A Zimbabwe witness at Harare reported watching with flashing, sequential lights hovering and making abrupt direction changes, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. The witness was called outside by his wife at 6:30 p.m. on April 8, 2017, and asked to look north. “I was immediately able to make out three flashing, alternating beams of light,” the witness stated. “I initially thought it was an aero plane slowly disappearing into the distance, obscured by the clouds. I soon noticed that the lights were emanating from a hovering source or object whose shape I could not see as the object was obscured by the clouds.” The hovering object began to move. “After about seven minutes, the object moved upwards in a leftward direction, lights still flashing and hovered again for about three minutes before moving slowly in a straight, northwards direction before the lights faded and disappeared. After noticing the abrupt upwards and leftward movement in a straight line, as well as the sudden hovering action after that, I can say that was the point I was convinced that what we were observing was a UFO.” NOTE: The above image is CGI.
A man reported seeing, videoing, and photographing an object that was flying horizontally before it hovered for 40 seconds, then flew vertically up and vanished, according to testimony in Case 131240. The witness took at least four still photographs (one of which is shown above) of the UFO during the two-minute sighting, as well as a 26-second video. One of the photographs shows the vertical movement of the object as a streak of light. The witness was on his deck at 9:15 p.m. on May 28, 2023. His CMS detailed description states: “Saw this UAP in the air last night; got some good video and pictures, but I didn’t even realize that I caught [its vertical ascent].” Vermont MUFON Field Investigator Robin Perreault closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle. In his investigative summary, Perreault writes that the sighting is from a very rural area of Vermont, up in the mountains and secluded area. Although there was a small plane in the area, the witness saw the small plane and stated so. It was not the object that he recorded.
The object has no navigation lights at all. It was silent and the witness stated that when it changed its path of direction it shot up vertically with great speed. I will check the databank for other witnesses of the object, but it appears we have a UAV. Although it is hard to see the movement in the video, the witness stated that it was moving at a high rate of speed and then shot up vertically out of sight. If this is the case, then I am going to call this a UAV. I contemplated “unknown other,” but the movement and change of direction point to a vehicle of some kind rather than a stationary unknown object. note: The above photo is from the witness.
Caught up in the war around them, American GIs stationed in South Vietnam in June 1966 rarely had reason to speculate about UFOs — at least until the little-known Nha Trang UFO incident took place.
The Nha Trang incident if thorough documentation can be obtained, could become a UFO “classic” according to one NICAP investigator familiar with the case.
The sighting allegedly occurred during one of the most active periods of the Vietnam conflict, and understandably received little publicity at the time. Now, however, with American participation in the war concluded, numerous war-related incidents are beginning to emerge. One of these involves a startling UFO sighting witnessed by possibly thousands of soldiers stationed in Vietnam at the time.
NICAP investigator Raymond Fowler conducted an initial investigation into the sighting and was able to contact an eyewitness to the event.
Nha Trang, at the time of the reported incident, was a heavily defended base in South Vietnam located along the coastline, which has now become an important area of tourism in Vietnam and that nowadays, specifically in this area, many Nha Trang hotels and guide tours are now available for tourists. But in 1966, it served as the home base for more than 40,000 troops, including 2,000 American GIs.
The base was situated in a valley, with warehouses and an airstrip to the east, a fuel storage area and hills to the west, and docks and storage facilities located to the south along the China Sea.
According to the witness, eight bulldozers were operating that night cutting roads around “Hawk Hill,” located less than one-half mile to the west of the American compound. On another part of the base, two “sky-Raider” prop-driven aircraft were warming up on the airstrip located less than a mile to the east. At the same time, a Shell Oil tanker lay anchored in the bay about a mile to the southwest.
The witness, an enlisted soldier holding the rank of Specialist 5, had gathered with an undetermined number of fellow soldiers around 8 p.m. in an open area of the base to watch an outdoor movie.
Outdoor films had become possible only recently, according to the witness, thanks to the arrival and installation of six, new, independently-operated, 100 KW diesel-powered generators. One of these generators had been installed near the compound where the soldiers were seated and was being used to supply power for the movie projector.
The film had been underway for some time, according to the witness’s account, when suddenly, at approximately 9:45 p.m., the sky to the north lit up! The GIs glanced up and saw what at first appeared to be a flare exploding above a ridge to the north.
“At first we thought it was a flare which are going off all the time and then we found that it wasn’t” recounts a letter from the witness mailed home a few days later.
“It came from the north and was moving from real slow to real fast…Some of the jet fighter pilots which were here…said it looked to be about 25,000 feet (in altitude)… then the panic broke loose. It dropped right towards us and stopped dead still about 300 to 500 feet up. It made this little valley and the mountains around look like it was the middle of the day; it lit up everything.
“Then it went up and I mean up. It went straight up and completely out of sight in about 2-3 seconds. Everybody is still talking about it.”
Had the soldier’s letter or his recent account of the incident stopped there, the case would probably not have come to the attention of either NICAP or the officials from Washington that reportedly visited the base the next day. But the letter and the witness’s account of the incident continues:
“That really shook everyone is that it stopped, or maybe it didn’t, but anyway our generator stopped and everything was black. At the Air Force Base about one half mile from here all generators stopped.
The engines on two planes that were the runway ready to take off stopped, and there wasn’t a car, truck, plane or anything that ran for about four minutes.”
In addition, the eight bulldozers working on nearby hills also ceased operating according to the witness.
