high':154 'hour':323 'hous':115,209 'hover':4,44 'husband':83 'illumin':244 'kitchen':32 'land':342 'later':141 'law':80 'light':43,125,194,235,268,280,291,308,327 'live':25,213 'longer':186 'look':34,52 'magnet':347 'mile':206 'minut':181 'mother':63,78 'mother-in-law':77 'mountain':18,96,101,120,136,162,191 'much':314 'object':330,339,341 'puls':283 'rate':155 'reach':99 'realiz':55 'red':267,290 'room':26 'rotat':281 'saw':41 'scaucer':220 'second':140,143,297,305 'see':59,68 'shap':221 'shape':258,319 'sideway':104 'sight':211 'slid':37 'slowli':14,92 'small':224 'smaller':315 'southeast':148 'speed':157 'stay':172 't.v':22 'top':228 'toward':94 'trangl':274 'tree':47 'triangular':257 'turn':103 'ufo':70 'upstair':88 'vanish':196 'visibl':187 'want':66 'watch':21 'went':29 'white':234,279 'within':259 'yellow':232,277 'yet':311 | null | 343 |
null | US | 1999-11-21 17:03:00.0 | 11/21/1999 17:03 (Entered as : 11/21/99 17:03) | My wife and I were driving south on highway 141 in Norcross, Ga when we spotted an illuminated object that demonstrated incredible acceleration.
The object was moving south toward Atlanta, it hovered than accelerated at incredible speed and appeared to drop in altitude, then hovered again to a point that appeared to be just above the southern horizon, then we drove behind some trees and lost it. My wife thought it was a disc, but I can't say, I'm not sure. It appearted illuminated by the setting sun. I did not see any aircraft lights. I have never seen anything like it. I could't believe my eyes. But, my wife said that I wasn't seeing things.
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 30 Sec | GEORGIA | 4,212,888 | 5,199,918 | 33.94121 | 5,211,475 | -84.21353 | null | NUFORC | S11109 | '141':10 '30':124 'acceler':23,34 'aircraft':96 'altitud':43 'anyth':102 'appear':39,51 'appeart':85 'atlanta':30 'behind':62 'believ':108 'could':106 'demonstr':21 'disc':74 'drive':6 'drop':41 'drove':61 'durat':123 'eye':110 'ga':13 'highway':9 'horizon':58 'hover':32,45 'illumin':18,86 'incred':22,36 'light':97 'like':103 'lost':66 'm':81 'move':27 'never':100 'norcross':12 'object':19,25 'point':49 'said':114 'say':79 'sec':125 'see':94,119 'seen':101 'set':89 'shape':121 'south':7,28 'southern':57 'speed':37 'spot':16 'sun':90 'sure':83 'thing':120 'thought':70 'toward':29 'tree':64 'unknown':122 'wasn':117 'wife':2,69,113 | null | 121 |
null | US | 1999-11-21 02:10:00.0 | 11/21/1999 02:10 (Entered as : 11/21/1999 2:10) | THIER WHERE VERY BRIGHT AT FIRST WHEN ME AND MY WIFE SEEN THEM WE THOUGHT THAT THEY WHERE STARS. BUT TO OUR AMAZEMENT THEY SEEMED TO FLY OUT OF OUR SPACE AN THEN GREW DIM AS IF SLOWLY SOMEONE TURNED OUT A LIGHT ON A DIMMER SWITP.S.I SENT THIS OF MY OWN FREE WILL, THIS REALLY HAPPENED . I CAN BARELY BELIVE IT MYSELF BUT MY EYES DONT LIE! YOURS SENCERIERLY ((name deleted)) A TRUE BELIVER NOW, THEY ARE REALLY OUT THIE.
IT WAS LATE ME AND MY WIFE ((name deleted)) HAD BEEN OUT BOLLING WITH MY BROTHER, HIS WIFE, AND A COUPLE OF FRIENDS. WE LEFT THEY BOLLING ALLEY AND TOOK NATE TO SPRARTA. AFTER GETING BACK TO MY BROTHERS MY WIFE AND ME GOT IN OUR CAR AND HEADED TOWARD HOME. ON OUR WAY MY WIFE NOTICED WHAT APPEARED TO,BE TWO VERY BRIGHT STARS IN THE SKY. AS I LOOKED AT THEM I BEGAN TO NOTICE THAT THEY WHERE FLASHING IN A WIERD TIMING.I WILL ADMITE THAT IM NOT THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD BUT I KNOW WHAT MY WIFE AND ME SEEN. AND FOR ALL YOU WHO DONT BELIVE. I DIDN'T BELIVE ONCE BUT I SWARE NOW I DO ...AND IF YOU TINK IM LIEING CALL ME AT 1-931-((number deleted)) AND I WILL TELL YOU FOR REAL AND IN PERSON WHAT I SEEN...LET ME PUT IT HTIS AWAY I HAVE NEVER SEEN A FLARE FLOAT UP, AND NEVER HAVE I SEEN A METORITE FLY..
Shape: Other
Duration: 4 minutes | TENNESSEE | null | 5,199,896 | null | 5,211,453 | null | null | NUFORC | S11095 | '-931':215 '..':253 '1':214 '4':257 'admit':168 'alley':109 'amaz':23 'appear':140 'away':236 'back':117 'bare':60 'began':156 'beliv':61,75,193,197 'boll':94,108 'bright':4,145 'brother':97,120 'call':211 'car':128 'coupl':102 'delet':72,90,217 'didn':195 'dim':35 'dimmer':46 'dont':67,192 'durat':256 'eye':66 'first':6 'flare':242 'flash':162 'fli':27,252 'float':243 'free':53 'friend':104 'gete':116 'got':125 'grew':34 'happen':57 'head':130 'home':132 'htis':235 'im':170,209 'know':180 'late':84 'left':106 'let':231 'lie':68,210 'light':43 'look':152 'man':174 'metorit':251 'minut':258 'name':71,89 'nate':112 'never':239,246 'notic':138,158 'number':216 'person':227 'put':233 'real':224 'realli':56,79 'seem':25 'seen':12,186,230,240,249 'senceri':70 'sent':48 'shape':254 'sky':149 'slowli':38 'smartest':173 'someon':39 'space':31 'sprarta':114 'star':19,146 'sware':201 'switp.s.i':47 'tell':221 'thie':81 'thier':1 'thought':15 'timing.i':166 'tink':208 'took':111 'toward':131 'true':74 'turn':40 'two':143 'way':135 'wierd':165 'wife':11,88,99,122,137,183 'world':177 | null | 253 |
null | US | 1999-11-21 01:30:00.0 | 11/21/1999 01:30 (Entered as : 11/21/99 01:30) | Saw sphere shaped, mirror like craft moving through field low to ground and very slowly . Craft was randomly shining light onto ground below it.
Driving northbound on I-75 towards Lima, Ohio. We were just south of mile marker 117. Conditions were foggy and dark. Noticed mirror sphere like object moving slowly through a field just east of the highway. Object became noticed when the ground beneath it was lit up. There was no visible source on the craft as to where the light was coming from. The object was noticed as mirror like due to the fact that the ground was being reflected off of it when the light would activate. Unknown on the exact distance of the craft but it was fairly close. I pulled onto the shoulder where I could observe the object better. The object was moving southbound very slowly. The light would activate randomly and had no particular pattern. The light was no particular color and you could detect movement by the reflection off of the object while the light was on. When there was no light from the craft you could barely see it due to the fog but you could make out faintly the outline of the top portion. Traffic was sparse and other cars/trucks passed but no one had stopped. After a few minutes the passenger of my vehicle rolled down his window. We could hear no sounds but could still see the object. It them simultaneously lit up and area of trees to the north of us and the area where we were parked on the shoulder. The lights went off and the object left at a moderate speed north bound over the tree area it had just lit up. You could actually see the fog flow around it as it moved and thats when we got a good look at it. It had no visible windows or lights on its surface. It was smooth and shiny. The object faded out of view. We drove off slowly up the highway to see if we could pick it up again. But we had not seen any other lights ect...
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 3 minutes
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | OHIO | 5,160,806 | 5,199,935 | 40.982 | 5,211,492 | -81.14843 | null | NUFORC | S11121 | '-75':29 '117':40 '3':361 'activ':112,148 'actual':292 'area':249,259,284 'around':297 'bare':188 'becam':62 'beneath':67 'better':137 'bound':280 'cars/trucks':212 'characterist':363 'close':125 'color':160 'come':86 'condit':41 'could':133,163,187,197,233,238,291,344 'craft':6,16,79,120,185 'dark':45 'detect':164 'distanc':117 'drive':25 'drove':334 'due':95,191 'durat':360 'east':57 'ect':357 'exact':116 'fact':98 'fade':329 'faint':200 'fair':124 'field':9,55 'flow':296 'fog':194,295 'foggi':43 'good':308 'got':306 'ground':12,22,66,101 'hear':234 'highway':60,339 'left':274 'light':20,84,110,146,156,175,182,268,318,356,366 'like':5,49,94 'lima':31 'lit':70,246,288 'look':309 'low':10 'make':198 'marker':39 'mile':38 'minut':222,362 'mirror':4,47,93 'moder':277 'move':7,51,141,301 'movement':165 'north':254,279 'northbound':26 'notic':46,63,91 'object':50,61,89,136,139,172,242,273,328,369 'observ':134 'ohio':32 'one':216 'onto':21,128 'outlin':202 'park':263 'particular':153,159 'pass':213 'passeng':224 'pattern':154 'pick':345 'portion':206 'pull':127 'random':18,149 'reflect':104,168 'roll':228 'saw':1 'see':189,240,293,341 'seen':353 'shape':3,358 'shine':19 'shini':326 'shoulder':130,266 'simultan':245 'slowli':15,52,144,336 'smooth':324 'sound':236 'sourc':76 'south':36 'southbound':142 'spars':209 'speed':278 'sphere':2,48,359 'still':239 'stop':218 'surfac':321 'that':303 'top':205 'toward':30 'traffic':207 'tree':251,283 'unknown':113 'us':256 'vehicl':227 'view':332 'visibl':75,315 'went':269 'window':231,316 'would':111,147 | null | 369 |
null | US | 1999-11-20 23:45:00.0 | 11/20/1999 23:45 (Entered as : 11/20/99 23:45) | Red blob, went to a dot, then disappeared
I saw a red blob to the right and below venus as viewed from SE Los Angeles county. It had no distinctive shape. It changed to a dot after about a minute and a half, then disappeared about 15 seconds later. Is there a posibility that it was just a rocket going out of the atmosphere?
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 2 minutes
Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,327,422 | 5,199,904 | 33.88168 | 5,198,246 | -118.11701 | null | NUFORC | S11100 | '15':47 '2':68 'angel':25 'around':77 'atmospher':64 'aura':74 'blob':2,13 'chang':33 'characterist':70 'counti':26 'disappear':8,45 'distinct':30 'dot':6,36 'durat':67 'firebal':66 'go':60 'half':43 'haze':76 'later':49 'los':24 'minut':40,69 'object':79 'posibl':53 'red':1,12 'right':16 'rocket':59 'saw':10 'se':23 'second':48 'shape':31,65 'venus':19 'view':21 'went':3 | null | 79 |
null | CA | 1999-11-20 23:00:00.0 | 11/20/1999 23:00 (Entered as : 11/20/99 23:00) | Seen a cylinder blue above the Sudbury area for about 1 hours and half, the description is very complicated because of smog night and also another presence to come. The seeing was reported two day following the appareance.
Shape: Cylinder
Duration: 1:30
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | ONTARIO | 5,964,700 | 5,199,899 | 46.49 | 5,211,456 | -80.99001 | null | NUFORC | S11097 | '1':11,42 '30':43 'also':25 'anoth':26 'appar':38 'area':8 'blue':4 'characterist':44 'come':29 'complic':19 'cylind':3,40 'day':35 'descript':16 'durat':41 'follow':36 'half':14 'hour':12 'light':47 'night':23 'object':50 'presenc':27 'report':33 'see':31 'seen':1 'shape':39 'smog':22 'sudburi':7 'two':34 | null | 49 |
null | US | 1999-11-20 22:22:00.0 | 11/20/1999 22:22 (Entered as : 11/20/99 10:22P.M.) | My friends and I were walking our dogs and my friend saw something in the sky. I thought it was a star but it started to change shape. Then it got closer. My dog went wild. Then it disappared in seconds and was nowhere to be found. Then we went inside and called our neighbors,they saw it too.
It was silent. It change shape. It was very fast. It was oval,circle,rectangle,and triangle. Everyone was nerves and our dogs were crazy. It was yellow.
Shape: Changing
Duration: Walking our dog
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object emitted other objects | FLORIDA | 4,165,565 | 5,199,831 | 26.14234 | 5,196,237 | -81.79596 | null | NUFORC | S11056 | 'around':107 'aura':104 'call':53 'chang':27,64,89 'characterist':94 'circl':73 'closer':32 'crazi':84 'disappar':39 'dog':8,34,82,93 'durat':90 'emit':112 'everyon':77 'fast':69 'found':47 'friend':2,11 'got':31 'haze':106 'insid':51 'light':97 'neighbor':55 'nerv':79 'nowher':44 'object':100,109,111,114 'oval':72 'rectangl':74 'saw':12,57 'second':41 'shape':28,65,88 'silent':62 'sky':16 'someth':13 'star':22 'start':25 'thought':18 'triangl':76 'walk':6,91 'went':35,50 'wild':36 'yellow':87 | null | 110 |
null | US | 1999-11-20 21:50:00.0 | 11/20/1999 21:50 (Entered as : 11/20/99 2150) | Three dome shaped lights. One craft or three I don't know.
This is an addendum to a report I made approx 16 hours ago concerning a craft of unknown identity spotted in Austin TX. Craft Size: It was between a quarter and half-dollar held at arm's length. Of course that is an estimation and I cannot give it any weight. I can say that the circle / lights were distanced 1 1/2 circle / light diameters apart and if linked would from an equilatoral triangle. An imaginary cicle periphery drawn around the three lights would be 2.5 times the size of each light. The craft proceeded north triangle point leading. The lights had depth to them and appeared as shallow domes of light. The effect was something like viewing a tent with a lightsource inside. You don't see the source but its interaction with the tent material. So too were these lights. They appeared to softly luminesce these shallow domes in a very off orange color. As I mentioned somewhere between subdued peach and burnt ocher. During and immediately after the incident I recorded other visible activity in the sky and this consisted of three other, conventional, aircraft. None interacted with the object and appeared to be normal air traffic. The closest was at least 3-5 kilometers away and the farthest between 8 and 12. Two were generally northeast and one (the farthest) was west. Austin-Bergstrom international airport lies east southeast approx 5 miles away. I hope this comletes this report accurately for you. If I can clarify anything further please let me know. A copy of my initial report is enclosed below. My wife and I were returning to work after a lunch break. I stepped outside and looked up to see the moon. Instead what I saw were three dome shaped lights that were moving north at a constant rate of travel. All three lights were the same color something between a subdued peach & burnt ocher. They did not blink or flash. The lights were either three individual craft moving in perfect triangular formation, or they were attached to one indistinguishable craft. All moved exactly in unison! The craft covered about 40 degrees of sky in less than ten seconds and maintained a constant velocity. No noise accompanied this sighting. I shouted over and over at my wife to "Look at this! Look at this!" She was closing the door behind me and turned and observed the craft for about seven seconds. After continuing across the sky in a straight line the UFO disappeared seemingly winking to nothing as it went into the night. My wife was extrememly shaken. I too felt this, but I also felt excitement. Disbelief. Never have I seen anything even close. I am an Army veteran and am trained in aircraft identification. This was absolutely not a conventional powered aircraft. Nor is it anything I have ever been instructed to watch for. Very chillingly this craft is a near identicle copy of a recreation I observed very recently on TV of a UFO reported all over Britain in one night and investigated by that fromer MOD official whose name I cannot recall. I believe the show was "Sightings". The event is less that 2 hours old and I am back at work, but my mind is not focused and I feel as though I am running on Auto. What do I do now?
