1975 - 1979 UFO reports;Part two;
KANSAS - 1976 (M)
Casually dismissed as likely being military related craft
The exact date is unsure, but I believe it was June, 1976. I had just left from visiting my Great Uncles house, and while driven North on 4th Street, just past limit street, I noticed a bright low flying light to the east through the tree line. I thought is was too bright and too low, and too slow to be a Helicopter, and as I continued, I could still see it over the next several miles and I drove, tracking along the Missouri River, along the tree line.
Long story short, I turned East On Cherokee and couldn't see it any more. I rush home, jumped out of the car and told my Mom and Dad about the strange lights. They kinda humored me. I went outside, climbed a tree just next to our house, and continued to watch out for the light in the East. After 15 minutes or so, I saw the light again, this time much higher, and the craft was a mile or more away - and made a big circle clockwise to the tree I was in - but still no closer than a mile. I watched it do this twice in a thirty minute time span as it disappeared in the East. The 3rd time it came around, I ran in the house and convinced my Mom and Dad to come out, and my sister and older brother did as well.
And what a surprise we had in store. This time, as the craft made the same circular clockwise journey as it got directly to the north of us (and to the north standing on our doorstep, we can see the dome of the Federal Penitentiary so we had good lighting and a good reference point), the craft came directly toward us. It was low this time, about 200 feet in the air, flying at about 5 MPH, and the sound I'll never forget - hardly loud enough to be considered a whisper.
While it was still less than a block away my mother ran into the house to grab a Polaroid camera (that was the best we had back them), and a bank of flash bulbs and came back outside. She was so nervous she couldn't manage to get the bulbs into the camera.
It flew over our heads heading south very slow - 5mph. The sound was a soft "swoosh", and as it went past us and over the house, it banked to the southeast and we didn't see it anymore. The craft was about 20 ft in diameter, had white and green lights in the front and a red light on the back. My dad called in a police report, the police came about 20 minutes later. My Dad sat outside in the police car and filed the report.
There were several reports in the paper (Leavenworth Times) the following day of UFO sightings, casually dismissed as likely being military related craft (but no craft were confirmed in the area and no comment from the military) since we are so close to Ft Leavenworth base.
I'm an ex-Army Officer, and even to this day, I've never seen anything like what I saw then. My Father passed away several years ago, but even to this day, I ask my family if that really happened, and Mom, my brother and sister (and dad until he passed) continually confirm it. I've often wanted to have the Leavenworth Police department provide me with a copy of the police report, but I just never did. Maybe MUFON will. I remember drawing what we saw several times, and I believe I gave a copy to the policeman as well after my father explained the story to the policeman, but I'm not really sure of that. I am sure that it no one in my family to this day believes we saw anything conventional.
For credibility, purposes, I was a Captain in the Army before I got out, and both of my brothers recently retired from the army as Lieutenant Colonels. My mother still lives at the same house on the corner where all this happen (14th and Delaware). The tree I climbed was cut down a few years ago, but everything else is pretty much unchanged in the landscape.
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KENTUCKY - 1976 (M)
We dont remember how the craft left
Liberty, Kentucky, 200 am, one mile from home - two of us are in a carmobile. We see two bright light stree top levelwest 1000-1500 away - moving Northward Were moving Southward. Westop, it stops. The object then changes direction Eastward towards us.
We knew escape would be impossible so we waited as this object slowly, gently floated toward us. A breathtaking exp - combined with fear extreme excitment - and an forgien sensation as this object came directly over our car. As previous discribed many small lights had appeared in unision with the two brighter white lights.
There was a very low fluttering sound almost silent coming from the craft - a lot like a bic lighter. Note: I was in the US Navy at this time - and - this was no earthly craft, espically so with the light colors discribed. We dont remember how the craft left - a mystery till this day.
Also, two months prior to this exp, one of the most famous abduction cases ever happened within 25 miles of our location. See Stanford, Ky hwy 78 abduction of Mona Stafford and two others - either Jan 6th or 9th of 1976. There is a connection with ours and hers.
Also,in the months afterwards - I experienced migrane headaches for the first time in my life, nightmares, and strange skin rashes. Today, none of these hardly bother me. Im certain something happened that night. Im willing to be hypmotized to find out. Reply at your conveince, thanks. Also we never thought to check for a time loss that night. Kind reguards,
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LOUISIANA - 1976
(Report included because of interesting account of the craft - ed.)