“A whole plane load of big shots from Washington got here this afternoon to investigate. It’s on the radio over here. Is it at home? I swear if somebody says they saw a little green man I won’t argue with them.”
“Little green man” or not, the case could prove to be highly significant, despite the current lack of additional information.
Compounding this problem is the witness’s inability to recall anything more than the nicknames of those he was serving with at Nha Trang.
Of extreme interest to NICAP, and apparently of equal interest to the “big shots” from Washington,” was the associated EM effects reportedly caused by the strange UFO.
The fact that diesel and gasoline engines scattered throughout the base all ceased to operate at the same time and remained inoperative for more than four minutes provides added mystery to the event.
Included in the list of engines that ceased running at the time of the sighting, according to the witness, were those of the two “Sky Raiders” warming up on the nearby runway. One can only speculate what might have happened had they suffered a power loss while airborne.
NICAP is currently attempting to contact appropriate Army officials in an effort to obtain the names of other enlisted or officer personnel who might have witnessed the event. NICAP is also seeking to determine whether officials from Washington did in fact visit Nha Trang the next day to investigate the sighting. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Now, I’m not from Marayong, I was visiting a friend. I just got off the train about 8PM. Prior to this sighting, little white dots in the sky that look like stars move so smoothly, they are far too high up to be a plane and they weren’t flashing, just traveling. They had no characteristics of a shooting star what’s so ever, I’ve experienced this twice, one time on the South Coast in Sanctuary Point and the other In Ashfield, Sydney when I was staying in a woman’s shelter due to the cost of living in Australia at the moment. I tried to film this, but the dot was so small, every time I tried to zoom in, I kept losing track of the traveling light, so I gave up. My experience on the south coast with the traveling lights was more intense anyway, I had to ask my mother whether she could see them too, she actually pointed one out to me, so it confirmed that we were both seeing these things. Anyway, let’s get to the part I’m really here for. I’ve been sleepless wanting some answers. I’m going nuts over here! I mean it’s too high to be a drone!
I just got off the train at Marayong just after 8pm and I suddenly thought maybe I’ll see some moving stars again, so I looked up and there’s this I don’t know, thing? Blinking, 2 circle white lights just blinking. I have this all on film by the way and this thing is hovering, I can tell because I keep looking back at the streetlight and the vehicle and its clearly hovering, not making any kind of sound before and I swear I saw another one pop up for a second and vanished, I’m not too sure like I’m still in shock that I’m seeing this in my life time or even my own country for that matter, it’s so surreal! I mean I’ve always been interested in Aliens, space and other strange stuff ever since I was little. Anyway, I just crawled out from the bush to get a better view. The UFO started to blink a red light and started to show plane characteristics and slowly moved away without sound. Planes don’t just move like that, what kind of plane hovers? I’m telling you this thing isn’t a drone either. Unfortunately, and probably fortunately this is all I’ve experienced. Are they now disguising themselves as planes? I zoomed into my video & took screenshots. I saw a bright disc in the screenshot as what it appears to be.
WEST MIFFLIN — Stan Gordon reports two UFO sightings over the suburbs of Pittsburgh, during the past week. On April 21, 1999, the occupants of a car saw an object that looked like a slice of pizza at 9:15 PM. The crust end of the pizza was flying forward and was covered with numerous white non-blinking lights. Witnesses could only see the silhouette of the craft against the sky. The observers live near the flight path of an airport and are familiar with seeing various types of aircraft. The nearly triangular shaped object was seen at the same time as a commercial airliner aircraft was observed moving towards Pittsburgh. According to one of the viewers, the triangle was above the airplane, and stopped as the aircraft continued. Suddenly the UFO caught up and began to pace the aircraft. The triangle shaped object was in a diagonal position with the plane when a bright beam of white light was emitted towards the commercial aircraft. The beam at first was narrow, but expanded until it completely illuminated the aircraft. Then the beam of light vanished. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
A British charter jet has had a close encounter with a UFO said to be “the size of a battleship”. The shocked pilot and crew of a Debonair BAe146 plane reported being buzzed by “a long cylindrical object” as they flew over the North Sea. The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Three other pilots have also independently logged seeing the bright object 58 miles off the coast of Denmark. Last night the Civil Aviation Authority confirmed a comprehensive report of the pilot’s sighting had been received. The report says the captain and crew first became aware of the object after the underside of the plane was immersed in “an incandescent light”. A CAA spokeswoman said: “The captain reported seeing an unnatural bright light below his aircraft while flying at 28,000ft. The area below him was illuminated for about 10 seconds by incandescent light and it was certainly not a light from another plane.
“Three other aircraft saw it moving at a high speed or static. However, air traffic control were informed and they confirmed that there were no other planes in the vicinity. “Then, five minutes later, there was a brief radar return from a spot 75 miles away. We believe there was no danger involved.” The Luton-based 96-seater plane was flying company executives from Linkoping, Sweden, to Humberside airport. A spokesman for Debonair, which runs cut-price flights throughout Europe, said chief executive Franco Mancassola had been informed that a “great red light in the sky” had been spotted near one of the company’s planes. At one stage, the report says, the object came to an abrupt halt before accelerating past the airliner at thousands of miles an hour. A CAA source says the object was tracked by a military radar station in Yorkshire after it entered UK air space. A spokesman for the 6,000 member British Pilots Association said: “We get reports of this nature from our members but they are few and far between. “In the past 10 years or so I would say there have been around six cases of UFO’s being sighted.
