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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Update - Frisco Sighting TV Interview - Video



Video link


Note:  I received an email from Marilyn concerning the response to the video:
Update!

I had an exciting phone call this evening from a very sweet lady that said she and her husband tracked me down after seeing the story on WFAA! She and her husband saw exactly the same thing that I and the people in Frisco saw! She said they were amateur astronomers as they had a nice telescope they use all the time so they are very familiar with the night sky! She said they are convinced this was not airplanes! Although they had not believed in UFOs, they are considering the possibility now.

She also insisted I give their contact information to Steve Stoler. She said they wanted me to know I was not crazy and they wanted him to know these were not airplanes.

So that is 5 witnesses from 3 different locations! No way airplanes would look exactly the same to all of us from all those angles!

As far as the trolls making snide comments...I knew to expect some of that....this type of thing just is too hard to wrap their itty-bitty minds around!


In The News- Lights over Frisco

Original Report
Multiple witnesses have UFO sighting in Frisco, Texas

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Other emails I've received about lights over the same general area of Texas, at approximately the same time :

O.K. Not sure how to explain that strange incident. But around 7:30 I stepped outside with my mother.
While I was talking to her, I watched two airliners making their final approach maneuvers, coming into DFW Airport. Suddenly, an extremely bright object just appeared out of nowhere, about five miles behind the second plane. I pointed it out to my mom, and she was amazed too.


We watched this object fly the exact same course as the planes. Slowly veering from North to East, and descending in altitude. Just as though, this object was a plane flying in perfect unison with the two airliners, and making it's own approach to DFW! But this object got so bright, as it was making the course adjustment, until it was probably ten times brighter than Jupiter, and at it's brightest, it just blinked out completely.


You could still clearly see the first two airliners, and we watched them, until they dropped down to land, and disappeared over the horizon. But, the extremely bright object, that had been flying the same course as the planes, never appeared again. This object was visible for about three minutes. Closer to 7:45 pm on the 24th. Unlike the planes... there was no navigational or recognition beacons flashing, on wings, fuselage or tail. Just one huge bright white orb, that got so bright...it felt like it was shining a super powerful spot light, directly at us on the ground. I am still amazed at how bright this object became for about 35 seconds.


Sunny, I know what I saw...and that wasn't THREE planes. But, this object was certainly following right in line with the regular air traffic, coming into DFW, from the south.


Once again.........we have a strange object, that appeared out of nowhere...and it was initially traveling due North! Just like the majority of sightings.- Roi


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I may have 1/2 figured out one of the oddities tonight. one of the common unknowns appears to be a aircraft of some sort with non-standard lights. It seems to be staying in the area and we have a lot of air traffic tonight. usually there are 1-2 planes every few min. but just 5 min. ago I counted 8 looking straight out form the porch and the one with the solid light seems to be making large circles as a similar non-standard plane keeps reappearing every 3-5 min in a similar low altitude flight path.

It has one large yellow light apparently up front. Through some high powered bi-nocs I can faintly see what appears to be a red blinky but no other colors and the yellow light stays on solid.

So maybe one has been answered! - (name withheld)

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

In The News: Lights over Frisco




Mysterious lights reported over Frisco


by STEVE STOLER
WFAA

At least three Denton County residents reported mysterious lights above Frisco. The sightings occurred Saturday night around 7 p.m. One of the witnesses who saw it has more questions than answers.

Marilyn Brannon was doing her typical evening routine. She walked her dog through her neighborhood. But Saturday night was anything but typical. “I looked back and noticed the two lights. They were very bright, almost as bright as Jupiter," aid Brannon.

She grabbed her camera and took several photos. One of them shows Jupiter on the left, a jet on the right and two unusual lights, side by side, in the middle of the photo toward the bottom. “The jet left and maybe after 30 seconds, they began to fade. And then I knew that was something unusual," said Brannon.

We showed Brannon's photos to astronomer Don Garland at the Nobel Planetarium in Fort Worth. Garland showed us a graphic of all the stars and planets in the eastern sky Saturday night. “There's not really anything bright enough to make the two dots that we're looking at in the photograph," said Garland.

But the astronomer has his own theory. “They may be aircraft that are 100 or more miles away, that might have been flying in line of sight with the observation that was made in Frisco," said Garland.

Brannon says she's fascinated by what she can't explain. “Wouldn't it be the greatest story in the world to know we're not alone? To me, that is very exciting to even think about," said Brannon.

Federal Aviation officials at D/FW International Airport did not receive any reports of the sighting.

Read original report:
Multiple witnesses have UFO sighting in Frisco, Texas

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Note: 
Unfortunately, my local TV does not include DFW network channels.  If a video becomes available, I will post it. 

I would also like to extend kudos to Marilyn (a dear friend), for stepping forward as witness to this event, and to the reporter Steve Stoler, for bringing it to the public in a dignified manner.

Thank you both.

-SW


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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Cigar shaped UFO over Yuba City, California





MUFON Case #  26102
Date/Time:    2010-10-25 00:00 GMT
City:    Yuba City
State:    California
Shape:    Cigar, Cylinder
Distance:    Unknown
Location:    City
Terrain:    Fields
Visibility:    Clear
Weather:    None
Vallee Index:    FB1
Summary:    White cylinder with indentation in middle (like a cigar w/band in middle)

Report:
I stepped out on my back porch to drink my morning coffee of which I always do every day just to take in a bit of the morning sun. I always look up to the sky just to observe the sparrows in the trees and the Honkers of which there are a lot of this time of year.