It actually was more of a bat-wing shape, than a triangle
My fiance and I were in bed, and I had awakened but she was sleeping. We had a 6x4 picture window in our bedroom, and I was lying on my side looking at the low-lying fog, or clouds from the mississippi river. The wind was blowing south-westerly, just enough to move the fog, and the city lights were making all this visable. Our house was in a very highly populated area of town.
I just happened to notice something moving very slowly, in the opposite direction beneath the clouds. Thats why it caught my eye. The clouds or fog was very low, and this craft was below the clouds. I'd judge it to have been maybe 500 feet off the ground. It had no lights showing, and it's speed had to have been no more that 15 or 20 mph. Once I saw it, I became fully awake and aware. It was awesome, in the truest sense of the word. It was huge, and there was no sound.
It actually was more of a bat-wing shape, than a triangle, although it was triangular. What was so spectacular, was the size of the thing, and how slow it was moving, and it just defied everything I knew about gravity, aircraft, and my whole personal version of reality.
I awakened my girlfriend, and pointed it out to her, and she tried to see it for a minute, and with me describing exactly where it was, and how it looked, she never did see it. That tells you that it wasn't as easy to see, as I thought it was. Its just mind-boggling, honestly; so big, and so slow, and so quiet, but seeing it changed my life.
New Orleans was right accross the river from where we were, and I remember thinking, if it didn't gain some altitude, its going to hit some buildings over there; and it was headed right for downtown new orleans. I said I saw it for four minutes, but it might have been seven or eight. It took a long time to pass from view of my picture-window. But once I saw it, I never took my eyes off it, until it was out of view. It was at least 500 ft. from tip to tip, and nose to rear, at least 3, or 4 hundred.
It never altered speed nor changed course, as long as I saw it. The, perhaps most amazing thing about this, is that in a big city like new orleans, apparently no one but me even saw the ship. Also, I wasn't drugging, or drinking, and I do not hallucinate, or make up stories; I know what I saw, and I do wish I knew what it was.
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MARYLAND - 1976 (M)
It was a dull gray...maybe like brushed aluminum
We were driving back to Baltimore from the Aberdeen Provng Grounds Credit Union where we had gone to apply for another car loan. I was driving and the object was ahead of me in the direction I was facing, but slightly to my left... high in the air, but close enough to distinguish. I noticed it first. It was hanging in the air hovering... initially I thought it was a weather balloon because we were still in the Army Proving Ground area. When I saw it dart from left to right in a manner a conventional plane or other aircraft we know could not, we pulled the car over to the shoulder and watched.
It was a dull gray...maybe like brushed aluminum... windows were not evident, though it seemed quite a distance away so it would be difficult to honestly say. Not a cloud in the sky, a bright, early spring day. The object maneuvered back and forth in seberal directions, then sped forward and upward, disappearing in just seconds. We were flabbergasted... disbelieving what we knew we saw. We did a reality check with one another...
Do you see what Im seeing... YES And I cant believe it Since that time, I have only spoken about this with people I was assured were receptive to such a story for fear of being labeled crazy. I am now a believer. I know this information is quite old and lacking specifics such as day in the month... But I thought you may be able to correlate it with another siting during that time and area Hope this can be helpful.
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MISSOURI - 1976
(Report included due to being funniest report found so far - ed.)
It was over the old barn just a spinning
Ther I was sitting on the front porch (it was too hot to work) I was just picking ticks off off my coon doug Blu when I saw it. It was over the old barn just a spinning and whirllen all silvery and shiniey But not like chrome different).
I would feel a lot better about Mufon if you would just assign someone as a moniter to keep the nuts from being able to post any little fairy tale on this list.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE - 1976 (C)
I distinctly flash back to see the looks on the faces of the aliens
FInally come to grips with this one....but when I was about 8 yrs....my family was taken and examined.....however, i beleive that i was able to use my spatial awareness/astral projection even at that age....so when i was unable to be kept asleep, i jumped up to escape. I had to be paralyzed in mid stride.
I distincly flash back to see the looks on the faces of the aliens. Especially the elder, raised eybrow they seemed intrigued...they had to show me what they were doing as i remained in this state....examining each of us.
They showed me a very large screen where children were taken to a remote desert planet and led to beleive they were actually on a carnival ride similar to ours.....circular rotation with rise and fall with an increase and decrease in speed, and minor g force fluctuation. they thought they were on a carnival ride, yet they were actually being studied for their space/time/gravitational awareness!! ingenious....
