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.


Bright Star like object

Occurred: 4/7/2009 00:00 (Entered as : 04/07/09 0:00)
Reported: 4/8/2009 10:28:32 AM 10:28
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Austin, Texas
Shape: Circle
Duration: about 20 min

There was a bright star like looking object in the sky, it was just sitting there still and I went inside to get my phone to take a picture, when I came back out it was slowly moving across the sky kind of like a plane but you could tell it wasn't a plane.

The first time I saw an object in the sky at 4:30 am five dots of light in v-shape formation appeared then disappeared.

Occurred: 4/7/2009 04:30 (Entered as : 040709 04:30)
Reported: 4/7/2009 8:25:32 AM 08:25
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Philippines,
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 5 seconds

I was on a beach waiting for shooting stars to appear at around 4:30 am. What I saw was five dots of light in a triangle formation seemingly attached to an object (1). I did not wink until it disappeared. It wasn't an airplane, nor was it a shooting star? when I searched the net for a triangle shaped shooting star, I discovered this page. It has been my habit to wake up early to wait for shooting stars. I have seen a lot of variation of stars, but the one I saw was totally different. Airplanes have red lights and you hear a sound. the one I saw was very quiet moved like a shooting star. If I only saw a single light then it must be a shooting star, but I was surprised to see five dots in a v-shape formation like birds v-shape formation then disappeared. The lights weren't blinking that's why I don't think it's an airplane. The beach where I saw it was a docking place for foreign ships. I'm a university business management professor. I got interested with stars and meteors only last year during that time of meteor shower that were visible from the earth. Watching stars and waiting for meteors has become my hobby--I consider it a spiritual relationship with God through its creations. With a mug of coffee, I feel it very serene sitting quietly, looking at the stars and waiting for a meteor or star to fall and thank God. Could it be a UFO? I just wanted to know if there are shooting stars like the one I saw. If there is, pls publish it in your site. Thank you very much.

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

A very bright object over Austin Texas that follows plane then passes it like nothing. Seemed to be investigating the plane.

Occurred: 4/7/2009 18:50 (Entered as : 04/07/09 18:50)
Reported: 4/8/2009 6:16:58 PM 18:16
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Austin, Texas
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 15 -20 seconds

The object seem to shine like a welding tip as the object came from a very high altitude it seem to me from outer space it appeared to fall from a higher altitude directly above and then fell behind the airplane that was at a very high altitude. Because I could only see a very small outline of a plane and the contrails of the plane were very short as the object got brighter then seem to stop and follow the plane then speed up past the plane at same time got dimmer then could not see it anymore. This all happened very fast less than 10-15 seconds on a crystal clear blue sky. Never seen nothing like this reminded me when the space shuttle came crashing down over Texas and all the peaces that where burning up was the same brightness of object but this object did not burn up.

Large glowing blue object blasts into space at hyper sonic speeds, appeared no more than 300 feet from surface

Occurred: 4/7/2009 21:01 (Entered as : 04/07/09 21:01)
Reported: 4/8/2009 8:25:03 PM 20:25
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Shape: Oval
Duration: 2 seconds

Me and my friend were looking at a clearing through the trees in this alleyway, there were absolutely no obstructions in the clearing and it was dark out. All of a sudden a large bright blue oval object no more than 300 feet away appears overhead of us, right into the clearing. It was a solid blue with an extremely bright glow. It moved in a swift figure eight pattern, paused for a half-second, then blasted off into the atmosphere at impossibly fast speed leaving no trail or glow behind it. The best way to describe it is like in the movies when a ship blasts off into light speed, except this was an extremely bright blue object, which made no sound and left no trace of its existence behind. It was like nothing I've seen before and it what I saw doesn't even seem humanly possible. This thing just took off and disappeared completely in less then a second. The whole event feels like a movie to me it was so surreal that I seriously could not believe my eyes, but it happened right in front of us and there was no possible way we could miss it, it was that close to us.