Shape: Formation
Duration: <10 sec
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | TEXAS | 4,671,654 | 5,199,901 | 30.26715 | 5,191,664 | -97.74306 | null | NUFORC | S11098 | '-5':220 '1':74 '1/2':75 '10':580 '12':229 '16':23 '2':547 '2.5':99 '3':219 '40':370 '5':249 '8':227 'absolut':478 'accompani':386 'accur':258 'across':423 'activ':190 'addendum':16 'ago':25 'air':212 'aircraft':201,474,483 'airport':244 'also':454 'anyth':265,462,487 'apart':79 'appear':120,157,208 'approx':22,248 'arm':49 'armi':468 'around':93 'attach':356 'austin':34,241 'austin-bergstrom':240 'auto':571 'away':222,251 'back':553 'behind':409 'believ':537 'bergstrom':242 'blink':338 'break':291 'britain':520 'burnt':178,333 'cannot':60,534 'characterist':582 'chill':497 'cicl':90 'circl':70,76 'clarifi':264 'close':406,464 'closest':215 'color':169,327 'comlet':255 'concern':26 'consist':196 'constant':317,382 'continu':422 'convent':200,481 'copi':272,504 'cours':53 'cover':368 'craft':6,28,36,107,347,360,367,416,499 'degre':371 'depth':116 'diamet':78 'disappear':432 'disbelief':457 'distanc':73 'dollar':46 'dome':2,123,163,308 'door':408 'drawn':92 'durat':579 'east':246 'effect':127 'either':344 'enclos':278 'equilator':86 'estim':57 'even':463 'event':543 'ever':490 'exact':363 'excit':456 'extremem':446 'farthest':225,237 'feel':564 'felt':450,455 'flash':340 'focus':561 'format':352,578 'fromer':528 'general':232 'give':61 'half':45 'half-dollar':44 'held':47 'hope':253 'hour':24,548 'ident':31 'identicl':503 'identif':475 'imaginari':89 'immedi':182 'incid':185 'indistinguish':359 'individu':346 'initi':275 'insid':137 'instead':302 'instruct':492 'interact':146,203 'intern':243 'investig':525 'kilomet':221 'know':12,270 'lead':112 'least':218 'length':51 'less':375,545 'let':268 'lie':245 'light':4,71,77,96,105,114,125,155,310,323,342,585 'lightsourc':136 'like':130 'line':429 'link':82 'look':296,398,401 'luminesc':160 'lunch':290 'made':21 'maintain':380 'materi':150 'mention':172 'mile':250 'mind':558 'mod':529 'moon':301 'move':313,348,362 'name':532 'near':502 'never':458 'night':442,523 'nois':385 'none':202 'normal':211 'north':109,314 'northeast':233 'noth':436 'object':206,588 'observ':414,509 'ocher':179,334 'offici':530 'old':549 'one':5,235,358,522 'orang':168 'outsid':294 'peach':176,332 'perfect':350 'peripheri':91 'pleas':267 'point':111 'power':482 'proceed':108 'quarter':42 'rate':318 'recal':535 'recent':511 'record':187 'recreat':507 'report':19,257,276,517 'return':285 'run':569 'saw':305 'say':67 'sec':581 'second':378,420 'see':141,299 'seem':433 'seen':461 'seven':419 'shaken':447 'shallow':122,162 'shape':3,309,577 'shout':390 'show':539 'sight':388,541 'size':37,102 'sky':193,373,425 'soft':159 'someth':129,328 'somewher':173 'sourc':143 'southeast':247 'spot':32 'step':293 'straight':428 'subdu':175,331 'ten':377 'tent':133,149 'though':566 'three':1,8,95,198,307,322,345 'time':100 'traffic':213 'train':472 'travel':320 'triangl':87,110 'triangular':351 'turn':412 'tv':513 'two':230 'tx':35 'ufo':431,516 'unison':365 'unknown':30 'veloc':383 'veteran':469 'view':131 'visibl':189 'watch':494 'weight':64 'went':439 'west':239 'whose':531 'wife':281,396,444 'wink':434 'work':287,555 'would':83,97 | null | 583 |
null | US | 1999-11-20 16:30:00.0 | 11/20/1999 16:30 (Entered as : 11/20/99 16:30) | I have been watching these contrails left by planes all year but I observed something strange. The contrails left a haze over sky and a plane was leaving a trail from north to south. The plane was almost out of sight and at this time a silver object flew through this trail flying west to east. This object had nothing on it except its disk shape and silver in color. I did not hear any noise.
Shape: Disk
Duration: 45 sec.?
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | OHIO | 4,507,987 | 5,199,893 | 39.79895 | 5,211,450 | -82.701 | null | NUFORC | S11093 | '45':80 'aircraft':85,90 'almost':38 'characterist':82 'chase':91 'color':70 'contrail':6,18 'disk':65,78 'durat':79 'east':56 'except':63 'flew':49 'fli':53 'haze':21 'hear':74 'leav':28 'left':7,19 'nois':76 'north':32 'noth':60 'object':48,58,93 'observ':14 'plane':9,26,36 'sec':81 'shape':66,77 'sight':41 'silver':47,68 'sky':23 'someth':15 'south':34 'strang':16 'time':45 'trail':30,52 'vicin':88 'watch':4 'west':54 'year':11 | null | 93 |
null | US | 1999-11-19 21:07:00.0 | 11/19/1999 21:07 (Entered as : 11-19=99 21:07 pm) | Nightime,black craft/no lights, flying under conventional aircraft,craft had a thick body with short stuby shark fin like wings!
I was sitting in my backyard and looked up to veiw the passing of what sounded like a jet in the night sky. I made eye contact with the object (flying in a northwesterly direction) which had displayed a flashing beacon and looked very typical of the kind of aircraft one might veiw in the night sky. Then my eye was drawn to an other object which was flying below, also in a northwesterly direction(this craft was heading more north than west)however,this object was flying at a great rate of speed and traveling at a much lower altitude. The object looked "completely black" and traveling "without lights". It seemed to be traveling without sound as well,however,there was noise from the conventional aircraft flying at a much higher altitude above,so maybe the one craft masked the sound of the other. The black craft had a very long "thick" body with two very odd looking short stuby, shark fin like wings attached, however I was viewing the object from the side and it was at a slight angle,so the object could have been triangular.The craft appeared to be ascending!The cloud cover is quite thick tonight (a marine layer) and the black craft almost blended in with the cloud cover. As it passed over I could see patches of cloud mist against the craft's black body. I would have never noticed it had it not been for the sighting of the first aircraft flying overhead.The black craft looked very out of place and it gave me the distinct impression that it was trying to remain hidden.It looked very ominous and strange.The black craft was about the size of a thumb veiwed in the horizontal position at arms length.I would guess that the object was at about 6000 to 7000 feet,but that's just a guess(the conventional aircraft was much higher.) My veiw of it was only for a few seconds,then it vanished.I have been watching the night and day sky for years and I have never seen anything like this!It was very weird!!!
((NUFORC Note: The following information was submitted 22NO99 to supplement the first report.))
(clarification) of sighting and reporting of black craft on 11/19/99
The altitude of the craft was hard to estimate.Craft was probably smaller than thumb at arms length! The Black craft was very visible against the cloud cover! There are two airports nearby. Sherman Oaks is a few miles southeast of Van Nuys Airport and about 6 miles west of Burbank Airport. No lights could be seen on any portion of the craft!
Shape: Other
Duration: 3 to 4 seconds
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,395,244 | 5,199,894 | 34.15112 | 5,208,084 | -118.44925 | null | NUFORC | S11094 | '11/19/99':396 '22no99':381 '3':462 '4':464 '6':442 '6000':323 '7000':325 'aircraft':8,70,147,269,335,469,474 'airport':427,439,447 'almost':229 'also':91 'altitud':121,153,398 'angl':202 'anyth':367 'appear':211 'arm':313,412 'ascend':214 'attach':186 'backyard':26 'beacon':61 'black':2,126,167,227,251,272,298,393,415 'blend':230 'bodi':13,174,252 'burbank':446 'characterist':466 'chase':475 'clarif':387 'cloud':216,234,245,422 'complet':125 'contact':47 'convent':7,146,334 'could':206,241,450 'cover':217,235,423 'craft':9,97,159,168,210,228,249,273,299,394,401,416,458 'craft/no':3 'day':358 'direct':55,95 'display':58 'distinct':284 'drawn':82 'durat':461 'estimate.craft':405 'eye':46,80 'feet':326 'fin':18,183 'first':268,385 'flash':60 'fli':5,51,89,108,148,270 'follow':377 'gave':281 'great':111 'guess':316,332 'hard':403 'head':99 'hidden.it':292 'higher':152,338 'horizont':310 'howev':104,140,187 'impress':285 'inform':378 'jet':39 'kind':68 'layer':224 'length':413 'length.i':314 'light':4,130,449 'like':19,37,184,368 'long':172 'look':28,63,124,179,274,293 'lower':120 'made':45 'marin':223 'mask':160 'mayb':156 'might':72 'mile':434,443 'mist':246 'much':119,151,337 'nearbi':428 'never':256,365 'night':42,76,356 'nightim':1 'nois':143 'north':101 'northwest':54,94 'note':375 'notic':257 'nuforc':374 'nuy':438 'oak':430 'object':50,86,106,123,192,205,319,477 'odd':178 'omin':295 'one':71,158 'overhead.the':271 'pass':33,238 'patch':243 'place':278 'portion':455 'posit':311 'probabl':407 'quit':219 'rate':112 'remain':291 'report':386,391 'second':348,465 'see':242 'seem':132 'seen':366,452 'shape':459 'shark':17,182 'sherman':429 'short':15,180 'side':195 'sight':265,389 'sit':23 'size':303 'sky':43,77,359 'slight':201 'smaller':408 'sound':36,137,162 'southeast':435 'speed':114 'strange.the':297 'stubi':16,181 'submit':380 'supplement':383 'thick':12,173,220 'thumb':306,410 'tonight':221 'travel':116,128,135 'tri':289 'triangular.the':209 'two':176,426 'typic':65 'van':437 'vanished.i':351 'veiw':31,73,307,340 'vicin':472 'view':190 'visibl':419 'watch':354 'weird':373 'well':139 'west':103,444 'wing':20,185 'without':129,136 'would':254,315 'year':361 | null | 461 |
null | US | 1999-11-19 03:00:00.0 | 11/19/1999 03:00 (Entered as : 11/19/99 0300) | 4 dark triangle objects with 3-4 lights flying fast and high, no sound
This sighting occured at around 0300 hrs., two men ages 38 and 28(friends) reported seeing 4 dark triangle shaped objects moving fast and quiet and high..close to interstate highway 10. Each object had 3-4 lights.
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 1 min.
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,359,446 | 5,199,909 | 33.7207 | 5,190,967 | -116.21677 | null | NUFORC | S11103 | '-4':7,51 '0300':20 '1':56 '10':46 '28':27 '3':6,50 '38':25 '4':1,31 'age':24 'around':19 'characterist':58 'close':42 'dark':2,32 'durat':55 'fast':10,37 'fli':9 'friend':28 'high':12,41 'highway':45 'hrs':21 'interst':44 'light':8,52,61 'men':23 'min':57 'move':36 'object':4,35,48,64 'occur':17 'quiet':39 'report':29 'see':30 'shape':34,53 'sight':16 'sound':14 'triangl':3,33,54 'two':22 | null | 60 |
null | US | 1999-11-19 02:15:00.0 | 11/19/1999 02:15 (Entered as : 11/19/99 0215) | 2 bright lights in northern sky on a right to left angle approx. 40 deg.
traveling North on I 71 at mile marker 75 myself and a trucker behind us were on our usual run. We always look at the sky and note the constalations and locations of planets and, this morning, commenting on the "bust" of a meteor shower and were hoping to see remenants. In a moment of silence on the CB radio, I was looking at the night sky with no cloud cover, I scanned from the west to the east when at about 11 o'clock from my vantage point there were two "stars" very bright and very close together at at right to left angle. These "stars" were so bright I thought I had lost my bearing and was seeing double on a planet. Just then, the other driver said, "Do you see what I see ahead?" I said, "Yeah, they were never there before" We both were watching them and these very intense lights began to fade. This was weird because unlike a light bulb going out they faded slowly for a good 5 to 6 seconds into the darkness. There was no movement and no clouds to dissapear into if this were a plane. We talked among ourselves and concluded, based on the landing lights of aircraft in the area that these lights were far too bright, too far apart and too motionless to be that of conventional aircraft. We both decided that I should report this to you. Thank you.
Shape: Formation
Duration: 45 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | OHIO | 5,165,418 | 5,199,801 | 40.25034 | 5,211,358 | -83.00018 | null | NUFORC | S11038 | '11':98 '2':1 '40':14 '45':262 '5':190 '6':192 '71':20 '75':24 'ahead':152 'aircraft':224,246,273,278 'alway':37 'among':214 'angl':12,120 'apart':237 'approx':13 'area':227 'base':218 'bear':132 'began':171 'behind':29 'bright':2,110,125,234 'bulb':181 'bust':56 'cb':74 'characterist':264 'chase':279 'clock':100 'close':113 'cloud':85,203 'comment':53 'conclud':217 'constal':45 'convent':245 'cover':86 'dark':196 'decid':249 'deg':15 'dissapear':205 'doubl':136 'driver':144 'durat':261 'east':94 'fade':173,185 'far':232,236 'format':260 'go':182 'good':189 'hope':63 'intens':169 'land':221 'left':11,119 'light':3,170,180,222,230,267 'locat':47 'look':38,78 'lost':130 'marker':23 'meteor':59 'mile':22 'moment':69 'morn':52 'motionless':240 'movement':200 'never':158 'night':81 'north':17 'northern':5 'note':43 'o':99 'object':270,281 'plane':211 'planet':49,139 'point':104 'radio':75 'remen':66 'report':253 'right':9,117 'run':35 'said':145,154 'scan':88 'second':193,263 'see':65,135,148,151 'shape':259 'shower':60 'silenc':71 'sky':6,41,82 'slowli':186 'star':108,122 'talk':213 'thank':257 'thought':127 'togeth':114 'travel':16 'trucker':28 'two':107 'unlik':178 'us':30 'usual':34 'vantag':103 'vicin':276 'watch':164 'weird':176 'west':91 'yeah':155 | null | 280 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 21:10:00.0 | 11/18/1999 21:10 (Entered as : 11/18/99 21:10) | A triangle-shape object that looked like balls tied together, flying in formation.
My daughter and I were out in our backyard, looking for meteors, and noticed a wispy-looking thing approaching in the sky from the northwest. As it approached, it seemed to form a triangular formation. I remember thinking that it looked like geese, but realized it was a "string" of glowing balls. The balls were golden/white in color, looking like dimmed light bulbs, and the formation appeared to be, perhaps, balloons tied together. My daughter and I figured that's what it was, catching the reflection of the moon, but as it went over our yard, we realized that balloons could not hold the triangular shape we were seeing. Also, the breeze was coming from the west and this formation was travelling north to south at approximately 25-30 mph. It made no noise whatever. It was very large. I have no way to determine the altitude, as it was dark outside, but I could clearly see that the individual "balls" were round in shape. The formation continued due south and then appeared to veer southwest as we lost sight of it. I called a friend who lived in that direction and asked her to look for it, but she didn't see anything. We were surprised to not hear anything on the news about it or read about it this morning in the paper. We are both sane females and as we discussed the event, as it was occuring, there is no doubt that we both saw the same thing at the same time.
Shape: Other
Duration: 2 mins
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | COLORADO | 5,419,384 | 5,199,857 | 39.73915 | 5,188,697 | -104.9847 | null | NUFORC | S11072 | '-30':144 '2':274 '25':143 'also':125 'altitud':162 'anyth':219,226 'appear':82,188 'approach':34,43 'approxim':142 'ask':208 'backyard':23 'ball':9,67,69,176 'balloon':86,115 'breez':127 'bulb':78 'call':199 'catch':99 'characterist':276 'clear':171 'color':73 'come':129 'continu':183 'could':116,170 'dark':166 'daughter':16,90 'determin':160 'didn':216 'dim':76 'direct':206 'discuss':249 'doubt':259 'due':184 'durat':273 'event':251 'femal':245 'figur':93 'fli':12 'form':47 'format':14,50,81,135,182 'friend':201 'gees':58 'glow':66 'golden/white':71 'hear':225 'hold':118 'individu':175 'larg':154 'light':77,279 'like':8,57,75 'live':203 'look':7,24,32,56,74,211 'lost':194 'made':147 'meteor':26 'min':275 'moon':104 'morn':237 'mph':145 'news':229 'nois':149 'north':138 'northwest':40 'notic':28 'object':5,282 'occur':255 'outsid':167 'paper':240 'perhap':85 'read':233 'realiz':60,113 'reflect':101 'rememb':52 'round':178 'sane':244 'saw':263 'see':124,172,218 'seem':45 'shape':4,121,180,271 'sight':195 'sky':37 'south':140,185 'southwest':191 'string':64 'surpris':222 'thing':33,266 'think':53 'tie':10,87 'time':270 'togeth':11,88 'travel':137 'triangl':3 'triangle-shap':2 'triangular':49,120 'veer':190 'way':158 'went':108 'west':132 'whatev':150 'wispi':31 'wispy-look':30 'yard':111 | null | 275 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 20:30:00.0 | 11/18/1999 20:30 (Entered as : 10-18-99 20:30 ??) | Four stationary lights in sky suddenly moved toward ea other untill they all reached ea other. Then returned the same direction they came from when 2 South bound Jets headed towards them.
Nov.18th '99 [about an hour after dark] To all: Tonight I saw what can only be discribed as UFO's - (4)four of them to be exact. I swear it's true. I just happened to be outside smoking a cigerette and was watching the big passenger liners on thier way to Lindberg field to land. Suddenly what I saw made me think: "Why are the stars moving??" Four Lights, like stars started to move toward each other; like this: * -> <- * * -> <- * Then they came together: ** Like this: ** Next I heard, then saw 2 Jets coming from the north in full afterburners, headed towards them. Before the jets could get close the 4 stars/UFO's took off back the way they had come. (they were together for about 5-6 seconds). Two of the UFO's went so fast that they were out of sight in just a couple sec's. The other two went back to where they had been when I 1st saw them and stoped there - looking like stars again. When these things stopped they stopped instantly! Now for some reason unknown to me, the 2 jets went after the 2 UFO's that kept going, not the ones that had stopped(??) The entire show happened in just about 20-25 seconds. I kept watching but nothing else happened so I went inside as it was geting chilly. So, thats it - absolutely true. Unfortunately they were too far away to make out any kind of shape - they just looked like big lights in the night sky! I was so lucky to look up just at the right time to see them. ((deleted)) - San Diego, Ca. ==========================================================================
((NUFORC Note: We presume the witness meant to indicate date of 18NO99. We have corrected it here.))