Why?? because as we evolve we will be able to focus more on our sense of gravity and spatial awareness. Our sense of sound touch smell and thought will be finely tuned to be able to alter the physical, as they do.....that is why they communicate with telepathy..it is easy for them, and there are a lot of humans as well.
they have told me they have evolved much differntly....a more light oriented and denser atmosphere where there ocean is more jelly like and plasmic, so as to create a bipedal amoebic....hence they have an exoskeleton..their evolution was much more rapid in this plasmic state....and yes it does consist of some silicon...but not sure of it all...
They like to communicate with those they have visited previously through intergalactic talepathy, as in viewing remotely....the one that coms with me most even told me that our theory of everything as in "string theory" is not extrapolated enuff, that in the multi dimensional we must be able to have the physics/chemistry/gemetry/stats/ all interconnected, and that our understanding of the "depth" of all consumates the interconnection of all theorem.
Thus, E=Mc squared is missing volume and geometry and also a chemical and statistacal probability of the Mass as the entity relates to the energy and constant.
Also that kinetic energy involves a molecular exchange of particles between two objects whether static or not. IE a human hand may walk by a radio and its signal interupts via the exchange of human boundary (kinetic) and radio /soundwave (kinetic) that the understanding of the Mass/size/Molecules of this energy and its fields surrounds EVERYTHING!. And that our Superconductors are way way to big!
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NEW HAMPSHIRE - 1976 (C)
NOT ONLY COULD I SEE THEM , BUT THEY COULD ALSO SEE ME
IT WAS MY JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGHSCHOOL & I WAS TRAINING FOR THE UPCOMING SOCCER SEASON AND WAS DOING ALOT OF RUNNING IN THE EARLY TO MID-EVENING WHEN THE SUN WAS DOWN AND IT WOULD BE COOLER. I WAS RUNNING BETWEEN 5 - 10 MILES DAILY. AS A SERIOUS ATHLETE ( I WON THE PRESIDENTS PHYSICAL FITNESS AWARD ALL 4 YEARS OF HIGHSCHOOL ) I WAS ALWAYS COMPLETELY FREE OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL , AND WAS LUCID AT ALL TIMES. AS I WAS RUNNING NORTH ON ROUTE 3 AND NEARLY AT THE INTERSECTION WHERE RT.3 AND RT. 112 JOINED...
DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHAT USED TO BE THE OLD MOUNTAUP MOTEL AND CABINS. I LOOKED OVER MY RIGHT SHOULDER IN THE DIRECTION OF THE OLD IGA FOODLINER & THE EAST BRANCH OF THE PEMIGEWASSET RIVER AS I SAW A CIGAR SHAPED CRAFT THAT WAS GLOWING FIERY RED AND WAS ASCENDING NEARLY STRAIGHT UP , BUT NOT QUITE. BUT IT WAS ASCENDING VERY SLOWLY , SILENTLY AND AT A VERY SHARP ANGLE.
I STOPPED DEAD IN MY TRACKS AND BEGAN STARING AT THE OBJECT ABSOLUTELY STUNNED & SCARED WHILE ALSO OVERCOME BY CURIOSITY HAVING NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE. I STARED AT THE OBJECT AS IT WAS SILENTLY ASCENDING FOR ABOUT 20 - 30 SECONDS. THE ODDEST PART OF THE EXPERIENCE WAS THAT I WAS OVERWHELMED BY THE FEELING THAT NOT ONLY COULD I SEE THE CRAFT ,
BUT THAT IT ALSO COULD SEE ME & KNEW I WAS WATCHING ! IT WAS QUITE EERIE. I NOTICED THAT IN THE LINE THE OBJECT WAS TRAVELING THAT SOON MY VIEW WAS GOING TO BE BLOCKED BY A BIG MAPLE TREE THAT WAS ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHERE I WAS STANDING.
THE TREE WAS QUITE LARGE & WAS IN FULL BLOOM WITH ALL IT LEAVES AS FALL WAS APPROACHING. SURE ENOUGH THE CRAFT DISAPPREARED FROM MY VIEW WHEN IT CROSSED BEHIND THE MAPLE TREE AND INDEED MY VIEW WAS COMPLETELY OBSCURED.