The Mirror – London From Gerry Lovell……. A passenger jet’s crew have reported a close encounter with an unidentified flying object. They said that they noticed an “incandescent” light below their Debonair BAe 146 as it headed over the North Sea from Sweden to Humberside. Then, they added, a long cylindrical silver-coloured object the size of a battleship flew alongside. The British plane’s shocked captain saw what seemed to be rows of square portholes on the UFO before it vanished at “enormous speed”. The crew told the Defense Ministry about their sighting. An RAF radar station tracked the object, which was seen from three other planes. NOTE: The above image is real but from another case file.
My daughter and I were laying on a hammock watching the sun set at my childhood home where I’ve watched the sun set and stars rise for over 30 years. My daughter said “look mom it’s the first star!” And before even looking I was like “no, it’s too early for the stars to come out.” I poked up and saw what she was talking about – a very bright, unmoving reddish orb about 20 degrees north of where the sun was setting. I asked aloud “could it be mars?” But I knew that wouldn’t be out until later too, and at a much higher degree in the sky (I’ve always loved tracking the stars, so I know generally what’s where any time and place from home). We were both watching it when it zoomed off straight up into the sky, faster than any airplane I’ve ever seen move on that same horizon. I didn’t get a photo of the orb (the whole ‘what is that?” moment lasted Less than 30 seconds). The photos attached show the aftermath of the trail of whatever it was, showing how the trail dissipated over the next 10 minutes or so.
I was walking Westward, behind the wooden apartment buildings that were there then, toward the bus stop where I caught the bus to work. The time was just after 6 a.m. and my path took me across an entry to the Eastern end of Edworthy Park. I would stop briefly and look over the sight because it afforded me a great view of the North Calgary skyline nestled at the base of Nose Hill. On the morning this happened I was looking North, toward Nose Hill, as it was something I did most mornings. This fine, clear skied morning my peripheral vision caught something in the sky, the object looked white and was about the size of a golf ball. (Let me segue a moment to say that there newly built apartment complexes on the Western side of the entry to Edworthy Park. The occupants of these apartments, some at least, were there because to the East of the opening was the Western limit of Shaganappi Golf Course.
The Shaganappi Golf Course is in use throughout the year offering Cross Country Skiing as a Winter pastime.) I kept attention on the object because I thought it was a golf ball, as it had apparently appeared from the direction of the newly built apartment blocks. (Hitting golf balls from the balconies was a common occurrence and was severely criticised by the users of the path that runs alongside the riverside, as well it was considered illegal by the railway companies as there was a track at the bottom of the bluff on which I was standing. Golf balls landing in the river were considered as pollution.) The object, however, did not behave in the manner of any golf ball that I had seen anywhere in my most extensive travels. This object, now clearly and orb-like structure with a misty/cloudy emanation located at its’ base, continued past the point where gravity should have affected it, keeping a straight line and increasing in size as it approached.
The object, once close enough identified as a silver/blue colour as though it was trying (unsuccessfully) to blend in with the clear blue sky around it. As I observed the object it increased in size, the small amount of water vapour/steam/cloud still hung around at its’ base. The object appeared to travel from the Northwest on a South-westerly path. There was no sound or any kind of apparent atmospheric disturbance around the object, save the misty cloud at its’ base. The object had increased its’ size to that of a basketball and stopped, hovering silently, directly above the Control Tower at the Calgary Airport. By now I was observing the object in the North-easterly area of my vision. I watched, totally engrossed in the sight I was beholding, a basketball sized object hovering directly above the Calgary Airport Control Tower.
My mind was full of questions, was this some new type of “cloaking device” invented by a foreign or even the Canadian government? Was I observing something of an extraterrestrial nature, or could it be inter-dimensional, or was I just plain losing my mind? These questions are still very real to me. Because what I saw next left my mind reeling. The now basketball object seemed to reduce in size, firstly to that of a softball, and once again it reduced itself to a baseball size, holding the last size for briefly a second before I saw three objects, all of which could be considered “carbon copies” of the original object, down to the little clouds of water vapour at the bases of each sphere disappear silently over the horizon. The objects disappeared over the horizon at the same time, one on a Northern trajectory, the second on a North-easterly trajectory, and finally, the third object disappeared over the horizon in a due East trajectory. In a state of shock and disbelief I continued my journey, and I arrived at the bus stop the same moment as the bus. NOTE: The above image is real but from another case file.
It was a disc with the ball on top like the average UFO you see on the internet or whatever. It was half green, half red. It was very loud and fast and spinning around. As it was going it curved down and curved back up and descent into the sky. I have the video. I was just sitting on my back porch already recording when this happened to the left of me.
I am a sky freak so I always have my phone out and I went down the stairs and BAM I could see it like no other and I ran after it to get a better view but it just messed my view up more and I heard something and got scared and ran back to the porch. I could see it better with my eyes then what my phone got but you can see it in the video clear as day. I had to slow it down and screenshot it because it was so fast and wow I got it on camera good!!! It was behind the trees but I got it!
