© UnknownWitness image for a Pennsylvania sighting on April 13, 2009. Story below.
Please keep in mind that many UFOs can be explained as something natural or manmade. Some of these cases are under investigation by MUFON. We will provide updates as they are available. All witness reports are unedited.
The Mississippi case was reported by a woman who said that she and her children observed these oval-shaped objects. Following is her story. To explore more similar stories, please visit the UFO Traffic Report shape shifting page.
Mississippi, April 15, 2009 - 20 to 30 ovals flying in bird formation; As it approached the children and I, it changed numerous shapes!
My teenager (13) had opened the front door for us to receive fresh air! They were on their way to bed, for school the next day. We were looking out at the water tower on the hospital grounds. She suddenly yelled, "Momma, what is that? What is that?" I asked her where, because my eyes were focused on the water tower and Wal-Mart (approx. 100 ft.) She said, "It looks like smoke! Coming towards us!"
At that very moment, my eyes picked up on the thing she referred to. Nothing in my database could explain what this was. Even though it's dark, we live in a well-lit area. The first thing I thought was birds, flying in formation! Until I grabbed my binoculars and had a closer look. Each item I thought was a bird, was oval shaped. Almost like an egg! By this time I panicked. I grabbed her inside by the shirt, and locked the screen. These things slowed down and changed into several shapes. One modeling a mosquito. The others I couldn't quite identify because I was in awe. At first, they were in V formation; as if they were birds flying like I said earlier.
There were no sound at all. And they floated from East to West real slow-like to allow us to view the many shapes they were making. They were see-through as they floated in our face (20 ft approx.) And through these things, the sky was visible. As soon as it floated to the end of my house where the steps were, they disappeared. We all ran outside, afterwards of course, to see where they had gone. I wanted to get a picture with my camera. It was me(35), daughter (13), son (11), and son (4).
It took me almost half an hour to calm down my four year old. This happened in a span of six min. for all of us to see. It wanted to be seen, well they, wanted to put on a show, and they did. If they were birds, as they passed the trees, they would be visible to us for a few more hundred feet. But, to just disappear in the blink of an eye, after a photo-show, was Extraordinary. These were NOT birds I admit. I am a teacher with a high IQ, and have no reason to lie about anything. As a matter of fact, I did not believe in anomalies, but now I want to know What in the World did I see? I am a believer in the unknown now.
The six cases of disc or circular-shaped objects occurred over six different states. You may also want to view the UFO Traffic Report disc or oval-shaped page. Following are the unedited accounts from the MUFON database.
Texas, April 13, 2009 - UFO falling/crashing in North Austin
Me and my friend (who will corroborate the event) were driving eastbound on Wells Branch Parkway about to get on N I-35, pulled to a stop at the light of the overpass and saw a bright white circular object moving very fast towards the ground. There was no tail, it was circular in shape, and look to me like some sort or continuous electrical spark. There was light blue and white. No orange, red, or yellow or any color to indicate a flame or combustion. It went overhead VERY fast in a Northeasterly direction and appeared to be falling, or crashing. We continued on the highway, but could see no smoke, flames, or fire. Me and my buddy could not figure out what it was based on the event alone. We kept and eye and ear open for any news on what happened. but have not heard anything since.
California, April 12, 2009 - Three objects sighted hovering in the evening sky. One of the objects appeared to change shape.
On Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009, I was sitting out front of the Caffe Trieste having a cappucino, in San Francisco's North Beach district. The location was 601 Vallejo Street, at the corner of Vallejo Street and Grant Avenue. My attention was drawn to one of the Caffe Trieste employees who was standing at the corner excitedly pointing up at the sky to a woman standing next to him. I got up and walked over to them and asked them what they were looking at.
They pointed out a roughly circular object hovering in the evening sky. The time was exactly 5:40 PM, PST. I happened to have a compass in my laptop bag and quickly determined the azimuth to be 90 degrees due East. Later, using a simple protractor based inclinometer, I determined the angular elevation to be approximately 60 degrees plus or minus 5 degrees.
The weather at the time of the sighting was clear, with some high altitude cirrus clouds. The wind direction and speed, according to the National Weather Service website at the time, was west to northwest, 7-10 knots, with gusts exceeding 15 knots.