I GAUGED WHERE THE CRAFT WOULD REAPPEAR AND FOCUDED MY ATTENTION TO THAT AREA OF THE SKY & TO MY ASTONISHMENT IT NEVER REAPPEARED. IT JUST VANISHED ! I JUST STOOD THERE IN UNBELIEF. I KNEW WHAT I SAW WAS REAL & NOT SOME FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION. BUT I ALSO KNEW THAT THIS CRAFT COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE OF THIS EARTH. AT LEAST NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
I WANT TO REPEAT THAT THE EERIEST PART OF THIS EXPERIENCE WAS THAT I FELT LIKE NOT ONLY COULD I SEE THEM , BUT THEY COULD ALSO SEE ME. I BASICALLY SPRINTED THE LAST MILE OF THE RUN TO MY HOME VERY , VERY SCARED. ONCE HOME I DELIBERATED ON WHAT I HAD SEEN BUT DIDN'T TELL ANYONE FOR FEAR OF BEING RIDICULED.
IN THE LAST 30 SOME ODD YEARS I HAVE ONLY SHARED THIS STORY WITH ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE. I'M CONVINCED NOW THAT UFO's ARE REAL & THAT THIS IS INDEED WHAT I SAW. I'M PREPARED NOW TO TAKE MY STAND WITH OTHERS WHO'VE HAD SIMILAR EXPIERENCES AND SHARE WITH OTHERS WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE A REAL PHENOMENON.
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NORTH CAROLINA - 1976 (M/C)
We felt certain they knew we were there
In February of 1976 my self and two friends were on a multi-day backpacking journey in Slickrock Creek Wilderness located in the Nantahala National Forest of western North Carolina. We were prepared for several days of remote hiking and had chosen a period of time after the close of hunting season for our safety and also to be as isolated as possible with hopes of seeing no people. Slickrock Creek Wilderness is a large road less tract intertwined with deep coves and rugged high southern peaks best known for great trout streams, good bear and wild boar hunting.
The weather was absolutely stellar with crystal skies and temperatures at night in the teens. We made our way into a very secluded small cove known as Nichols Cove, a side drainage to the main valley of Slickrock Creek and there we established our first camp.
At the end of a day of scrambling up creeks to locate undiscovered waterfalls and orienteering over trail less mountaintops we returned to our camp for some much needed rest and food. After our dinner and after the fire had been established we sat back to enjoy the brisk night air and to gaze into the Milky Way on one of those winter nights that the stars are countless and seem much closer to earth.
We all noticed an unusual light somewhat larger than any of the stars moving erratically across the sky, stopping and going and making right angled turns. The light appeared disc shaped and the color was white like a star but less brilliant, somewhat duller and less jewel like than a star. From our camp in the small cove we could see the horizon and the mountaintops surrounding us quite clearly.
The disc began to come closer and closer towards our location startling us a bit but we laughed it off and made some jokes about Martians. As the light grew in size we could see that it was indeed a disc shaped object. There was no sound and it continued coming closer to earth dropping behind the ridgeline that separated us from the Slickrock valley. As the disc went out of sight into the adjacent valley a glow spreading into the night sky moved north to south and back again as if following the exact route of the creek.
After a few moments the glow began to move up our small valley becoming brighter and brighter as it came closer. All of a sudden a behemoth craft larger than a football field, equally the size of several jumbo jets lifted up slowly and hovered just above the tree line over a small ridge illuminating the entire area.
We could see that the light from the disc we had seen in the sky was actually the underneath of the craft and it was encircled in multi-colored lights most of which were reddish in color. We were completely mesmerized and we could 'feel' that someone or something was in the craft and we felt certain they knew we were there. At the risk of sounding cliché, the only image of this thing that I can accurately relate to you to describe this is the end scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where the large ship comes to the top of the mountain.
This monster was that large and that dynamic and we were practically catatonic at the sight of it. It was almost ironic months later when that movie came out and we tried in vain to explain to people that was what we saw. Back to the story; In the blink of an eye and with absolutely no sound this huge craft shot skyward faster than the eye could follow and again became the white disc light that we had seen earlier. As if this was not enough to frighten us none of us had moved from our positions around our campfire.
A couple of seconds later we began to hear a roaring noise and a pair of fighter jets roared into our black little valley coming so close to the ground we could see the undersides of them. This is when we al seemed to 'wake up'. We all screamed and jumped away into the night. The jets made a few more passes and then returned from the direction and whence they had come.