As I scanned the blue sky I noticed a bright white object coming from North and heading south. I immediately thought "how strange this object looked". It was a bright white yet transparent looking object. The front and back were rounded just like a long tube. There was a slight discoloration (slightly darker than the bright white/transparent color of the rest of the object) in the middle which gave it the appearance of a band around it.

I listened for "sound" but heard none but I also know that you can't always hear a planes engine until they have passed over you somewhat. I learned this because I see a lot of commercial airliners. I knew immediately this object was different because I couldn't see any wings, tail, windows, or a jet stream. It also seemed to move with more ease like it was gliding.

I can't explain why I felt that way except maybe because there was no sound. I remembered my camera was on the table so I ran in the house and grabbed it (coincidentally it was sitting on my kitchen table because I had been loading my vacation pics into my laptop that morning!).

When I got back out on the porch, less than 10 seconds, I noticed it had moved very fast and my nerves kicked in. I felt I needed to just start snapping photo's or else I was going to lose it. I snapped only 3 frames before it was out of sight. I only caught one good enough to show what I saw and I am pleased. I listened for the "sound" again but heard nothing. It seemed to be heading south but also "up" and it disappeared rather into the high sky before I could blink.

Photo 1
Photo 2


Note:  I defer to my readers to decide what this is. -SW

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Monday, October 25, 2010

While camping in Sierra Nevadas, Pilot sees large white object pass behind mountain

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MUFON Case #   26096
Date/Time:    2010-10-22 00:00
City:    Lee Vining
Region:    California
Country:    US
Shape:    Oval
Duration:    00:00:04
Distance:    Over one mile
Summary:    Saw large white(?) object moving very fast pass behind a mountain

Report:
Camping in the Sierras, had finished breakfast and stood to look west into the canyon. I was looking for weather moving in, and the sky was clear. I saw what I thought was a balloon at first glance, but realized was something much bigger at higher altitude. As it passed behind a mountain I realized how large it was and how fast it was moving. It was moving perpendicular to the prevailing winds in the area, from North to South. I saw it for 3-4 seconds before it passed behind the mountain. I was around 8000' elevation. The object would have been in the morning sun, so I can't be sure it was white. It may have been reflective. It was shaped sort of like an oval, but flatter on the bottom and more domed on top. There were no other details I could see, and it moved along a straight line to the South.

I'm not sure if this is anything interesting or not, as a large balloon could move quite fast at that altitude. But the object appeared rigid and symmetrical. I've never seen a UFO, and don't really know if this was one. I'm also a licensed pilot, although not current. I was on family property, a place I've been frequenting almost every year for the past 40+.

Also worth mention, the weather patterns up there last week were all over the place. We saw rain and hail, some snow, and systems were approaching from the East and West alternatively. I can only comment on the winds in the canyon, which can only go in those directions. Winds aloft, I have no idea on that day. But my estimate of the object's altitude is around 15,000 - 20,000 feet based on the mountain it passed and the fact that I am very near it's base. The minimum altitude it could have been would be (in my opinion) 10,000-11,000 feet to clear the low parts of the surrounding terrain. Even at that low altitude, the object would still have been approximately the size of a house or larger, possibly a large building.

It appeared smooth on the outside and didn't "light up" or anything. In my opinion, the object had to be moving several hundred knots. It never wavered from its course in the brief 3-4 seconds I watched it.

I mentioned it to two other people, who thought I was messing around. They are both California Highway Patrolmen who were also there, but did not see anything and were not outside when I saw it.

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Boomerang-shaped craft over OKC neighborhood

Depiction by witness in CA.


I received an email concerning a sighting by the witness and his wife, of a boomerang shaped object flying over their home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

The witness also reported this sighting to MUFON.  Here is that report.



MUFON Case #  26097
Log Number:    US-10252010-0001
Submitted Date:    2010-10-25 00:42 GMT
Event Date:    2010-10-24 21:20 GMT
Status:    Assigned
City:    Oklahoma City
Region:    Oklahoma
Country:    US
Longitude:    -97.5164276
Latitude:    35.4675602
Shape:    Boomerang
Duration:    00:00:20
Distance:    100 feet or less
Description:    Small white/silver boomerang craft observed at close range

This occurred in Oklahoma City on 10/24/2010 at 9:20 pm. My wife and I were sitting in our hot tub (with the jets off) in silence when a white/ silver looking boomerang craft flew right towards us and directly over our heads. I spotted it coming at us and told my wife to look, which she immediately did. The craft was approx 80' to 100' feet above us, approx 30' wide and 20' in depth, and was completely silent the entire time. It was moving at a slow rate of speed (approx 25 MPH) and we watched it go in a straight line past us for approx. 400' when it started to turn sharp right and then totally disappeared. It was not too far from us to go out of sight, but simply just vanished. The moon was almost full and viability was good as there was no clouds at all. There is no doubt in our minds at all that this was a UFO. It could not have been anything else.

I have seen a UFO close up before many years ago and know they exist and my wife did not believe in them at all, until now. She always laughed at my story from the past and it was great that she now knows they do exist.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Attached is a web link we found that shows exactly the same craft that we saw.
http://lightsinthetexassky.blogspot.com/2010/04/cloud-disguised-boomerang-shaped-ufo.html

Note:  I emailed the witness and asked in what direction the object was traveling.  Here is his reply:

It went north to south. It did not appear to have a vapor when it was over our heads. After it passed over, the vapor was there especially when it turned sharply and disappeared. This was no man made object, unless we have something that is silent and can completely disappear. That is beyond anything I believe possible here. I also doubt it would be tested or flying in a residential neighborhood. Thanks for having interest in this.

