They've been around for over 25 years - those mysterious "flying triangles". Where do they come from, and what do they want? Are they "theirs", or actually "ours". Part one, in a series, will examine the history of these fascinating, and mysterious objects.
The modern era of the UFO phenomenon is generally acknowledged to have occurred on June 24, 1947. That's when Idaho pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reported nine silvery, crescent-shaped objects skimming at high speed over the jagged peaks of the Cascade Range in Washington state. Earliest reports usually described saucer-shaped crafts, although both disc-shaped craft, and cylindrical UFO's are still around, the more recent variety are three-sided objects.
The first major wave of sightings occurred in the Hudson Valley areas of upstate New York, and Connecticut , in March, 1983. Witnesses reported seeing 'V-shaped' UFO's and often referred to them as "flying wings". Often times these objects are extremely large in size, some over three-hundred feet in length. They only appeared triangular when viewed from the ground. Seen in profile from the air, they were flat, some reports described them as being wedge-shaped, or shaped like a boomerang - while some mistakenly said they were circular.
Michael Cohen All News Web Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:22 UTC
Recently All News Web published this ground-breaking article revealing the Chengdu Military Zone as China's 'Area 51'.
Now further information has been revealed to confirm this to be the case. An event that might well leave UFO researchers pinching themselves has come to light. High strangeness would be the correct term to describe what appears to be a bizarre co-incidence. An incident that almost entirely mirrors the Roswell crash has been unearthed as happening in 1947 on 18 July in Chengdu!
On July 18th 1947 a farmer near Chengdu found unusual remains of what appeared to be a crashed flying saucer or UFO in the fields. News spread and locals congregated to see the bizarre UFO wreckage. The head of the Physics department of the local university, Professor Zeng Zhanhan, was asked to analyse the wreckage along with other experts and a report was written up. The object was declared a UFO.
Residents from Waco to Madison County reported seeing a flaming object streaking through the western Central Texas sky Monday morning, but there is no confirmation yet what the object may have been.
One resident reported to KBTX-TV she saw the object above the Kroger store in College Station. Another reported seeing it while driving on Wellborn Road in College Station. A resident also saw it in Madison County.
Robinson ISD Special Education Director Kay Carter was driving from Houston to Waco Monday morning and was driving north on the loop just past University in College Station when she saw the fireball.
Date: April 4 2009
Time: 9.35pm
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: Round
Weather Conditions: Fair, not windy.
Description: This is the second sighting I have seen in a month, the first time there was just 1 "Bright Orange" glow in the sky, this time there were 3, I have looked at the UFO Balloon video on your site, but given the condition I don't think it was windy enough to move them so fast.
Date: April 04 2009
Time: 10.20pm
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 5
Shape of objects: Circular
Weather Conditions: Clear, still
Description: Five orange lights which at first glance seemed to look like a fireworks before they explode. However, they held perfect formation flew right across in front of us seeming to maintain the same altitude.
Date: April 04 2009
Time: 22.20
Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 6-8
Shape of objects: Circular
Weather Conditions: Clear, slight haze up to ~1,000 ft
Description: Traveling at altitude and high speed, a succession of (6-8 observed) bright, silent, steady orange lights moving from west to east at approximately 45 second intervals. Most traveled constantly but one disappeared when overhead, another two moved off South at high speed, one of which appeared to have a tail.
Date: April 03 2009
Time: 22.15
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Half Circle
Weather Conditions: Clear
Description: On the date above, 3 people were standing in the back garden of a friends house. In the sky was what appeared to be a half circle shaped object. It was very clear that it was this shape. It was orange in colour with a flashing light on the left hand side. It almost looked as though it was on fire. It was stationary was aprox 10 seconds, then it appeared to come closer heading westwards. It then stopped again and moved towards the north, still quite slowly.
Date: April 03 2009
Time: 11:45 P.M.
Number of witnesses: Two
Number of objects: Four
Shape of objects: They looked to be kind of square shaped
Weather Conditions: Clear sky with very light cloud at high altitude, moon shinning, no wind.
Description: At first 2 very bright Reddish Orange lights came from the south west heading north east and on an upward direction, and the first one seemed to slow down as if waiting for the second one to catch up, and then 2 more came from the same direction, and when they got closer to the first 2 they seemed to turn to the south east and on an upward direction, myself and my wife watched them for about 10 minutes, as they went upward one behind the other and out of sight, there was no sound at all.
A Ryde woman who said she saw a late night UFO 'near miss' has appealed for other witnesses to come forward.
She said at 11.10pm on Saturday the police spotter plane, circling the south of the town, was involved in a low-altitude 'near miss' with three other craft.
Police, who confirmed their spotter plane was in the area and that three officers were on the ground searching for occupants of a stolen car, who ran off after a crash, said none of the officers reported seeing any unusual activity.
A police statement said: "The pilot, observers and police officers on the ground did not see, hear or come into contact with any other aircraft while flying over the Island at this time.
Roger Marsh UFO Examiner Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:16 UTC
A witness from Elk Grove, California, watched as "an extremely bright sphere" approached in the sky toward his apartment complex - an object that he captured on video, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
Following is the witnesses unedited account.
Please remember that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade - nearly 90 percent of all reports. If California MUFON investigates and provides a follow-up to this video, I will update this page.
Of the remaining small percentage of UFO reports that remain a mystery - the jury is still out on what this phenomena is. Stay tuned as we follow reports coming in from across the country - your personal input is most appreciated.
Comment: See part 2 of the series here.