Wait, there is more...First, I am always the fire keeper and after this event was over we all assumed that it took about 20 minutes for the entire scenario to play out. As I said, it was a rather cold evening and I had built a large fire with several hard wood logs that I had cut. We all noticed that the fire was almost burned to coals.
Second, we had intended on a week or more of backpacking through the region but the very next morning we packed up without speaking a word and drove the 7 hour trip back to our hometown never mentioning what we had seen.
Third, we all worked together at a local restaurant at the time and not one of us spoke about the event until a few months later at a large outdoor party to celebrate the purchase of a friend’s new farm. Dancing around the party fire that night the conversation turned ubiquitously to UFO`s and lights in the sky. Standing next to my friend he began to curse at everyone telling them that they didn’t know what 'bleep' that were talking about. He grabbed me sobbing and exclaimed to everyone "He is the only one that knows".
It was at this point that I myself began to remember that night in our camp in tiny little Nichols Cove. I will not purport to speculate regarding the origins of the craft we witnessed that night but as a fairly observant guy and somewhat of an aviation buff, I can tell you that we humans are not capable of producing the thing we saw flying even unto this day. Unless the federal government is hiding some rather amazing technology I will maintain that we do not have crafts such as this.
This story has lived with me for decades now and upon occasion will haunt my dreams but I am always amused when people want to tell me their UFO stories and talk about seeing lights in the sky. I listen quite carefully and empathetically to them and then I say "Did you get the jets with yours?" That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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NORTH CAROLINA - 1976 (C)
I saw beings inside that looked as if they were covered in black nylon fabric
I was approximately 7 years old. My bed faced the street. I was awakened by light shining on my face through the window. I saw a lighted object hovering on my street and I could see inside of it. I saw beings inside that looked as if they were covered in black nylon fabric and there were controls inside the ship. I crawled out of my bed and got my mother. She brought me back to my room and looked out the window. She dismissed my claim as a bad dream and tucked me back into the bed. After she left, I felt the light on my face again. I opened my eyes and the object had returned. Once again, I crawled out of the bed and got my mother.
The object was gone and my mother didn't see anything outside. She tucked me back in and stayed with me for a few moments, then returned to her bed. It wasn't long when I felt light on my face for a third time and opened my eyes to see the object on the street outside of my window. I crawled out of my bed and got my mother again. When she came into my room, the object had disappeared, but when she pulled back the sheets to put me in the bed, static electricity filled the room. My mother stayed with me after that.
The next morning, she asked me to make a drawing and color what I had seen. I couldn't find the colors in my coloring box to match. I did the best I could with Carnation Pink and Cornflower Blue. Years later, I saw the colors that I had seen on the ship. It was neon.
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OHIO - 1976 (HS)
I could feel a pulling sensation on my body
I was sitting on the steps,and heard a strange noise. Kind of like a chain saw but different, like the sound you hear space ships make on tv, that zing zing, but some what like a chain saw too. Just unusual. I live on a farm, which can be quite noisy. The cows had been balling, you know mooing. When this noise started they got very quiet. Spooky.
Then there was a motercycly, that just came out the road way, then back and forth, several times. Just short distance then back again, may be five or six times. That is when I felt something kind of pull my attention up to the sky. As I looked up I saw 2 lights, about the size of car lights hoovering side by side in the sky. They started to move towards me, then all of a sudden they were gone, like a switch was turned off.
Then again my attention was drawn, this time to the right, about 1 quarter of a mile away. There the lights were again, then zip gone again, right back in front of me. Then they rotated, one over the other. I jumped up and ran in the house scared silly. But I ran to the front window and looked out again to see where the lights were. They were slowly coming towards me. I had the tv on and the sound went off. I started to get a tingly sensation on my neck and arms, my 2 year old son was sleeping on the couch, sound asleep, this was unusual for him this time of the evening,he was normaly up running around.
I could feel a pulling sensation on my body, kind of like all the hair on my skin was standing on end. I then ran to the back of the house to see if I could see the lights going over, but they were gone. I ran back out side the cows had started mooing again, the motor cycle was gone, the sound on the tv was back. I was very shaken by this, of coures everyone thinks I'm nuts but I know there was something there.
