Comment: NUFORC has released reports for the first twelve days of April. Because of the number of reports, we will include several reports per article.


Webster, Minnesota - 4/4/09

Occurred: 4/4/2009 00:00 (Entered as : 04/04/09 0:00)
Reported: 4/5/2009 9:27:30 AM 09:27
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Webster, Minnesota
Shape: Light
Duration: 10 seconds

Last night, about 12 midnight on April 4th 2009 I was sitting in our sunroom (large windows) at our computer looking at colleges online for our daughter. My husband was in the bathroom getting ready for bed (brushing his teeth). Our house was silent, no tv on, no computer sound on. Both our kids were staying at friends homes.

I then heard this loud humming noise....WOOoooWoooWOOoooWOOooo. I looked towards the noise that was coming from behind the house. I was frozen at what I saw. There were double twin light beams coming from the sky, directly down to the ground. The light was not dissipated as a flash light would be. The beams were moving up and down within the beam itself. There was both the noise and the double twin beams happening at the same time.

My husband came out of the bathroom asking what the weird noise was. He thought that it was something on the computer or I had the tv on. He looked towards the tv and the computer and seen there was no noise coming form either. He looked at me standing by the large windows and said what was that noise? The noise and the lights were gone, but he had heard the noise and it brought him out of the bathroom to question it. He heard the noise over brushing his teeth and running water. I told him about the lights and he believed me.

We have no noise out here. We live on 25 acres with a few hundred acres of farmland, woods and crp land behind us. Our house sits up on a hill with an unobstructed view of the sky. Our sunroom has very large windows that go up to a peak. I tell you this so that you can see that I had a very clear view of what I saw.

As far as the weather, it was snowing and the humidity was high. Sound doesn't travel well in that kind of weather. On days when it's calm and dry or cold, you can hear semis 4 miles south of hear humming down a highway. This was not that. The light beams had two separated strands on the left side going straight up and down from the ground to the sky. The light beams on the right! were also two separated light beams going straight up and down to the sky. I looked up to see where they were coming from, but because of the snow, the beams went into what ever they call the low snow ceiling. I then talked to my husband about what just happened. We both went outside to listen for any more noise. There was nothing. Then he took his 10 million candlepower flashlight out and pointed it out in the backyard. With a flashlight we did the same thing. Both times, the light would spread out and you could see all the snow coming down. With the double twin light beams that I witnessed, they were solid stands. No breaking up of the beams, just straight lines down. I then called my 19 year old daughter that was in the town 5 miles away and asked her if she heard/seen anything. They were watching movies in her friends basement. Nothing. I decided that it did need to be reported, so after about 15 minutes, I decided to call the Rice County Mn non emergency sheriffs' telephone number. The dispatcher did take the call seriously. She was nice about it and said that I did need to repeat the story to a deputy. She transferred the phone to him. I told him about what happened. He was also great about what I told him. I told him that I work as a librarian at a local high school, I don't drink and I don't smoke. I am a middle age women that has 2 kids, a farm and would not make up what happened last night. He had me describe in detail for their report, about what happened . He said that "there are too many reports world wide of this stuff happening for some of it not to be real, and the universe is too large for us to believe we are the only one here". I felt the need to report this to them, and I also feel the need to report this on your sight also. I did go outside this morning to see if there was any visible sign on the ground to where the beams were touching, but I could not see any. It did snow about 2 to 3 inches overnight. I hope this info helps.

Bright large white ball of light fell through clouds and pulled up then vanished of IBM headquaters in Portsmouth in the UK

Occurred: 4/4/2009 00:25 (Entered as : 04/04/09 00:25)
Reported: 4/9/2009 10:34:07 AM 10:34
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Portsmouth (UK/England),
Shape: Light
Duration: 15 seconds

I am a taxi driver (obviously sober). We were traveling northwards in Hilsea, Portsmouth (UK) in my taxi - saw a bight white sphere about the same size as the moon which was full at the time to my left (east). I had 3 passengers who were chatting to themselves. The passenger on the rear nearside saw the sphere. It traveled down through the clouds and dropped very quickly downwards in a 70 degrees angle but pulled upwards at about 100 feet but disappeared from view over the motorway bridge toward IBM North Harbour buildings.

So not to coerce each other about what we saw, man in back told the other rear passenger what he saw and I told my front passenger what I saw. We then both concluded we saw the same event at the same time. Freaked us out. Was far to fast for a helicopter, and the movement was to fierce for a jet or plane when it pulled up. It also could not have been a meteor or asteroid as it pulled up and change direction. Another person I spoke to about this saw a similar event but the light was orange not white.

A fireball like object slowly moving across the sky. Twinkling colours around the edge. Then disappeared high up in the sky.

Occurred: 4/4/2009 00:25 (Entered as : 04/04/09 00:25)
Reported: 4/4/2009 1:13:04 AM 01:13
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Manchester (UK/England),
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 3 minutes

On the 4th of April 2009 at 00:25hrs, I was sat in my front room with the curtains open watching TV. When I noticed a bright light appear in the sky. It was flying towards my house. It was unlike any aircraft I have seen.