UFO sightings often come in bunches, like the spate that tantalized southeast Michigan in 1966. After a few days of sighting reports by civilians, on March 17 two Washtenaw County Sheriff’s deputies, Sgt. Neil Schneider and Deputy David Fitzpatrick, said they saw three or four red, white and green circular objects oscillating and glowing near Milan about 4 a.m. They called Willow Run Airport officials, but radar could not confirm the report. Two more Washtenaw deputies, Buford Bushroe and John Foster, chased the same types of objects three days later. Livingston and Monroe County residents also reported seeing the objects. The Detroit News carried the police chase story and a drawing of a quilted football-like UFO with lights, dome and antennae. When Dexter Patrolman Robert Huniwell saw the object at 9:30 p.m. at Quigly and Brand, Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas Harvey ordered all available deputies to the scene.
Six patrol cars, two men in each, and three detectives converged on the area. They chased the flying object along Island Lake Road without catching it. Farm owner Frank Mannor and his family said they came within 500 yards, “It wasn’t like the pictures of a flying saucer and it had a coral-like surface,” Mannor said. Carloads of students from nearby University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan converged on the area after hearing radio reports. The Air Force sent in “Project Blue Book” astronomer and UFO expert J. Allen Hynek, who drove around for two hours and 45 minutes. “Swamp gas” he concluded. “Marsh gas usually has no smell, but sounds like the small popping explosions similar to a gas burner igniting. The gas forms from decomposition of vegetation. It seems likely that as the present spring thaws came, the gases methane, hydrogen sulfide and phosphine, resulting from decomposition of organic materials, were released.” But William Van Horn, a local civil defense director and pilot who claimed he had seen the UFOs, was outraged by the report.
A Hillsdale native, Van Horn said he grew up next to a swamp and knew more about swamp gas than Hynek. “A lot of good people are being ridiculed,” Van Horn concluded. Each day, Michigan at the Millenium takes a look at the people, events and ideas that have shaped our world. NOTE: The above image is real but from another case file.
KENS NOTE: This is the era that Allen Hynek investigated for the Air Force and was suppose to debunk all of the reported sightings. After a few years he finally realized that most of these sightings were real alien craft. The rest is History.
My apartment window faces the main road. In a small town. I got the odor of a skunk, and looked out my window to see there was a large skunk that got hit by a car. I called the owner since I live above the restaurant and asked him if I should remove it so he can bury it at his farm. He gave me the okay, so I headed downstairs. I only claimed 1 witness on here because you wanted information I can’t give. When I got downstairs, I saw a cop sitting in the far end of our parking lot, maybe 200ft. They park there often. I thought, maybe he can put his lights on while we remove the skunk. On my way to his truck, I looked over my left shoulder and saw 4 bright orange spheres.
I walked faster to the cop. When I reached his car, I knocked on the window, and he asked me what’s up… my exact words were first off what the fuck is this. And pointed. He got out of the car and was just as wtf as I was. We just watched these they came from the north, and we watched as they got closer but turn towards the east. No sound. No flashing lights. Just bright orange. Almost like they were on the same railroad track. They went about half mile or so and disappeared 1 by 1 at the same point. I took a crappy video of the last one. After that I told him I’m gonna grab gloves and a trash bag for the skunk. I will wave at him so he could use lights.
When we came out, he was right next to the shop looking up and said they are back, but this time all different directions. I saw 2 of them just vanish over the shop. That was it for then. We got the skunk out of the road. I’m watching for a while. The same 4 lights came back 3 hours later, over the high-school, circling for like 10 sec. And vanished. I called the police to report it as well. The officer reported what he saw to the Sgt. But I’m not or can’t speak for him. NOTE: The above image is real but from another case file.
I was taking a photo of the ISS flyover with my iphone 12. I’ve done so many times and the photos look like white tic tacs. On the night of June 2, 2021 I took a few photos of the ISS which on the iPhone screen looks like a blurry, bright, fast moving star. The image looked like other times I’ve taken photos, it didn’t change on my phone screen. I took the photos fairly close together, 6-8 within 30 seconds, all but 2 look like every other ISS photo I’ve taken. As I looked through the photos I’d taken, 2 looked radically different than the others and different from what I saw on my phone. There were no craft in the area, the only sounds were cars passing about a block away. The photos I’m presenting are edited quite zoomed in, that’s the only edit. One photo is the usual ISS, the other is the unknown object. I’ve lost the 2nd of the object. The only difference was the two light points towards the top of the object were at the very bottom. I took both photos 1-2 seconds apart. About 20 or so seconds later I took another photo of the same thing I’d seen with my eyes and camera screen, a bright blurry star traveling fast and it looks like the white tic tac ISS.
EDITOR’S NOTE: We received this report of two spinning pyramid-shaped UFOS over Arden, NC on August 9, 2011 from Trey New. Several days later, Trey sent an update explaining he looked at the night sky the following three nights and didn’t see the phenomena again. In his words, “They weren’t there anymore because they weren’t stars.”
I just wanted to let you guys know about something my fiancé and I witnessed around 1 a.m. this morning from her house in Arden, NC. We had been outside and it was very overcast for a large portion of the night. I had noticed something that was very much brighter than anything I have ever seen before! I could see glimpses of it through the clouds. It was golden in color and large; twinkling but throwing rays of light from it in a fascinating way so that I couldn’t stop looking at.
There were even what looked to be squiggly green and yellow webby-looking fields around it a couple of times!!! When I focused on it, it seemed as if I sometimes saw tunnel vision. Everything around me, except for that anomaly, seemed almost fractal in a way. I have always looked up my entire life and seen many crazy things, but this by far is one of the top ones.