Shape: Light
Duration: 25-30 secs
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,391,811 | 5,199,800 | 32.71571 | 5,189,469 | -117.16472 | null | NUFORC | S11037 | '-25':244 '-30':330 '-6':160 '18no99':320 '1st':194 '2':26,124,219,224 '20':243 '25':329 '4':53,143 '5':159 '99':34 'absolut':265 'afterburn':132 'aircraft':335,340 'away':272 'back':148,186 'big':78,284 'bound':28 'ca':308 'came':23,115 'characterist':332 'chase':341 'chilli':261 'cigerett':73 'close':141 'come':126,153 'correct':323 'could':139 'coupl':179 'dark':39 'date':318 'delet':305 'diego':307 'direct':21 'discrib':49 'durat':328 'ea':9,15 'els':251 'entir':237 'exact':59 'far':271 'fast':169 'field':86 'four':1,54,101 'full':131 'get':140 'gete':260 'go':229 'happen':67,239,252 'head':30,133 'heard':121 'hour':37 'indic':317 'insid':256 'instant':210 'jet':29,125,138,220 'kept':228,247 'kind':277 'land':88 'light':3,102,285,327 'like':103,111,117,201,283 'lindberg':85 'liner':80 'look':200,282,295 'lucki':293 'made':93 'make':274 'meant':315 'move':7,100,107 'next':119 'night':288 'north':129 'note':310 'noth':250 'nov.18th':33 'nuforc':309 'object':343 'one':232 'outsid':70 'passeng':79 'presum':312 'reach':14 'reason':214 'return':18 'right':300 'san':306 'saw':44,92,123,195 'sec':180,331 'second':161,245 'see':303 'shape':279,326 'show':238 'sight':175 'sky':5,289 'smoke':71 'south':27 'star':99,104,202 'stars/ufo':144 'start':105 'stationari':2 'stop':207,209,235 'stope':198 'sudden':6,89 'swear':61 'that':263 'thier':82 'thing':206 'think':95 'time':301 'togeth':116,156 'tonight':42 'took':146 'toward':8,31,108,134 'true':64,266 'two':162,184 'ufo':51,165,225 'unfortun':267 'unknown':215 'until':11 'vicin':338 'watch':76,248 'way':83,150 'went':167,185,221,255 'wit':314 | null | 349 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 20:00:00.0 | 11/18/1999 20:00 (Entered as : ll/18/99 20:00) | i was facing due south when i saw a ruby red light speed by horizontally,just above the trees, going from west to east.
because of the nature of my sons birth defects and illnesses i am trained to report what i see accurately, without embellishment. this the only way a doctor can make an accurate diagnosis. on the night of ll/18/1999, i witnessed a bright, ruby red light traveling at a high rate of speed,going from west to east. it appeared to be at a height just above the tree tops. this whole sighting lasted no more than 3 seconds.i was standing on the porch in front of my house. my two sons,22 and 24 years old, were facing me, talking with me. by the time i said,"did you see that?", and they turned around, it was gone. it didn't dissapear. it was no longer visible from my vantage point, as the trees were in the way.
Shape: Light
Duration: 3 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | FLORIDA | 4,171,563 | 5,199,825 | 27.77086 | 5,197,526 | -82.67927 | null | NUFORC | S11053 | '22':116 '24':118 '3':101,166 'accur':44,56 'appear':83 'around':139 'birth':32 'bright':66 'characterist':168 'defect':33 'diagnosi':57 'didn':144 'dissapear':146 'doctor':52 'due':4 'durat':165 'east':24,81 'embellish':46 'face':3,122 'front':109 'go':20,77 'gone':142 'height':88 'high':73 'horizont':15 'hous':112 'ill':35 'last':97 'light':12,69,164,171 'll/18/1999':62 'longer':150 'make':54 'natur':28 'night':60 'object':174 'old':120 'point':155 'porch':107 'rate':74 'red':11,68 'report':40 'rubi':10,67 'said':131 'saw':8 'second':167 'seconds.i':102 'see':43,134 'shape':163 'sight':96 'son':31,115 'south':5 'speed':13,76 'stand':104 'talk':124 'time':129 'top':93 'train':38 'travel':70 'tree':19,92,158 'turn':138 'two':114 'vantag':154 'visibl':151 'way':50,162 'west':22,79 'whole':95 'wit':64 'without':45 'year':119 | null | 169 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 19:15:00.0 | 11/18/1999 19:15 (Entered as : 11/18/99 19:15) | I observed an bright object in the sky with a glittering tail - nothing unusual you say, but it was traveling NORTHWARD. After 15 minutes while the object was hidden from my sight behind tall buildings, I saw it again and it was traveling parallel to the earth - tipping a bit northward without losing its llumination. I initially dismissed this incident until I read about the numerous sightings the next day - about a meteor shower in the MID WEST. I still find it odd that a meteor would be observed in NJ, and a specific meteor would be traveling at a slow speed north-east for 15 minutes - the sighting I saw could have originated off the NJ coastline. which houses numerous military facilities. ilitary s- off the NJ coast near a military installation.before I dismissed it as another object - until I read the numerous accounts of odd sightings in the midwest. This observance was from Edison, NJ at approximately 7:10=7:15pm.
My husband and I and our 6yr old (and 18 month old) were driving home from my in-laws in Edison to our home in Colonia, NJ. As a passenger in the front seat, I looked out the right front window and saw an odd sight up in the sky. A traveling, silent light, intense as the North Star ((sic)), was at an equal altitude of the plane traffic in and out of Newark airport, NJ. My husband said I probably just saw a shooting star but I've seen a few shooting stars in my lifetime and this was different. My 6yr old in the back right hand seat said it was comet (he didn't see it initally). For about 3 minutes we passed tall buildings near Metropark train station that blocked this unusual light's view. After we passed the tall buildings, I looked up in the sky, not thinking it would still be there (I thought it was also a firework or a comet). However, the sparkling tail heading almost parallel to the earth, tipped a bit northward at the same altitude I originally saw it. My 6 yr old then saw it. My husband was busy driving and just saw one of the many airplanes that were escorting this object. The next evening I went to www.sightings.com,(as I do most every day) and read about all the articles where people in the mid west experienced odd sightings. My husband called me later in the day and said that it was on the news I probably saw a meteor - I can still in my mind see the strange object flying northward - When we arrived in our driveway, I saw about 6 (what looked like airplanes) surrounding this odd illuminated object. ... can a comet fly northward for 15 minutes? Can a shooting star fly northward also? Can a firework continue for 15 minutes without losing illumination or speed?
Shape: Light
Duration: approx. 15 minutes
Characteristics: The object left a trail | NEW JERSEY | 5,097,529 | 5,199,794 | 40.51872 | 5,205,711 | -74.4121 | null | NUFORC | S11034 | '10':162 '15':23,107,467,481,492 '15pm':164 '18':174 '3':288 '6':357,451 '6yr':171,268 '7':161,163 'account':146 'airplan':375,455 'airport':240 'almost':339 'also':328,475 'altitud':230,351 'anoth':139 'approx':491 'approxim':160 'arriv':444 'articl':399 'back':272 'behind':33 'bit':50,346 'block':299 'bright':4 'build':35,293,310 'busi':366 'call':411 'characterist':494 'coast':130 'coastlin':119 'colonia':191 'comet':279,333,463 'continu':479 'could':113 'day':70,393,416 'didn':281 'differ':266 'dismiss':58,136 'drive':178,367 'driveway':447 'durat':490 'earth':47,343 'east':105 'edison':157,186 'equal':229 'escort':378 'even':383 'everi':392 'experienc':406 'facil':124 'find':81 'firework':330,478 'fli':440,464,473 'front':198,205 'glitter':11 'hand':274 'head':338 'hidden':29 'home':179,189 'hous':121 'howev':334 'husband':166,243,364,410 'ilitari':125 'illumin':459,485 'in-law':182 'incid':60 'init':285 'initi':57 'installation.before':134 'intens':220 'later':413 'law':184 'left':497 'lifetim':262 'light':219,302,489 'like':454 'llumin':55 'look':201,312,453 'lose':53,484 'mani':374 'meteor':73,86,95,429 'metropark':295 'mid':77,404 'midwest':152 'militari':123,133 'mind':435 'minut':24,108,289,468,482,493 'month':175 'near':131,294 'newark':239 'news':424 'next':69,382 'nj':91,118,129,158,192,241 'north':104,223 'north-east':103 'northward':21,51,347,441,465,474 'noth':13 'numer':66,122,145 'object':5,27,140,380,439,460,496 'observ':2,89,154 'odd':83,148,210,407,458 'old':172,176,269,359 'one':371 'origin':115,353 'parallel':44,340 'pass':291,307 'passeng':195 'peopl':401 'plane':233 'probabl':246,426 'read':63,143,395 'right':204,273 'said':244,276,418 'saw':37,112,208,248,354,361,370,427,449 'say':16 'seat':199,275 'see':283,436 'seen':255 'shape':488 'shoot':250,258,471 'shower':74 'sic':225 'sight':32,67,110,149,211,408 'silent':218 'sky':8,215,316 'slow':101 'sparkl':336 'specif':94 'speed':102,487 'star':224,251,259,472 'station':297 'still':80,321,432 'strang':438 'surround':456 'tail':12,337 'tall':34,292,309 'think':318 'thought':325 'tip':48,344 'traffic':234 'trail':499 'train':296 'travel':20,43,98,217 'unusu':14,301 've':254 'view':304 'went':385 'west':78,405 'window':206 'without':52,483 'would':87,96,320 'www.sightings.com':387 'yr':358 | null | 496 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 18:00:00.0 | 11/18/1999 18:00 (Entered as : 11/18/99 18:00) | silent large titanium colored craft with black windows
Was standing in my yard looking at 5/8 moon. As I looked there was a craft moving from left to right. At first, I thought it must be airliner, but no vertical stabilizer, then no wings, no engines. No sound, no trail. Figure it was 10 thousand ft altitude, maybe 5 miles away. Almost a thumb width at arm's length. The color was that of a titanium golf iron or wood, very polished and seemed to be reflecting the sun. But the sun was nearly down, and the craft was not in a position to reflect any sunlight towards me. Craft was moving NE to SW; climbing at say 20% and accelerated out of sight. I've seen a drawing of this craft somewhere, probably a book.
Shape: Disk
Duration: 10 sec | GEORGIA | 4,188,377 | 5,199,872 | 34.59704 | 5,205,589 | -83.76324 | null | NUFORC | S11080 | '10':54,140 '20':119 '5':59 '5/8':16 'acceler':121 'airlin':37 'almost':62 'altitud':57 'arm':67 'away':61 'black':7 'book':136 'climb':116 'color':4,71 'craft':5,24,98,110,132 'disk':138 'draw':129 'durat':139 'engin':46 'figur':51 'first':31 'ft':56 'golf':77 'iron':78 'larg':2 'left':27 'length':69 'look':14,20 'mayb':58 'mile':60 'moon':17 'move':25,112 'must':35 'ne':113 'near':94 'polish':82 'posit':103 'probabl':134 'reflect':87,105 'right':29 'say':118 'sec':141 'seem':84 'seen':127 'shape':137 'sight':124 'silent':1 'somewher':133 'sound':48 'stabil':41 'stand':10 'sun':89,92 'sunlight':107 'sw':115 'thought':33 'thousand':55 'thumb':64 'titanium':3,76 'toward':108 'trail':50 've':126 'vertic':40 'width':65 'window':8 'wing':44 'wood':80 'yard':13 | null | 139 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 05:45:00.0 | 11/18/1999 05:45 (Entered as : 11/18/99 5:45) | We were lying on the ground watching the meteor shower and the stars, when one star appeared to get brighter and started moving what appeared to be N making a turn that appeared to be upward to what we thought was a star then looping back & moving N to another star(?) doing the same looping up and then back & moving N this time for several seconds be for doing the looping toward another star(?) and onward N as it went out of sight.
About 30 to 40 min. we were lying on the ground with our feet W and our heads E,watching the sky's meteor shower. We saw quite a few meteors, all of which crossed the sky from ne to sw. I said do you see that? That star is moving. She said, yeah, I see it jumping around. I said that's not a star, I grabbed the binoculars by this time it had moved about 15 to 20 degrees from center sky to the right which was N. Through the binoculars all I could see was a bright star like glowing light moving N. I put the binoculars down and looking back up said where is it? She said, pointing about another 20 degrees N, it's right there. And we watched as it moved out of sight. She said it could have been a plane. I said Oh come on, we've been lying here watching it, thinking it was a star all this time it wasn't a plane. Look there's a meteor. The meteor shot across the sky which appeared to be the same section where the UFO moved from. She said I know but that's what everybody would say it was. I said Oh, what time is it, looking at my watch, it's a quarter to 6, I'm calling the UFO hotline because it wasn't a plane, what kind of plane do we have that could stay in one spot appearing to be a star, then start glowing brighter and moving doing loops looking like it's moving from one star looping and going to another star looping going straight for a second or two and looping and going out of sight. She said I know, I saw it, it looked like a bee flitting from flower to flower and then moving on. Time 6:00...I said are you believeing that there's another one. Only this time it moved sw about 20 degrees and disappeared. It is still dark and clear no clouds. Time 6:25...She said look there's another one. This one was more to the left. It moved about 30 degrees to the left, which appeared to be moving in a straight line. Time 6:30...She got up and pointing to the E she said there's the brightest star I've ever seen. I looked up and to the E, Oh that's the N star. The sun getting read up come up. I'm still lying watching the the stars in the sky. She came back, and I said well the N star is comming up but these stars are not moving with the rest of the sky. Then I realized these were satellites or appeared to be satellites since they were not moving. She said that many. There was 6 to 8 scattered across the sky. I had heard about how you could tell which were satellites and which were stars, but this was the first time for me to visually see the satellites. Now the N star is almost over head to the W there are clouds forming. To the E the sun was starting to brighten the sky. It has been a very long time since I have taken the time to lie out under the stars and just watch the sky. It was a very interesting. I've always felt UFO's were out there but now I know for sure. I'VE SEEN ONE! Not up close but they are there! December the 12, 13, or 14, the next know meteor shower, I plan to lie under the stars and again watch the sky from the same spot. Who knows what I might see?
Shape: Light
Duration: 30-45 sec.
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object | TEXAS | null | 5,199,807 | null | 5,211,364 | null | null | NUFORC | S11042 | '-45':717 '00':400 '12':682 '13':683 '14':685 '15':161 '20':163,208,418 '25':432 '30':85,450,466,716 '40':87 '6':309,399,431,465,564 '8':566 'across':265,568 'almost':604 'alway':656 'anoth':50,73,207,360,409,438 'appear':17,25,33,269,335,456,549 'around':142,732 'aura':729 'back':46,59,197,519 'bee':388 'believ':405 'binocular':153,176,193 'bright':183 'brighten':622 'brighter':20,343 'brightest':480 'call':312 'came':518 'center':166 'characterist':719 'clear':427 'close':675 'cloud':429,612 'com':528 'come':235,504 'could':179,227,330,577 'cross':118 'dark':425 'decemb':680 'degre':164,209,419,451 'disappear':421 'durat':715 'e':102,474,492,616 'ever':484 'everybodi':288 'feet':97 'felt':657 'first':590 'flit':389 'flower':391,393 'form':613 'get':19,501 'glow':186,342 'go':358,363,373 'got':468 'grab':151 'ground':6,94 'haze':731 'head':101,606 'heard':573 'hotlin':315 'interest':653 'jump':141 'kind':323 'know':283,380,666,688,708 'left':446,454 'lie':3,91,240,509,639,694 'light':187,714,722 'like':185,349,386 'line':463 'long':630 'look':196,257,300,348,385,435,487 'loop':45,55,71,347,356,362,371 'm':311,507 'make':29 'mani':561 'meteor':9,107,114,261,263,689 'might':711 'min':88 'move':23,47,60,134,159,188,220,278,345,352,396,415,448,459,535,557 'n':28,48,61,77,173,189,210,497,525,601 'ne':122 'next':687 'object':725,734 'oh':234,295,493 'one':15,333,354,410,439,441,672 'onward':76 'plan':692 'plane':231,256,321,325 'point':205,471 'put':191 'quarter':307 'quit':111 'read':502 'realiz':544 'rest':538 'right':170,213 'said':126,136,144,199,204,225,233,281,294,378,402,434,476,522,559 'satellit':547,552,581,598 'saw':110,382 'say':290 'scatter':567 'sec':718 'second':66,367 'section':274 'see':129,139,180,596,712 'seen':485,671 'sever':65 'shape':713 'shot':264 'shower':10,108,690 'sight':83,223,376 'sinc':553,632 'sky':105,120,167,267,516,541,570,624,648,702 'spot':334,706 'star':13,16,43,51,74,132,149,184,248,339,355,361,481,498,513,526,532,585,602,643,697 'start':22,341,620 'stay':331 'still':424,508 'straight':364,462 'sun':500,618 'sure':668 'sw':124,416 'taken':635 'tell':578 'think':244 'thought':40 'time':63,156,251,297,398,413,430,464,591,631,637 'toward':72 'turn':31 'two':369 'ufo':277,314,658 'upward':36 've':238,483,655,670 'visual':595 'w':98,609 'wasn':253,318 'watch':7,103,217,242,303,510,646,700 'well':523 'went':80 'would':289 'yeah':137 | null | 708 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 03:20:00.0 | 11/18/1999 03:20 (Entered as : 11/18/99 03:20) | large, boomerang shaped craft....no lights, completely black...no noise..flew over us...north to south direction(approx.)..very fast
While laying on my roof watching the meteor shower, my friend and I noticed a large, boomerang shaped object flying at a high rate of speed directly over Redding, CA. This object was large, completely black...no lights of any kind showed, and made no noise. The craft never strayed from its single course, and disappeared in the horizon when the city lights were too bright for us to see it anymore. It came from the north...flying south...maybe southwest. The whole experience lasted no longer than 30 seconds from the initial sighting to losing track of the object.