The object's angular size was approximately 1/4 Full Moon. It had a roughly circular shape. The color was a muted white, and it was clearly illuminated by the setting sun. The object did not appear to be illuminated from within, however. The object was completely silent and did not resemble any type of aircraft I'm familiar with.
The object hovered in one position for a minute or so, before slowly moving in a southerly direction -- perpendicular to the direction of the brisk prevailing winds. As the object began to move it also began to change shape. It formed a rough triangle, and then became more of a rectangle. The other witness and I were loudly commenting on this shape change, when the object changed back into it's original circular shape. The object then appeared to recede, as though gaining altitude, while slowly moving to the south to approximately 110 degrees East Southeast, whereupon it simply faded from view.
I turned to another Caffe Trieste employee who had also been watching the object, and asked him what he thought he saw. At that moment, the first Caffe Trieste employee, who originally saw the object, exclaimed "There's another one!" The time was exactly 5:48 PM, PST.
This second object was smaller, approximately 1/10 Full Moon in angular size and appeared in almost the identical 90 degrees azimuth as the first object. But the second object's angular elevation as considerably higher, approximately 80 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. This object hovered for about one minute before slowly moving to south and receding from view as if gaining altitude -- just as the previous object did -- until it was no longer visible to the naked eye.
At this point there were a number people standing at the corner discussing what they had seen. I asked the first witness how he initially sighted the object. He said he'd been standing outside talking to a woman, when he noticed an object moving rapidly from the West to the East, when the object suddenly stopped and hovered. That's when he began pointing up at the object, and when I noticed and came over to see what they were looking up at.
At that moment, a man sitting in his pickup truck across the street yelled
"There's another one!" The time was exactly 6:05 PM, PST. This third object was identical in angular size to the second object, 1/10 a Full Moon. It's azimuth was approximately 130 degree East Southeast, and it's angular elevation approximately 80 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. This object was only visible for around 30 seconds before it rapidly receded from view, again as if gaining altitude.
The entire incident spanned approximately 25 minutes. It was unfortunate that none of the customers sitting outside had cameras, nor were there any binoculars conveniently around. I immediately asked four of the witnesses if they would be willing to be interviewed about what they had witnessed. I am currently in the process of setting up these interviews. Three of the witnesses said they would have no problem recording the interview on video, while the fourth witness said he would consent to an audio interview.
I was a combat photographer in the US Navy during the Vietnam War, and have extensive experience in identifying both private, commercial, and military aircraft. These three objects were clearly not aircraft of any type I'm familiar with. My immediate reaction when I initially saw the first object begin changing shapes, is that it had to be some kind of weather balloon, or balloon cluster. But after carefully observing the object alter its shape, I came to the preliminary conclusion that it was not a balloon or cluster of balloons. I based that preliminary conclusion on the fact that the wind was blowing steadily from the West to Northwest, and these objects both hovered and moved perpendicular to the direction of the wind. I still cannot rationally explain what I witnessed.
It should be added that I am personally acquainted with all four of the witnesses, just in case this might impact my conducting a completely objective investigation.
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My family was going outside to get into the car when they spotted this object flying very slowly over the horizon.
We immediately grabbed the camera and snapped as many pictures as possible. Have a few more as I was typing this.
I got a few more close ups. Please contact me if you want to see the rest of the pictures I have downloaded. Thanks, Carol
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Hello,
I think there's a UFO in this photo? I was over in Honolulu, Hawaii in Feb with my wife.
We went out for lunch and sat outdoors. There were clouds out that day, otherwise it was a nice day out. So I was taking pictures all that day. I was going through the pictures today and I noticed a small black object in the upper right hand side. I enlarged the picture the best I could do, and I don't know what it is. It looks like a eye to me It's not a plane or a helicopter. ( I drew a black circle around it )
So what is it? Look forward for your answer.
New York, April 13, 2009 - 4 bluish bulbous UFOs in formation near Outerbridge Crossing, Staten Island, New York City.