If anyone in the Oklahoma City area saw this object, please contact me and/or report your sighting to MUFON.
-SW


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Multiple witnesses have UFO Sighting in Frisco, Texas







I received this emailed confirmation and photos from a friend, of a 10/23/2010 UFO sighting in Frisco, Texas.
-SW



Hi,

It has been a while, but I wanted to contact you since I can confirm this MUFON report. As you know I am not too keen on reporting to MUFON, but I wanted to send you the 2 photos I got last night as I also observed this. They are attached.

Jupiter is the single bright light on the left side of the photos. In # 9894 the long steak is a jet that flew by at the time the 2 UFOs were there.
-MB


MUFON Case #   26077
Log Number:    US-10242010-0002
Submitted Date:    2010-10-24 02:52 GMT
Event Date:    2010-10-23 19:55 GMT
Status:    Assigned
City:    Frisco
Region:    Texas
Country:    US
Longitude:    -96.8236116
Latitude:    33.1506744
Shape:    Star-like
Duration:    00:06:00
Distance:    Unknown
Entity Type:    None
Summary:    Two Bright Lights Observed Stationary Elev 40 Due South - . Both -1Mag.

Report:
On Sat, two of us were at the back of a friend's property having cigarettes when I became aware that there were 2 very bright stars some 25deg to the right of an extremely clear & bright Jupiter.

I knew there were no bright pairs of stars in that section of sky. These were close together about <=1 lunar diameter and they appeared to be mostly stationary or very slight movement "on the spot". Left "star" was slightly higher than the right by only a few degrees. This pair was about half as Jupiter so I guess mag 1 or -1.

I also put the elevation to be around 40deg from my position in Frisco. This would put them over Plano or Richardson if the altitude was great.

I stood there watching and I commented to my friend that "those stars shouldn't be there" and wondered if a planet had moved to a position near another star. Both were white, there was no discernible disc, no flashing or noise.

Here's the interesting part - I watched for some 5mins and the one on the right started to fade and so did the one on the left. But the other stars around them did not. Within 10-20secs both stars faded on the spot and were "gone".

I checking on their last position several times in the next hours but there was nothing more to be seen. I checked to see if the ISS was in the sky and it was not.

Has anyone else reported these objects ?

Thank you,

Note:  If anyone else saw these same objects, please contact me. -SW

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Man describes UFO sighting near Hale Center, Texas

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This sighting occurred on October 17, 2009 but was just reported to
MUFON

The witness claims that he and his cousin observed a group of lights, then some type of boiling cloud which emitted a red orb before the entire object faded away.

In his report, the witness then calculates the size and distance of the object, using the distance from other reported sighting in Amarillo and Muleshoe, Texas, to Clovis and Hobbs, New Mexico.  His conclusion: an astonishing 2 to 3 miles diameter object.

Here is that unedited report:



MUFON Case #  26065
Date/Time:    2009-10-17 19:15
City/State:    Hale Center, Texas
Shape:    Circle,Diamond,Flash,Sphere,Star-like,Teardrop,Triangle,Other,Unknown
Duration:    00:13:00
Distance:    Over one mile
Location:    Prairie
Terrain:    Fields
Visibility:    Clear
Weather:    None
Entity Type:    None
Vallee Index:    AN1
Summary:    Bright Lights, Bubbling Cloud Mass,Dull Red/Silvery Orb-Like Light

Report:
I contacted someone on the phone today at MUFON about an incident my cousin and I observed. She gave me your name and email. I am a 58 year old man with good sense and eyesight. My cousin is 56 and has good eyesight and good sense also.

Please feel free to pass this email to anyone who could help me.

The event I am about to describe was witnessed by my cousin and myself and first noticed at 7:15 PM CDT on October 17th, 2009, a date and time of an occurrence that it seems I will never forget. To help me put closure on the event, I have been encouraged by my cousin who also witnessed the event, and others to write this report over a year after it occurred.

About 7:15 PM CDT on a clear evening, just after sunset, we noticed a large bright close group of lights to the WNW of my country home 10 miles South of Hale Center, Texas . It appeared to be a very bright white-blue light cluster at about a 45 degree angle from the horizon. Although it was hard to distinguish individual lights, it appeared to be a cluster of 4 lights with a total brightness equal to total of 4-5 times the steady brightness of the planet Venus if it were at its peak illumination period. The lights appeared very close together, almost one, with what seemed like three very close bright lights on top, and one very near bright light on the bottom. It nearly seem to have an over all shape of a upside-down bright triangle, or what could have been an upside-down tetrahedron shape if the lines were connected between the very close lights. As I said, the lights appeared very close together from our view point and perspective and almost seemed to be one.

The lights did not move, or have any streaming vapor trails, so we quickly ruled out a jet airplane of any kind, military or jet airliner, besides it was much too bright. We have often seen jets, commercial and military, and are familiar with the point of a jet and its vapor trails. The lights stayed at the same position and brightness for what seemed 10 minutes as we stared and commented how we had never personally seen anything in the sky like this every before in our 50+ years here on this earth. After another minute or two, the lights seemed to dim a little, the bottom light seemed to dim very much.

Then, below the three lights on top, in the position of the bottom fourth light, a small group of what appeared to be small light bluish-grey actively bubbling blob of clouds (like a raspberry shape or a round bunch of grapes) about what seemed to be the size of an English pea or shirt button at arms length. To describe this further let me say it looked like a like a small bubbling light blue/grey-silver raspberry on which the individual seeds of the raspberry seemed to exploding randomly with flashes of light over and over again. The cloud cluster seemed to have the many bubbles exploding, also looking like boiling syrup.