The area where we live is on a flight path where planes turn ready for landing. This flying object was not on the usual flight path; in fact it was flying in the opposite direction.

It was like a ball of fire moving slowly across the sky. It seem to hover for a moment over the top of my house and at that point it was twinkling colours around the edge of the fireball. It was as high as a plane flying with not a sound or any noise at all. Then it disappeared high up into the sky as if something had zapped or sucked it out of the sky. Both and my husband and I have never seen anything quite like this before.

Saturday April 04/2009 around 12:30 pm - Atlanta Georgia. Weather clear, sunny, and blue sky

Occurred: 4/4/2009 12:20 (Entered as : 04/04/2009 12:20)
Reported: 4/4/2009 10:08:01 AM 10:08
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Marietta, Georgia
Shape: Sphere
Duration: five minutes

While working in the yard (north side) I was watching two commercial jets as they were flying over the Atlanta / Marietta area, at a (high altitude w/ com trails) clearly not local Hartsfield traffic.

I noticed a shiny round / spherical object at a higher altitude then the two intersecting commercial jets. The object did not appear to be moving at first but after observing it for a moment or two I realized it was tracking very slowly from north to south/west.

After a few minutes I went for the binoculars and was only able to view it for a moment before losing track of it. I could not tell any details other then realized it was larger and still metallic looking.

I do not believe it was something from this planet...very strange.

Occurred: 4/4/2009 15:20 (Entered as : 04/04/09 15:20)
Reported: 4/5/2009 11:35:47 AM 11:35
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Bristol, Connecticut
Shape: Cigar
Duration: 3 minutes

The object hovered for about 3 minutes and then shot of to the west at great speed. The object was a bluish color with what looked like a row of windows on the side and a single strobe on the front that pulsated. It made no sound. I am an electrical engineer and I was with my 2 children 11 and 9.

Black spot in photo from spy cam

Occurred: 4/4/2009 18:06 (Entered as : 04/04/09 18:06)
Reported: 4/5/2009 5:22:43 PM 17:22
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: East Berlin, Pennsylvania
Shape: Oval
Duration: 2 min

On 04/05/2009 I went to check my spy cam that I have set up for tracking deer I did not have any deer this week but I did get something Not sure what to make of it. I'll leave that up to you to tell me what I got in the photo. The camera is facing NW at about 284' the barn at the lower right is 424 yards from the camera. I shot that with my Bushnell range finder pro and the sun sets to the left of the house. If you look at bottom of photo it has temp, moon phase, date, time, and camera id number the camera did take 2 pictures of this. One is darker but shows the same time.

Orange light over the ocean

Occurred: 4/4/2009 20:00 (Entered as : 04/04/09 20:00)
Reported: 4/4/2009 3:09:07 AM 03:09
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: St. Augustine, Florida
Shape: Light
Duration: 5 minutes

Sometimes I like to go to the beach as the sun goes down and walk as far as I can until I'm isolated and just enjoy the environment. Last night as I was heading back, I saw an intense orange light in the sky which looked similar to a firework which is about to explode into multiple little specks of light. That is what I actually thought it was, but when it did not become a bunch of smaller lights like a firework, I decided that it must be the light of a helicopter because it moved slowly like one. It began to head towards the beach as I expected to see/hear a helicopter but didn't. The light then dimmed as it moved parallel to the beach and looked a little bit like it could be an airplane and yet thinned out and resembled a comet, then small enough to be a star. It changed directions after about 3-5 minutes, then it suddenly disappeared. About 5 seconds later, it came back, reversed direction and immediately disappeared again.

We saw an orange light moving around in the sky and going out twice, for about ten minutes.

Occurred: 4/4/2009 21:00 (Entered as : 4/4/09 21:00)
Reported: 4/4/2009 10:39:33 PM 22:39
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Shape: Light
Duration: Ten minutes

We were in a parking lot, about to get into our car and go home, when I looked up and saw an orange light in the sky. I thought that it might be a planet, as it was too big to be a star, and it wasn't white or yellow- closer to red or orange. The sky was completely clear, and as we were looking at the light, we noticed that it was moving slightly, back and forth. Then, it went out completely for a few seconds, and flickered back to light. We drove back home, assigning the person in the backseat to "keep an eye" on the light, and watched it until it disappeared behind Mt. Eldon.

Reading, England - 4/4/09
Occurred: 4/4/2009 21:00 (Entered as : 04/04/09 21:00)
Reported: 4/9/2009 3:49:24 PM 15:49
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Reading (UK/England),
Shape: Light
Duration: 7 mins

Five glowing orange balls crossed from west to east approx one min apart all going at the same speed same height and same flight path in Reading England, some said they could be chinese lanterns but i'm not so sure. Just thought I should say anyway, very strange whatever they were, just thought you should know, thanks.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))

Orange colored sphere skipping very fast across the night sky

Occurred: 4/4/2009 21:20 (Entered as : 4/4/09 21:20)
Reported: 4/4/2009 7:38:04 PM 19:38
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Lawrenceville, Georgia
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 10 seconds

I was walking my dog when suddenly something illuminated the concrete floor, which caused me to look up at the sky. When I did, that's when I saw an orange shaped sphere skipping quickly across the sky. My dog was also acting strangely, by all of a sudden, becoming very quiet and still like a statue.