The clouds eventually broke for a few hours and we could finally clearly see this bright anomaly. It was a large pyramid that was casting light and spinning wildly. We watched it for hours, and were completely sober by the way.
I tracked stars on the horizon and this item moved against the rotation. It did look like the most brilliant star I have ever seen – times 40!! It stayed in a small area in the sky. If you focused on it, which we indeed did, you could see it move right, or left, or go straight up or go in small circles. There were a couple of times when it appeared to jerk up or down or wobble; and it was all the time spinning wildly!
My fiancé and I were both focused HARD on it! She was freaked out and I admittedly was too. I wish I had had a telescope or binoculars but I had nothing. She was telling me the exact motions I witnessed every time it moved. I would call out what I saw and it was spot on for her eyes as well. It couldn’t be our eyes playing tricks on us at the same time. I even fixated on known stars several times to verify that it wasn’t my eyes. This was a craft that moved in a manner that I have never seen, and displaying technology that we do not know about.
About an hour or so after seeing this pyramid shaped anomaly, another one that had red, blue, green, yellow, and other colored lights going wild all over it appeared. It also was pyramid shaped, but appeared to be stretched and elongated. It was diagonally to the north of the first one and appeared to be at a lower altitude. It, too, appeared to be spinning VERY wildly!!
As it was spinning, it seemed that one corner was fixed, somewhat like a gyroscope, only shaped like a HUGE elongated pyramid. Once this one started “twinkling,” the other one moved its position to a lower altitude and closer to where we were. It was also spinning slowly.
We could both see that it was indeed a lighted pyramid. I could see every “face” of the pyramid. It was just a little off of vertical and tilting to the right and slowly rotating. All of the faces were illuminated. (1) One of them had a green beacon illuminating it in a swoosh curved kind of way. (2) The next side was somewhat glowing all over and had blinking lights along the left edge with two of them that alternated. They appeared white and grey almost. (3) The next side was a dull shine and (4) the last side had a large black area in the middle and was illuminated at top and bottom. I literally sat there and watched this for 15 minutes, seeing each face over and over again as it rotated. It was the most unusual thing I have ever seen.
At around 4 am we had to go to bed. The second one we saw was still spinning wildly and had moved more toward the North. Again, it moved completely against the rotation of the horizon. The first one that was now spinning slowly was high in the sky. It also was going completely against the rotation of the horizon.
We saw these crafts from 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. this morning, Tuesday, August 9, 2011. I was wondering if anyone else reported this to you or if you may have seen it yourselves. NOTE: The above image is real but from another case file.
These are the events that occurred on March 13, 1997 as uncovered by Michael Tanner and myself: 1. FORMATION OF HOVERING ORBS – First observed in a hexagram pattern at about 7:30 p.m. over the Superstition Mountains area east of Phoenix in the characteristic 8+1(or 2) formation of amber orbs and was next seen in two separate arc patterns with “trailing lights” over Gila River area at about 9:50 and again at 10:00 at the southern edge of Phoenix where they were seen by thousands and videotaped by a handful who had camcorders close enough at hand to catch the fleeting minutes of their displays. These amateur videos have immortalized the orb formations, becoming known around the world as The Phoenix Lights.
These are the very same lights that started the controversy over “flares” and that will be taken up in the next chapter. The last appearance of the hovering orbs of the night was made over a now recognized “hot-spot” of Rainbow Valley arrayed in a “V” formation at about 2:00 a.m. on March 14th (and again appeared on January 14, 1998). 2. “V” FORMATION OF FLYING ORBS – First seen leaving the Henderson-Las Vegas area and entering Arizona at high speed, a V-formation of five to seven orbs, variously seen as bright blue-white to a yellow-white, came through the Prescott Valley area at low altitude by 7:50 p.m., turning south, where by 8:28, were videotaped (displaying their characteristic movement within the formation) at the north end of the valley that comprises the Phoenix metro area.
In an apparent slower mode of flight, the orbs appeared at that point as amber in color as the formation moved along Interstate 10 angling toward Tucson after having been visually seen (not on radar) to intersect air traffic coming in on approach to Sky Harbor International Airport. After hovering for several minutes over a car full of witnesses driving north on I-10 at 65 mph, the formation was then picked up by observers in the Oracle area who reported the orbs’ color as red to red-orange before the formation split up, going in separate directions while skirting the edges of the Tucson metropolitan area. At various points independent of this very specific formation, individual orbs were seen to shoot across the metro Phoenix valley with some moving away from and then re-docking with one or more of the Very Large Objects (VLOs) which came through later in the night.
3. CHEVRON VLO (narrow angle) – Observed first as a “V” formation of five white lights moving slowly and silently toward Prescott Valley from the northwest at about 8:15 p.m., the “chevron” was soon clearly seen as a single object. The huge craft made a pivot turn over the witnesses’ home there while the lights shifted into an arc formation while the lights turned red and then it shot off at blinding speed toward Phoenix. At that time the next set of witnesses in central Phoenix saw the object coming directly toward them (estimated at Mach 2 or 3) while still in the “turbo” mode arc configuration, and then, as if to slow back down again, was seen to change back into a “V” whereupon it cruised silently and slowly right over their heads (only 100 to 200 feet above at 10 or 15 mph). The craft was later seen to zigzag through the valley, even changing altitude at various points and hovering for five minutes at the edge of Sky Harbor before proceeding south (right over the Village Lab building) to Interstate-10.