This bubbly mass appeared in seconds right out of the clear dark blue October sky in and below the place of the lower fourth bright blue light. The little bubbles, or raspberry seeds, in my analogy seemed to be exploding in this cloudy mass, and it would take about a second for what would be each the seeds on a raspberry to flash, expand, bust, and start new little bubbles over and over again (like boiling).

This went on for about 15 seconds or so, when the bottom of this little cloud mass seemed to flatten out forming what looked like a bubbling half sphere of raspberry shape. The flat bottom immediately started making expanding concentric rings, like what forms when a drop of water hits a puddle. Out of the bottom of the bubble mass, in the center of the expanding eccentric circles, appeared a dull red orb-like light.

It moved to a distance one diameter of the size of the bubbling mass before stopping and hovering momentarily below the bubbling cloud mass and top 3 bright bluish white lights. The bubble clouds had returned to their raspberry shape within seconds and was no longer flat on the bottom. Then the dim red light moved down another diameter of the bubbling raspberry mass started moving erratically, zigzagging in the small area below the mass. After several seconds, the red light moved up again and disappeared behind the bubbling mass of clouds while flashing in sequence with the small explosions of individual bubbles, which still had its bright lights on top. The red light then re-appeared on top from behind the bubbling mass, and came out above the top 3 white lights.

At this moment there was a dimming of the bright lights and bubble cloud mass, and the red light hovered for a second or two above the white lights and bubbles. Then EVERYTHING suddenly faded out within a second. The bright top lights, the bubbling raspberry cloud mass , and the small dim red orb light, all gone, leaving only the darkened evening sky with its stars beginning to come out. There were no weather clouds in that visible area of the sky. The time all this ended was about 7:25 -7:30 PM CDT. All of this time, this event was in the same position, WNW, and at a 45 degree angle to the horizon, as viewed from my house here in the country south of Hale Center.

My cousin and myself talked about our sighting as described above for the next week. We could not get the images out of our minds. There was no mention of this event on the television, or newspapers about this to my knowledge. We just could not believe we were the only ones who could have witness such an amazingly visible sight in the early evening sky.

That’s when found the MUFON web sight. Finally today I decided to call the MUFON telephone number a little more than a year after all our sightings in Texas Panhandle and bordering Eastern New Mexico. We had searched the MUFON data base and found out there were about 5-6 other people who had what must have been the same sighting, at the same time, in the same area geographically, just from different observation points. To see these same earlier reported MUFON incidents, use only the search parameters of the EVENT DATE and the STATE ( 10-17-2009 to 10-17-2009) and enter TEXAS as the state. Then search NEW MEXICO and EVENT DATE 10-17-2009 to 10-17-2009). You can see one event observation was in Clovis/Portales area of New Mexico, and one from Hobbs, New Mexico. In the Texas search, you will find another observation in Amarillo, and perhaps my report will be on your sight soon. Note that the New Mexico MDT times are an hour earlier than we are here in Hale Center, Texas CDT.

Hobbs, New Mexico reported the incident to the NE (perhaps it could have been NNE). In Clovis/Portales area it appeared to the East. Amarillo reported it to the SW (perhaps it could have been SSW), and finally we reported it here 10 miles of the Hale Center area at WNW at 45 degrees above the horizon. All of these sights point to the same area of Texas.

Get your map out. Using a little triangulations and interpolations of these sightings points of 4 other MUFON reports of this incident, together with our on sighting of this same event, we can calculate using geometry, the height and distance from our observation point here 10 miles South of Hale Center, Texas. We can calculate not only the distance and height about the horizon, but using trigonometry we can also get a real good approximation of SIZE of the this object with its bright lights and bubbling mass and even the red orb light.

We can even approximate the red orb light size in addition to the top lights with its attached bubbling mass of clouds. These triangulating and interpolating all the sightings including my own in combination point to the same area on the Texas map (approximately 10-15 miles ESE of Muleshoe, Texas (for estimates use 12 miles) , Texas and about miles to the WNW of my house 10 MILES South of Hale Center, TX).

By triangulating our sighting and the sightings of others allowed us to put the distance on the object about miles from my house using the flat land distance to the point directly below the lights and blob. Since it was at a 45 degree angle from my horizon, together with the observation triangulations and interpolations, the observed object was approximately 42-47 miles ( for estimates use 45 miles ) WNW from my house or about 10-15 miles to the ESE of Muleshoe, TX).

{By letting the right angle of a right triangle be directly below the object of about 12 miles ESE if Muleshoe, TX. If the Observation point at my house was at a 45 degree angle from the horizon, it would mean that the leg of the triangle measuring altitude would also be about 42-47 miles (for estimates use 45 miles) above the earth the other leg that is about to my house. Geometrically, right triangles with a 45 degrees angles in them have equal sides, that would be altitude and the distance.

