The UFO Traffic Report for Friday, May 15, 2009, includes 13 selected sightings over nine states, according to witness statements filed in the past 48 hours with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

Today's stories include a disc-shaped object over Colorado that drops a diamond-shaped object to the ground and a helicopter seems to have an interest; a small, black circle crossing Missouri skies; three cases of morphing objects in California, Washington and Missouri; Cigar-shaped objects over Colorado and Rhode Island; a sphere floating over Missouri; and five cases of unusual bright lights over Nevada, Michigan, Oregon, Missouri and Pennsylvania.

Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If MUFON investigates and reports back on any of these cases, I will update this page. You can read my selected cases by type of UFO report at the UFO Traffic Report index page.

The following reports and their headlines are unedited.

A Colorado witness woke up to flashing lights in the sky and discovered a disc-shaped object that was flashing red, orange, white and blue lights around its perimeter. The object soon dropped a diamond-shaped object with red, white and blue lights that moved to the ground. The original disc then moved away at a high speed, and a twin rotar helicopter moved into the area from the west.

Colorado, May 7, 2009 - Witness woke up at around 4:30 AM and noticed flashing lights to the northwest. She went outside and saw a disc hovering which at one point dropped a diamond shaped satellite object that descended to the ground.

I am a MUFON investigator (Bob Fiske) filing this report for the witness who does not have a computer. Witness related the following to me about her sighting.

She woke up about 4:30 AM and noticed bright flashing lights in the sky through her bedroom window, which faces to the north. The window was dirty so she went outside to the landing between the first and second floors of the unit and observed a disc shaped craft to the northwest, north of I-70 that was flashing red orange white and blue lights around the perimeter. She estimated its size at arms length as to the second joint on her index finger, perhaps one and one half to two inches.

At one point the craft dropped a diamond shaped satellite object with red white and blue lights that descended to the ground. She saw the disc depart at high speed to the northwest and when it did a twin rotor helicopter came into view from the west. Helicopter may have been out of the Army high altitude training center at the Eagle County airport some 20 miles west. I called the center and spoke with the CO who said they did not have any aircraft up that early. I have known the witness for two months and she is very creditable.

This St. Louis, Missouri witness wrote that the object seemed "more like a small, moving black hole in the sky."

Missouri, May 14, 2009 - Small Black Circle Moving in Late Afternoon Sky

Having just been picked up at work from a downtown St. Louis hospital, sitting in the rear passenger seat I noticed a small dark object slowly moving in the sky. We were traveling south, and the object was in the southwestern sky.

At first I thought it was a single small balloon filled with helium. Stopped at a light, I could see a dark object seeming to rise and move to the front right of us, between a row a trees along the road. Between 30 and 45 degrees in the sky from the ground, it appeared small, only the "diameter" of an 1/8th of inch. It seemed to be getting closer, but there was little wind, and what wind there was was moving in the opposite direction than the object was, which kept my attention on it. It then appeared to stop and hover or stay in place, clearly a perfect circle, but completely black with no lighting to it at all, reflected or otherwise. The sky was partly cloudy, the clouds high and thin, the object definitely beneath them.

The object seemed to then "wiggle" back and forth, at least 3 times its diameter size to either side of its "hovering" position, then it started moving in a COMPLETELY STRAIGHT line to the west, not changing in "size" during it's move to the west-northwest location. Sometimes the object would be blocked by trees or building as we drove or stopped at lights, but a vast majority of the time the object stayed in view.

It seemed to stop once or twice along its southwest to north-northwest location, again "wiggling" each time. It "wiggled" again when it finally "stopped" in the west-northwest location. It seemed to "stay" in that location, but slowly grew smaller until I lost sight of it.

Even though it was a small size in significance to what is usually reported, its perfectly circular black shape made it seem more like a small moving black hole in the sky, and also going against the wind, and its very strange "wiggling" behavior - I don't know what can travel "against" wind without sound and wiggle and have NO REFLECTED NOR ILLUMINATED light?

Three cases of morphing objects. First up from California, the witness described the object as a bright, yellow-orange light with no apparent shape.

California ufo flight path
© MUFON imageWitness illustration.
California, May 12 2009 - Illuminating light flies across sky while missile fighter jet looking objects intertwine and disappear.

