© UnknownIllustration by Nashville, North Carolina, witness - story below.
A man and his daughter at Medina Lake near San Antonio on March 25 watched as a silent, semi-circular craft with no lights or windows, hovered just 30 feet off of the ground at a distance of about 100 yards. The craft measured about 12 to 15 feet across, and 5 to 6 feet in height. The object tilted slightly before disappearing.
Four witnesses driving home from a restaurant watched a donut-shaped object at the rooftop level of nearby homes hover at a distance of 600 to 1,000 yards in Driftwood, Texas, on March 14. A peculiar sound from the object seemed to change pitch depending on the brightness of the object.
A man stopped his tractor trailer after observing a hovering object as he was driving east on U.S. Route 64 near the first exit for Nashville, North Carolina, on March 10. He said the object was between 75 and 100 feet off of the ground. He described it as a silent, triangular-shape, 40 to 50 feet wide, with two red lights at the rear and a bright white light in front. It was between 200 and 300 yards away. The object hovered, then moved above a shopping center for 5 to 7 minutes, and then moved away in a southerly direction.
These reports may be under investigation by MUFON. Many sightings have natural explanations. We will report back on cases where witnesses contact us directly with more information, or where a MUFON field investigator follows up with a report.
Briefly: History Channel's UFO Hunters were on site in Bucks County, Pennsylvania this week investigating the Denise Murter case that was featured on Discovery Channel's UFOs over Earth last November. New lab tests were performed and radar screens were obtained from a similar case last July.
Pennsylvania MUFON State Director John Ventre and Assistant State Director Bob Gardner were also on hand. "This case was a CE3, or close encounter of the third kind," Ventre said, "and one of the most significant cases in quite some time." The episode should air this May.
A reader points out in our comments section a neat video shot by Gulf Breeze, Flordia, policeman Greg Baker of lights in the sky over town and shot from his cruiser camera. You can see the video on his facebook page here. Must have a facebook.com account to view. On his facebook page, Baker says, "Not really sure what the lights are of, but I can say I have never seen aircraft at night with lights illuminating like this." Thanks, Garrett.
Following are the unedited reports as filed with MUFON.
Texas, March 25, 2009 - Silent, oval, ominous, shiny...
My wife, child and I were visiting my Father-in-law today at his place by Medina Lake here in San Antonio, Texas. I took my daughter on a small tractor ride through a dense wooded area about a mile from the lake itself.
My daughter was on my lap steering when she suddenly pointed up at this object directly in front of us about 100 yards and around 30 feet off the ground.
She turned around quickly and hid her eyes on my shoulder as I tried to stretch my leg out to get my cell phone out of my pocket and take pictures.
I was extremely nervous that it was so clearly in plain view and that I knew I needed to get the pictures. But not being able to take my eyes off of the object made for fumbling fingers and tight pockets, not to mention that my daughter was scared to death. This whole process from first sighting to getting the cell phone out took about 7 - 9 seconds.
By that time the object tilted slightly and the sun light gleamed off of its surface as it disappeared. I tried to see a trail but there was nothing. I told my daughter to relax and when we got back and told everyone they said we were pulling their legs.
But it happened.
The entire sighting lasted an estimated 11-12 seconds.
Note: I DID post this to a different website earlier tonight but forgot that there WAS an aura or fuzziness to the stability of the crafts "flight". I apologize for this error.
1. The craft (object) was semi-circular
2. A mercury - mirror type shell
3. Slight protrusions from top center and maybe bottom as well.
4. No sound
5. No lights
6. No windows
7. Slight acidic taste to faint odor (may have been any number of outside scents though)
8. No exhaust trail visible
9. Craft (object) was around 12-15 ft side to side and 5-6 ft top to bottom
10. Mower (tractor) encountered no motor malfunction and cell phone worked fine once in hand.
11. No one else saw a thing from what I know.
Thank you for your time.
Texas, March 14, 2009 - Observed white donut-shaped light in the sky with intermittent red light discharge accompanied by crackling "tesla coil-like" sound that varied in loudness with the brightness of the object.
My wife and I and another couple were returning from dinner at Trattoria Lisina restaurant in Driftwood, Texas. We were on FM 1826 just south of its intersection with Highway 45.
At 11:10 pm my friend in the back seat of the car said "Hey, there is a UFO." I immediately pulled the car over onto the grass. Including myself, there were four observers of this phenomenon- the others were my wife and the couple accompanying us in our vehicle.
The sky was low overcast. There was a circular donut-shaped light (with a fluorescent-like quality or color temperature) that could be seen rising from lower on the horizon about rooftop level with the houses to a position about 75 to 85 degrees up. It would twist and turn almost kite-like, then disappear only to immediately reappear low on the horizon again. My best guess is that it was about 600 to 1000 yards distant. as it rose into the sky, it made a tesla coil-like sound that varied with the brightness of the object. As the object would rise and get brighter, the sound would intensify, its loudness being directly proportional to the brightness of the object. What appeared to be a second trailing light would intermittently discharge about every thirty seconds or so, always a uniform distance below and to the left of the donut-shaped circle of light. I did not notice the red light until about five minutes into the sighting. The light appeared to the east southeast of our position. It appeared to rise and mix into the clouds which seemed to partially obscure the light/object/craft. As whatever it was rose into the air, it seemed to maintain a more or less uniform distance from us as though it was pivoting about our position.
After about 10 minutes, it disappeared low on the horizon and did not reappear. We then left. I took photos with my iPhone but all they show is a pinpoint of light in the sky.
After we arrived at our house and our guests left for their home, I returned to the site and drove through the neighborhood looking for signs of whatever it was that we had observed with no success.
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On 03-10-09, roughly 11:30-11:40pm, I was driving East on US Route 64. As I approached the first exit for Nashville, (NC), I noticed an object hovering along, as if following, ALT US 64. This object was around 75-100 feet above the ground. I had thought it was maybe a military helicopter, but I began to think differently when I actually noticed the lights.
I noticed that it did have 3 visible lights. Two red lights toward what appeared to be the rear, and a bright white light near the front. It was about 200-300 yards from me. I judged the size of the object to be between 40-50 feet wide between all three lights. I knew by then, that this was not a helicopter.
The object proceed to hover over US Route 64 in a South-Southeast direction.
As I approached the exit, I watched it disappear behind a small grove of trees, then came back into view. It continued to move in the same direction until it stopped and began to hover near a small shopping center.
I stopped my truck (Tractor-trailer) on the off ramp and turned off the engine, then got out to observe the object.
It made no sound. (Not even a humming or whirring sound.)
The lights from the parking lot only slightly illuminated the object. I could barely make out a shape. It did look like a chevron shape, only thicker that made it look almost like a triangular shape.
It continued to hover in that spot for about 5-7 minutes, then proceed to move away in the south-southeast direction. I continued to watch the object for another couple of minutes until it moved out of my sight.
I had a small digital camera, but in my excitement of watching this object, I never thought to snap a photo.
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