That is my story. Since then I have only seen one other unsual sighting it only lasted a few seconds, so I won't call this a ufo
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OREGON - 1976 (LE)
Flat underside and domed top with a row of brightly lit windows
From the Eugene Register Guard Newspaper: July 1976 (about) 12:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. a farmer was awakened about 12:30 a.m. by his cows in a nearby shed. They seemed very restless and upon investigating did not see anything at that time (12:30 AM) and went back into his house for more sleep. Location: Monroe, Oregon, about 12 miles north of Eugene, Oregon along highway 99 W.
At 2:00 AM cows and dogs “were making one hell of a racket.” The farmer went to the back door and upon opening it is astounded to see a very large 80 feet in length x 40 feet wide, 20 feet high craft with flat underside and domed top with a row of brightly lit windows, or circular ports around the lower portion of the craft. The object was hovering above the cow shed and surrounding fence. The farmer watched for about 30 minutes then the craft glowing more intently began to rise silently, then “streaked upward” into the dark, starlit sky.
The farmer was joined at the last few minutes by a pick-up driver who had wondered what was going on over at the farm when he saw the lights from the highway. Upon approaching the farmer’s driveway realized the lights were a kind of craft. The farmer has a good reputation locally. At 8:00 AM, the farmer and the driver (who later rejoined the farmer), first called then visited the sheriff to report the incident, but who at first ridiculed both until the farmer became adamant and then the sheriff took down the report. [This then was forwarded to the Eugene Register Guard].
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SOUTH CAROLINA - 1976 (M/C)
If I moved faster it would keep up and if I moved slower it would slow down
When I was 12 years old in 1976 my family had just moved to a new house in Chesterfield SC. I was moving boxes from a van parked 150' away from our new house back and forth on a straight path and noticed a small 4'-5' diameter solid metallic disc shaped object hovering overhead at about 200ft. It was silver polished aluminum in color with a dark band about 6" wide around the perimeter. I would guesstimate its thickness to be about 1 foot in the middle and tapering to about 6 inches at the perimeter. There were 6 pie segment lines thru the diameter of the craft.
There were no other markings, insignia, ID numerals, exhaust ports, antennae, landing gear, access hatches, camera ports or any visible means of propulsion. No sound was emitted. There were no flashing lights or exhaust of any kind. This was not a tethered mylar balloon or a drone of any kind(that was military or civilian in nature).
I was 12 years old at the time and could identify almost any aircraft, missile or drone/RPV (very few were in service at that time). I've been an aerospace enthusiast all my life and I know pretty much any aircraft or flight vehicle that takes to the skies and I could not identify it. It was about 10 oclock in the morning EST and a clear blue sky with about 2-5 mph cross wind to my position. The craft maintained a back and forth track perpindicular to the wind so I ruled a ballon out.
And yes I'm familiar with what weather balloons of all sizes and shapes look like and this was not following the wind patterns or acting like a tethered balloon! Everytime I would move it would move to maintain position directly overhead. If I moved faster it would keep up and if I moved slower it would slow down or stop when I did. It was always directly overhead. This continued for 30 minutes.
When I remembered where my camera finally was and retreived it the craft had disappeared from my line of sight. My position was atop a small hill. I had about a 2 mile line of sight in all directions and could not see it. I was only out of sight with it for about 30 seconds. As a kid no one would have believed me and thought I was crazy so I never told anyone until my adult years. I don't think I've ever questioned our belief that we're the only sentient beings in the galaxy more than after that day.
I've heard reports of smaller UFO's but this lead me to believe that humans are not the only ones who might send a small recon vehicle instead of a larger craft. This was way too small to have carried any substantial sized beings in it so I assumed it was a remote or autonomous vehicle. I was unnerved at first, but I felt I was in no immediate danger.
After it seemed to mimic my every move it was kind of a game for a while. I seriously thought someone might be trying to play a joke on me and looked to a nearby treeline for a tether but saw nothing. I have made homemade hot air balloons and flown helium filled balloons before and this craft did not behave as a balloon would. I really had to convince myself that this was some type of craft I had no knowledge of, given the flight profile. I'm still baffled to this day as to what that object was.
Thanks for running this site. I realize that there's a lot of misidentification of aircraft and natural phenomina and it's easy to mistake a man-made or natural objects for a UFO. Sorry, this was a perfectly clear day and my eyesight was better than perfect at that age. I've lived around military bases for a number of years and seen all types of military and civilian aircraft plus a few Bomarc missile launches and there was no mistaking that this object was extremely out of place! I also worked for an ex-Captain in the U.S. Navy and after I told him what I saw he told me his story too.