I wish I was there to explain this in person, but make a triangle by connecting the points from my house here near Hale Center to 10-15 miles (for estimates use 12 miles) ESE of Muleshoe Texas as the first point. The second point of this right triangle is directly ABOVE the 12 miles ESE of Muleshoe. The third point of the right triangle is my house 10 miles South of Hale Center, TX, and the second point is DIRECTLY ABOVE first point (or above the map or earth) at the point on the ground 12 miles ESE of Muleshoe, Texas. That describes the right triangle where I can show that the height of the object observed at 45 degrees above my horizon is the same length as the leg from my house 10 miles South of Hale Center to the estimated point 12 miles ESE of Muleshoe.}

So, so far, in summary, I have proven the object was WNW of me, and miles high above 12 miles ESE of Muleshoe, Texas. ( since my angle of observation was 45 degrees above my horizon). Now using trigonometry we can roughly calculate the approximate diameter of the light cluster and blob, both of which made about a 2-2.5 degree viewing angle ( remember it was about the size of a shirt button held at arms length, or about the size of a English pea at arms length) . In order for the object to be our observed size, making a 2-2.5 degree arch, the size of the bright lights and light blue-grey-silvery raspberry-like bubbling clouds) and object by my rough trigonometry would be about 2-3 miles in DIAMETER. That IS Bluish- Bright White lights, and light blue grey silvery bubbling cloud mass an astonishing 2-3 miles in diameter.

The red light was small, and was not as bright as the blue-white lights. The red orb-like light appeared a dull silvery red color. The red orb light did not radiate bright radians like the bright blue-white lights points at the top of the bubble cloud. Using rough trigonometry the red orbs size would have to be in the neighborhood of approximately 1175-1465 feet across by its corresponding size to the rest of the light and bubbles of 2-3 miles diameter. (if my trigonometric calculations are correct, I hope).

To comment a bit further on the red orb light’s size, it did seem to be about the same size as the seeds (the individual bubbles of the mass below the sparkling bright white lights). It was about the same size as the bubbling exploding seeds on the raspberry shape. Each of the exploding raspberry seeds in the bubble clouds were about the same size as the red orb-like light that appeared below them.

I am exhausted. I must quit for a while. I would be glad to make drawings if somebody show me how to do it best. My geometry is good. The trigonometry I could use someone to recheck my figures on the size of the various shapes observed by us. I also would like to say I am disturbed by this haunting observation, and feel like that my writing this will someday help me with some kind of closure for my mind. Perhaps someone can help me through contacts using MUFON.

PS. Forgive my rambling and re-iterations. Also, you might observe I am not too good at proof reading. I hope my descriptions make sense. Please forgive the sentence structure and grammar.

Please feel free to pass this email to anyone who could help me and direct replies through the DFW Chapter of MUFON attention State Director, *(Name and email address removed--CMS/sg. Thanks

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Photos of Unidentified Object in sky near Dillard, Georgia


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MUFON Case # 26043
Date/Time:    2010-10-22 15:35
Location:    Dillard, Georgia
Shape:    Triangle
Summary:    Taking a picture of mountains and Fall colors.

Report:
Me, my wife and her friend, Judy, from Houston, TX had driven from Murphy, NC over to eat at the Dillard House in Dillard, GA. After we had eaten our meal Judy went back onto the porch of the restaurant to take a few pictures while Me and my wife waited in the truck.

After Judy finished taking her pictures we left Dillard and did a few other things and then drove back to Murphy, NC. We got hom about 6:30pm EST. I then asked Judy for her camera card so I could download the pictures she took during the day, including the two that are attached.

After downloading the pictures to my laptop we started looking at them. These two pictures were the last (2) and we were certainly surprised to see this object in the sky. Judy did not notice anything while she took the pictures and it wasn't until we loaded the pictures onto the pc did we see anything. It did make the hair on my arms stand up!

Judy said she did see the object on the way to the Dillard House (she thinks it was on the way but isn't sure) but she didn't say anything at that time. I asked her why didn't she say something to me but she said she didn't think anything of it at that time and thought it was probably an airplane.

I am a MUFON member but Judy isn't and she didn't know I was a member until just now. For me to finally see my first UFO is certainly exciting. If it can be explained away as something else, well, that is Ok, too. After all these many years of seeing nothing in the skies, gives me a much better understanding how other folks must feel when they see something out of the ordinary.

Please feel free to contact me. Perhaps other folks saw the object and reported it to the Dillard police. Please keep me posted. If you need me to keep the camera , Kodak EasyShare C633, I need to know this right away as Judy leaves for Texas on Sunday. Regards, Ron (last name removed-SW)

Original Photos:
Photo 1
Photo 2

Note: I thought at first that this might be a sun flare but after viewing the object (in both photos) at a higher resolution, it does appear to be an unidentified object in the sky. -SW

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Photo of strange object on or above moon's surface



MUFON Case #  26039
Date/Time:    2010-10-22 22:21
Location:    Missouri
Shape:    Circle
Summary:    Was taking pictures of the Moon and saw this

Report:
I photographed several shots of the moon on 10/21/2010, but this one seems to show something either flying around it or a extremely large crater. I really can't figure out what it is. Just wanted to share the photo. If you download the photo. try changing the contrast to see if you can get a better picture.

Original photo

Note:  I saved the submitted photo and attempted to enhance the object in order to see it better. 
Comments welcome, as to what this might be. -SW


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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Daytime sighting of "fireball" object over Dayton

Sketch by Witness.



MUFON Case #  26001
Date/Time:    2010-10-17 16:50
Location:    Dayton, Ohio
Shape:    Fireball,Sphere,Teardrop
Distance:    Over one mile
Vallee Index:    FB1
Summary:    resembled falling plane or burning meteor

Report:
On October 17, 2010, I was leaving Xenia, Ohio, to go to work in Centerville, Ohio. I was on State Route 723 leaving Bellbrook and entering Centerville.

