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Weekly Sighting Reports: 10-16-08

Weekly Sighting Reports: 10-16-08

By Billy Booth, About.com

Alabama-08-11-08-Last night I was watching the pre peak of perseids meteor shower in my back yard. I was facing east-north east. I have light pollution in the sky to the southeast and trees to the west that determine where I watch. At 2:15 AM, I was getting up to refresh my coffee, standing and turning south my attention was caught by a bright light through the trees at about 30 degrees off the horizon.

I knew immediately what it was-my wife and I had seen something similar in early June in the southeast, only at a much greater distance. This time I could plainly see a three-lighted object that looked like a standing triangle. The lights were blinking, trading places, and were amber/white and red.

It was swinging like a pendulum and played hide and seek behind the trees. I ran in to get a witness. My 13 year old was my choice for his good eyes. After sufficiently freaking him out, he went back to bed and I jumped in the car to go get a better look. It seems as if it knew I was watching. As I was driving down CR 124, it was moving away from me at a great speed. When I stopped at the top of a large hill it was off to the west and much farther away.

Continuing to watch, all I could think was "What are they doing, surveying, taking inventory?"

One minute it would swing north and south, the next it would shoot straight up, only to settle down to where it was. By 3:00 AM, it was very far away to the west or much dimmer. My jaw is still on the floor. source: www.nuforc.org

Indiana-10-02-08-My daughter and I were coming home from a quick trip for milk. Suddenly, I saw something strange to my left in the sky.

I turned, and asked my daughter, "What is that up there to your left?"

She looked out her side of the car, and at first, she didn't know, but said it must be a plane of some kind. No sooner had they replied, than the object slowly drifted right in front of our car, about 100 foot in the air. It was definitely a triangle shape with rounded corners. It has a white light in the front, and a blue and red light at the back corners. We couldn't hear any noise from it, nor did it affect our car.

I tried to follow it, as it was moving over the very road we going to turn on, Shiloh and Corydon. I had to speed up, and as I got closer, it veered off the road to the right, as if to circle back. As it did, it tilted on its side, and oddly, stayed in that position as it flew straight ahead. We had heard a lot about the sightings in Indiana, but this was the first time that we had seen one. It was as big as a commercial airplane. source: www.mufon.com

Pennsylvania-10-05-08-We saw star-like object tonight that totally dissipated in mid air. When I first saw it from my porch, I jumped down and went out in the yard to get a better look. I thought maybe it was a plane, but as it got closer I could see it wasn't. It was like a star, but was hovering in a weird manner. I called another family member to come out, and she saw it also, and said it was not an airplane.

We have had a lot of sightings in our state, and a lot of people are watching the skies over Pennsylvania. They have even been on television. source: www.mufon.com

Virginia-10-06-08-We reside close to the Blue Ridge Mountains. This night we were having a movie night with some friends and I went out on the deck to smoke a cigarette. As I was looking up to the sky towards the west, I noticed a sphere-like object hovering above in the distance. It was moving slowly towards the west and and composed of various colors.

I proceeded to gather my friends and family to witness the event. They were baffled by the sight of this also. We were amazed by the sighting, however, we had seen another object about a year ago. That one was of a large triangular shape so we were not totally shocked, but our friends were shocked because they were non-believers until this incident enlightened them. We lost sight of the object as it continued to slowly head towards the west. source: www.mufon.com

South Carolina-10-05-08-My neighbor had been down at the beach which is just a few blocks from us. He saw strange lights, but didn't hear any sound and noticed a gentlemen further down the beach just staring up. He asked him if he saw the lights and the guy was relieved that my neighbor Drew had witnessed the same thing. He came back to his house, and then asked me to come over and we sat in the yard looking at the sky.

In a couple hours it happened. First, an orange glowing light that went off but another one came on. There was a total of 4 lights. There was no sound, it was a quiet evening. No other lights, nothing! He went in and ended up calling the Coast Guard and asked them if they were running any tests, and was told no. Now, I haven't a clue what I saw, I just know it wasn't flares as it was too perfect going across light to light, it wasn't a plane, there was NO sound. source: www.mufon.com

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