Well we were walking, about to meet up with some people, when I spotted a bright yellow orange light with no apparent shape that just looked like a flying ball of light silently hovering toward the mountain.

We watched it flying when all of the sudden these three objects flying in formation (that at first I thought were three fighter jets) appeared out of nowhere and were speeding faster than the other object, going in a different direction but was within the radius of the other object,

It started intertwining in some kind of crazy formation then the three objects disappeared leaving the yellow object alone. It started flying towards the mountain and looked like it just hovered for a few seconds then either went behind the mountain out of sight or just suddenly died out. It was like nothing I have ever seen. As I was watching, and after we seen the object, I was just cussing out of excitement and shock. The sighting lasted less than five minutes

This UFO over Lacey, Washington was described by the witness as looking like four balls clustered, "but morphing in place as it was traveling." The witness guessed the object was about 500 feet away and between 200 and 300 feet off of the ground.

Washington, May 12, 2009 - Black balloon clusters over Lacey, WA.

At around 4:30pm today May 12th 2009. I have seen many "UFO" in my time but today this was a mysterious one. Looked just 4 balls clustered, but morphing in place as it was traveling.

My friend and I just got a drink at Starbucks in Lacey, Wa. After getting our drink, we got back into the truck and went to the corner of Lilly RD and Pacific St, when my buddy that was driving said "What the heck is that" (by the way this is what I always here from people that have never seen them). It looked like balloons at first. Then unlike balloons having a string and the mass of balloons going upward right away. It seemed to follow our path for about 1 mile mile 1 1/2.

The object was about 500 feet away (from the road we were on) and about 200-300 feet high when We first seen it at that corner. It was at about the same altitude for about 1 mile traveling down Pacific Ave, then it started ascending at a rapid
rate upward until in vanished into clouds.

I didn't have a camera or cellphone that takes pictures otherwise I could had some solid evidence. I bet you the camera on Lilly and Pacific Ave Street Lights would show what we first had witnessed on that corner.

On top of this "Sighting" helicopter have been going off at more of a rate than usual here in Lacey/Olympia WA. today. I woke up to a helicopter this morning and all day throughout the day and have heard them and seen them passing all night tonight.

My personal feeling on this is, that this was military or this was a drone of some kind. Who knows I have seen all kinds of craft off and on for years but today this one was strange one.

Another morphing object was spotted over Missouri where the witness guessed it was between 2,000 and 4,000 in altitude and as "large as a two-story house."

Missouri, May 10, 2009 - Strange diamond and then a football shaped object in the southern sky.

To whom it may concern:

I saw a strange object in the southern sky on Sunday 5/10/09 at approximately 7:30 PM. The flight was not consistent with any aircraft I'm familiar with. It was slow and methodical, and in the distance. It appeared to be 2000-4000 feet in altitude, approximately as large as a 2 story house, and appeared to change shape either by rotating or turning over somehow. I also caught about 4 minutes of video tape; of which about 10-15 seconds are pretty compelling that what I saw is simply unexplained. Here is a brief description of the events:

At about 7:30 PM on 5/10/09 I had just finished cleaning up from a massive Mother's Day feast that I had prepared. I stepped outside on my back porch for some fresh air, when I noticed a very small object in the sky. I first thought it was a high flying plane at 50,000 feet which sometimes fly overhead. Then I realized that it was overcast, and that I couldn't possibly see that high. After reasoning about the cloud cover I thought the object to be around 2000-3000 feet high. Since then I have learned that the cloud cover was at 7000-8000 that night, so the object was definitely under that ceiling. My initial thoughts of 2000-3000 feet may be correct, but not for certain.

Right after I realized that is was moving too slow for a normal aircraft at that altitude so I called for my girlfriend to come and take a look. She thought it was odd as well, and I asked her to rush to get the video recorder. We started shooting the object, and was initially very hard to get into focus as our zoom was at 35 xs and was in auto focus mode. So if we moved just slightly, or caught the top of a tree, or had a bird fly right by it would keep auto focusing and then blur out the object.

Once we fiddled through it for a minute or two, we got the hang of it, and were able to capture several distinctly different shapes not visible with the naked eye. One was a diamond, one looked like a slightly elongated football, and one like a top with some sort of antennae protruding from the top half of the shape. There was only one object, but was either turning or rotating to create these different shapes. The video we have is shaky, showing the object to dart around, but in reality it was moving in a straight line, and our zoom at 35 xs and our shaky hand is the cause for the appeared erratic motion of flight.

