With his neatly clipped moustache and checked shirt buttoned up to his neck, 51-year-old Yalcin Yalman doesn't look like a typical trendsetter.
But the images he has filmed since 2007 from the suburban Istanbul holiday village where he works as a night-watchman have helped turn UFO-spotting, once the object of scorn, into a popular pastime among educated Turks.
"For me it's just a hobby, a way of passing the night," Yalman shrugged outside an Istanbul conference centre where more than 1,000 people had paid 35 lira (€16), a handsome sum by local standards, to listen to him and ufologists from around the world reveal their latest findings.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCTue, 09 Jun 2009 14:13 UTC
Occurred: 6/4/2009 21:50 (Entered as : 06/04/09 21:50)
Reported: 6/4/2009 10:33:09 PM 22:33
Posted: 6/9/2009
Location: Visalia, California
Shape: Formation
Duration: 1 1/2 minutes
Formation fly lights over California
On June fourth 2009 at 9:50 PM I looked up at the moon. It was mostly cloudy and I saw about 18 small white lights appear. I thought they were balloons or papers flying high in the sky and being illuminated by the city lights. As I observed I noticed the lights moving in and out of the clouds. I came the conclusion that they were much higher up about 13,000 feet. They were not aircraft with blinking lights, these were brilliant white lights that lit up at the same place in the sky as they were traveling east and then they disappeared into the clouds again.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCTue, 09 Jun 2009 14:41 UTC
Occurred: 6/4/2009 00:10 (Entered as : 02/06/2009 0:10)
Reported: 6/7/2009 12:12:25 PM 12:12
Posted: 6/9/2009
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Shape: Circle
Duration: 5-7mins
2 large Round balls in sky with 2 rows of others jumping and joining them, 3 times, lasted approx 6 mins
On the 4th June 2009 my husband and I were preparing to go to bed, it was 12.10 am, suddenly I spotted a light in the sky, when we looked up we saw 2 big balls of light.
One was bigger than the other, but they were both very large.
They kept going brighter then dimmer, then all of a sudden we seen 2 rows of smaller balls jumping across from the west and joined the 2 larger balls.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCTue, 09 Jun 2009 14:41 UTC
Occurred: 6/3/2009 17:30 (Entered as : 06/03/09 17:30)
Reported: 6/3/2009 10:23:10 PM 22:23
Posted: 6/9/2009
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Shape: Other
Duration: 10 min
Witnessed 6-7 blinking crafts for the second day in a row.
UFO Sighting in Tucson, AZ #2: I was standing in my backyard with my mother, watering the plants like the case in my last report, when we saw a strange balloon-like object flying 5-6 miles away. It was large, and colorful, and seemed normal, except that it was in the area where airplanes fly. There was a helicopter that was moving in its general direction, and the balloon began to change altitude, moving lower towards the Foothills. I decided it was simply a normal set of stray balloons, but my mother was a little more suspicious, and decided to keep monitoring it. I went to keep watering the plants, when I returned my mother said that the balloon type thing had disappeared into thin air. I found this very strange and failed to locate it myself.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCTue, 09 Jun 2009 14:13 UTC
Occurred: 6/2/2009 19:30 (Entered as : 06/02/09 19:30)
Reported: 6/3/2009 6:28:10 PM 18:28
Posted: 6/9/2009
Location: New York City (Bronx), NY
Shape: Rectangle
Duration: 20 seconds
Small UFO sighting at Yankee Stadium in daylight.
I was at the Yankee game yesterday (Yankees vs. Rangers). I was sitting in the second row of section 420c (upper deck) with a friend. I took my eye off the batter to look up at an overhead plane, and on the way, I noticed a small object only about 30 feet away over the field.