Shape: Other
Duration: 15-30 seconds | CALIFORNIA | 5,570,160 | 5,199,888 | 40.58654 | 5,195,095 | -122.39168 | null | NUFORC | S11090 | '-30':125 '15':124 '30':109 'anymor':92 'approx':18 'black':8,56 'boomerang':2,37 'bright':86 'ca':50 'came':94 'citi':82 'complet':7,55 'cours':74 'craft':4,68 'direct':17,47 'disappear':76 'durat':123 'experi':104 'fast':20 'flew':11 'fli':40,98 'friend':31 'high':43 'horizon':79 'initi':113 'kind':61 'larg':1,36,54 'last':105 'lay':22 'light':6,58,83 'longer':107 'lose':116 'made':64 'mayb':100 'meteor':28 'never':69 'nois':10,66 'north':14,97 'notic':34 'object':39,52,120 'rate':44 'red':49 'roof':25 'second':110,126 'see':90 'shape':3,38,121 'show':62 'shower':29 'sight':114 'singl':73 'south':16,99 'southwest':101 'speed':46 'stray':70 'track':117 'us':13,88 'watch':26 'whole':103 | null | 116 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 02:18:00.0 | 11/18/1999 02:18 (Entered as : 11/18/99 02:18) | V shaped formation of approximately 7 lights obseved for 2 seconds. Formation approx 2 1/2 fingers wide, seen for 30 deg. of arc. No sound.
While watching for meteorites, observed V shaped formation of about seven lights at 2:18 am going SSE toward San Diego, CA at 30 deg from azimuth to 60 deg from azimuth going straight away. Formation was dim and would not have been seen without having been looking at the general location. The V shaped formation was like a migrating geese formation or the leading edge of a YF117. However the formation was about 2 1/2 fingers wide, which would have been close for an airplane, but there was no sound. The formation would have passed overhead, but it wasn't observed until 30 deg from azimuth. Also, it would be unlikely to observe leading edge lights while going away. Time of observation was 1 to 2 seconds. Enclosed angle of formation, about 70 deg. I could not tell if starlight was blocked out within the formation. I'm a conservative aerospace structures engineer, 60+ years old, first UFO sighting.
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 2 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,334,223 | 5,199,785 | 33.15809 | 5,211,342 | -117.35059 | null | NUFORC | S11027 | '1':150 '1/2':15,101 '18':40 '2':10,14,39,100,152,189 '30':20,49,129 '60':54,180 '7':6 '70':159 'aerospac':177 'aircraft':200,205 'airplan':111 'also':133 'angl':155 'approx':13 'approxim':5 'arc':23 'away':60,145 'azimuth':52,57,132 'block':168 'ca':47 'characterist':191 'chase':206 'close':108 'conserv':176 'could':162 'deg':21,50,55,130,160 'diego':46 'dim':63 'durat':188 'edg':91,141 'enclos':154 'engin':179 'finger':16,102 'first':183 'format':3,12,33,61,81,87,97,118,157,172 'gees':86 'general':76 'go':42,58,144 'howev':95 'lead':90,140 'light':7,37,142,194 'like':83 'locat':77 'look':73 'm':174 'meteorit':29 'migrat':85 'object':197,208 'observ':30,127,139,148 'obsev':8 'old':182 'overhead':122 'pass':121 'san':45 'second':11,153,190 'seen':18,69 'seven':36 'shape':2,32,80,186 'sight':185 'sound':25,116 'sse':43 'starlight':166 'straight':59 'structur':178 'tell':164 'time':146 'toward':44 'triangl':187 'ufo':184 'unlik':137 'v':1,31,79 'vicin':203 'wasn':125 'watch':27 'wide':17,103 'within':170 'without':70 'would':65,105,119,135 'year':181 'yf117':94 | null | 205 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 01:50:00.0 | 11/18/1999 01:50 (Entered as : 11/18/99 0150) | While on patrol in my police cruiser I noticed a dark object coming from the east. As it grew closer I noticed it was triangular in shape. It made a banking turn and continued north and out of sight.
I am a police officer for a suburb of Columbus, OH. I had a ride-along passenger, who is a reserve officer for another agency in the area. We were attempting to find a dark area within the city to observe the Leonid Meteor Shower as it was a slow night. We had driven back into a railroad yard and stopped the cruiser. We had been there no longer than five minutes when I noticed an object coming from east to west just west of downtown Columbus. At first I assumed it was an airplane. I quickly realized this was not the case. It appeared similar in shape to an F-117 Stealth Fighter as it approached head-on. I say this because it seemed to have similar sharp angled features. After watching it for about 5-10 seconds I told my partner to get out of the car as I was doing the same. I pointed in it's direction and said "Do you see that thing?" He too spotted the object just before it began to make a slow right banking turn. As it turned, it showed it's underside completely to us. It appeared to be an equalateral triangle shape. There were no flashing lights of any kind on the craft. It's underside had some sort of distortion to it almost as if it were camaflouged. There was absolutely no sound coming from the craft. It appeared to be relatively close to us and I actually tried to shine my spotlight on it to light it up but it was too far away to be illuminated by it. We often have the police helicopter fly by as we are close to the heliport and it was much larger in size comparison than the helicopter although it appeared to be at a similar altitude. After completing it's turn it leveled off and continued north having just made a 90 degree turn. It was travelling slowly across the sky; slower than the helicopter would to use it as a comparison again. It just seemed to glide as a stingray does through the ocean. It disappeared out of sight to the north of our location. I called another officer to meet me and we told him about the incident. He suggested I call Port Columbus Airport. I end! ed up ca lling the Airport Police and identified myself to them and asked if there was anyway they could find out if the tower had anything unidentified on their radar. After being on hold for a couple minutes the dispatcher advised me she'd been in touch with Tracon and they had nothing unusual on their radar in the time frame I'd reported. I cannot say what the craft was but I can say it was like nothing I've ever seen and the odd part is that it was completely silent. I have seen and F-117 fly and I know they are quite loud. I can also say with 100% certainty it was not any type of meteor. It was close enough to us that we could distinctly see it's edges and shape although it was not self illuminated. I could not say for sure what color it was as it just appeared dark in the sky. It would have been very easy to miss had we not been looking right at it. I am truly baffled by what we saw.
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 20 seconds | OHIO | 4,509,177 | 5,199,833 | 39.96118 | 5,188,517 | -82.99879 | null | NUFORC | S11057 | '-10':179 '-117':152,531 '100':545 '20':621 '5':178 '90':364 'absolut':274 'across':371 'actual':291 'advis':473 'agenc':65 'airplan':135 'airport':429,437 'almost':266 'along':56 'also':542 'although':340,570 'altitud':348 'angl':171 'anoth':64,411 'anyth':458 'anyway':449 'appear':145,238,282,342,589 'approach':157 'area':68,76 'ask':445 'assum':131 'attempt':71 'away':308 'back':95 'baffl':613 'bank':31,224 'began':218 'ca':434 'call':410,426 'camafloug':271 'cannot':498 'car':190 'case':143 'certainti':546 'citi':79 'close':286,325,556 'closer':20 'color':583 'columbus':49,127,428 'come':13,118,277 'comparison':336,384 'complet':234,350,524 'continu':34,358 'could':451,562,577 'coupl':469 'craft':255,280,502 'cruiser':7,103 'd':476,495 'dark':11,75,590 'degre':365 'direct':202 'disappear':399 'dispatch':472 'distinct':563 'distort':263 'downtown':126 'driven':94 'durat':620 'easi':599 'east':16,120 'ed':432 'edg':567 'end':431 'enough':557 'equalater':242 'ever':514 'f':151,530 'far':307 'featur':172 'fighter':154 'find':73,452 'first':129 'five':111 'flash':248 'fli':320,532 'frame':493 'get':186 'glide':390 'grew':19 'head':159 'head-on':158 'helicopt':319,339,377 'heliport':328 'hold':466 'identifi':440 'illumin':311,575 'incid':422 'kind':252 'know':535 'larger':333 'leonid':83 'level':355 'light':249,300 'like':510 'lling':435 'locat':408 'longer':109 'look':606 'loud':539 'made':29,362 'make':220 'meet':414 'meteor':84,553 'minut':112,470 'miss':601 'much':332 'night':91 'north':35,359,405 'noth':485,511 'notic':9,22,115 'object':12,117,214 'observ':81 'ocean':397 'odd':518 'offic':44,62,412 'often':315 'oh':50 'part':519 'partner':184 'passeng':57 'patrol':3 'point':198 'polic':6,43,318,438 'port':427 'quick':137 'quit':538 'radar':462,489 'railroad':98 'realiz':138 'relat':285 'report':496 'reserv':61 'ride':55 'ride-along':54 'right':223,607 'said':204 'saw':617 'say':162,499,507,543,579 'second':180,622 'see':207,564 'seem':166,388 'seen':515,528 'self':574 'shape':27,148,244,569,618 'sharp':170 'shine':294 'show':230 'shower':85 'sight':39,402 'silent':525 'similar':146,169,347 'size':335 'sky':373,593 'slow':90,222 'slower':374 'slowli':370 'sort':261 'sound':276 'spot':212 'spotlight':296 'stealth':153 'stingray':393 'stop':101 'suburb':47 'suggest':424 'sure':581 'thing':209 'time':492 'told':182,418 'touch':479 'tower':456 'tracon':481 'travel':369 'tri':292 'triangl':243,619 'triangular':25 'truli':612 'turn':32,225,228,353,366 'type':551 'undersid':233,258 'unidentifi':459 'unusu':486 'us':236,288,559 'use':380 've':513 'watch':174 'west':122,124 'within':77 'would':378,595 'yard':99 | null | 607 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 01:20:00.0 | 11/18/1999 01:20 (Entered as : 11/18/99 01:20CST) | see below
I was watching for the Leonid meteors this morning. Between 1:15 A.M. and 1:20 A.M., I observed 3 pale orange lights in a perfect triangle. At first, I thought they were 3 meteors. I first noticed them just behind Orion's belt. They were moving at a constant rate of speed due west. They left NO tail. The formation DID NOT change shape in any form. At arm's length, there was about 1/2 inch between the lights. If they were at extreme altitude, at the speed they were moving, there should have been a sonic boom. At lower altitude, if an airplane, I would have heard the engine sound and didn't. I watched them for about 15 seconds until they faded from sight just south of the bright star about 40 degrees to the west of Orion. They moved this 40 degree distance in approximately 15 seconds. They were NOT meteors!!
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 15 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | TEXAS | 4,699,066 | 5,199,840 | 29.76328 | 5,188,416 | -95.36327 | null | NUFORC | S11061 | '1':13,17 '1/2':78 '15':14,123,152,161 '20':18 '3':22,36 '40':137,147 'a.m':15,19 'airplan':107 'altitud':88,104 'approxim':151 'arm':72 'behind':43 'belt':46 'boom':101 'bright':134 'chang':66 'characterist':163 'constant':52 'degre':138,148 'didn':116 'distanc':149 'due':56 'durat':160 'engin':113 'extrem':87 'fade':127 'first':31,39 'form':70 'format':63 'heard':111 'inch':79 'left':59 'length':74 'leonid':8 'light':25,82,166 'lower':103 'meteor':9,37,157 'morn':11 'move':49,94,145 'notic':40 'object':169 'observ':21 'orang':24 'orion':44,143 'pale':23 'perfect':28 'rate':53 'second':124,153,162 'see':1 'shape':67,158 'sight':129 'sonic':100 'sound':114 'south':131 'speed':55,91 'star':135 'tail':61 'thought':33 'triangl':29,159 'watch':5,119 'west':57,141 'would':109 | null | 164 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 01:00:00.0 | 11/18/1999 01:00 (Entered as : 11/18/99 01:00am) | I was looking for meteors. Saw a grey shadow coming out of the east, heading Northwest. It appeared to be a dark grey shape, like a wing, just a bit lighter than the sky. Perhaps it was a B-2?
All the object did was fly across the sky. I was observing from a point about 1 mile west and slightly south of the Ohio State University. It took about 15 seconds. I didn't hear any noise. Though it was shaped like a wing (flying wing/boomerang/triangle are ways to describe it), and it was dark grey overall, there were lighter markings as well (lighter grey specks) -- perhaps camoflage paint? (Again, I'm assuming this was a Stealth bomber) I couldn't judge its distance, but it was about the size, relatively to my perspective, of the three stars in Orion's belt)
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 15 seconds | OHIO | 4,509,177 | 5,199,803 | 39.96118 | 5,188,517 | -82.99879 | null | NUFORC | S11039 | '-2':40 '1':57 '15':71,147 'across':47 'appear':18 'assum':114 'b':39 'belt':143 'bit':30 'bomber':119 'camoflag':109 'come':10 'couldn':121 'dark':22,96 'describ':91 'didn':74 'distanc':125 'durat':146 'east':14 'fli':46,86 'grey':8,23,97,106 'head':15 'hear':76 'judg':123 'lighter':31,101,105 'like':25,83 'look':3 'm':113 'mark':102 'meteor':5 'mile':58 'nois':78 'northwest':16 'object':43 'observ':52 'ohio':65 'orion':141 'overal':98 'paint':110 'perhap':35,108 'perspect':135 'point':55 'relat':132 'saw':6 'second':72,148 'shadow':9 'shape':24,82,144 'size':131 'sky':34,49 'slight':61 'south':62 'speck':107 'star':139 'state':66 'stealth':118 'though':79 'three':138 'took':69 'triangl':145 'univers':67 'way':89 'well':104 'west':59 'wing':27,85 'wing/boomerang/triangle':87 | null | 144 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 00:25:00.0 | 11/18/1999 00:25 (Entered as : 11/18/99 00:25) | Red star-sized light appeared from Big Dipper area, then joined by 2 more which interacted for 10 seconds, formed points of a triangle, moved swiftly across sky to the South.
On 11/18/99 at 12:25 a.m. in clear weather in Braintree, MA while observing a meteor shower from out of doors I witnessed a red, star-sized light appear in the area of the Big Dipper. After a few seconds it was joined by two more. They appeared to interact together for about 10 seconds and then formed into the shape of a triangle for about 3 seconds and then moved swiftly across the sky to the South. I lost site of them as they passed directly over the roof of my house. The movements appeared to be extremely organized and deliberate and I got the strong sense that I was being observed in some manner. I have never experienced anything like this and feel quite disturbed by it. I am a 38 year old male with a bachelor's degree and am in management in the Human Services field.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness, and found him to be quite convincing. He has some experience in viewing the night sky, and his description of the event he witnessed was quite precise.))
Shape: Light
Duration: 20 seconds | MASSACHUSETTS | 7,257,540 | 5,199,779 | 42.20384 | 5,189,226 | -71.00215 | null | NUFORC | S11024 | '10':19,87 '11/18/99':34 '12':36 '2':14 '20':221 '25':37 '3':100 '38':166 'a.m':38 'across':28,106 'anyth':154 'appear':6,62,81,129 'area':10,65 'bachelor':172 'big':8,68 'braintre':43 'clear':40 'convinc':197 'degre':174 'deliber':135 'descript':209 'dipper':9,69 'direct':120 'disturb':160 'door':53 'durat':220 'event':212 'experi':201 'experienc':153 'extrem':132 'feel':158 'field':183 'form':21,91 'found':192 'got':138 'hous':126 'human':181 'interact':17,83 'join':12,76 'light':5,61,219 'like':155 'lost':113 'ma':44 'male':169 'manag':178 'manner':149 'meteor':48 'move':26,104 'movement':128 'never':152 'night':205 'note':185 'nuforc':184 'observ':46,146 'old':168 'organ':133 'pass':119 'point':22 'precis':217 'quit':159,196,216 'red':1,57 'roof':123 'second':20,73,88,101,222 'sens':141 'servic':182 'shape':94,218 'shower':49 'site':114 'size':4,60 'sky':29,108,206 'south':32,111 'spoke':187 'star':3,59 'star-siz':2,58 'strong':140 'swift':27,105 'togeth':84 'triangl':25,97 'two':78 'view':203 'weather':41 'wit':55,190,214 'year':167 | null | 216 |
null | US | 1999-11-18 00:18:00.0 | 11/18/1999 00:18 (Entered as : 11/18/99 00:18) | Viewed craft with hot pink coloration in the south west the craft was similar to the one reported at 21:35 on 11/17/99. It also was seen to blink out after a couple of minuets.
My friend, my wife and a physician from the local hospital were looking at the Leonids when we saw a hot pink ball of light above the tree tops to the south west rise up and zig-zag across the sky. We watched for about a minuet or two and it to blinked out of sight in the middle of the sky like the first sighting earlier that evening. This sighting occurred approximately three hours and some odd minuets after the first sighting which we phoned in. The difference in this sighting is we had more witnesses this time. The physician has a good knowledge of the stars and was at a loss for words about the sighting. It was almost as if he didn't want to believe what he saw.