After following I-10 several miles to Picacho Peak, the enormous craft (estimated at 900 feet or more on each leading edge and more than a mile in length to its “taillights”) hovered once again for 10 to 15 minutes until there was no further track of it. According to Michael, this is a possible docking point for this craft and the giant triangle that followed it down I-10 some fifteen minutes later. This same “chevron” or similar craft was seen traveling east to west over north Phoenix at about 10:50 p.m. 4. BOOMERANG VLO (wide angle) – This “V” formation, consisting of five groups of three lights, was confirmed to be a single huge object by various Prescott-area witnesses, being equivalent to a formation of five 747s flying absolutely lock-step in formation toward Phoenix. The craft was seen to make a southerly turn at about 8:25, once again, in the Prescott Valley area, after first approaching from the northwest.
This VLO was later seen (although not clearly enough to identify) by an America West pilot who called Sky Harbor tower wondering what “those nine lights were”, and an amateur astronomer in Phoenix who wrote it off as a formation of conventional airplanes. It is possible that this craft was the same as the giant triangle(wide angle) described below. 5. TRIANGULAR VLO (narrow angle) – This is the one seen by the family in Chandler. It may be the same Triangle or Deltoid craft seen by others as a wide angle craft. It had definite structure complete with panels in a grid along with lights at each of the three corners and a larger center light. Multiple witnesses confirm its northwest to southeast flight path through the eastern part of the valley with some observers seeing one or more orbs leaving and then re-docking with this VLO at various points.
This particular craft was seen to “split in two” by a resident in Gilbert, south of Chandler. 6. BIG BLACK TRIANGLE (wide angle) – By all accounts the largest of the VLOs in the March 13th parade of craft, this gigantic craft was first seen at close range over north Phoenix between 8:30 and 8:45 where the key witnesses (real estate people who subdivided the area) estimated its size to be as much as two miles wide as its wingtip lights fell over two parallel streets that are 1.8 miles apart. Its flight path brought it low to the ground at this point (less than 2,000 feet) where it was seen to not only have dozens of lights along its leading edges, but also a row of windows wherein the silhouettes of “people” were observed! At some point further south, other witnesses reported that they saw nothing but the row of windows with beings (also in silhouette) as all of the lights were turned off at that point.
By the time the VLO was seen over I-10 south of Casa Grande, however, three large lights were seen to be turned on, one at each corner, with smaller lights on along with the leading headlight. The witnesses here reported that it took them one to two minutes to drive under this immense ship while they were driving at 80 mph! They estimated the width of this VLO to be at least two, possibly three miles wide and big enough for a C5-A Galaxy or “Condor” troop transport (the largest conventional aircraft known) to land upon it! The craft had definite structure to it and the family of witnesses described its color as a flat blue-black like the color of a shotgun barrel. They also reported seeing rectangular “panel-like” structures on the underside of this craft. Another large triangle was seen moving just north of Thunderbird Road at around 10:45 p.m., but the configuration of the triangle was different.
That triangle had a V-cut into its trailing edge to give it a very distinctive look. 7. GIANT DISCOID VLO – Witnessed first by a retired airline pilot, his sons and a friend, and seen coming down Scottsdale Road at about 10:20 p.m., this huge circular craft, featuring amber lights around its perimeter (at an estimated one mile in diameter) was seen to make a purposeful turn toward Sky Harbor at about Camelback Road where it also intersected air traffic before disappearing from view over South Mountain. The corroborating central Phoenix witness, also a former pilot (Vietnam) and retired U.S. Marshal, described how the craft both reflected the city lights on its underbelly and blocked out the stars with its upper half, attesting to its being a single craft of spectacular “mile-wide” proportions. This witness also claimed to have videotaped what he saw from the roof of his apartment building, but his tapes mysteriously disappeared in what may amount to a genuine “men-in-black (MIB)” episode.
This craft may also have docked with the “chevron” craft and cloaked in “visual stealth” mode in its earlier pass through Phoenix at about 8:20 to 8:30, but this is purest speculation. The two craft reappeared (or two similar ones) in June and were photographed together at high altitude over Phoenix by the same witnesses with a 35mm camera while also viewing them with binoculars. A separate set of unconnected witnesses also reported the sighting of a huge discoid craft (bigger than Sun Devil Stadium at ASU) hovering at treetop level right off of the west end of the Sky Harbor runways at between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. one morning about two weeks before March 13th.
8. MILITARY JET/UFO INTERCEPTION ATTEMPTS – We have to date identified four such events (there may be more) that clearly point to the conclusion that the Phoenix Lights UFO incident of March 13, 1997 was certainly no secret “black ops” or classified military exercise as many people would like to believe. A woman who lives next to Luke Air Force Base in the west part of the valley surfaced to report that at least 6 pairs of jets and as many as 8 were “scrambled” out of the base on the night of March 13th, something she could never recall witnessing before. One researcher called Luke AFB and asked someone who was out on the flight line if anything was seen by base personnel, and, unofficially, he answered that “they” were all over the place. The response from Luke spokesmen and their response to FOIA requests indicate that they were receiving phone calls about the lights, but never scrambled any jets to pursue them.