The flight of the object was in the southern sky headed due north. As it came north, it seemed to drop in altitude. Then it went 45 degrees NE, and then headed due east. As it headed east it appeared to ascend. At various times it appeared to have some sort of halo or ring around the entire object; either from air displacement or something else. It made no noise, and there were other aircraft in the sky that were farther away and closer that were making noise. The whole event from start to finish lasted roughly 7-10 minutes, and we have roughly 4-5 minutes of video. There are about 15 seconds of very compelling shots of an object that I've never seen before.

I'm about as well versed in Military Aviation as a private citizen can be, as I'm fascinated with the Military Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel. This was not a B2, a F117, F22, or an F35. I have seen all of them on numerous shows, and I can't see how any of the shapes I saw on the video could be one of those aircraft.

Lastly, after my story aired on some local news stations here in town, a gentleman contacted me via fax with some sketches he drew after a sighting with him and his girlfriend on June 20th 2007 at approximately at 7:50 PM. When I saw the fax it was clear that the images were very similar though he didn't have a video or a picture. I contacted him and he came to my office to hear my story. When he showed up, we talked for a bit. He seamed genuine in nature, and as he was telling me his story, I quickly realized the similarities to my event. The object seemed to change shape on an axis, there were at times a blur or a ring around the object obscuring the air around the object, that it moved slowly and deliberately across the sky changing altitude, and that it matched no aircraft he had ever seen either in shape or flight characteristics. He explained that when he called his girlfriend into the room to see the story on TV she immediately said, "That's it..." Although he saw most of the object with the naked eye, it was closer to him than for me, as I wouldn't have been able to decipher the shapes with my naked eye. Only with the use of my camera with the zoom all the way at 35 xs was I able to clearly see the shape of the object. In telling me his story, I could see he felt vindicated of sorts, and was very interested in seeing where this went. He said with almost 99% certainty that we saw the same object...

I can send a still picture, and I'm truly writing to see if we can get any type of explanation of what we saw, or if you could shed some light into where we could go for help.

Thanks for your time,

Two cigar-shaped objects were reported. This Vail, Colorado object was reported by a MUFON field investigator as being white in color.

Colorado, May 9, 2009 - Bright white cigar shaped crossed sky to the north of Vail. Entered small cloud and did not come out other side.

I am a MUFOM investigator living in Vail and was at my job as a security officer for the Vail Valley Medical Center. I was in a stairwell at the west end of the hospital and there is a window that faces north on the landing between the second and third floors. I was watching the sky for a few minutes as there had been a number of UFO reports in the area when I noticed this white cigar shaped object moving from west to east at about 30 degrees of elevation. UFO was about three quarters of an inch long at arms length and I could not see any wings or tail assembly on the craft. As it went to the east it entered a small cloud and I felt I should have seen it come out the other side but did not. I did notice an aircraft with a single contrail further to the north and above and behind the UFO that may have been a jet fighter. I guess I had some difficulty realizing what I saw but I did see a similar cigar shaped craft on March 19th, 2004 when I was out in the parking lot at the hospital that traveled the same course. It was during a time when there was a lot of sighting reports out here and I had a sighting the previous day which I reported to MUFON. In both cases the cigar shaped craft reminded me of video shot in Salida in 1995 that was recently shown on one of the UFO Hunters shows.

This UFO was described by the witness as a large, thin, black cigar with a light gray stripe down the middle and hovering, silently, a few miles away - with a guestimate of being about a few hundred feet long.

Rhode Island, May 14, 2009 - Black Cigar

I was online talking with my friend when my mom called and said she would be home soon. As I was on the phone I was walking around the living room and looked out the window and noticed a large thin black cigar with a light gray stripe down the middle length-wise shaped object hovering in the sky. It didn't move at all and I heard no noise. I couldn't tell what the object was at first so I looked hard and still couldn't guess what the object was, but it didn't look like any aircraft I had ever seen. It had to be a few miles away but I would guess it was a few hundred feet long. When I noticed I told my mom and friend, but about 23 seconds after I noticed the object it just faded away. After that I didn't see anything else weird.