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 1 minute | MISSISSIPPI | 4,447,557 | 5,199,861 | 31.41739 | 5,211,328 | -89.54229 | null | NUFORC | S11074 | '1':172 '11/17/99':23 '21':20 '35':21 'across':75 'almost':157 'also':25 'approxim':109 'ball':58 'believ':165 'blink':29,89 'color':6 'coupl':33 'craft':2,12 'didn':161 'differ':125 'durat':171 'earlier':103 'even':105 'first':101,118 'friend':37 'good':140 'hospit':46 'hot':4,56 'hour':111 'knowledg':141 'leonid':51 'light':60 'like':99 'local':45 'look':48 'loss':149 'middl':95 'minuet':35,83,115 'minut':173 'occur':108 'odd':114 'one':17 'phone':122 'physician':42,137 'pink':5,57 'report':18 'rise':69 'saw':54,168 'seen':27 'shape':169 'sight':92,102,107,119,128,154 'similar':14 'sky':77,98 'south':9,67 'star':144 'three':110 'time':135 'top':64 'tree':63 'two':85 'unknown':170 'view':1 'want':163 'watch':79 'west':10,68 'wife':39 'wit':133 'word':151 'zag':74 'zig':73 'zig-zag':72 | null | 169 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 22:15:00.0 | 11/17/1999 22:15 (Entered as : 11/17/99 22:15) | saw an orange transparent light darting around the sky behind and over the trees behind my house!
i went outside to look for the leonid shower, started around the east side of the house noticed a orange light,about the size of a basket ball held at arms length, darting around in all directions over the trees ,then it shot down behind the trees,still visible, went west for about a mile, changed direction came back east in a zigzag patern,VERY FAST,to about the same area as i first sighted it, then eather went down or to the north, then came tword me or up, i think it was tword me because it got bigger then went back north or down twards the ground and disapeared. i yelled for the kids to hurry outside, thay came out and saw it to.
Shape: Light
Duration: 2minutes or less
Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object | MISSOURI | 4,375,172 | 5,199,781 | 37.31533 | 5,211,338 | -93.5852 | null | NUFORC | S11025 | '2minutes':147 'area':88 'arm':48 'around':7,28,51,157 'aura':154 'back':76,120 'ball':45 'basket':44 'behind':10,15,62 'bigger':117 'came':75,103,138 'chang':73 'characterist':150 'dart':6,50 'direct':54,74 'disapear':128 'durat':146 'east':30,77 'eather':95 'fast':83 'first':91 'got':116 'ground':126 'haze':156 'held':46 'hous':17,34 'hurri':135 'kid':133 'length':49 'leonid':25 'less':149 'light':5,38,145 'look':22 'mile':72 'north':101,121 'notic':35 'object':159 'orang':3,37 'outsid':20,136 'patern':81 'saw':1,141 'shape':144 'shot':60 'shower':26 'side':31 'sight':92 'size':41 'sky':9 'start':27 'still':65 'thay':137 'think':109 'transpar':4 'tree':14,57,64 'tward':124 'tword':104,112 'visibl':66 'went':19,67,96,119 'west':68 'yell':130 'zigzag':80 | null | 155 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 22:00:00.0 | 11/17/1999 22:00 (Entered as : 11/17/99 22:00) | Object seen flashing brillant colors, moved slightly from north to south. Appears to be surrounded by a haze, could not definitely say the shape but looking through with binoculars it appeared to be cylindrical.
Wednesday, November 17, 1999 My sister and I were looking out the window to see we if could see the meteor showers. Living across the Hudson River in NJ from NYC we knew our chances our were slim since NYC is so lit up. But for about an hour we are watched this light in the sky above NYC. It flashed colors of bright blue to green to yellow to red and then repeated itself. I have been to Pine Bush, NY and a few times we thought we saw something when we realized it was a star affected by the atmosphere. But this was different. I focused on larger stars and the atmosphere was not affecting them like this one. It was not moving towards or away from the horizon. It moved slightly north to south and was, and I am guessing at this, about 3 miles above the skyline. Planes landing at NYC airports were below it. We tried to focus with bincolars but it was too far away to get any definite shape but it appeared to be cylindrical. We watched this for approximately an hour. The next two nights we looked for it again but did not see it. The planet Venus? and the moon were visable.
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 1 hour
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object changed color, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | NEW JERSEY | 5,096,686 | 5,199,822 | 40.82149 | 5,211,379 | -73.98764 | null | NUFORC | S11051 | '1':249 '17':37 '1999':38 '3':181 'across':58 'affect':133,151 'aircraft':273,278 'airport':190 'appear':12,31,213 'approxim':221 'around':264 'atmospher':136,148 'aura':261 'away':162,205 'bincolar':199 'binocular':29 'blue':99 'bright':98 'brillant':4 'bush':115 'chanc':69 'chang':269 'characterist':251 'chase':279 'color':5,96,270 'could':19,52 'cylindr':34,216 'definit':21,209 'differ':140 'durat':248 'far':204 'flash':3,95 'focus':142,197 'get':207 'green':101 'guess':177 'haze':18,263 'horizon':165 'hour':83,223,250 'hudson':60 'knew':67 'land':187 'larger':144 'light':88,254 'like':153 'lit':77 'live':57 'look':26,44,229 'meteor':55 'mile':182 'moon':243 'move':6,159,167 'next':225 'night':227 'nj':63 'north':9,169 'novemb':36 'ny':116 'nyc':65,74,93,189 'object':1,257,266,268,281 'one':155 'pine':114 'plane':186 'planet':239 'realiz':128 'red':105 'repeat':108 'river':61 'saw':124 'say':22 'see':49,53,236 'seen':2 'shape':24,210,246 'shower':56 'sinc':73 'sister':40 'sky':91 'skylin':185 'slight':7,168 'slim':72 'someth':125 'south':11,171 'star':132,145 'surround':15 'thought':122 'time':120 'toward':160 'tri':195 'two':226 'unknown':247 'venus':240 'vicin':276 'visabl':245 'watch':86,218 'wednesday':35 'window':47 'yellow':103 | null | 281 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 21:23:00.0 | 11/17/1999 21:23 (Entered as : 11/17/99 21:23) | Viewed a ball of hot pink light above the treetops. It was moving sporadically up and down and side to side. Then after approx. 2 min. it blinked out.
While setting up to view the Leonids Meteor Shower my friend form work ((name deleted)) and I happened to see a bright light to the South West. The whole object was consumed in this hot pink light. We viewed the hot pink light as it zig-zaged across the sky making sharp patterns and turning back in on itself. It would accelerate up and down as well. ((name deleted)) went to get his binoculars out of the car while I kept an eye on the object. While he was getting the binoculars it just blinked out. While on the phone with Mr. Davenport we thought we saw what was another UFO in the south east but determined that it was only a star after closer observation. There was no way that the first object we saw was a star or a conventional aircraft. Of that we are both absolutely sure. Since Mr. Davenport was on the phone when we saw the star we thought it necessary to include it in the report and let him know that we were in error. Having said that we end this report.
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 2 min | MISSISSIPPI | 4,447,557 | 5,199,771 | 31.41739 | 5,211,328 | -89.54229 | null | NUFORC | S11019 | '2':25,222 'absolut':179 'acceler':92 'across':78 'aircraft':173 'anoth':140 'approx':24 'back':86 'ball':3 'binocular':104,122 'blink':28,125 'bright':51 'car':108 'closer':155 'consum':61 'convent':172 'davenport':133,183 'delet':44,99 'determin':147 'durat':221 'east':145 'end':216 'error':211 'eye':113 'first':163 'form':41 'friend':40 'get':102,120 'happen':47 'hot':5,64,70 'includ':198 'kept':111 'know':206 'leonid':36 'let':204 'light':7,52,66,72 'make':81 'meteor':37 'min':26,223 'move':13 'mr':132,182 'name':43,98 'necessari':196 'object':59,116,164 'observ':156 'pattern':83 'phone':130,187 'pink':6,65,71 'report':202,218 'said':213 'saw':137,166,190 'see':49 'set':31 'shape':219 'sharp':82 'shower':38 'side':19,21 'sinc':181 'sky':80 'south':55,144 'sporad':14 'star':153,169,192 'sure':180 'thought':135,194 'treetop':10 'turn':85 'ufo':141 'unknown':220 'view':1,34,68 'way':160 'well':97 'went':100 'west':56 'whole':58 'work':42 'would':91 'zage':77 'zig':76 'zig-zag':75 | null | 221 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 18:15:00.0 | 11/17/1999 18:15 (Entered as : 11/17/99 18:15) | Observed large, dark, vaguely boomerang-shaped object move swiftly and silently from NE to S and then arc W
My husband, my mother, and I were sitting on the porch of my parents downtown Denver home giving Jupiter it's first look through our brand new telescope. We had planned to drive out to the eastern Plains in a few hours to catch the peak of the Leonid meteor shower and wanted to get the scope ready to examine Saturn while in the darkness of the countryside. My husband was actually looking through the scope and my mother and I were standing up looking at the planet unaided when I saw movement in the sky just below and to the right of Jupiter. I looked and saw what appeared to be a very large, irregularly shaped "object" moving at an accelerated rate through the sky. Now when I say I saw it, I'm not sure that entirely describes how I witnessed it. This thing, whatever it was, was camouflaged exquisetely. To be perfectly honest, I don't know how it even caught my attention in the first place. It almost appeared to be a piece of the night sky itself. Immedeatly, I started screaming and pointing at the object as it glided silently almost entirely undetectable. I was screaming "Oh my God, look! Look! Look! It's f---ing huge! What the f--- is that?" My mother spotted it a half second later and began screaming as well. When my husband saw it he began saying it might be a military aircraft and to watch closely as it passed by the stars that were in it's path. The military theory was quickly extinguished when we saw light from the stars behind it pass through revealing that it was actually transluscent. We began to run to keep it in our sights but then lost it in the glare of streetlights. We were unable to re-establish visual contact with the phenomenon. We returned to the house and scrambled to call Buckley Air National Guard. The individual there procceded to remind us of the meteor shower and offered the number of the Denver Airfield. The person there was equally apathetic and offered us the number of NUFORC. All three of us then drew pictures of the object independently without disscussing the details and ! came up with three remarkably similar shapes. The shape, like I've stated before, was an oddly irregular boomerang shape. I say boomerang for loss of any other descriptive word, for the object lacked the symmetry associated with a boomerang yet retained a decidedly boomerang shape. It appeared to be a slightly different texture than the sky which is probably the only reason it was visible at all. It's speed and apparent size were also immense.
Shape: Other
Duration: 30-45 seconds | COLORADO | 5,419,384 | 5,199,859 | 39.73915 | 5,188,697 | -104.9847 | null | NUFORC | S11073 | '-45':477 '30':476 'acceler':142 'actual':92,302 'air':345 'aircraft':264 'airfield':366 'almost':192,216 'also':471 'apathet':372 'appar':468 'appear':130,193,443 'arc':19 'associ':432 'attent':186 'began':247,257,305 'behind':294 'boomerang':6,414,418,435,440 'boomerang-shap':5 'brand':46 'buckley':344 'call':343 'came':396 'camouflag':171 'catch':64 'caught':184 'close':268 'contact':331 'countrysid':88 'dark':3,85 'decid':439 'denver':36,365 'describ':160 'descript':424 'detail':394 'differ':448 'disscuss':392 'downtown':35 'drew':385 'drive':53 'durat':475 'eastern':57 'entir':159,217 'equal':371 'establish':329 'even':183 'examin':80 'exquiset':172 'extinguish':286 'f':230,235 'first':42,189 'get':75 'give':38 'glare':320 'glide':214 'god':224 'guard':347 'half':243 'home':37 'honest':176 'hour':62 'hous':339 'huge':232 'husband':22,90,253 'immedeat':203 'immens':472 'independ':390 'individu':349 'ing':231 'irregular':136,413 'jupit':39,124 'keep':309 'know':180 'lack':429 'larg':2,135 'later':245 'leonid':69 'light':290 'like':405 'look':43,93,105,126,225,226,227 'loss':420 'lost':316 'm':155 'meteor':70,357 'might':260 'militari':263,282 'mother':24,99,239 'move':9,139 'movement':113 'nation':346 'ne':14 'new':47 'night':200 'nuforc':379 'number':362,377 'object':8,138,211,389,428 'observ':1 'odd':412 'offer':360,374 'oh':222 'parent':34 'pass':271,296 'path':280 'peak':66 'perfect':175 'person':368 'phenomenon':334 'pictur':386 'piec':197 'place':190 'plain':58 'plan':51 'planet':108 'point':208 'porch':31 'probabl':455 'procced':351 'quick':285 'rate':143 're':328 're-establish':327 'readi':78 'reason':458 'remark':400 'remind':353 'retain':437 'return':336 'reveal':298 'right':122 'run':307 'saturn':81 'saw':112,128,152,254,289 'say':150,258,417 'scope':77,96 'scrambl':341 'scream':206,221,248 'second':244,478 'shape':7,137,402,404,415,441,473 'shower':71,358 'sight':313 'silent':12,215 'similar':401 'sit':28 'size':469 'sky':116,146,201,452 'slight':447 'speed':466 'spot':240 'stand':103 'star':274,293 'start':205 'state':408 'streetlight':322 'sure':157 'swift':10 'symmetri':431 'telescop':48 'textur':449 'theori':283 'thing':166 'three':381,399 'translusc':303 'unabl':325 'unaid':109 'undetect':218 'us':354,375,383 'vagu':4 've':407 'visibl':461 'visual':330 'w':20 'want':73 'watch':267 'well':250 'whatev':167 'wit':163 'without':391 'word':425 'yet':436 | null | 466 |
null | CA | 1999-11-17 17:45:00.0 | 11/17/1999 17:45 (Entered as : 11/17/99 1745) | LOOKING S.W OVER LAKE ONTARIO LARGE TRIANGLE,BRIGHT WHITE/YELLOW LIGHTS AT POINTS.NOT MOVING.AT ARMS LENGHT DISTANCE FULL THUMB APPRX 3.1/4 INCHS
DRIVING SOUTH ON GRAND BLVD ( CROSS STREET UPPERMIDDLE RD ) NOTICED THREE LIGHTS SHAPED LIKE A TRIANGLE. THOUGHT IT WAS STRANGE THAT THREE AIRCRAFT WOULD BE TRAVELLING IN A PERFECT TRIANGLE.I STOPPED FOR A RED LIGHT AND CONT'D TO WATCH. THE LIGHTS DID NOT MOVE AND THE OBJECT DID NOT LOSE ITS TRIANGULAR SHAPE. THE LIHTS AT THE APEXES WERE FAIRLY BRIGHT. THEY DIDN'T FLICKER BUT I'M SURE THEY HAD A WHITE THEN WHITE/YELLOW THEN WHITE APPEARANCE. THIS OBJECT WAS HUGE, I HELD MY ARM OUT AND THE OBJECT WAS AS BIG AS MY FULL THUMB FROM WHERE IT JOINS MY HAND TO THE TIP APPRX 3.1/4 INCHES . IT WAS ALMOST DARK ( HEAVY DUSK )I OBSERVED THAT THE INSIDE THE TRIANGLE WAS DARKER THAN THE SKY , THUS GIVING IT SHAPE/FULLNESS. IT WAS THIS OBSERVATION THAT CONVINCED ME THAT I WAS DEFINATLY OBSERVING SOMETHING ABNORMAL. I DROVE EAST ON UPPERMIDDLE RD FOR APPRX 1 MILE THEN PROCEDED SOUTH ON FORD DRIVE LOOKING WEST IT WAS STILL THERE... HUGE !! AT THIS POINT I JOINED THE HWY AND LOST SIGHT. I PHONED MY WIFE RIGHT AWAY AND SHE WENT OUSIDE TO THE END OF THE DRIVE AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE THE OBJECT. SHE PHONED ME BACK RIGHT AWAY AND SAW NOTHING. I WAS TRAVELLING EAST SO I CAREFULLY LOOKED BACK TO THE SOUTH WEST NOW EXPECTING TO SEE THREE PLANES OR SOMETHING BUT THERE WAS NOTHING NOTHING AT ALL. THERE WERE NO STARS IN THE SKY AT THIS TIME. THERE WAS 1/2 MOON, BUT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SOUTH EAST OF ME SHAPE * LIGHTS AT TIPS * * END
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 4 MIN
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | ONTARIO | 4,465,711 | 5,199,838 | 35.13848 | 5,210,669 | -80.53757 | null | NUFORC | S11060 | '/4':21,132 '1':178 '1/2':277 '3.1':20,131 '4':296 'abl':223 'abnorm':169 'aircraft':45 'almost':136 'apex':81 'appear':101 'apprx':19,130,177 'arm':14,109 'away':208,233 'back':231,245 'big':116 'blvd':27 'bright':8,84 'care':243 'characterist':298 'cont':59 'convinc':161 'cross':28 'd':60 'dark':137 'darker':148 'definat':166 'didn':86 'distanc':16 'drive':23,185,218 'drove':171 'durat':295 'dusk':139 'east':172,240,285 'end':215,292 'expect':251 'fair':83 'flicker':88 'ford':184 'full':17,119 'give':153 'grand':26 'hand':126 'heavi':138 'held':107 'huge':105,192 'hwi':199 'inch':22,133 'insid':144 'join':124,197 'lake':4 'larg':6 'lenght':15 'light':10,34,57,64,289,301 'liht':78 'like':36 'look':1,186,244 'lose':73 'lost':201 'm':91 'mile':179 'min':297 'moon':278 'move':67 'moving.at':13 'noth':236,261,262 'notic':32 'object':70,103,113,227,304 'observ':141,159,167 'ontario':5 'ousid':212 'perfect':51 'phone':204,229 'plane':255 'point':195 'points.not':12 'proced':181 'rd':31,175 'red':56 'right':207,232 's.w':2 'saw':235 'see':225,253 'shape':35,76,288,293 'shape/fullness':155 'sight':202 'sky':151,271 'someth':168,257 'south':24,182,248,284 'star':268 'still':190 'stop':53 'strang':42 'street':29 'sure':92 'thought':39 'three':33,44,254 'thumb':18,120 'thus':152 'time':274 'tip':129,291 'travel':48,239 'triangl':7,38,146,294 'triangle.i':52 'triangular':75 'uppermiddl':30,174 'watch':62 'went':211 'west':187,249 'white':96,100 'white/yellow':9,98 'wife':206 'would':46,281 | null | 307 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 17:20:00.0 | 11/17/1999 17:20 (Entered as : 11/17/99 17:20) | looking to east-ne sky approx.30 degrees off horizon line,watched very slow movement of this object toward the horizon,brilliant, vivid orange "tail", eliptical, teardrop shape....
looking to east-ne sky approx.30 degrees off horizon line,watched very slow movement of this object toward the horizon,brilliant, vivid orange "tail", eliptical, teardrop shape, no sounds, was length of thumbnail at arm's length entire viewing time till lost over horizon, viewing position aprox. 50-60 feet above sealevel.