A bright green sphere about the size of the moon shot across the sky in Tampa Florida.

Occurred: 4/7/2009 21:45 (Entered as : 04/07/09 21:45)
Reported: 4/7/2009 8:43:13 PM 20:43
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Tampa, Florida
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 1-1.5 seconds

Two friends and I were standing in a parking lot talking at around 21:30 in Tampa Florida. We were standing in roughly the shape of a triangle. One of my friends, whose shoulders were almost parallel to the object's path, got a really puzzled look on his face and pointed toward the sky. I turned, my shoulders about perpendicular to the path, to see a very bright, light green object about the size of the moon traveling quickly from roughly south to north. My second friend turned all the way around and saw the bright light travelling quickly behind the clouds.

The object was definitely circular, possibly spherical. It had a tail about twice the length of the object that gradually came to a point. It was only visible for a second or two due to clouds and trees but I was able to see it cover about 40 to 50 degrees of sky (the angle created by pointing where I first saw it to where it went behind the clouds). It looked very much like the green ball a Roman candle shoots but without any smoke. There was no noise except that of the cars on the street and the wind blowing through the trees.

I'm not sure what it was. I grew up by an airport and have seen all different types of planes come in all types of whether at all types of angles and it was definitely not a plane. I read that green meteorites sometimes occur but if it was, it was either big enough that I'll be hearing about it on the news tomorrow or close enough that we would have an impact noise at least. We were standing on church property, which is quite large, so short range fireworks are out of the question. There is little to no likelihood that it was a big fire work due to the lack of noise and it was the only time we saw anything significant in the sky.

Single white ball streaking downward for 10 seconds. Sudden disappearance.

Occurred: 4/7/2009 22:10 (Entered as : 040709 22:10)
Reported: 4/7/2009 9:43:51 PM 21:43
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Lorida, Florida
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 10 seconds

There is a large picture window behind the television set in the living room. It was dark outside and about 22:10, my attention was diverted from the TV because of a white light in the sky which was streaking downward from right to left as I was looking north east. It looked like a falling white flare and had a short white trail. The light was quite intense and suddenly disappeared just above the tree line. There was no smoke. I believe the light went out before it was out of view from my seat.

I was vaguely aware of the light for a second or two before remarking about it to my wife. She was sitting in the room to the side of me and didn't have the same view of outside that I did. She did not hear or see anything unusual.

I immediately went out side and could hear no unusual noise and could see no unusual lights or other scenery. There were no subsequent police or rescue sirens.

I am an alert active 73 year old retired Neurologist. I have never had a previous sighting of any unusual sky events. I'm not subject to hallucinations and have not had any retinal problems. I did serve in Vietnam and the light I saw tonight resembled the illumination flares used in night combat, although they lasted much longer.

Pictures were taken on cell phone.

Occurred: 4/7/2009 22:30 (Entered as : 4/07/2009 22:30)
Reported: 4/7/2009 10:41:35 PM 22:41
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Abilene, Texas
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 30 minutes

My son, ((namd deleted)), came to my home in Buffalo Gap, Texas at apprx. 23:00 tonight 4-7-2009 and asked "if there have been any TV reports of a meteor or anything else crashing in our area." I had not heard of anything because I was not watching live TV. We were watching a recording of an earlier program we like to watch. We had been out on a local lake with my son (the one who saw this object) earlier in the evening . Our favorite program came on and I recorded it while we were still out on the lake. My husband and I came on home and left our son at the lake so he could catfish after dark. When we got home we turned on the recording and were watching it from 22:00 to around 22:58. The signal was interrupted several times as we watched the recording. This is not a common occurrence at all on recordings from our HD TV. We just kind of wondered why the signal was messed up and let it go at that.

