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By Billy Booth, About.com Guide to UFOs / Aliens since 2005

UFO Sighting Reports

Thursday April 17, 2008
Welcome to another session of UFO sighting reports. Let's take a look at some of the past week's best reports.

California-03-28-08-At 8:05 PM, I was outside looking at the stars when I saw 2 to 3 red blinking lights. When I looked closer I noticed that there were 8 to 10 red blinking lights in a triangular formation.

They appeared to be high and fairly spread apart, but kept the triangular formation. There was a single plane flying in the same direction what seemed to be seconds after I lost sight of the red triangle shaped lights. source: www.mufon.com

Florida-03-29-08-We were at the beach having a bonfire, the sky was clear, and it was about 8:30 or 9:00 PM. I was looking up at the stars, and noticed a small red light (star?) and thought that it started moving. Then I noticed it was a really bright light that was moving, not the red light. It was moving northward and it seemed to be moving pretty fast.

I had everyone look up, and we were trying to figure out what it was. As it was moving across the sky heading to the north, it quickly changed directions and started moving eastward. It didn't turn, it moved quickly to the east and we continued watching it as it disappeared into the sky. It appeared to disappear into the stars.

I watched it until it could no longer be seen. We all deduced that it moved too fast and changed direction too fast to be a plane. Also, it was such a bright white light. We all tried to come up with a logical answer to what we were seeing but all we could figure out is what it wasn't-a plane, a satellite, or a comet... would love to know what it was. source: www.mufon.com

Missouri-04-05-08-I was walking into our bedroom to feed the baby, and also talking on the phone to my mom. I walked to the window (facing west) to shut the blind when I noticed a bright, yellowish light in the southwestern sky.

I was looking sort of catty-corned towards the Missouri river. I thought it was just an airplane at first, but it appeared to hover for around a minute. I watched it a little longer, and it seemed to waver and quiver around, so I figured it was probably a planet, since I've seen Venus appear to do similar things due to atmospheric distortion.

As I watched, the light sunk below the tree line. When this happened, I got off the phone in order to pay attention to this light better. As I watched, I could see the light moving back and forth and up and down behind the trees. I'm not sure just how long I watched it, but then the light emerged from the trees at about treetop level and started across the road and into the field, heading directly towards our house (the tree line is maybe about 300 yards from us).

The light appeared to be of a diamond-shape, composed of 3 or 4 smaller yellowish lights, and there was no noise associated with it. When I saw it start towards the house, I yelled and shut the blind as fast as I could. My husband heard me yell, and asked what was going on. I ran into the living room and told him what I saw, so we both went outside to look. By the time we got outside, the light was gone. source: www.mufon.com

Pennsylvania-04-07-08-It was between 1:00 and 1:15 AM, on the morning of April 7, 2008. I was in my car driving around the neighborhood looking for my cat. I saw a red light about the size of two quarters behind the trees, and it was moving. It pulsed. I was curious and followed it to get a closer look. It crossed over Rt. 309 over behind WalMart, and then I couldn't follow it anymore as the road ended and it eventually was out of sight.

It had a really bright, big red light and some smaller white lights and some other colors-I couldn't tell exactly what the other colors were as it moved quickly and then I lost sight of it. It was pretty low as it appeared to be behind trees. The red light pulsed and the other lights twinkled and changed color rapidly. source: www.mufon.com

South Wales-04-02-08-I was walking our dogs with my mother in the countryside not far from our home in Penperlleni, South Wales at 10:20 PM. It was just starting to get dark and we saw what we initially thought was a really bright star. We were then standing still looking at it, and we realized it was moving. It was bigger than the few other stars that were out and a lot brighter.

It was moving at a fast, steady pace at what looked to be a high altitude. Unlike shooting stars or comets, it did not have a tail, it was very similar to a star, only brighter. An aircraft was nearby, and looked like it was at the same altitude. But, this thing was bigger than the aircraft and faster.

After a couple of minutes, it went into the clouds and was out of sight. After speaking to a few people and watching videos on youtube.com, I thought it could be a satellite, although I really have no idea what it was, and neither does my mother. I was pretty excited after seeing it, but definitely felt on guard the rest of the way home. After seeing it, there appeared to be a lot of aircraft around that area, although that could have easily just been a coincidence. source: www.mufon.com

That will close out this week's sighting reports, but be sure to check back next week for more of the same. Until then, keep your eyes on the skies.

Comments

April 17, 2008 at 5:52 pm
(1) Chance Metz says:

Lots of bright lights this week.

April 18, 2008 at 8:02 am
(2) fred says:

Report with yellow lights was interesting. If it were me I would have tried to see if the ground or trees had been disturbed where the UFO have been seen moving. And I appreciated they understood how light from stars and planets are distorted by the atmosphere.

The person who said they may have seen a satellite, well maybe. Man-mad satellites move in a straight line at a steady pace across the sky normally, and the light can be quite bright as is the case with the ISS when it passes by, or be dim and hard to see depending on how much light is reflected back to your observational point. Another satellite that I think people misidentify are the fleet of Iridium telecommunication satellites. These can be dim, increase in brightness to very bright, and then decrease brightness and disappear rapidly. I’m certain what some people call UFOs are these satellites. Google heavens-above and you can track and watch these satellites for yourself so you’ll know what not to call a UFO. Or track the ISS as I enjoy doing from time to time.

April 19, 2008 at 5:39 pm
(3) Chance Metz says:

Insome casues yes they are sattlites but when none are flying overhead at the time then what?

April 21, 2008 at 11:32 pm
(4) scott says:

Stephen Hawking Says …

We don’t appear to have been visited by aliens,” Hawking said, adding that he discounts reports of UFOs. “Why would they only appear to cranks and weirdoes?”
So they need to send us a signal via SETI for them to be intelligent?????? Oh come on Stephen!
click anem for URL to yahoo story

April 28, 2008 at 5:00 pm
(5) ivancito says:

I was Abducted once!

April 28, 2008 at 5:05 pm
(6) ivancito says:

I was with my dog in the city of Berlin when I saw this man walking with a cloak, I did not pay much attention but my dog was barking at the man, he turned and I could not move. after that I don’t remember much but I remember waking up on the floor. I could not breath well and a sertant being was next to me. I looked at it for 5 seconds and then a noise that hurt my head made me fall unconcous again. I woke up naked on a desert in egypt. Now im in Cairo looking for a way to get back home. Plaese help me

April 29, 2008 at 6:33 pm
(7) Chance Metz says:

starnge. did you ahppen to rememeber seeing a ufo or a bright light?

June 30, 2008 at 9:14 am
(8) chrisd says:

hi there folks just thought i would say that i was on a caravan holidsay in shropshire when 20 yes 20ufo’s were reported over 3 days in at least 4 different locations near where we were staying.
one over a base and it is rumoured that military aircraft were scrambled some say as many as 6 were flyng at the same time which is not training practice no matter what the mod says.

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