Shape: Teardrop
Duration: 4-5 minutes
Characteristics: The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object | SOUTH CAROLINA | 4,575,461 | 5,199,879 | 33.836 | 5,189,517 | -79.04781 | null | NUFORC | S11084 | '-5':86 '-60':78 '4':85 '50':77 'approx.30':7,35 'aprox':76 'arm':64 'around':100 'aura':97 'brilliant':22,50 'characterist':88 'degre':8,36 'durat':84 'east':4,32 'east-n':3,31 'elipt':26,54 'entir':67 'feet':79 'haze':99 'horizon':10,21,38,49,73 'left':91 'length':60,66 'line':11,39 'look':1,29 'lost':71 'minut':87 'movement':15,43 'ne':5,33 'object':18,46,90,102 'orang':24,52 'posit':75 'sealevel':81 'shape':28,56,82 'sky':6,34 'slow':14,42 'sound':58 'tail':25,53 'teardrop':27,55,83 'thumbnail':62 'till':70 'time':69 'toward':19,47 'trail':93 'view':68,74 'vivid':23,51 'watch':12,40 | null | 91 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 16:30:00.0 | 11/17/1999 16:30 (Entered as : 11/17/99 1630) | I was on my balconay look at the sky when i saw a orang comtrail comming towards my direction, i also noticed an other trail going south east ans an other going west. the ones going south east and west just slowly dissapaired. thought it was clear no clouds in the sky. the one going towards me the orang one made a u turn and dissapaired to over the horizon.
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 3-5min
Characteristics: The object left a trail | TENNESSEE | 4,623,560 | 5,199,948 | 35.92506 | 5,211,505 | -86.86889 | null | NUFORC | S11138 | '-5':75 '3':74 'also':21 'an':29 'balconay':5 'characterist':77 'clear':47 'cloud':49 'com':16 'comtrail':15 'direct':19 'dissapair':43,66 'durat':73 'east':28,38 'go':26,32,36,55 'horizon':70 'left':80 'look':6 'made':61 'min':76 'notic':22 'object':79 'one':35,54,60 'orang':14,59 'saw':12 'shape':71 'sky':9,52 'slowli':42 'south':27,37 'thought':44 'toward':17,56 'trail':25,82 'turn':64 'u':63 'unknown':72 'west':33,40 | null | 80 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 14:30:00.0 | 11/17/1999 14:30 (Entered as : 11/17/99 14:30) | my daughter saw 2 triangular,blackish objects flying toward each other in a converging point, silently, slowly. And with extreme precision at about airplane level.
My daughter(15) was on the school bus at about 2:30 pm yesterday(Nov.18) when she looked out the bus window and saw 2 blackish triangular objects flying toward each other,slowly and with great precision. She thought to herself "Gee, I'm impressed! How do they do that!" There was no sound emitting from them at all. She looked at the girl sitting closest to her and said "Did you see that?!" The girl said yes in a disbelieving way. My daughter is a sophomore in high school, is very levelheaded, doesnot do drugs or alcohol.
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 2 min. | MAINE | 4,976,361 | 5,199,791 | 43.90146 | 5,211,348 | -70.47033 | null | NUFORC | S11032 | '15':28 '2':4,36,50,127 '30':37 'airplan':24 'alcohol':123 'blackish':6,51 'bus':33,46 'closest':91 'converg':14 'daughter':2,27,109 'disbeliev':106 'doesnot':119 'drug':121 'durat':126 'emit':80 'extrem':20 'fli':8,54 'gee':67 'girl':89,101 'great':61 'high':114 'impress':70 'level':25 'levelhead':118 'look':43,86 'm':69 'min':128 'nov.18':40 'object':7,53 'pm':38 'point':15 'precis':21,62 'said':95,102 'saw':3,49 'school':32,115 'see':98 'shape':124 'silent':16 'sit':90 'slowli':17,58 'sophomor':112 'sound':79 'thought':64 'toward':9,55 'triangl':125 'triangular':5,52 'way':107 'window':47 'yes':103 'yesterday':39 | null | 122 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 13:00:00.0 | 11/17/1999 13:00 (Entered as : 11-17-99 1:00 PM) | I was driving east in SW Fort Worth when I saw a large object in the sky in front of me. All of a sudden it just disappeared and then a small plane with a contrail behind it flew in the approximate location of the object.
I am a 53 year old female, wife, mother, grandmother and a Christian. I have no history of mental illness and no criminal history. I was driving east in SW Fort Worth on Old Grandbury Road and almost to the intersection of Hulen when I looked in front of me in the sky slightly south and noticed a cylinder shaped silver object. I thought it was a plane but all of a sudden it disappeared before my eyes. I looked all around in the sky but it was gone. A second later a small plane flew in the same area with a contrail behind it. My sister and I had a extrodinary sighting 25 years ago and for some reason we never reported it or told very many people about it and in fact forgot about it almost instantly until about 5 years ago. This time I want to make sure it is reported and if it was a plane thats fine but still I have very large doubts since it was gone in an instant. Can you please let me know if anyone else saw anything odd today?
Shape: Cylinder
Duration: A couple of minutes
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | TEXAS | 4,691,930 | 5,199,758 | 32.72541 | 5,199,363 | -97.32085 | null | NUFORC | S11011 | '25':160 '5':188 '53':50 'ago':162,190 'aircraft':246,251 'almost':84,184 'anyon':230 'anyth':233 'approxim':42 'area':146 'around':128 'behind':37,150 'characterist':243 'chase':252 'christian':59 'contrail':36,149 'coupl':240 'crimin':69 'cylind':105,237 'disappear':28,121 'doubt':215 'drive':3,73 'durat':238 'east':4,74 'els':231 'extrodinari':158 'eye':124 'fact':180 'femal':53 'fine':208 'flew':39,142 'forgot':181 'fort':7,77 'front':19,94 'gone':135,219 'grandburi':81 'grandmoth':56 'histori':63,70 'hulen':89 'ill':66 'instant':185,222 'intersect':87 'know':228 'larg':13,214 'later':138 'let':226 'locat':43 'look':92,126 'make':196 'mani':174 'mental':65 'minut':242 'mother':55 'never':168 'notic':103 'object':14,46,108,254 'odd':234 'old':52,80 'peopl':175 'plane':33,114,141,206 'pleas':225 'reason':166 'report':169,200 'road':82 'saw':11,232 'second':137 'shape':106,236 'sight':159 'silver':107 'sinc':216 'sister':153 'sky':17,99,131 'slight':100 'small':32,140 'south':101 'still':210 'sudden':25,119 'sure':197 'sw':6,76 'that':207 'thought':110 'time':192 'today':235 'told':172 'vicin':249 'want':194 'wife':54 'worth':8,78 'year':51,161,189 | null | 254 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 05:05:00.0 | 11/17/1999 05:05 (Entered as : 11/17/99 0505 am) | I am a truck driver, was @ the receiver, dropping my trailer. Both the receiver and I were outside,(trailers are put on a large scale platform, and titled into the air, to empty out the product into a conveyor/hopper), Both the man that worked for the receiver and I were looking up @ the nose of the trailer, up in the air, when I noticed a dim light, slowly brighten ,,to a very bright light(like a reostat, landing light brightness), I turned to the the reciever and said, did you see that?, and he replied, "that's what I'm lookin' at". We both watched as this light SLOWLY,(reostat action again), dimmed to black/nothing.We looked @ each other,,and both commented on the "oddness" of what we both saw. @ this time it started to appear again,in the slow, reostat increase, IN THE SAME SPOT, and stayed the steady, landing light type brightness, and then gradually faded to black. We looked @ each other again, and "Jim" said that this was to strange. We both could clearly see the stars, and there was no running lights of any kind(and we are located just south of an airport, requiring the use of these). I travel the southwestern US in my job,,and have seen several questionable things in the night sky, most of which I have always attributed to meteors or comets, this series of light were neither, to the best of my judgement. There was no aircraft noise in the area, no running lights were seen, and no contrail/ tails were seen preceeding what we had witnessed. We both agreed what we had seen was out of the ordinary. After we waited/looked for awhile, "jim" said " musta been a lost UFO, turned on his cab light to see his mapbook", we both chuckled, and i mentioned that this was one for The Art Bell show(which I had just finished listening to you both on).
Bright, white lights, fading in, and out of intensity,,of landing light intensity.
Shape: Light
Duration: just a very few minutes | ARIZONA | 5,288,636 | 5,199,864 | 32.8795 | 5,197,463 | -111.75735 | null | NUFORC | S11075 | 'action':111 'agre':270 'air':31,61 'aircraft':247 'airport':197 'alway':226 'appear':135 'area':251 'art':313 'attribut':227 'awhil':284 'bell':314 'best':240 'black':159 'black/nothing.we':115 'bright':73,80,153,326 'brighten':69 'cab':295 'chuckl':303 'clear':176 'comet':231 'comment':121 'contrail':259 'conveyor/hopper':39 'could':175 'dim':66,113 'driver':5 'drop':9 'durat':341 'empti':33 'fade':157,329 'finish':320 'gradual':156 'increas':141 'intens':334,338 'jim':166,285 'job':210 'judgement':243 'kind':188 'land':78,150,336 'larg':24 'light':67,74,79,108,151,185,235,254,296,328,337,340 'like':75 'listen':321 'locat':192 'look':51,116,161 'lookin':101 'lost':290 'm':100 'man':42 'mapbook':300 'mention':306 'meteor':229 'minut':346 'musta':287 'neither':237 'night':219 'nois':248 'nose':54 'notic':64 'odd':124 'one':310 'ordinari':279 'outsid':18 'platform':26 'preceed':263 'product':36 'put':21 'question':215 'receiv':8,14,47 'reciev':86 'reostat':77,110,140 'repli':95 'requir':198 'run':184,253 'said':88,167,286 'saw':129 'scale':25 'see':91,177,298 'seen':213,256,262,274 'seri':233 'sever':214 'shape':339 'show':315 'sky':220 'slow':139 'slowli':68,109 'south':194 'southwestern':206 'spot':145 'star':179 'start':133 'stay':147 'steadi':149 'strang':172 'tail':260 'thing':216 'time':131 'titl':28 'trailer':11,19,57 'travel':204 'truck':4 'turn':82,292 'type':152 'ufo':291 'us':207 'use':200 'waited/looked':282 'watch':105 'white':327 'wit':267 'work':44 | null | 341 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 03:00:00.0 | 11/17/1999 03:00 (Entered as : 11/17/99 03:00) | About 20 silver spheres were seen circling a jumbo jet in formation. They were extremely fast and formatted into a V shape at one point. They were headed north and the plane they were circling was headed north/northwest.
They flew in groups, about 12 at first circling the airplane. Then they came in groups of four. They appeared to be silver spheres and they were very quick. There were no lights or flashing. There was no noise. They were seen at close range, and the jumbo jet seemed to be flying lower than usual.
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 15 min.
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | OHIO | 5,170,691 | 5,199,766 | 41.44894 | 5,191,321 | -82.70796 | null | NUFORC | S11017 | '12':44 '15':98 '20':2 'aircraft':103,108 'airplan':49 'appear':58 'came':52 'characterist':100 'chase':109 'circl':7,35,47 'close':82 'durat':97 'extrem':15 'fast':16 'first':46 'flash':73 'flew':40 'fli':91 'format':12,18 'four':56 'group':42,54 'head':28,37 'jet':10,87 'jumbo':9,86 'light':71 'lower':92 'min':99 'nois':77 'north':29 'north/northwest':38 'object':111 'one':24 'plane':32 'point':25 'quick':67 'rang':83 'seem':88 'seen':6,80 'shape':22,95 'silver':3,61 'sphere':4,62,96 'usual':94 'v':21 'vicin':106 | null | 111 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 02:35:00.0 | 11/17/1999 02:35 (Entered as : 11/17/99 2:35 am) | We were watching the meteor storm in the southeastern sky, and noticed a bright object rise above the tree line.In the distance off to the left very far away from the first light was the second,and off to the northeast was the third,closer than the second object,but farther than the first. All three objects moved together at the same time,and moved up and down,and east to west and back.we observed all three objects for atleast 2 hrs. then we returned to the house to notify others that witnessed the closest object,after a few minutes,I myself returned to the woods behind the property, and from that point on cannot remember anything!!! I wokeup in my friends house the next morning and no one could explain how I got inside the house ,allentrances were locked and secured and no signs of entry were to be found !!!!!! I have no keys or anyway of entering their house without someone letting me in.....all three objects were bright white with occasional flash'es of red and green on the outer perimeter of each object,and all three even though very far apart moved together in unison!!!!!These objects were observed on a totally clear night with no visible moon or ground lights!!!!This incident was witnessed on top of a small hill with almost no ground obstrutions except for a few trees!!!!!In other words a unobsructed view of the sky!!!!!
At 2:35am. Myself and my bestfriends son were trying to watch the southeastern skies,in the backwoods property behind my friends property.We had already been outside watching for meteorites, starting at 2:00am.At 2:35am. We both noticed an object ,a very bright object rise above the southeastern woods!!!The object was hovering yet moving side to side and moving in very deliberate movements...Behind the first object but off to the left, yet very far in the distance was the second object,it was definately moving like a mirror image of the first..After aprox. twenty minutes off to the northeastern sky a third moving bright object dropped into view and almost seemed to line itself up with the other two objects. Once it lined up with the other two ,all three started to move in unison,first north to south then up and down this pattern of movements continued for atleast one and a half hours!!!!!! After awhile we went back to my friends house and woke up the parents of my 16yrold companion.They both observed the first object from their backporch for about 5 mins. At that point the parents and the 16yr. old went back into the house. I returned to the backwoods to resume watching the three objects. From that point on,I walked farther into the woods and observed the first object coming closer to me!! F rom that point on I donot remember anything more!!!!!!!! In the morning I awoke aprox. 10:00am. upstairs in a house that was locked and no one recalls either hearing me enter the house or letting me in!!!!!!The lady of the house seen me upstairs laying down completely clothed and still wearing my wool hat,and shaking,but still asleep she did not wake me at that time but expressed astonishment,later that I had gotten inside the house with absolutely no one hearing me enter or anyone letting me in the house I have no key to their house and the only other entrance is a very noisy sliding door that was shut and secured!! I know that we could'nt have been the only one's to have seen this but no one else has admitted to ! such!!!! !!
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 2 one half hrs.
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object changed color, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | PENNSYLVANIA | 5,188,843 | 5,199,783 | 42.12922 | 5,211,340 | -80.08506 | null | NUFORC | S11026 | '00am':495 '00am.at':278 '10':494 '16yr':441 '16yrold':420 '2':81,246,277,279,623 '35am':247,280 '5':432 'absolut':560 'admit':617 'aircraft':649,654 'allentr':138 'almost':227,358 'alreadi':269 'anyon':567 'anyth':117,486 'anyway':157 'apart':195 'aprox':341,493 'around':640 'asleep':539 'astonish':550 'atleast':80,398 'aura':637 'away':29 'awhil':405 'awok':492 'back':408,444 'back.we':74 'backporch':429 'backwood':262,452 'behind':107,264,310 'bestfriend':251 'bright':14,171,288,352 'cannot':115 'chang':645 'characterist':627 'chase':655 'clear':207 'closer':45,475 'closest':95 'cloth':528 'color':646 'come':474 'companion.they':421 'complet':527 'continu':396 'could':130,600 'defin':331 'deliber':308 'distanc':22,324 'donot':484 'door':590 'drop':354 'durat':622 'east':70 'either':507 'els':615 'enter':159,510,565 'entranc':584 'entri':147 'es':176 'even':191 'except':231 'explain':131 'express':549 'f':478 'far':28,194,321 'farther':51,465 'first':32,54,312,339,384,425,472 'flash':175 'found':151 'friend':122,266,411 'got':134 'gotten':555 'green':180 'ground':214,229 'half':402,625 'hat':534 'haze':639 'hear':508,563 'hill':225 'hour':403 'hous':88,123,137,161,412,447,499,512,521,558,572,579 'hover':298 'hrs':82,626 'imag':336 'incid':217 'insid':135,556 'key':155,576 'know':597 'ladi':518 'later':551 'lay':525 'left':26,318 'let':164,514,568 'light':33,215,630 'like':333 'line':361,371 'line.in':20 'lock':140,502 'meteor':5 'meteorit':274 'min':433 'minut':100,343 'mirror':335 'moon':212 'morn':126,490 'move':58,65,196,300,305,332,351,381 'movement':309,395 'next':125 'night':208 'noisi':588 'north':385 'northeast':41 'northeastern':347 'notic':12,283 'notifi':90 'nt':601 'object':15,49,57,78,96,169,187,201,285,289,296,313,328,353,368,426,458,473,633,642,644,657 'observ':75,203,423,470 'obstrut':230 'occasion':174 'old':442 'one':129,399,505,562,606,614,624 'other':91 'outer':183 'outsid':271 'parent':417,438 'pattern':393 'perimet':184 'point':113,436,461,481 'properti':109,263 'property.we':267 'recal':506 'red':178 'rememb':116,485 'resum':454 'return':85,103,449 'rise':16,290 'rom':479 'second':36,48,327 'secur':142,595 'seem':359 'seen':522,610 'shake':536 'shape':620 'shut':593 'side':301,303 'sign':145 'sky':10,244,259,348 'slide':589 'small':224 'someon':163 'son':252 'south':387 'southeastern':9,258,293 'sphere':621 'start':275,379 'still':530,538 'storm':6 'third':44,350 'though':192 'three':56,77,168,190,378,457 'time':63,547 'togeth':59,197 'top':221 'total':206 'tree':19,235 'tri':254 'twenti':342 'two':367,376 'unison':199,383 'unobsruct':240 'upstair':496,524 'vicin':652 'view':241,356 'visibl':211 'wake':543 'walk':464 'watch':3,256,272,455 'wear':531 'went':407,443 'west':72 'white':172 'wit':93,219 'without':162 'woke':414 'wokeup':119 'wood':106,294,468 'wool':533 'word':238 'yet':299,319 | null | 630 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 02:00:00.0 | 11/17/1999 02:00 (Entered as : 11/17/99 02:00) | Sighted bright light about 35-40 degrees eastern sky that pulsed, dimming to barely visible, gradually increasing to bright again.
