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NUFORC DATABASE UPDATED ON AUGUST 30, 2010

In preparation for Peter Davenport’s appearance on the Jeff Rense Radio Program on Monday night, August 30, at 7:00 p.m. (Pacific), we have updated our database of Sighting Reports, such that listeners to that program will be able to see the latest reports.  We feature below two sightings, which we feel are particularly interesting.

NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2010, AT 06:45 HRS. - A young man, who was video-taping the sky for time-lapse analysis of clouds, captures a 3-second image of a small object which streaks across the sky in a straight line.  Full Report    He was kind enough to share his video tape of the object: video courtesy AmpleLight of Naperville Illinois.

KENT, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2010, AT 01:00 HRS. - A man steps out of his truck at his place of employment, and sees an object passing overhead in the sky.  His initial reaction was that it was a conventional aircraft, but he quickly realized that it was a triangular-shaped craft.  He estimates that it was visible for approximately 10 seconds.  Full Report  The illustration he provided of the object can be seen below.

Posted by Peter Davenport, Director, National UFO Reporting Center, Monday night, August 30, 2010.

WEBSITE UPDATE ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25^TH, 2010

We have posted to our website approximately 500 newly received reports.  Thanks to many folks who have read reports posted on prior dates, we have amended, or deleted, a number of those reports.  We express our gratitude to those people who have been generous in sharing their views on specific cases, and we hope that visitors to our site will continue to be on the alert for cases that do not pertain to authentic sightings of UFO’s.  We suspect that there probably are many reports in the database, which are not about “bona fide” UFO’s, or which are posted, without proper qualification, as to the suspected nature of the event witnessed.

One of the cases reported recently which we feature here was submitted by a former crew member of the U. S. Coast Guard cutter, “Spencer,” based at Governor’s Island, New York City, involving a lengthy, and dramatic, sighting of an apparent UFO over the Atlantic Ocean, sometime during the early 1970’s.  The witness reports that the entire crew was interviewed by members of the U. S. intelligence community, and sworn to secrecy, under penalty of the law, if they ever discussed the matter.  Full Report   The individual who submitted the report, and who reports that he was present during the hour-long event at sea, will appear, together with Peter Davenport, on the Jeff Rense Radio Program at 7:00 p.m. (Pacific) on Monday night, August 30, 2010, to discuss the dramatic event.  If there are any members of the crew of the USCG “Spencer,” who remember this incident, and we strongly suspect they would recall it, we would like to invite them to submit reports about what they recall of it, using our Online Report Form on our website.  We would like to communicate with them, so we would be grateful if they would include contact information.

NEW REPORTS POSTED ON JULY 28, 2010 - We have posted approximately 200 newly received, or amended, reports to our website.  We have attempted to proofread them to the best of our ability, but there is always the possibility that we have committed an oversight in correcting errors, deleting personal data, and failing to properly identify those reports that are of mundane events of terrestrial origin.  Hence, in the course of reading the new reports, you encounter an error, we would be most grateful if you would call the error to our attention via e-mail, and we will correct it.  E-mail is more convenient for us than telephone communication, for the purpose of correcting reports. 

NEW REPORTS POSTED JULY 19, 2010

We have posted 261 recently submitted reports to our website, some of which appear to be similar to those received during the first ten days of this month, which we discuss in our July 06^th and July 10^th postings below.  The reports describe red, orange, or yellow “fireballs,” which have been reported to maneuver in fashions that suggest to us that they are not aircraft, pyrotechnic devices, or any other type of object that we can imagine. 

An example of those recent reports is one submitted from ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND,   The witness is a retired military aviator, with approximately 5,000 hours of accumulated flight time, and he was unable to identify the objects.  Full Report

If any of the visitors to our website have been witness to this type of phenomenon, recently, we would like to encourage them to submit reports of their sightings, using our Online Report Form.  As we outline below, we would like to know where the witnesses were located, at the time of the event; what direction he or she was looking; the number of objects seen; how they moved across the sky; and any other facts necessary for another person, who reads the report, to understand what the event looked like.

We highlight below a few of the reports that have caught our attention, and which appear to us to have been submitted by highly credible witnesses:  

PROSSER, WASHINGTON, JULY 13, 2010, @ 22:00 HRS. (PDT)  - A young woman and her boyfriend, while driving in a rural part of Washington State, witnessed a triangular-shaped cluster of bright lights, which maneuvered to form a straight line.  Full Report   We are attempting to determine whether military flares, launched over the Yakima Firing Range could have been witnessed from the witness’s location.