Witnesses say different. Here are the witness reports: A) Crown King at 5:30 p.m. – A formation of 3 huge “Vs” were seen hovering over this pine-topped mountain and were soon joined by a diamond-shaped or triangular craft which appeared “out of thin air” (at first seen as an amber light). As the four objects were hovering together, two jets were seen to come low from the south (from the direction of Luke AFB) at which point the UFOs went into a “stack”, collapsed upon each other while going “into a ball”, then totally disappeared! This would be called a case of high strangeness. Finding nothing there, the two jets circled the Crown King area and returned in the direction of the base. Similar disappearing acts of formations of “Vs”, one over Lake Mead that afternoon and on March 27th over Elmont, New York were reported to Village Labs after seeing the article published in USA Today. B) Central Phoenix at 8:15 p.m.
– A pair of F-15s were dispatched from Luke AFB to attempt an interception of one or more of the Vs approaching or entering the valley at that time. This was reported to NUFORC by a ground crewman at Luke who stated that the aircraft were equipped with gun cameras and that one of the pilots had to be helped out of his plane because he was so shaken by his encounter. A cursory check revealed that Luke AFB no longer has F-15s in its inventory and only has the F-16 aircraft. However, at one time both were maintained at Luke. Could these F-15s have been visiting aircraft? There is still some attempt to locate the civilian witness who corroborated this story. C) North Phoenix at 9:30 p.m. – One of the witnesses who had earlier witnesses with his wife the giant wide-angle triangle reported that when he was later at home, he saw in the distance what appeared to be the return of the triangle, this time with only three lights on, one at each corner.
As the UFO hovered near the Deer Valley Airport in northwest Phoenix, he saw two military jets approach the triangle, with one jet seen to pass one side of it and the other seen to fly up under it, veering down at the last moment to avoid midair collision. D) Luke AFB at 10:00 p.m. – (The original Event 4 – the first aircraft/UFO encounter to be reported). A truck driver who had been watching two unusual amber lights move ahead of him to the south for fully two hours as he drove down I-17 from Camp Verde, reported that as he neared his destination, a materials plant near Luke AFB, the two UFOs seemed to have stopped their movement and were hovering. Once at the plant, while waiting for his truck to be unloaded, he stood on a pile of materials to watch what were now seen as two identical, toy-top like amber orbs (like hot air balloons without hanging baskets) having a white iridescent sheen and a band of red pulsating light, with the nearest to him being one to two miles distant right near the runway at Luke.
Suddenly, two F-16s, followed by a third, “blasted out of Luke with their afterburners on full”, made a steep bank directly over the witness and headed straight for the nearest UFO. At the moment the lead jets were about to close on the UFO, it shot straight up and disappeared “in an instant” as the jets passed right through the very spot where the object had been hovering. The second UFO also vanished, as it was no longer hovering in the northwest.
Witness was camping in Pisgah National Forest near Black Mountain weekend of 5-7 May 2023. and had a sighting of multiple orbs overnite/morning of 7 May. Witness says he awoke at 3 am to use the bathroom and noticed orb lighting up the forest canopy. He went to grab his phone and recorded footage of object. Other camping friends were sleeping and brushed off witness as seeing things when he attempted to alert them of the objects. He said object was initially just floating making no sound without any man-made aircraft shape. Witness then observed civilian prop powered planes circling object then orbs moved to over top of mountain and began ejecting up to a hundred other orbs. Sighting lasted two hours and witness checked local media for any other witness reports but did not see anything. Witness was unable to return to sleep and left camp site at daylight. Witness showed other campers footage in morning and states other campers who refused to wake up regretted their decision to not believe him.
In April 2011, a friend and I were stargazing on my roof on a dry clear night in New Jersey. We were observing the Lyrids meteor shower that wasn’t producing as many shooting stars as we had hoped, but we stayed up there, intensely focused on the sky to see one every few minutes.
After a couple hours of this, we caught a bright light in our peripherals. We turn around and see what looks like a bright blue-white LED flashlight traveling in the forest behind the house. At first instinct we thought it was the police with a flashlight chasing someone, but then we realized that the light was up in the tree tops, weaving through the canopy. All we could say is “WTF is that” over and over again as it got closer to us.
It was traveling along the direction of the river behind our house and seemed to notice us because as it passed the back of my house, it slowed to a gentle stop then took a 90 degree turn onto the clearing of our property about 40 feet from us coming straight towards us. As if it had noticed us and wanted to check us out.
This is when we got our first really good look at it. It was a perfectly defined glowing sphere of light the size of a basketball with what seemed like churning/flowing plasma inside. Icy blue/white hue emitting absolutely no sound at all. We started screaming at this point.
As it approached, it moved very slowly compared to the pace it had traveling through the trees. It seemed almost cautious in its movement? It’s weird but you could sense some form of intention/intelligence in it’s movement.
We were horrified because we knew nothing could explain what we were seeing. And we weren’t about to stick around and find out by letting it get any closer. We scrambled off the roof and ran inside, hiding under a blanket like scared little children, even though we were in our late teens. We didn’t talk about it much after that because we just couldn’t explain it.
About a year later, one of my neighbors is banging on my door telling me to let him in. He was visibly shaken and told me that him and a friend were down by the river in that same patch of woods and were chased by a floating silent light ball. This freaked me out because I knew he was telling the truth. I had never told him the story of my encounter.