I had just driven through the toll booth for the Outerbridge Crossing, so heading ENE, and heading towards what used to be called the Richmond Parkway, when I saw them -- four blueish things flying in formation. At first I thought they were birds, but they were too big and flying too fast, and no wings. Then I thought maybe they were the Blue Angels, but again these things didn't have wings, appeared smaller, there was no smoke, and no sound or vibration. They came in from the east and turned and went north. The objects moved smoothly and were quickly out of sight. From the highway there is good visibility and there is wide panoramic view. When I say blueish, it was sort of a hazy atmospheric blue, the way mountains can look in the distance. The shape was sort of bulbous, with one side being a bit more pointed. The formation was not perfect, but they maintained it in the turn. Again, they were flying very fast. This was maybe a quarter of a mile in front of me, and not that high up. Lower than most planes fly. When I looked at my clock it was a few minutes later and it said 7:11 pm. Also, I think that clock might be a few minutes slow. I don't drink or use drugs. I didn't feel afraid, just curious. Thought it must be fun to bop along so fast.
Florida, April 5, 2009 - circular with 3 lights on the front
1.I couldn't sleep so I started reading 2.I saw a big flash and then it turned into 3 lights 3.I had no idea what it was. 4.It would disappear if I moved my head then it started spinning. 5. I was shaking and shivering like never before. 6.It spun and then BOOM gone just like that!
MUFON's Pennsylvania Director, John Ventre, said the following diamond-shaped object was seen by a witness over Drums, Pennsylvania. Drums is in Luzerne County, in the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre metro area. Visit the UFO Traffic Report diamond-shaped page.
Pennsylvania, April 12, 2009 - One red light lead and three white light in a diamond shape all together.
I was on a chair watching tv when I noticed a light outside. I know that their are planes in the area and I know the light patterns of planes and helicopters at night but I didn't recognize this type. I went out side and the first thing that I notice is that I heard nothing. What I first thought was a plane was going maybe 80-90 MPH because of how slow it was going over the tree field very low to the horizon. I can judge the distance of the object cause of how far apart the lights were and the angle of them changed at it drew closer to me. I have heard jets at night and airplanes and helicopters.
Everything in the valley makes a sound and it can travel a great distance. The object was low on the horizon and it passed right by me. The object moved slowly across the sky, it seemed like it was floating, I felt very weird at that moment. I could not recognize what the object was. I felt a warm feeling in my body as I watched it go by me. It seemed to be very close. I felt like something was watching me at that moment. I listened again for a sound for a hint on what it might be but their was no sound what so ever. Nothing was outside and nothing was moving so if the object did have a prop or a turbine I would of heard it. It went out of my sight heading towards the road.
I then ran to the other side of the house to the front door and saw it climb rapidly and ascend to a high altitude and circle around the house. It must of triples the altitude from before and then again I felt like it was watching me. It then disappeared out of my sight. Either it teleported or the lights turned off. But either way it did not act like any aircraft that I seen before.
Two triangular-shaped objects were reported over Charlotte Harbor, Florida, on April 14, 2009. Vist the UFO Traffic Report triangular-shaped page for more reports of this shape.
Florida, April 14, 2009 - 2 large triangle shaped objects flying over Charlotte Harbor.
This was dictated to me by my mother quickly over the phone. She is visiting our elderly great-grandmother down in Port Charlotte, Florida.
At around 9:00 PM during a bad storm, two large orange triangle shaped objects were seen flying erratically over the Harbor, they were sighted looking south towards the city of Punta Gorda, they moved in very odd fashions which would be impossible for airplanes to replicate. She was talking to her Grandmother and I suppose casually looked over towards the harbor and saw these two very large orange triangular shaped objects, I'm not sure what she may have thought they were at first but they amazed her and she felt shocked at what she was seeing. She lost sight when I called to talk to her.
This is an interesting Bright Light report from Georgia. You can read more of these kinds of reports at the UFO Traffic Report bright lights page.
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March 8th 2009, here in Covington Ga , me, my brother and his wife experienced a UFO siting.
On this date, around 7:00-7:30 pm , I got a call from my brother, (Curtis) very excited/worried , telling me to hurry and come over.
