Dawn Raimond, a 41-year-old resident of Round Hill, saw something strange in the sky over Lake Tahoe from the deck of her home on the evening of June 19.
According to Raimond, she was sitting outside on her deck at about 11:40 p.m. looking at the stars, when she noticed moving lights in the sky.
"The stars starting moving," she said.
The lights were arranged straight up and down, according to Raimond, and then started spreading out.
Raimond called her daughter, Raven, 20, outside to witness the strange lights. As the lights came closer to their house, the women were able to make out a strange object with two lights.
"It wasn't an airplane," Raven said.
The dark, triangle-shaped object traveled very fast across the lake toward their home, and then slowed down as it approached her house, Dawn said. The object was completely silent, making no noise.
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The object came within about 500 feet of their house, according to Dawn, when it came to a stop above the trees. The lights then began getting wider and wider, and then starting fading, Dawn said.
"It disappeared right in front of our eyes," said Dawn.
Dawn isn't sure what the object was, but is sure it wasn't an airplane. People have suggested to her that it may have been an airplane from the Naval Air Station in Fallon, or that perhaps it was a stealth fighter, but Dawn isn't convinced.
Images of a similar UFO, reportedly taken in Northern California, were also posted on the Internet in May, though many viewers believe they are computer-generated fakes created as a hoax or possibly as part of a marketing campaign for a new video game.
"I know what they look like and (there's) no way it was that. It was much bigger than that," Dawn said. What she is sure of is that she saw the object, and that she wasn't seeing things.
The Raimonds' sighting comes just over a year after South Lake Tahoe resident Allan Brown saw, and videotaped, a UFO over Lake Tahoe. As reported on June 16, 2006, in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, Brown videotaped an object "dancing in the sky" over the lake in the early morning hours last June.
The latest sighting also comes as people recognize the 60th anniversary of the events of July 8, 1947, in Roswell, New Mexico, when personnel from the Roswell Army Airfield issued a press release that they had found the remnants of a "flying disc" that had crashed on a ranch nearby. It was later that day that the Air Force corrected the RAAF, saying that it had been a downed weather balloon that was found.
Over 30 years later, Major Jesse Marcel, who had been involved with the incident near Roswell, came forward to say that he believed the US military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft, thus sparking the controversy that lives on today as to what was actually found on that ranch near Roswell.
For more information on Allan Brown's sighting last year and to see his video, visit www.TahoeDailyTribune.com, and do a search for "UFO."
Close encounters:
"UFOlogists" rate close encounters with unidentified flying objects by the following classifications:
First kind: A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects or lights.
Second kind: An observation of a UFO associated with physical effects, such as heat or radiation, radio interference, paralysis, crop circles or other terrain damage.
Third kind: A living being or creature is seen in association with a UFO sighting.
Fourth kind: A human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants.
Fifth kind: Voluntary contact or cooperative communication between humans and extraterrestrials.
Source: Cassiopedia.org
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