The item was charcoal gray, probably metallic, and in the shape of a toaster. It was only about one foot in size. It spun around in circles, but always remained parallel to the ground, and had something similar to a reflector light on a bicycle in the upper right corner, which shined like a dimmed light. It also had a small amount of haze over it.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCTue, 09 Jun 2009 14:13 UTC
Occurred: 6/2/2009 23:00 (Entered as : 06/02/09 23:00)
Reported: 6/3/2009 12:18:21 AM 00:18
Posted: 6/9/2009
Location: Jefferson, TN
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 2 min
I was watching the sky for a satellite, tracking it on the net, saw one was going to be near where I live. I ran outside and there was something in the sky. It had two flashing lights that were some distance apart, blue and white, and it looked liked a shadowed mass. Seemed to be a little less than the size of a football field and moving slowly
Peter Davenport
NUFORCThu, 25 Jun 2009 13:55 UTC
Occurred: 6/2/2009 13:00 (Entered as : 06/02/09 13:00)
Reported: 6/3/2009 11:51:13 AM 11:51
Posted: 6/9/2009
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Shape: Light
Duration: 15 min+
Three "star-looking" crafts flying in random directions in the middle of the day.
I was looking at the clouds when an luminescent craft that from where I was looked like a star (this was the middle of the day) appeared. It flew straight for awhile then stopped for a couple of minutes. Then it proceeded to fly in random directions (up, diagnally, straight). Another one of these crafts popped out of nowhere for awhile. The first object hovered out of my sight but then a 3rd one of these appeared and just sat in the sky for awhile. I watched for a good 20 minutes but then left so these things could have been there for awhile.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCTue, 09 Jun 2009 13:55 UTC
Occurred: 6/1/2009 22:00 (Entered as : 06/01/09 22:00)
Reported: 6/2/2009 11:45:56 AM 11:45
Posted: 6/9/2009
Location: Ruckersville, Virginia
Shape: Light
Duration: 1 1/2 hours
Unknown amount of lights appearing over town of Stanardsville, VA then flying high and coming down.
At approximately 10:00 pm flashes of light started appearing above a line of trees over the town of Stanardsville, Virginia. They were moving very fast and when we first saw them they were very high up in the sky. After a few minutes, they started dropping down into the trees then started coming closer to houses and outside sheds. It is hard to say how many it was but it seemed the longer we watched the more there were. We also saw a stationary light near the mountains which are considered Skyline Drive. It was yellow and orange in color. We've never seen anything like this before.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCTue, 09 Jun 2009 13:55 UTC
Occurred: 6/1/2009 20:00 (Entered as : 06/01/09 20:00)
Reported: 6/2/2009 7:44:00 AM 07:44
Posted: 6/9/2009
Location: Grafton, West Virginia
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 1 minute
A group of small red, white and gold blinking lights flying over my house in West Virginia.
I have filed a report before regarding lights in the sky behind my house. Last night I once again saw something strange by my house. I was watching the sky from my back deck, looking for the lights that I saw on previous nights, when something red caught the corner of my eye. I turned to my right towards a large tree that sits beside my house. I saw the strangest thing I have ever seen in my life. I watched a craft or light of some sort about the size of a kitchen table or slightly larger appear from just over the top of the tree. It was not very large and I could not make out the shape of it as it was dark. It looked like a circular shape, perhaps. I saw several lights coming off of it. These lights blinked and were very bright in intensity. They were red, gold and white with several blinking at the same time. They appeared to blink in almost a triangular fashion. I noticed mostly the red color.
A strange light was spotted hovering over Frodsham before it vanished from the sky.
UFO enthusiast Colin Fowler, 56, of Ellis Lane, Frodsham, was watching a film at home when his family saw a cigar-shaped orange light hovering in the sky at about 10pm on Saturday, June 6.
University of Manchester building manager Colin said: "It was a cigar shaped thing with sparks or flames coming out of it.
"I don't know what it was? It wasn't a lantern, a helicopter or a plane. It was nothing like that, it was a ball of light, hovering in the air over the marshes, towards Ellesmere Port. It lasted a few minutes.