After I arrived, he didn't put any label on what it was, he just simply asked me "what is that up there". . at first glance, I replied "looks like a bright white light". . . after this being said, he replied, "yeah, but there's no stars out right now" . .(it hadn't gotten dark yet)
While still observing the bright white light, something happened to convince me that it wasn't just a lone star. I began to see white lines projected in different angles. . and then pulled back in. . (I then closed my eyes and rubbed them with my knuckle to make sure that it wasn't possibly a glare from the light being so bright). It was no glare. . the projecting lines, or what we called them at the time "wings" came out and were pulled back in for around 15-20 minutes, sometimes projecting out longer in length than others. . it was apparent that we were seeing the same thing and it was no glare, because when they were at a longer length, we both reacted at the same time explaining exactly what we were seeing. . .
After watching this for around 30 minutes or so, we then saw another light going in the direction of the object we had been observing. This I easily identified as an airplane, (due to the flashing red lights) however, when the plane got somewhat close in the direction of the object, we then saw the object take off at a RIDICULOUS speed and a weird angle almost arching upward towards the sky. We watched as the object got smaller and smaller until we could no longer see it. After the plane passes, we're still looking at the same point in the sky that the object was . . and out of nowhere, we saw the object fly back, at the EXACT SAME POSITION and point in the sky as it was previous. . this was amazing. .
After calming down, from what we saw, we continued to observe the object as it continued to project the wings, then pull them back in. After watching for another 15 minutes or so, we grew tired, and went in the house. Later, a bit after 9:00 pm the object was nowhere to be seen. .
My brother is a very straight laced, mature adult (39 years old) and a police officer. . . for me to witness this with someone that I look up to, someone that I believe (if I had mentioned or told him a story like this, that he hadn't witnessed with HIS own eyes, he would NEVER believe me)
I've always been a believer of extraterrestrial , UFO findings etc. . but always had that bit of doubt in the back of my mind. . after seeing this with my own eyes. . AND with my brother being there seeing the same thing, backing me up. . . THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT ALIENS,UFO's,and LIFE on other planets DO EXIST. . .
I have 5 , 30 second video clips, plus a picture taken with his Nextel i880 video phone as proof. . not the best quality, but I'm glad we had SOMETHING to capture some type of evidence that we saw something out of the ordinary. . .
I will be recording a video explaining exactly what I saw, this week, followed by all 5 video clips and picture summing up what we saw March 8th 2009.
Any information of groups or organizations in the Metro Atlanta Georgia area that shed light, investigates, or just has other witnesses of UFO's and extraterrestrial life would be appreciated. is there a MUFON Georgia?
And finally, here are two reports I have placed under Fire Balls. Read more on this subject from around the country at the UFO Traffic Report fire balls page.
Louisiana, April 13 - Bright red/orange flame with smoke trail smaller than object.
Driving up hwy 665, about .25 miles from the hwy 55 intersection. I looked North East towards New Orleans and saw something that looked like a flare but larger and slower. I looked for an aircraft but didn't see any. The duration was a lot longer than a aerial flare. This is cliche, but as soon as I picked up my phone to call my wife, after the first ring it disapieared. My feeling at the time was excitement.
California, April 13 - Burning object in the sky.
I don't believe this to be extraterrestrial in nature (however that would be awesome if it was) however, myself and 3 others were outside smoking and noticed a burning object heading west. It appeared to be a fireball with an 'arm' waving around it. It was moving slowly across the sky at about 500 feet. It stopped at one point and seemed to spin around several times and then moved in a northerly direction. After awhile something started falling off of it, like pieces of it were burning and dropping off. It eventually, slowly however, moved to the north and disappeared behind a cloud. Our guesses were a hot air balloon (but why would it be out this late at night), a blimp, weather balloon, etc., but it seemed to be too low to the ground and again, if it was on fire, why are there no other reports of it at this point? I hope someone can get to the bottom of this. We contacted 911 believing that there was an aircraft of sorts in trouble but it was gone by the time they arrived and they left without incident. I can't find anything on local papers or news websites that are updated frequently. Has anyone else reported anything? Was there some sort of an accident or did we in fact maybe witness something 'otherworldly'?
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