When my son came in around 23:00, he mentioned that he had seen something really "strange" streak across the sky as he sat out on the lake in our boat. He said "It was HUGE".... And that jets from the Air Base (Dyess) had gone up shortly after the object appeared, streaking across the sky towards Buffalo Gap, where we live. He said the object looked a lot like a meteor streak but was "huge" . He went on to say that the jets from Dyess were circling the area around and between Buffalo Gap and Tuscola (to our southwest approx. 5 miles). We have no idea what he might have seen , but thought we should say something to someone. Surely, many others must have seen this event as well. We thought you might want to check into it and see what it might have been. Incidentally, my son is 31 years old and not a goofball. He called me after he left my house to go to his apartment (he doesn't live with us and had come to bring our boat we had left with him) and said that there was several aircraft in the sky still circling our area. It was approx 23:45 at that point. It is not unusual to see aerial activity with the Dyess Air Force Base right in between Buffalo Gap and Abilene...however, it is odd to see a cluster of activity around an unknown event as my son saw. He does not have Internet and I sent this . I am sure he has lots more details he could relate first hand.

Thank you ((name deleted))

Green lights across Las Vegas, fast, tightly formation and switching places, low flying and gone within 30 seconds.

Occurred: 4/7/2009 22:30 (Entered as : 04/07/09 22:30)
Reported: 4/12/2009 3:04:00 PM 15:04
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Shape: Formation
Duration: 20 to 30 seconds

On holiday in Las Vegas, on the night of 4/7/09, myself and two others were on the rooftop of our hotel having a drink, I had only been sitting facing toward the south side of the "strip" watching aircraft for five minutes when I saw it.

I couldn't believe my eyes when these green lights traveling at least twice or three times the speed of any aircraft in the area came into vision. They must have passed directly over the airport and were changing formations in ways no kind of fighter jets or anything could. Green lights, roughly 8 of them, circular, tightly packed and switching places but keeping in a tight formation, this was so distinct and clear, I wouldn't be surprised if aircraft or other people spotted this that night as the sky was clear and a lot of planes and helicopters were around. Also as they were so low, probably on 2000ft, someone else must have seen what we did.

I quickly said to the two people beside me to look and they too seen the lights, they moved so fast across the sky that they were gone over the hills to the west of Vegas within 30 seconds, no noise came from this, which for the speed they were moving you would expect to hear something from it. Also seen a helicopter head of in that direction five minutes later, which seemed odd as no helicopters the whole week I was there seemed to head off in that direction.

Watching the sky for strange things is not something I would often do, this was so real and I would have loved to have captured this on camera, it was truly unbelievable and I don't expect anyone to believe me but I know what I seen and it was to my eyes not of this world so to speak.

Unidentified lights over Jacksonville Beach

Occurred: 4/7/2009 23:20 (Entered as : 04/07/09 23:20)
Reported: 4/14/2009 10:50:57 AM 10:50
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Shape: Light
Duration: 60 seconds

My wife and I checked in to the Quality Inn Suites on Jacksonville Beach, Florida on Tuesday, April 7th 2009 for a few days of R&R. At 11:20 pm that night I walked out onto our 6th floor balcony, overlooking the ocean, to join my wife. It was an absolutely clear night and only a night away from a completely full moon.

I had only been out there a few moments when I noticed some unusual running lights off to my left. They were clumped together instead of the normal wingtips and tail and were flashing different colors continuously. I'm an Air Force veteran and I've seen more than my share of a wide variety of aircraft. I asked my wife if she saw the same thing I did and she said yes and asked me if I knew what it was. I couldn't determine how far away the object was but since I wasn't looking up to see it from the sixth floor I'd say it was less than 1000 feet up and was tracking along in a straight & level flight path. I grabbed up the binoculars I'd brought with me for the trip and after a few moments locating it in the binoculars (it's harder than you'd think) I was just getting focused in and the lights just "blinked out". I pulled down the binoculars thinking I'd somehow just lost it in the binoculars but it was completely gone. There was no trace of it anywhere. I can't say I saw a flying saucer. I can say, without a doubt, my wife and I saw an Unidentified Flying Object that was there one moment and gone the next.