After some more recent research, I discovered that our neighborhood, including my property, is situated on top of the Musconetcong Thrust Fault. I wonder if this fault line contributes to the phenomenon in any way. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
This case is under investigation by David Fritz Field Investigator for MUFON N.J
“Three objects appeared beneath the clouds, their color a rather bright red. As they approached the ship they appeared to soar, passing above the broken clouds. After rising above the clouds, they appeared to be moving directly away from the earth. The largest had an apparent area of about six suns. It was egg-shaped, the larger end forward. The second was about twice the size of the sun, and the third, about the size of the sun. Their near approach to the surface appeared to be most remarkable. That they did come below the clouds and soar instead of continuing their southeasterly course is also curious. The lights were in sight for over two minutes and were carefully observed by three people whose accounts agree as to the details.” Source: A sighting by the U.S.S. Supply off of the eastern coast of Korea, as reported by then Lt. Frank H. Schofield, later to become Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Went into my garden to look at stars 10.40 pm on 15th May, saw very bright light travelling from west then over my head to the east, at 500-1000 ft height, made no sound, and the light was constant, I could not make up any outline as it was like the brightest star. After a couple minutes it was overhead, and I grabbed my iPhone 13 and took a short video. This showed it was no plane or helicopter, more like an orb or craft. A still from my video could just make out possibly several lights from beneath the craft. My belief it is man-made military anti-gravity vehicle, propelled by nuclear energy similar to tr3b. Now they have been known to be using TR10 versions. Extra-terrestrial vehicles are known to travel very much faster 10-20,000 mph. I am sending you a screenshot from my video on my iPhone, and I will examine the video itself, but the dataset is very large I will try and edit.
Short Description of UFO Event: While star and satellite gazing (saw multiple satellites, a short shooting star, Venus and Mars to the west), I saw a glowing orb and a second object
Detailed Description of the UFO Event: While star and satellite gazing (I already saw multiple satellites, a short shooting star, Venus and Mars to the west), I saw a large glowing orb 2/3 to 3/4 the size of Venus (and about half as bright) and a second smaller “satellite-sized” pixel object either eject from it or flying next to it but separate. The two flew a straight line from southeast to north/northeast in a cloudless sky. Venus was west in the opposite direction. There was a separate airplane (we are on a flight path here for the east coast, plus a small regional airport a few miles East, plus Dover Air Force Base approx 50 miles across the Delaware Bay) that appeared by it but seemed unrelated.
My partner and I observed these objects as so:
I was on our front porch sky gazing. I called her outside when I saw the large orb (“you need to see this!”). I had several sizes of binoculars and we both were able to easily observe this object move across the sky in 3-4 minutes from SE TO N/NE. We both were able to clearly see this orb in binoculars and it was a bright white light with no visible other lights and no apparent structure. Simply a ball of light. In the binoculars a small satellite-sized other small object either emerged from it or was flying beside it. It separated and moved away from the front of this object either to the N or slightly NW and it was no longer able to be seen, either fading or just disappearing once it got out in front of it.
There was also a plane, a separate plane with airplane light that was in the same area of sky but seemed to be by this object but it moved separately away from it and while tracking the orb as far as we could see it I lost track of the plane. The larger orb was visible all the way across the sky until it was obscured by trees but could still be seen through the trees.
The orb made no sound. The unidentifiable airplane made a typical distant airplane sound when it appeared. There was no way that I was confusing this orb with an airplane. I’ve lived here for almost 3 years and know planes while searching the night sky. I’ve seen satellites, meteor showers, shooting stars… never anything like this. Clear sky, it got hazy an hour later. In the binoculars this had no “shape” or other colored lights. Just a round glowing object of warm light. The smaller object was like a pixel next to it that moved away out in front of it. It was difficult to say how high up these objects were.
I took no photos because I know it would not have shown up in my iPhone and I couldn’t take my eyes off of observing it.
KENS NOTE: The above object was observed the same day in Connecticut.
This case is under investigation by Ken Pfeifer Assistant State Director.
“Moments after driving out of the Food Lion parking lot, I saw a huge bright light in the southern sky. It wasn’t moving. It seemed elongated, vertically, and it was pulsing pink light on one side and red on the other. It appeared wider when it pulsed.
“I watched the light for probably 30 seconds before realizing I had stopped in the middle of the Old Asheville Highway (Hwy. 23) with cars behind me. Immediately, I pulled over to the side of the road, grabbed my cellphone and leaned out the window to take a video.
“The camera wasn’t set on video, so I got a photo first (R) before recording a few seconds of video. Then the object abruptly took off to the north-northeast in the direction of Pinnacle Point (on the Plott Balsam Mountain Ridge).
“A couple seconds after it took off, the whole sky was full of smaller objects I hadn’t seen before. There were more than I could possibly count. They were closer than the original object because I could see their black forms.
“Then each one of them randomly blinked on. When they did, they turned into bluish-white lights but they weren’t as big or as bright as the original UFO. I felt like they were igniting their engines so they could get going. The reason I say this is because as soon as they blinked on, they started to move.
“I was in shock and awe by all of this. My heart was pounding. I don’t even remember driving home.”
Kate’s experience didn’t end there. She doesn’t remember her drive home though she became alert enough to call Evelyn Gordon when she pulled into her driveway. She remembers going next door and showing the video to her mother and then telling her she was going to take the dog for a walk. But, she can’t recall anything else until her mother called to check on her about an hour later.
That’s not all. Her fully-charged cellphone stopped working after her conversation with Evelyn and her TV remote, which she says normally loses power gradually, also went dead.
In hindsight, Kate wonders if the energy that night wiped out her electronic devices. She wonders about the missing time. She wonders why no other drivers pulled over to see the phenomena in the sky. She wonders why so many UFOs were over Sylva that night.