Long story short = 2 destroyer patrol sweep in the Caribean during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was called up on deck around midnight to witness an extremely large, bright object traveling underneath the water directly in between the 2 destroyers (2 miles apart) at a high rate of speed. As it passed between them it erupted from the water at a shallow angle. There were about 100 men on deck on both ships who witnessed the huge, bright object angle from the water and flick out of sight in about 3 seconds into space. When his men asked if it was Russian he replied "It's not Russian and it's not ours".
He dutifully filed a report and was asked not to pursue it by his commanders - understandibly. And he's an Ivy league graduate with 2 degrees and served in the Pentagon. He told me "You're not crazy, I'm not crazy and I don't believe in church anymore!"
Again, thanks for having the conviction to run an orginization that is investigating the possibility that there are more intelligent beings than ourselves. Because the alternative is downright scary (and pathetic!) If we're the most advanced species in the universe...now that's laughable.
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TENNESSEE - 1976 (LE)
The sections appeared to rotate opposite of each other
Traveling west on Walnut Grove, I noticed a large object descending behind the tree line near East High school. It was still daylight, the sun was going down. The object was easily larger than East Highschool's football field, it was rotating and disc-like in nature. The object was clearly divided into two distinct sections, a smaller top 'half' sitting atop a larger bottom 'half'.
The sections appeared to rotate opposite of each other (ie, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise) in "half rotations"...they would rotate halfway in one direction and then rotate halfway in the other direction, independently of each other in a smooth, consistent movement. This 'rotation' was evidenced by three sections of pulsing lights (top, mid section, and bottom) and MAY have simply been the sequence of the lights and not actually any structural rotation.
The lights were pulsing and very large. The lights were yellow, red, green, and blue with yellow probably as the most prominent. As we drove down Walnut Grove, approximately 100 to 200 feet, we passed the tree line and the object was no longer visible on the other side.
Others were in the car with me. I have read and heard about other observations in Memphis around the same time frame. I believe that the object I saw, the object described in your report, and an object famously observed by officer Lamar Todd of the Memphis Police Department along I-240 and Norris (which would be in the same general area as the report on your site, near the Downtown interstate and Mississippi Bridge) may all possibly be the same object.
If more details are needed, feel free to e-mail me.
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TEXAS - 1976 (M)
It moved so much faster than the jets that it was almost comical
It was after August 1976, but I am not sure of exact year or month. We were returning from dinner - the sun was down but it was summer and it was still light out. We pulled up on York Drive and noticed a whole bunch of people standing in the street all looking in the same direction (to the west) - upwards of 30 or so people I'd say. We walked down and asked what was going on. They pointed up to the sky.
There was a large, stationary disc-shaped object just hovering there in the sky, with white lights around the edges and four larger lights on the bottom. It's hard to describe exactly but I remember being aghast, like you can't believe what you're seeing. My mother ran inside to call the most trusted weatherman and newsperson in the DFW area, Harold Taft at Channel 5, to report it and see if anyone there knew about it. I was running back and forth between her and outside. Her fingers were shaking as she dialed. They didn't know of anything in the sky that could cause that and said they'd gotten several other calls about it. I remember them scrambing to find a camera, but back then they weren't kept on the ready like they are now.
Military fighter jets arrived and chased it. The object would move to a different point in the sky with incredible speed, then again just hover there while the jets had to make a traditional turn to try and pursue the object. It moved so much faster than the jets that it was almost comical. It was almost like it was toying with the jets, playing with them or teasing them or something as it darted here and there, making the jets try to follow. Finally it appeared to tire of the game and took off to the northwest and disappeared from sight within seconds due to the sheer speed it was travelling at.
There was a short article in the Star Telegram the following day, and about six months to a year later there was a follow up article saying they had done research and still had not been able to determine what the object actually was. I've always wanted to do the research at the Star Telegram archives or have the other neighborhood residents interviewed just to see if any of them had movies or film. My father also saw it and is still alive, and I'm sure there are other people still in the neighborhood who could testify what they saw. I just thought I should document this in case anyone else could benefit from the info somehow, especially since it was documented in the newspapers. Feel free to contact me with any questions - thank you.
link; http://fierycelt.tripod.com/xposeufotruth/1970s02.html