My husband and I were returning home from Lincoln City to Albany, Orgon about 2 a.m. 11/17/99, when we noticed a very bright, white light in about the location Jupiter had been a few weeks ago, but about 3 to 4 times as large and pulsating very slowly from extremely bright to so dim it was barely visible. It did not seem to move at all, just to hang in the same position. It was visible throughout the 75 mile trip, and we stopped at a gas station in Monmouth, Oregon, where the attendants also commented on it. It was very curious and not like any object we have seen it the night sky before.
Shape: Light
Duration: 1 hour
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object | OREGON | null | 5,199,774 | null | 5,211,331 | null | null | NUFORC | S11021 | '-40':6 '1':139 '11/17/99':37 '2':35 '3':59 '35':5 '4':61 '75':99 'a.m':36 'ago':56 'albani':32 'also':115 'around':154 'attend':114 'aura':151 'bare':14,77 'bright':2,19,43,71 'characterist':141 'citi':30 'comment':116 'curious':122 'degre':7 'dim':12,74 'durat':138 'eastern':8 'extrem':70 'gas':107 'gradual':16 'hang':89 'haze':153 'home':27 'hour':140 'husband':22 'increas':17 'jupit':50 'larg':64 'light':3,45,137,144 'like':125 'lincoln':29 'locat':49 'mile':100 'monmouth':110 'move':84 'night':133 'notic':40 'object':127,147,156 'oregon':111 'orgon':33 'posit':93 'puls':11 'pulsat':66 'return':26 'seem':82 'seen':130 'shape':136 'sight':1 'sky':9,134 'slowli':68 'station':108 'stop':104 'throughout':97 'time':62 'trip':101 'visibl':15,78,96 'week':55 'white':44 | null | 155 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 00:30:00.0 | 11/17/1999 00:30 (Entered as : 11/17/99 0030) | IN TRUE EAST SKY, ROUND OBJECT HOVERING WITH LIGHTS IN WHITE,BLUE,GREEN AND REDDISH ORANGE. THIS IS THE 4TH SIGHTING OF THIS OBJECT IN THIS AREA OVER THE PAST 2 WEEKS.ON OTHER SIGHTINGS IT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SMALL OBJECTS WHICH APPEARED TO SHOOT AROUND IT ALSO IN THE ABOVE COLORS. ON THIS NIGHT THE METEOR SHOWERS WERE VISIBLE BUT NOT IN THIS PART OF THE SKY NOR DID THEY RESEMBLE
ON ONE OF THE PREVIOUS SIGHTINGS APPROX 2 WKS. AGO, I WAS OUTSIDE TALKING ON THE PHONE ABOUT THE OBJECT WHEN THE OUTSIDE LIGHT TURNED OFF AND THE CORDLESS PHONE CUT OFF. THE NEIGHBORS LIGHTS WERE STILL ON AND THE STREET LIGHTS WERE STILL ON. WHEN I ENTERD THE HOUSE ALL THE LIGHTS WERE STILL ON BUT THE STEREO AND VCR WHICH HAD NOT BEEN ON WERE NOW ON AND THE TV HAD NO PICTURE ON THE SCREEN AND THE STEREO HAD NO MUSCI PLAYING BUT THE TV HAD MUSIC COMING OUT OF THE SPEAKERS. JUST BEFORE THIS I HAD SEEN THE OBJECT APPROX. 5 MIN PRIOR TO THE ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS
Shape: Circle
Duration: 15 MINS
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object emitted other objects, The object changed color, There were electrical or magnetic effects | GEORGIA | 4,218,896 | 5,199,753 | 34.91591 | 5,200,883 | -85.10912 | null | NUFORC | S11005 | '15':186 '2':31,79 '4th':20 '5':176 'accompani':37 'ago':81 'also':47 'appear':42 'approx':78,175 'area':27 'around':45 'blue':12 'chang':202 'characterist':188 'circl':184 'color':51,203 'come':162 'cordless':100 'cut':102 'durat':185 'east':3 'effect':209 'electr':181,206 'emit':197 'enterd':119 'green':13 'hous':121 'hover':7 'light':9,95,106,113,124,191 'magnet':208 'meteor':56 'min':177,187 'musci':155 'music':161 'neighbor':105 'night':54 'object':6,24,40,91,174,194,196,199,201 'one':73 'orang':16 'outsid':84,94 'part':64 'past':30 'phone':88,101 'pictur':146 'play':156 'previous':76 'prior':178 'problem':182 'reddish':15 'resembl':71 'round':5 'screen':149 'seen':172 'shape':183 'shoot':44 'shower':57 'sight':21,34,77 'sky':4,67 'small':39 'speaker':166 'stereo':130,152 'still':108,115,126 'street':112 'talk':85 'true':2 'turn':96 'tv':143,159 'vcr':132 'visibl':59 'weeks.on':32 'white':11 'wks':80 | null | 207 |
null | US | 1999-11-17 00:00:00.0 | 11/17/1999 00:00 (Entered as : 11/17/99 24:00) | having just left my apt. on belmont & olive st.,i walked toward pike st., and as i reached the intersetion ,looked up (which would be to the south,above first hill).i saw a rather large,Very bright (white)light streak across the sky,traveling fom my left to right.the object was kind of triangular in shape,even though it was a mass of light(which confused me).it had a streaming tail tracing behind it, moving extremely fast,and angled slightly downward,before it faded out,but its movement stuttered, in a 1-2-3 , and lasted about 1-2 secs.
Shape: Other
Duration: 2 seconds
Characteristics: The object left a trail | WASHINGTON | 5,809,844 | 5,199,836 | 47.60621 | 5,211,393 | -122.33207 | null | NUFORC | S11059 | '-2':95,101 '-3':96 '1':94,100 '2':106 'across':42 'angl':81 'apt':5 'behind':75 'belmont':7 'bright':38 'characterist':108 'confus':67 'downward':83 'durat':105 'even':58 'extrem':78 'fade':86 'fast':79 'first':30 'fom':46 'hill':31 'interset':20 'kind':53 'larg':36 'last':98 'left':3,48,111 'light':40,65 'look':21 'mass':63 'move':77 'movement':90 'object':51,110 'oliv':8 'pike':13 'rather':35 'reach':18 'right.the':50 'saw':33 'sec':102 'second':107 'shape':57,103 'sky':44 'slight':82 'south':28 'st':9,14 'streak':41 'stream':72 'stutter':91 'tail':73 'though':59 'toward':12 'trace':74 'trail':113 'travel':45 'triangular':55 'walk':11 'white':39 'would':24 | null | 100 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 23:30:00.0 | 11/16/1999 23:30 (Entered as : 11/16/99 23:30) | Large blue green fire ball, slightly larger than the hiway lights.
Large blue green fire ball, slightly larger than the hiway lights, apx. 90 deg. above horizon, NE of downtown OKC, arched West to East about 30 degrees before decent over horizon. I was traveling South on I-35 at the time, I was just a few miles South West of the State Capitol buildings. Not a big deal, but it was the first time I had seen a fire ball of this size and type.
Shape: Egg
Duration: 5 seconds
Characteristics: The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object | OKLAHOMA | 4,544,349 | 5,199,642 | 35.46756 | 5,188,367 | -97.51643 | null | NUFORC | S10901 | '-35':49 '30':37 '5':90 '90':24 'apx':23 'arch':32 'around':104 'aura':101 'ball':5,16,81 'big':68 'blue':2,13 'build':65 'capitol':64 'characterist':92 'deal':69 'decent':40 'deg':25 'degre':38 'downtown':30 'durat':89 'east':35 'egg':88 'fire':4,15,80 'first':74 'green':3,14 'haze':103 'hiway':10,21 'horizon':27,42 'larg':1,12 'larger':7,18 'left':95 'light':11,22 'mile':58 'ne':28 'object':94,106 'okc':31 'second':91 'seen':78 'shape':87 'size':84 'slight':6,17 'south':46,59 'state':63 'time':52,75 'trail':97 'travel':45 'type':86 'west':33,60 | null | 105 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 23:30:00.0 | 11/16/1999 23:30 (Entered as : 11-16-99 23:30) | ((name deleted))(friend), my two children and I went to a park to watch the meteor shower. We noticed a cluster of lights in the sky that looked abnormal. During a period of approximately two hours we watched this "cluster" move around in the sky.
A group of at least six lights caught our attention because of their spacing. They were very close together but initially appeared to be a star constellation. After close observation we noticed that the lights were moving. They would move one direction than another direction. Their movement was very erratic at certain times. They appeared to be traveling in unison. Occasionally other lights would shoot out from the area of the lights. This light would streak across the sky very faintly similar to the meteors but much fainter. It was hard to distinguish if the six lights were one object or six different objects. Occasionally the six lights would move so fast it would leave a streak or tail. The object's shape was like a kite with a tail plus one extra light in the middle that was brighter than the others.
Shape: Diamond
Duration: 2:00+ hrs.
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object left a trail | KANSAS | 4,276,873 | 5,199,776 | 38.98223 | 5,195,944 | -94.67079 | null | NUFORC | S11022 | '00':193 '2':192 'abnorm':29 'across':122 'anoth':89 'appear':67,100 'approxim':34 'area':114 'around':42 'attent':55 'brighter':185 'caught':53 'certain':97 'characterist':195 'children':6 'close':63,74 'cluster':21,40 'constel':72 'delet':2 'diamond':190 'differ':148 'direct':87,90 'distinguish':138 'durat':191 'errat':95 'extra':178 'faint':126 'fainter':133 'fast':157 'friend':3 'group':47 'hard':136 'hour':36 'hrs':194 'initi':66 'kite':172 'least':50 'leav':160 'left':204 'light':23,52,80,108,117,119,142,153,179,198 'like':170 'look':28 'meteor':16,130 'middl':182 'move':41,82,85,155 'movement':92 'much':132 'name':1 'notic':19,77 'object':145,149,166,201,203 'observ':75 'occasion':106,150 'one':86,144,177 'other':188 'park':12 'period':32 'plus':176 'shape':168,189 'shoot':110 'shower':17 'similar':127 'six':51,141,147,152 'sky':26,45,124 'space':59 'star':71 'streak':121,162 'tail':164,175 'time':98 'togeth':64 'trail':206 'travel':103 'two':5,35 'unison':105 'watch':14,38 'went':9 'would':84,109,120,154,159 | null | 203 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 23:15:00.0 | 11/16/1999 23:15 (Entered as : 11/16/99 23:15) | I saw 4 craft floating in the sky in and near the constellation Ursa Major. They remained there for quite some time and then sped off.
I saw 4 craft at around 11:15 p.m. last night floating in the sky around the Big Dipper. They floated about rather slowly in circular patterns and one sped off almost immediately after I first saw them. The other three remained for nearly five hours and didn't really do much except float around. They remained in motion constantly (not much motion, but it was noticeable) all the time I watched. The craft themselves appeared to be rectangular or oval in shape and didn't appear to have three dimensions at all (i.e., flat or something?). They were primarily yellow, green and red in color, with two yellow bands (apparently glowing) on their "top" and "bottom," running all the way across, from "front" to "back" on all four of them. In between the two yellow bands was a section of alternating red and green lights that appeared to either move or change colors in a regular pattern. I am a 19 year old student with an interest in the sciences (primarily physics and astronomy). I don't really know what other information about me you want -- I'm not a "wacko" or mentally unstable or anything. Also: this isn't the first time I have seen these craft, either. I see them usually a few times a year, but never this many and never for this long, so I decided this was noteworthy. Thank you for your time.
Shape: Rectangle
Duration: 4-5 hours
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object changed color | MINNESOTA | 5,053,358 | 5,199,741 | 44.92386 | 5,211,298 | -92.95938 | null | NUFORC | S10993 | '-5':270 '11':33 '15':34 '19':188 '4':3,29,269 'across':148 'almost':58 'also':224 'altern':168 'anyth':223 'appar':137 'appear':102,113,174 'around':32,42,81 'astronomi':201 'back':152 'band':136,163 'big':44 'bottom':143 'chang':179,281 'characterist':272 'circular':52 'color':132,180,282 'constant':86 'constel':13 'craft':4,30,100,235 'decid':257 'didn':74,111 'dimens':117 'dipper':45 'durat':268 'either':176,236 'except':79 'first':62,229 'five':71 'flat':121 'float':5,38,47,80 'four':155 'front':150 'glow':138 'green':128,171 'hour':72,271 'i.e':120 'immedi':59 'inform':209 'interest':194 'isn':226 'know':206 'last':36 'light':172,275 'long':254 'm':215 'major':15 'mani':249 'mental':220 'motion':85,89 'move':177 'much':78,88 'near':11,70 'never':247,251 'night':37 'noteworthi':260 'notic':93 'object':278,280 'old':190 'one':55 'oval':107 'p.m':35 'pattern':53,184 'physic':199 'primarili':126,198 'quit':20 'rather':49 'realli':76,205 'rectangl':267 'rectangular':105 'red':130,169 'regular':183 'remain':17,68,83 'run':144 'saw':2,28,63 'scienc':197 'section':166 'see':238 'seen':233 'shape':109,266 'sky':8,41 'slowli':50 'someth':123 'sped':25,56 'student':191 'thank':261 'three':67,116 'time':22,96,230,243,265 'top':141 'two':134,161 'unstabl':221 'ursa':14 'usual':240 'wacko':218 'want':213 'watch':98 'way':147 'year':189,245 'yellow':127,135,162 | null | 276 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 23:03:00.0 | 11/16/1999 23:03 (Entered as : 11/17/99 23:03 & 0:34) | First sighting @23:03 while watching meteor shower. Saw VERY large boomerang shape object crossing sky at satellite speed. Again at 0:34 with skeptical friend noticing it. It was in the exact line of path as before. Altitude approx. 40k-75k ft.
I witnessed this object alone appox. 23:03 while looking for meteorites. Noticed a group of lights, very faint, in the shape of a huge boomerang, possibly a delta shape. It was a perfectly clear night, in a location where light pollution is relativly low. I told my wife and best friend about this sighting, they noticed that I was spooked, but didn't have interest. They accompanied me soon after, only because they wanted to see the meteor shower. My friend @ 0:34 saw the exact same object in the exact same line of path where I witnessed it for a second time. The line of path was North to South. It took approx. 5 sec to cross 70 degrees of sky, and I guess it was approx. 40K to 75K ft. in alt. (guessing 2-3 times an airliners). My background is a B.S. in Aerospace Eng and my profession in Information Systems. The second witness is a Architect and specializes in Museum exhibits.