A floating sphere was seen over Missouri by this witness, who estimates it is about one-quarter mile in the sky and due north of St. Louis City, in the Florissant area, and traveling 40 mph.

Missouri, May 13, 2009 - Floating sphere in the wind.

Witnessed opaque round sphere floating in the wind approximately one quarter mile high above ground. Direction of object was heading due north of Saint Louis City in Florissant area. The speed of the object was swift, approximately forty miles per hour.

Five cases now involving bright lights in the sky. This first case takes place very near an area we reported on recently - about 10 minutes south of the Las Vegas Strip.The witness first noticed a bright object at a high altitude, then watched as it maneuvered in one sharp "S" shape, then quick maneuvers right, left, right, before returning to its original flight path.

Nevada - large bright light cruising at a smooth fast pace at extremely high altitude began signaling to something else with a code of sporadic colorful flashes

It was just past midnight when my roommate and I went outside for a smoke. We live 10 minutes south of the Las Vegas strip. The night was beautiful and clear as the moon shined bright. It wasn't more than 30 seconds into our smoke when I noticed a ball of light smoothly cruising straight for us.

The object was very bright, flying at an extremely high altitude. Right away you could tell that this was not man made. I called my girlfriend outside for a third pair of eyes. Her father is a pilot and she has grown up in and around planes all her life. She exclaimed, "That is definitely not a plane."

As it cruised directly over our heads, glowing bright like a huge star, it maneuvered in one sharp-angled "S" shape. It made quick movements right, left, right and then returned back to its original flight path. I ran into the house, grabbed the flip and filmed a video that does not do the sighting justice. After about 3 minutes the ship had made its way to the outskirts of town, flying parallel with the 15 fwy.

Suddenly the bright light turned off. Amazingly, you could still see the ship cruising in the well lit vegas night. About 60 seconds later, still following the same exact flight path, the ship started flashing different colors of white, green, blue, and red. The flashing happened in random order and timing, as if it was communicating with something else.

In hind sight I wish we could have gotten better footage of the color changing pattern. Every 20-30 seconds the ship would go dark as if it was receiving transmission, then back to a completely different set of flashing colors.

Unfortunately we were not able to see the entire sky from our side yard, so we could not tell if there were any other ships at that time. We were only able to see a narrow strip of the sky right above us, since our view was blocked by the neighboring houses. The sighting lasted 11-12 minutes until it disappeared over the mountains on its way to visit California. In posting this article I'm hoping that someone else has video of the color changes that they could share. I find it hard to believe that we were the only ones that witness such an obvious sighting as it flew directly over the city lights.

A Michigan witness noticed a bright object about one mile out and looking as though it was about one mile off of the ground - bouncing left to right - and seeming to change shape as it changed speed.

Michigan, May 14, 2009 - Small jolting object with bright light and mis-shapen/shape-shifting body.

I was driving east getting ready to get on the expressway and saw a bright object roughly one mile out and one half mile or so off the ground. It was too close to be a plane; it was not a bird. It kept bouncing from left to right and down then up and diagonal. It seemed to be changing shape as it would change speed from quick to slow. At one point it looked to be long and going vertical, then a bright light came from it, like it lit up but white-not like from the sun, but an illuminous light that came from the object itself. It was small and at times kept fading somewhat but not completely. The duration of the event was approximately 2 to 3 minutes. I almost wrecked the whole time.

An Oregon witness saw an unusually bright, white-bluish light traveling east.

Oregon, May 12, 2009 - Extremely bright white-blue light silently flying west to east below the clouds.

I go outside every night before I go to bed. Last night at about 9:15 pm I was outside facing South looking up in the sky. It was just past dusk so it was what I consider dark outside and there were a few low clouds above me at that time.

I gazed to the WSW and noticed an unusually bright white-bluish light traveling Eastward. It was NOT a Plane of any kind, or a helicopter or blimp. It was not a balloon, It was its own light source. It made NO noise. I followed it as it skimmed a cloud, it was very slightly obscured but it did not have any directional beam of light. What I mean is when airline lights hit clouds or fog, you can see the beam of the light. With this object there was no beam visible. There were NO other visible lights and NO blinking lights.