At approximately 4:50 PM, my eyes saw something in the sky, and my first thought was a plane was on fire and it was going down. Then I thought it might be a meteor. Then I noticed a smaller object beneath the larger "falling" object. Using depth perception and reference points, I was able to determine the "falling" object wasn't falling at all, but was in fact remaining stationary. The "smaller" object I first thought was a jet, the kind that leaves behind cloud-trails. It had a "flare tail" but it didn't leave any kind of cloud trail behind. It ascended at an angle and proceeded to travel rapidly up, beneath the larger object, and into the sky.

The "falling flaming meteor" remained in the same position for the next 10 minutes, until I reached my job and turned a different direction, and lost sight of it. As I live next to Wright-Patterson AFB, I dismissed it, but the following day I saw news footage of strange lights seen over El Paso, and they were almost exactly the very same thing I saw on October 17th, only during the day instead of night.

I was so disturbed by this that I contacted the Dayton Daily News, and considered contacting Wright-Patt AFB, but decided not to. DDN couldn't confirm any other reported sightings. A co-worker tonight said they had explained away these multiple sightings, but an exhaustive net-search pulled up nothing.

I'm not a UFO nut, and living next to an Air Force Base, especially Wright-Patt, I'm used to seeing multiple aircraft of different types in the sky. I am able to identify them. This object was unidentifiable. I only made the effort to contact the newspaper after seeing the El Paso video, which at that point profoundly disturbed me. I know what I saw wasn't normal.

I lost sight of the object while changing directions in my car and I was no longer able to keep eyesight on it.

Original witness sketch

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Fast Walkers and a bright flash of light reported in the skies over North Central Texas




I received this emailed report from a friend and colleague, about UFO activity he observed on the evening of October 18, 2010, in Aledo, Texas.


Hello Sunny,

Just wanted to report some UFOs...
While working at my Mother's in Aledo last night, I saw three interesting fast walkers, and one..."I don't know what!"

I spent a thirty minute break outside, star gazing...and I saw the first fast walker heading due north. The light looked to be nothing more than a satellite or ISS. But, it slowly turned bright orange and eventually a bright red. Possibly ten times the magnitude of Jupiter, and three times it's size in relation to other stars and planets.

Then, it started wobbling and looked like it was going to spiral or tumble out of control. But, it was able to steady it's course and turned back into a small white light and disappeared over the horizon. The second one did almost exactly like the first one, only not as bright and about 5 minutes later.

O.K..... about ten minutes later (all of this was around 9:00 pm...Oct 18) I saw a very bright streak that lasted only about one second, and it traversed, nearly the entire sky, from south to north. Looked exactly like a shooting star, only brighter and had a wider tail than normal.  But the real kicker is this.... The thin cloud bank was at about 35,000 feet and you could clearly see the planes from DFW flying a few thousand feet below the clouds.

This streak was below the clouds, at about the same altitude as the airliners from DFW. Thank God there was no flights traversing it's path at the time!  This thing shot a hole through the clouds in the South, as it came into view...and punched through the clouds to the north.

The reason I say this... I saw the light from this object illuminate the bottom of the clouds, and there was a streak on the clouds, that still glowed slightly, after it passed overhead.  Plus, you could see the clouds spinning in a circle to the south and north, where this thing came through. There was absolutely no sound associated with this event, and that really played tricks on my mind. Because, with that much disturbance to the atmosphere and physically leaving holes in the clouds, as it passed overhead at around 35,000 mph! There should have been some type of audible turbulence.  

While I was still in awe of what I witnessed, I saw another fast walker come from the north, heading due south. But, this one slowly altered course as it was moving directly overhead, until it was traveling exactly due east. I know this, because, I always keep a compass handy.

I don't know of anything we have in orbit (besides the space plane), that can make a short sweeping 90 degree turn while traveling more than 14,000 mph.

The Aledo property is Fast Walker Heaven, and I can't wait to start getting some IR footage of these things.

-Roi



Note:  I wrote Roi back and told him that while I was outside with my dogs, I saw a bright flash of light in the clouds.  It illuminated the clouds, yet when I waited for the crack and rumble of thunder that follows a lightning flash, there was none.

I'm not sure of the exact time but it was fairly close to the time of his sighting.  I am less than 100 miles WSW of Roi's location.

Moments before the flash of light I had heard a jet flying overhead, East to West.  I couldn't see the jet, as it was above the clouds. 

Less than 2 minutes after the plane was well to my West, I happened to be looking straight up at the clouds overhead.  That is when the bright flash occurred.  It lasted just long enough for me to register it, then I waited for the thunder to immediately follow.  It never came and I was quite puzzled about this until Roi emailed me with his report.

If you witnessed this event, please contact me.

-SW
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Leaked video- Broadcaster discussing November, 2006 UFO sighting at Ohare



Video Link


Note: Though this incident occurred in November, 2006, sightings over airports are not that rare. -SW


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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Triangle formation of lights near Portland International Airport









On the evening of October 18, 2010 near Portland International Airport in Oregon, a witness saw and snapped photos of lights in a triangular formation, that later broke formation and left in separate directions.


MUFON Case #  25972
Date/Time:    2010-10-18 19:00
Location:  Portland, Oregon
Shape:    Sphere,Triangle
Distance:    Over one mile
Vallee Index:    MA1
Summary: Saw stable triangle formation in the area of PDX

Report:
While driving west on Padden PKWY in Vancouver WA on my way home, I noticed a perfect triangular formation of bright sphere-like lights to the south of me in the general area of Portland International Airport. The lights appeared much brighter than the typical plane lights look in the sky as planes come and go from PDX.