Shape: Other
Duration: 5 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | COLORADO | 5,427,771 | 5,199,666 | 39.9936 | 5,205,986 | -105.08971 | null | NUFORC | S10915 | '-3':182 '0':22,127 '03':4,52 '2':181 '23':3,51 '34':23,128 '40k':42,174 '40k-75k':41 '5':160,214 '70':164 '75k':43,176 'accompani':112 'aerospac':192 'airlin':185 'alon':49 'alt':179 'altitud':39 'appox':50 'approx':40,159,173 'architect':205 'b.s':190 'background':187 'best':95 'boomerang':12,70 'characterist':216 'clear':79 'cross':15,163 'degre':165 'delta':73 'didn':107 'durat':213 'eng':193 'exact':33,131,136 'exhibit':210 'faint':63 'first':1 'friend':26,96,126 'ft':44,177 'group':59 'guess':170,180 'huge':69 'inform':198 'interest':110 'larg':11 'light':61,85,219 'line':34,138,150 'locat':83 'look':54 'low':89 'meteor':7,123 'meteorit':56 'museum':209 'night':80 'north':154 'notic':27,57,101 'object':14,48,133,222 'path':36,140,152 'perfect':78 'pollut':86 'possibl':71 'profess':196 'relativli':88 'satellit':18 'saw':9,129 'sec':161 'second':147,201,215 'see':121 'shape':13,66,74,211 'shower':8,124 'sight':2,99 'skeptic':25 'sky':16,167 'soon':114 'south':156 'special':207 'speed':19 'spook':105 'system':199 'time':148,183 'told':91 'took':158 'want':119 'watch':6 'wife':93 'wit':46,143,202 | null | 215 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 23:00:00.0 | 11/16/1999 23:00 (Entered as : 11/16/99 2300) | WE IST SAW BRIGHT MOVING LIGHTS,MOSTLY WHITE.THEY APPEARED TO HAVE POWERFUL SEARCH LIGHTSTHAT SCANED A LARGE AREA.WE THEN SAW A STRING OF LIGHTS MOVING IN A PRECISE LINE,IT LOOKED LIKE WE WERE WATCHIMG A COMPUTER SCREEN THE WAY THEY MOVED WITH SUCH PRECISION.THEY MOVED FAST AND MADE NO NOISE.
((NUFORC Note: No return address or personal information provided.))
Shape: Light
Duration: 5 MIN
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object changed color | NORTH CAROLINA | 4,488,762 | 5,199,882 | 35.93821 | 5,207,103 | -77.79053 | null | NUFORC | S11087 | '5':64 'address':56 'appear':9 'area.we':18 'bright':4 'chang':75 'characterist':66 'color':76 'comput':37 'durat':63 'fast':47 'inform':59 'ist':2 'larg':17 'light':6,24,62,69 'lightsthat':14 'like':32 'line':29 'look':31 'made':49 'min':65 'most':7 'move':5,25,42,46 'nois':51 'note':53 'nuforc':52 'object':72,74 'person':58 'power':12 'precis':28 'precision.they':45 'provid':60 'return':55 'saw':3,20 'scane':15 'screen':38 'search':13 'shape':61 'string':22 'watchimg':35 'way':40 'white.they':8 | null | 74 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 22:40:00.0 | 11/16/1999 22:40 (Entered as : 11/16/99 10:40) | This is in referance to the request on Art bells show to submit sighting on the night of november 16. This is what I saw...
I was in the back yard of my house smokeing a cigarett looking into the night sky. The weather had been rainy but it had cleared up. Then in the north-eastern sky I saw what I think was a meteor. It flew by realy quick and covered a 3-4 inch space from my viewpoint. It was like a normal meteor but it had a greenish white color. Thats it.
Shape: Other
Duration: Less than a second
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,331,920 | 5,199,595 | 37.5841 | 5,211,152 | -122.36608 | null | NUFORC | S10795 | '-4':77 '16':20 '3':76 'art':9 'back':30 'bell':10 'characterist':105 'cigarett':37 'clear':51 'color':95 'cover':74 'durat':100 'eastern':58 'flew':69 'greenish':93 'hous':34 'inch':78 'less':101 'light':108 'like':85 'look':38 'meteor':67,88 'night':17,41 'normal':87 'north':57 'north-eastern':56 'novemb':19 'object':111 'quick':72 'raini':47 'reali':71 'refer':4 'request':7 'saw':25,61 'second':104 'shape':98 'show':11 'sight':14 'sky':42,59 'smoke':35 'space':79 'submit':13 'that':96 'think':64 'viewpoint':82 'weather':44 'white':94 'yard':31 | null | 108 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 22:30:00.0 | 11/16/1999 22:30 (Entered as : 11/16/99 10:30 PM) | FIRST NOTICED MANY BLINKING LIGHTS NORTHERN HORIZON. FLASHING WHITE AND GREEN. NUMEROUS AND MOVING CLOSELY TOGETHER. THEY MOVED NORTH DISAPEARING OVER HORIZON. THEN NOTICED EAST HORIZON MORE GROUPINGS APPEARING AND MOVING TO NORTH HORIZON. THIS CONTINUED FOR 15 TO 20 MIN. THEN NOTICED LIGHTS FULL CIRCLE LOW HORIZON. NOT AS MANY. MOSTLY HEADING NORTH. TOWARDS END OF SIGHTINGS. JETS WERE SEEN. FIGHTER SHAPED. THREE RED LIGHTS FROM NOSE TO RT. WING GREEN LIGHT ON LEFT WING TIP. ALSO OCCASIONALLY TURNED ON BRIGHT WHITE SEARCH LIGHT ON NOSE. FOUR OF THESE LARGE FIGHTER TYPE JETS FLEW OVER US WITH 2 RED LIGHTS ON TAIL WING HEADING NORTH HORIZON TO SOUTH.
Shape: Other
Duration: 40 MINUTES
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object emitted beams, The object changed color, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | NEVADA | 5,509,403 | 5,199,751 | 36.19886 | 5,196,766 | -115.1175 | null | NUFORC | S11004 | '15':38 '2':99 '20':40 '40':113 'aircraft':132,137 'also':78 'appear':29 'beam':125 'blink':4 'bright':82 'chang':128 'characterist':115 'chase':138 'circl':46 'close':15 'color':129 'continu':36 'disapear':20 'durat':112 'east':25 'emit':124 'end':56 'fighter':62,92 'first':1 'flash':8 'flew':95 'four':88 'full':45 'green':11,72 'group':28 'head':53,105 'horizon':7,22,26,34,48,107 'jet':59,94 'larg':91 'left':75 'light':5,44,66,73,85,101,118 'low':47 'mani':3,51 'min':41 'minut':114 'most':52 'move':14,18,31 'north':19,33,54,106 'northern':6 'nose':68,87 'notic':2,24,43 'numer':12 'object':121,123,127,140 'occasion':79 'red':65,100 'rt':70 'search':84 'seen':61 'shape':63,110 'sight':58 'south':109 'tail':103 'three':64 'tip':77 'togeth':16 'toward':55 'turn':80 'type':93 'us':97 'vicin':135 'white':9,83 'wing':71,76,104 | null | 140 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 22:15:00.0 | 11/16/1999 22:15 (Entered as : 11-16-99 10:15pm) | 2 lights were seen just above the tree lines about a mile away from my home. i watched these lights for several minutes then they shot out of sight like nothing i've ever seen before
this event occured around 10:15pm on the night of november 16th about 3 miles north of smithville,tn on hwy 56. i was outside walking my dog when i noticed 2 lights just above the tree line about a mile away. they hovered there several minutes the shot westward out of sight. these could not have been airplanes or meteor's the speed was like nothing i've ever witnessed.
Shape: Teardrop
Duration: 5 min
Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object | TENNESSEE | 4,658,541 | 5,199,912 | 35.96062 | 5,211,400 | -85.81415 | null | NUFORC | S11106 | '10':41 '15pm':42 '16th':48 '2':1,68 '3':50 '5':111 '56':58 'airplan':95 'around':40,120 'aura':117 'away':13,78 'characterist':113 'could':91 'dog':64 'durat':110 'event':38 'ever':34,106 'haze':119 'home':16 'hover':80 'hwi':57 'light':2,20,69 'like':30,102 'line':9,74 'meteor':97 'mile':12,51,77 'min':112 'minut':23,83 'night':45 'north':52 'noth':31,103 'notic':67 'novemb':47 'object':122 'occur':39 'outsid':61 'seen':4,35 'sever':22,82 'shape':108 'shot':26,85 'sight':29,89 'smithvill':54 'speed':100 'teardrop':109 'tn':55 'tree':8,73 've':33,105 'walk':62 'watch':18 'westward':86 'wit':107 | null | 117 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 21:00:00.0 | 11/16/1999 21:00 (Entered as : 11/16/99 21:00) | Saw a boomerang shaped, grey, HUGE, object pass at about 45 degrees from the horizon. It was gliding to the south east direction. More to the south than the east. Was on the phone to my husband at the time and explained what I was seeing.
Only one craft of a medium to light grey color. As it glided to the south east I lost site of it because it then blended into the night sky. It flew in a straight line, no noise, and no lights on it. My husband told me to explain to him how large it was in proportion to the Moon. The Moon at the time was half full, I invisioned it to be full, and told him the span of the wings were twice the span of the Moon. I saw a Stealth Bomber fly over the Indy 500...It reminded me a bit of that. This though, from my vantage point was shaped more like a boomerang, and very-very large. I am female and 46yrs. of age.
Shape: Other
Duration: 30 seconds | MICHIGAN | 5,007,402 | 5,199,618 | 42.65837 | 5,208,685 | -83.14993 | null | NUFORC | S10884 | '30':180 '45':11 '46yrs':174 '500':145 'age':176 'bit':150 'blend':72 'bomber':140 'boomerang':3,164 'color':56 'craft':49 'degre':12 'direct':23 'durat':179 'east':22,30,63 'explain':42,95 'femal':172 'flew':78 'fli':141 'full':114,120 'glide':18,59 'grey':5,55 'half':113 'horizon':15 'huge':6 'husband':37,91 'indi':144 'invis':116 'larg':99,169 'light':54,87 'like':162 'line':82 'lost':65 'medium':52 'moon':106,108,135 'night':75 'nois':84 'object':7 'one':48 'pass':8 'phone':34 'point':158 'proport':103 'remind':147 'saw':1,137 'second':181 'see':46 'shape':4,160,177 'site':66 'sky':76 'south':21,27,62 'span':125,132 'stealth':139 'straight':81 'though':154 'time':40,111 'told':92,122 'twice':130 'vantag':157 'very-veri':166 'wing':128 | null | 178 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 20:50:00.0 | 11/16/1999 20:50 (Entered as : 11/16/99 20:50) | a flying chevron with extremely white bright lights for about 5 seconds and it disapeared in clear sky while banking right
11/16/99 at 8:50 PM we saw a chevron with extremely bright large white rectangular lights horizontally along bottom (my friend say he believes there were eight)(i saw it 1 second after him, thought there was 4 to 6 lights) accending westbound 1500 to 2000 feet it appeared to bank right and disappeared in clear portion of sky. we saw it for 5 seconds we were looking for tail lights or something like an airplane, while it was banking when it disappeared. We drove to the old base and there was open skys with two or three low scattered clouds. Could see SF and bridges clear view of big dipper and moon. We saw two regular planes and could follow their lights through the clouds, and the ufo was in open sky. My friend is a expierenced flyer and saw object first. We were in car crossing webster st traveling west on santa clara. my friend says it was a fully illuminated flying boomarang.
Shape: Chevron
Duration: 5 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | CALIFORNIA | 5,322,737 | 5,199,743 | 37.77099 | 5,202,124 | -122.26087 | null | NUFORC | S10995 | '1':52 '11/16/99':22 '1500':65 '2000':67 '4':59 '5':11,85,190 '50':25 '6':61 '8':24 'accend':63 'aircraft':201,206 'airplan':97 'along':39 'appear':70 'bank':20,72,101 'base':110 'believ':45 'big':131 'boomarang':186 'bottom':40 'bridg':127 'bright':7,33 'car':168 'characterist':192 'chase':207 'chevron':3,30,188 'clara':176 'clear':17,77,128 'cloud':122,147 'could':123,141 'cross':169 'dipper':132 'disapear':15 'disappear':75,104 'drove':106 'durat':189 'eight':48 'expierenc':159 'extrem':5,32 'feet':68 'first':164 'fli':2,185 'flyer':160 'follow':142 'friend':42,156,178 'fulli':183 'horizont':38 'illumin':184 'larg':34 'light':8,37,62,92,144,195 'like':95 'look':89 'low':120 'moon':134 'object':163,198,209 'old':109 'open':114,153 'plane':139 'pm':26 'portion':78 'rectangular':36 'regular':138 'right':21,73 'santa':175 'saw':28,50,82,136,162 'say':43,179 'scatter':121 'second':12,53,86,191 'see':124 'sf':125 'shape':187 'sky':18,80,154 'skys':115 'someth':94 'st':171 'tail':91 'thought':56 'three':119 'travel':172 'two':117,137 'ufo':150 'vicin':204 'view':129 'webster':170 'west':173 'westbound':64 'white':6,35 | null | 207 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 20:00:00.0 | 11/16/1999 20:00 (Entered as : November 16, 1999 8:00 P.M. C.S.T.) | I had taken the dog outside, and while I was waiting for him to do his business,I looked up to stargaze on this extremely clear night. I saw what I first naturally assumed to be a flock of birds in a V formation, but this was 2 hours after sunset, and they were flying East to West, then headed Southeast, moving silenty and elegantly.
I had taken the dog outside to do his business at 8:00 P.M. C.S.T., and I knew the exact time because I had checked my watch. The sun had been set about 2 hours, and because a cold front had passed through the area a few days before, the sky was extremely clear. While I was waiting for the dog , I just looked up into the clear night sky to stargaze on this unusually clear night. Toward the East I saw what I naturally assumed to bea flock of birds in a V formation. They were moving relatively quickly, silently, and elegantly from East to West, then after a 15 seconds or so, headed Southeast. I noticed no significant sounds nor any flapping ofwings, and their color was brownish, and individually each more all winged shaped. I found this weird because I've never known birds to flock orfly in a V formation well after sunset and so silently. I only told a few close friends and my wife of this event, and only after I saw it reoported on this site, did i finally decide to report it myself.
Shape: Formation
Duration: 20 seconds
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object | LOUISIANA | 4,327,047 | 5,199,959 | 29.90354 | 5,211,516 | -90.07729 | null | NUFORC | S11146 | '00':78 '15':176 '2':48,99 '20':260 '8':77 'aircraft':265,270 'area':110 'assum':34,151 'bea':153 'bird':40,156,212 'brownish':195 'busi':17,75 'c.s.t':80 'characterist':262 'chase':271 'check':90 'clear':26,119,133,141 'close':231 'cold':104 'color':193 'day':113 'decid':252 'dog':5,70,126 'durat':259 'east':56,145,170 'eleg':65,168 'event':238 'exact':85 'extrem':25,118 'final':251 'first':32 'flap':189 'fli':55 'flock':38,154,214 'format':44,160,219,258 'found':204 'friend':232 'front':105 'head':60,180 'hour':49,100 'individu':197 'knew':83 'known':211 'look':19,129 'move':62,163 'natur':33,150 'never':210 'night':27,134,142 'notic':183 'object':273 'ofw':190 'orfli':215 'outsid':6,71 'p.m':79 'pass':107 'quick':165 'relat':164 'reoport':245 'report':254 'saw':29,147,243 'second':177,261 'set':97 'shape':202,257 'signific':185 'silent':166,225 'silenti':63 'site':248 'sky':116,135 'sound':186 'southeast':61,181 'stargaz':22,137 'sun':94 'sunset':51,222 'taken':3,68 'time':86 'told':228 'toward':143 'unusu':140 'v':43,159,218 've':209 'vicin':268 'wait':11,123 'watch':92 'weird':206 'well':220 'west':58,172 'wife':235 'wing':201 | null | 271 |
null | US | 1999-11-16 19:30:00.0 | 11/16/1999 19:30 (Entered as : 11/16/99 19:30) | Very large soundless aircraft.
On the second night of the recent meteor shower, myself, my wife and son and daughter were sitting on the tailgate of my blazer watching for meteors. We were looking to the general west and southwest areas. Suddnely, I spotted an aircraft to the west of San Manuel (where we live). I said to my wife and kids, "Look at the size of that airplane". It was very large and seemed to be a triangle shape. I realized it was moving much to slow to be an airplane. The night sky is very clear here and I could see the size of it by how much of the stars it was blocking out as it moved southward. It was in my estimate the width of about 3 football fields and had 3 very bright lights that were white. One light was on each corner of the craft. It appeared to be of a triangualr shape. My son asked me why we couldn't hear it and I realized that as close as it was, we should have been able to hear it. There was no sound. Very rarely do we see aircraft in the sky over San Manuel and when we do, they are at a very high altitude. This craft was at approx. 5000 feet and about 1 mile to the west of where we were sitting. Suddenly, the craft turned to the west and either disappeared or turned off its lights.
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 5 minutes
Characteristics: There were lights on the object | ARIZONA | 5,312,933 | 5,199,978 | 32.59979 | 5,211,536 | -110.63093 | null | NUFORC | S11157 | '1':223 '3':131,136 '5':251 '5000':219 'abl':183 'aircraft':4,46,196 'airplan':69,92 'altitud':213 'appear':153 'approx':218 'area':41 'ask':162 'blazer':28 'block':116 'bright':138 'characterist':253 'clear':98 'close':175 'corner':148 'could':102 'couldn':166 'craft':151,215,235 'daughter':20 'disappear':242 'durat':250 'either':241 'estim':126 'feet':220 'field':133 'footbal':132 'general':37 'hear':168,185 'high':212 'kid':62 'larg':2,73 'light':139,144,247,256 'live':55 'look':34,63 'manuel':52,202 'meteor':12,31 'mile':224 'minut':252 'move':85,120 'much':86,110 'night':8,94 'object':259 'one':143 'rare':192 'realiz':82,172 'recent':11 'said':57 'san':51,201 'second':7 'see':103,195 'seem':75 'shape':80,159,248 'shower':13 'sit':22,232 'size':66,105 'sky':95,199 'slow':88 'son':18,161 'sound':190 'soundless':3 'southward':121 'southwest':40 'spot':44 'star':113 'sudden':233 'suddn':42 'tailgat':25 'triangl':79,249 'triangualr':158 'turn':236,244 'watch':29 'west':38,49,227,239 'white':142 'width':128 'wife':16,60 | null | 258 |
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