NorthYorkshire, England - 4/4/09

Occurred: 4/4/2009 22:00 (Entered as : 04/04/09 22:00)
Reported: 4/5/2009 6:43:54 AM 06:43
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: North Yorkshire (UK/England),
Shape: Circle
Duration: few mins

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, at around 10 pm, round with 5 bright orange lights, flying steadily in perfect formation

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))

3 orange lights of fire in a straight line moving slow.

Occurred: 4/4/2009 22:05 (Entered as : 4-04-09 22:05)
Reported: 4/4/2009 7:28:04 PM 19:28
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Shape: Light
Duration: 5 min

The objects were not very big they looked like 3 balls of fire not very high but were very slow and made no noise at all. They went in a line about maybe half mile apart and they started to raise in the air and eventually disappeared. This was also reported yesterday about an hour after the time we saw them. In a different city.

Horsham, Pennsylvania - 4/4/09

Occurred: 4/4/2009 23:00 (Entered as : 4/4/09 23:00)
Reported: 4/10/2009 11:40:08 AM 11:40
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Horsham, Pennsylvania
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 30 seconds

I was with my partner returning home from a party in New Britain, driving past the air force base on the County Line road when the field at the end of the runway lit up for a second or more. We were both shocked by the intensity of the light, but assumed it must have been some landing lights on the runway.

We were both looking at the base as we drove past. My partner then pointed out that there was a 'thing' at the end of the runway. I looked and there was what looked like a helicopter sized triangle. It was hard to see because it was black/dark, but had a strip of blue light running around the rim of it. It was a couple of hundred feet off the ground at first, but then rocketed into the sky really quickly.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))

Large flickering light rising slowly in sky.

Occurred: 4/4/2009 23:30 (Entered as : 04/04/09 23:30)
Reported: 4/4/2009 9:49:12 PM 21:49
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Shape: Fireball
Duration: Unknown

I live at college right now, and as I left my dorm for an evening snack, to be found in a different building, I saw a large, flickering light. (By 'large' I mean 'too large to be a star'.) The light was round and approximately 4-5mm in dia.

Keep in mind that my dorm is roughly rectangular, three stories tall, and has a courtyard in the middle. All dorm rooms open towards the courtyard.

So as I exited my room, the light was just above the line of the roof. My best guess as to cardinal direction would be West-Northwest, but do NOT treat that as anything but a guess. I can tell you that I could see the moon clearly from where I was standing, and that the light was below and to the right of the moon considerably.

The light was moving slowly, but visibly, upwards. I would say it moved about 1mm up (to my eyes) every second or so; again, a guess -- I have a poor sense of distance.

It kept changing color as well, and very rapidly at that -- at most, it stayed one color for 1/4 second, probably more like half that. Distinct colors were blue, white, and red, in that order. Very hazy, too -- its boundaries were blurry. About 1-1.5mm of its diameter was blurred.

That's all I've got.

Five or six hovering lights formed into a triangle in the sky in Santa Rosa, California.

Occurred: 4/4/2009 23:45 (Entered as : 04/04/2009 23:45)
Reported: 4/6/2009 1:58:30 PM 13:58
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Santa Rosa, California
Shape: Light
Duration: 1 1/2 minute

My girlfriend and I were driving and came into the intersection of College Ave and Humboldt in Santa Rosa, CA, and noticed some bright lights in the sky. It was 10:45 PM. I felt so elated that I called a friend and the cell phone call recorded the time.

At first, due to all the light in the intersection, we did not think much of it. As we drove closer and came into a darker area we noticed five and six bright lights formed into a triangle shape in the sky (we were surrounded by trees and, therefore, the visibility was slightly impaired; nevertheless, we could clearly see the triangle formation) .

They were slightly swerving into each other but essentially maintained the triangle shape. I asked my girlfriend to stop the car and I got out to get a clearer look at this unusual phenomenon.

As I stood there, all of the bright points of light disappeared, except one. They zoomed out at an unimaginable speed leaving no trace whatsoever. The bright point of light which remained did so for another 20-30 seconds, and then slightly dimmed and suddenly it was gone. The color of these lights was a blend of red and orange and they were very bright relative to the surrounding stars.

These bright lights might have been hovering at 500 feet or more; it was hard to tell the exact altitude and distance, but they were near enough for us to see what was taking place.

The two of us were pretty baffled and amazed but we were convinced that we had witnessed a UFO, and I employ this term in the strict sense of the word as in Unidentified Flying Object.