As I continued driving, I saw that the formation was completely stable, and seemed to be just sort of hovering in place. Confused as to why and how planes would hold a formation like this above the airport, I turned and drove south down HWY 503 towards the lights, hoping to get a better view, and to pull over to determine if the lights were as stationary as they seemed.

After pulling off the road into a parking lot, I got out of the car with my camera and snapped a photo. The formation then began rotating slowly in place, with all three lights maintaining the same spacing and distance from one another. I snapped two more photos while this was happening, and then 1 of the lights broke out of formation and moved steadily to the east. The two remaining lights continued to rotate for another few moments, and then another one left formation and seemed to move in a north-westerly direction. The remaining light became stationary, and then slowly faded from sight.

If anyone else saw this, please submit your own report for additional verification. I phoned PDX to ask if the air traffic was moving normally and she said that all flights were operating normally. I could not think of a satisfactory explanation for what I saw.

Original Photos
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Mailbag- UFO Sighting in Texas, January 20, 1975


A reader sent me an email about a UFO sighting he had on a Texas highway, January 20, 1975. 

He states that other motorists stopped and watched the silent UFO before it "shot off", out of sight.


If you have any information on this sighting, please contact me via email.  Thanks, SW



"If I remember correctly, my swearing in ceremony into the USN was about mid December 1974 and on the way from DeSoto, Texas back to Duncanville, my parents, my little sister and I stopped the car and watched a UFO over our heads – along with dozens of other cars that were stopped and people standing outside their cars.  It stayed there for a few minutes, low – without sound and then shot off – again without sound.   It’s been 35 years – but were there any other reports of this or am I dreaming this happened back when I was 18 years old?"
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Louisiana residents puzzled by strange UFOs

Map of Louisiana UFO Sightings- October 15-16, 2010. 
Sightings area highlighted
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In ever increasing numbers
, people are seeing strange objects.  Two such sightings occurred recently in Louisiana.


On the evening of October 15, 2010 a witness claims to have watched a bright, flashing square-shaped UFO near Houma, Louisiana, then on October 16, 2010 another Louisiana resident claims an egg-shaped UFO landed in the yard of their home in Denham Springs, Louisiana.

Here are those unedited reports:


MUFON Case #   25933
Date/Time:    2010-10-15 21:30
Location:    Houma, Louisiana
Shape:    Square/Rectagular
Summary:    Flashing square

Report:
I was on my way to the movies, and I decided to take a back road because the movie theater was about an hour and a half away. There was no one else on the road at all. All of the sudden, a bright flashing square came out of no where. I pulled over and watched it for about 30 minutes. It eventually came down to about 20 feet from the ground. It changed colors rapidly. It zig-zagged left to right for a long time. Sort of putting on a show for me. It then zoomed off faster than anything I have ever seen. This was most certainly not a plane. It was very strange.




MUFON Case #  25929
Date/Time:    2010-10-16 00:00
Location:    Denham Springs, Louisiana
Shape:    Egg
Summary:    Landing of Spacecraft

Report:
I have never believed in UFO's. I've always thought it was nonsense. The other night though,when I got home, becuase it was is the weekend, I decided to bring out my telescope and do a little star gazing.

I had been observing for about probably 30 minutes or so when I noticed something in the sky that appeared to be an orange egg shaped object making no noice maybe about a quarter of a mile away. It was extremely low. It got closer and closer and I begin to freak out. I ran in my house and looked for my camera but could not find it. When I returned out, the object was actually hovering above my yard about 30 feet in the air. I have no idea how it was able to fly. It then proceeded to hover into my back yard and land.

I thought maybe I should dial 911 but did not due to the fact that I may have not been believed. I ran into my backyard after debating whether I should approach the object or not. I went into the back and stood crouched down by a large bush for the next five minutes or so. The object did not move. It had no windows on it, but had two orange lights on it. One light on either side of the spacecraft. The object had four (metal Im assuming) legs that it had used to land on. It was about 8 feet tall and 5 feet wide.

After watching it for 5 minutes it slowly lifted of the ground. I watched it take off and then go down in a nearby field. I assumed it had landed again, so I went back inside to search for my camera which I still could nto find so I got my cell phone out of my truck, but by the time I got to the field, the object was no where in sight. There is no evidence that the craft landed. It was just a very odd, surreal expirience. Im just very shocked.

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Family in El Paso sees "pyramid of lights" in sky



MUFON Case #  25920
Date/Time:    2010-10-15 19:00
Location:    El Paso, Texas
Shape:    Triangle,Other
Duration:    00:10:00
Summary:    Pyramid-like structure of lights, slowly hovering and rotating

Report:
I was standing in the kitchen, clearing off some dishes, when my dad comes in from the side door of our house, urging us to come outside, thinking it was just an animal in the street, until my dad tells me to look to the sky, I look, and he starts explaining he saw something similar to a comet, before I have time to take it all in, I see for myself; three glowing lights hovering/flying in unison.

Toward the Western sky is where I saw it, it appeared to be flying West

At first I thought it was a squad of fighter jets, because we live close to Fort Bliss, and that's commonplace around here, but soon my doubts were silenced when I saw the three lights starting to hover around a central point. I ran inside, to get my mom to come outside and see for herself, when I came back outside it had moved further into the horizon, and a fourth light had appeared above the triangle of lights in the center, forming a pyramid-like structure, and I had to climb onto my dad's unused car. I urged my parents to do the same so we could see it as well. We just stood there starting at it, it continued to move slowly to the west, constantly rotating as it moved.