The object did not change shape as it passed over. It was simply a very very bright whitish blue light flying below the cloud ceiling silently from west to east and I watched it until it went behind the tree line out of my line of vision. I Do live in flight paths of commercial , Oregon Air Guard, and private small aircraft. I live east of the Portland International Airport (PDX) and east of the Troutdale airport for many years and I am very familiar with the aircraft and air traffic patterns in my area and this was out of the norm of anything I am used to hearing or seeing. I have never seen anything like it in my life.

It was not a celestial event or anomaly either. The speed was fairly slow I cannot even guess how fast it was flying, and I do not know if anyone else witnessed either. From when I first saw the object it was the same and did not change, the light remained constant. I could not distinguish any shape.

This object was brighter than anything else I have ever seen in the sky. It was NOT a flare of any kind. It was its brightness and the color of the light that made me notice it, it stuck out and immediately I knew it was something unusual that I had never seen before. My feelings and thoughts were,"[cms/tg/pd], What is that?! Figure's no one is here to examine it with me and my camera is in the house. This all happened in about 35 to 50 seconds.

This Missouri witness seems to think the object may have been a satellite, but then, six or seven of the same objects followed in a row.

Missouri, May 11, 2009 - Multiple streaming satellites.

I was out casually looking at the stars the night of 5/11/09 because it was an exceptionally clear night and I could see quite of few stars. The Big Dipper was straight above and that is when I noticed what I thought was a satellite going across the sky in nearly an east to west direction. (Satellites are normally hard to see at my location because of light pollution.) No sooner did I thought "cool, there's a satellite", I saw another trailing it. As soon as the first one went out of sight, another one appeared in nearly the same trajectory. Then it happened again and again for about 6 or 7 times. I thought, "whoa, this is weird". I called a friend (that's when I looked at the time) and told him what I saw, but I didn't see anything after that event.

It's hard to describe the separation distance between the objects, but for comparison sake I would estimate it to be about the distance of the bucket opening of the Big Dipper

I know that this isn't the way satellites are supposed to orbit, but I don't know what else the objects could be. The speed of the objects were going at the customarily speed of satellites I'm used to seeing. I didn't think they could be shooting stars because they weren't the right light intensity, speed, and they didn't leave a tail. There was no blinking lights, and they appeared to be quite high in the sky, so I don't think they could have been planes.

After describing my story to a few friends, I was informed of some other UFO events in our area. I read about them, but what those stories described is not what I saw. I was hoping someone had a similar sighting.

Sorry, no photos. I don't know if that was even possible unless I had high quality equipment.

And finally today, another sighting from Murrysville, PA - this time an amber-orange light, the "size of a big pea at arm's length," that was kind of round, moving in a straight line in an arc-like trajectory. This witness cites a similar looking object in a YouTube video - which I posted below this story.

Pennsylvania, May 12, 2009 - PA-Amber/orange glowing light, size of large pea at arms length, no tail/trail.

Wind calm, quiet night, clear and cool, low 50s. No bugs or frogs making any noises in the woods, which is unusual. Rural area, surrounded by mostly woods and farmland near the top of 1280 elevation in Murrysville, Westmoreland County, PA.

My fiancee and I were watching TV in living room, when amber/orange, size of a big pea at arms length, kinda round , "light" caught our eyes in patio window on left of TV. As we ran out patio door onto deck, (grabbing the camcorder and waiting for the dang thing to boot up) we could see was headed ENE in silent, constant speed, no flashing lights. In fact, the light it was emitting was constant, glowing--not super bright, not exactly round, blurry like. I noticed that it did not move in a straight line, more of a slight snake-like wiggle as it moved. As it continued on it's path, it dropped down behind the trees at edge of the yard--fiancee said he thought he saw a smaller one with it (behind the trees by now and falling) said, "it's gonna crash, it looks like", as he supposed it would come in contact with the ground at that point, but I think perhaps it was an illusion caused by the arc-like trajectory. Tried to video it, but even on 'nightshot' the cheap sony camcorder only has a black screen--so all you'll get from it is me saying what a piece of sh#& it is. Called John Ventre about 9:30, he saw a moving high altitude light moving in a similar wiggling motion from his location.

I'm wondering if it's the same kind (orange or amber) that's been seen in England, Holland and other places lately. Like this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJAUBT6ljsM&feature=channel_page (see below).

A lot of those are diamond shaped when seen up close. I couldn't see a shape, though.