That was when my dad said he wished we had a camera, so I quickly jumped off the car and ran inside to grab my digital camera, I ran back outside, but realized I could get a better view from the roof, so I ran to out backyard and struggled to get our ladder set up, I dropped it once before I got help from my dad and we set it up, he climbed up first, and I followed, but when we got up there, it was gone. No trace of it was left, it just disappeared from the sky. It couldn't have flown further away, because at the speed it was already going, it would have been in our view for another 10-20 minutes. With it still fresh in my mind, I decided to sketch what I saw to the best of my ability, I went back inside and started to sketch what I saw, and notify any of my friends in the area through a social networking site to see if they had seen the same thing.

Sketch 1
Sketch 2

Note:  More people around the world are seeing pyramid shaped UFOs.  Perhaps that is the basis for the Goa'uld ships in the movie "Star Gate" and it's subsequent television series? -SW

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

"UFOs" observed in North Central Texas skies, October 13, 2010


October 13, 2010 at approximately 9:50 p.m.


We were in route home from Eastland and had just turned off of Hwy 112.  As we traveled north on 183, I noticed a white light above the ESE horizon and assumed it was a very bright star, or a jet with it's landing lights on, coming from DFW Airport.  Soon my view of the light was obscured by trees and terrain but when we traveled further north and I was again able to see the horizon, the light was no longer visible.

Still assuming that the light had been a jet, or some other ordinary object, I jokingly told my spouse who was driving, that I had seen a UAO (unidentified aerial object). 

A few minutes later when we attained higher road elevation and I could again see the eastern horizon, I saw the light yet again.  However, the light was now lower in elevation rather than higher (as a star would be), and the object of interest was now further south. 

When first seen, the object was below and slightly north of Jupiter.  When viewed later, the object was below and south of Jupiter.


We proceeded into Breckenridge, turned west on Hwy 180 and drove to Wal-Mart for spark plugs, as my car had started to cut out on the trip home.  After making our purchase, we drove east back to our farm.   

About 45 minutes had passed and now at home, I stepped outside with my dogs.  I looked to my East/ Southeast where the object (if it were a star) should be clearly visible above the treetops.  The object was clearly gone.

If I were to estimate the location of this object (not being a star), and taking into consideration the curvature of the Earth, I would have to assume that it was somewhere north and west of the Stephenville area.
After seeing this object, I checked reports to MUFON and found these sightings (near time frame):


MUFON Case #   25869
Date/Time:    2010-10-13 23:00
Location:    Lingleville, Texas
Shape:    Unknown
Distance:    500 feet or less
Summary:    Light taking off to north

Report:
I was in my office. I thought headlights were coming around the bend in our road, but they never passed by. I looked out the bathroom window to see if my neighbor had parked his car in the field, and I saw a white light leave the field and head to the north. The object quickly left at horizon level until it blinked out.

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MUFON Case #   25870
Date/Time:    2010-10-13 23:05
Location:    Lingleville, Texas
Shape:    Unknown
Summary:    Low flying bright light

Report:
I was checking the maternity pen, and I was headed north on our land, and it just flew over headed north, making a direct line over our manure settling basin.

It was pretty dark, so the light caught my attention since it was out of the ordinary.

I thought it was a bird because sometimes there are white birds in the area. When i realized it wasn't, I thought it might be tractor headlights. But then I realized that it was something not ordinary.

It was just kind of streaming, no curves or turns, like a bullet or projectile trajectory, just constant smooth motion.

I wasn't scared, I was puzzled. If it wasn't moving so quickly I would've felt like pursuing it to see what it was.

It flew over the horizon, and I watched it as long as I could.

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MUFON Case #    25871
Date/Time:    2010-10-13 23:02
Status:    Submitted
Location:    Dublin, Texas
Shape:    Disc
Summary:    Disc shape light lifted from the ground level and took off

Report:
I was in my car going from Dublin to Stephenville on HW 377 heading North. About half way to Stephenville I noticed a large white light to my left. I looked over to see a disc shaped light lift from the ground and was moving to the North at a high rate of speed and then just blinked out.

I never saw it again. It was very fast and i'm not sure if it was on the ground or not but I think it was about 2 or 3 miles away. Its hard to tell in the dark.

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Note:  Perhaps these sightings have a connection, as they were all seen in the general area between Breckenridge and Dublin, Texas.  If you had a UFO sighting in this area on October 13, 2010, please contact me.
Thanks,
SW


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Monday, October 11, 2010

UFO near Queensboro Bridge, NYC captured on video- 10/10/2010

What is it that was videoed flying near the Queensboro Bridge in New York City?  Could it be a large balloon, or zeppelin?
I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who might have seen this object. -SW

Email me





Video Link









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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Family on vacation captures photo of diamond-shaped light






On June 11, 2009 while on their way back to Las Vegas from the Grand Canyon, a family on their yearly vacation spotted a cylindrical object surrounded by a diamond-shap0ed light. 
After several attempts to take a photo of the object they finally succeeded, at which point the object disappeared.


Here is the unedited report to MUFON.


MUFON Case # 25790
Date:    2009-06-11
Location: Arizona
Shape:    Diamond
Summary: hovering bright light

We were having our yearly vaction.We went to Las Vegas and headed out to the Grand Canyon.On our way back to Las Vegas, we saw a cylinder surrounded or consumed in diamond shaped light.We pulled out the camera and tried to take a picture but the camera's battery died.We tried again, but it died again. Finally we got a very good picture.Then it was gone.

Original Photo

Note:  It is possible that what they saw and photographed was a weather balloon but you have to admit, the image is compelling. -SW

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