KENNEWICK, WASHINGTON, JULY 13, 2010, @ 21:30 HRS. (PDT) - A highly educated, adult male witnessed what he perceived to be a “huge” object, with intensely bright lights on its sides, as it slowly and silently moved across his remote ranch.  Full Report  A group of eight adult witnesses, at a different location near Kennewick, witnessed the same object at the same time, and NUFORC is awaiting reports from those individuals.

We may have one of the above witnesses as guests on the JEFF RENSE RADIO PROGRAM at 8:00 p.m. (PDT) on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.  Details of the program can be obtained at www.RENSE.com.  If they decide not to appear, Jeff and Peter will discuss other recent cases and events.    

In the near future, we expect to post several illustrations and photographs to our site.  If anyone has photographs of the “fireballs” that have been witnessed recently, we would very much like to view them.  Thank you!

Posted by Peter Davenport, Director, on Monday night, July 19, 2010.

NEW REPORTS POSTED ON SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2010

We have posted approximately 180 new reports, many of which pertain to the unusual display of lights on the evening of July 4^th, 2010.  In our haste to get these new reports posted, we probably have missed some details, in the process of our proofreading the reports, for which we apologize.  In this case, we want to post the reports as quickly as possible, so that visitors to our site will have access to the most recent information, so some tasks have had to be left undone.

Here is a link to interesting video of a July 4^th sighting of two anomalous, and distinctly red, lights, witnessed near Lorain, Ohio:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWycp3JjdBw.  You can read the report, submitted by the witness, here: Full Report

We are still interested in receiving reports from anyone who may have witnessed unexplained sightings between July 1^st and July 10.  However, if what you saw was a lone, bright, white light, coursing across the evening or early morning sky, moving generally to the east, please be sure, before submitting a report, that you were not witnessing the International Space Station.  You can check the schedule of over-flights of the ISS at www.Heavens-Above.com, by entering the name of your community, and then checking the list of dates and times that the ISS will be visible from your community.  NUFORC is being flooded with “sightings” of the ISS, and it would be quite helpful to us if you would please try to identify what it was you saw, before you submit a written report from our website. 

Posted by Peter Davenport on July 10^th, 2010.

FLASH!!   POSTED TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 06, 2010 - Events across the United States and Canada on the evening of Sunday, July 04, 2010. 

Over the last 48 hours, NUFORC has received almost 100 similar reports of very peculiar events, which have been witnessed across the U. S. and Canada on July 4th, and perhaps on July 3^rd, as well.  The sightings are a phenomenon for which we have no ready explanation.  Many of the reports from both days have been submitted by seemingly serious-minded individuals, many of whom apparently witnessed the events with multiple other witnesses present. 

To date, we have received reports of the phenomenon from the following U. S. states and Canadian provinces:  California; Connecticut; Washington, D.C.; Florida; Georgia; Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Massachusetts; Manitoba; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; North Dakota; Nebraska; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Oklahoma; Pennsylvania; Tennessee; Texas; Virginia; Vermont; and Washington State. 

The reports are similar, in that the witnesses have described seeing strange red, orange, or yellow “fireballs,” which have been seen either to hover in the night sky, or to streak overhead, sometimes individually, and on some occasions in clusters.  In some instances, the objects were observed against a clear, cloudless sky, and in other cases, they were observed below solid or broken overcast. 

Given the wide area over which the objects were observed, we suspect that there may be hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions, of people who also were witness to these objects and events, but who have not reported their sightings.  IF YOU WERE WITNESS TO THIS PHENOMENON, WE WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT YOU SUBMIT A WRITTEN REPORT, USING THE ONLINE REPORT FORM

We would be grateful if you would please include in your report at least the following information:  1) The time and date of the sighting; 2) your location; 3) the direction you were looking; 4) the estimated angle of elevation; 5) how many objects you witnessed; 6) whether the objects were in motion, or stationary, and what direction they appeared to be moving; 7) how big the objects appeared to be, relative to the size of a star in the night sky, or the Moon; 8) how many other witnesses were present; and 9) how the objects disappeared from your sight. 

We would encourage you to include any other facts about your sighting, which will help another person understand what you saw, and what the event looked like.  Please bear in mind that the only thing another person will ever know about your sighting will depend entirely on what you choose to write about it, so please be thorough. 

Also, if you know other witnesses to the same event, please encourage them to submit a report, prepared independently of you, and of all other witnesses who were present.

We will post all reports we receive as quickly as they arrive at our Center.  Thank you for submitting your report! 

Posted on Tuesday evening, July 06, 2010, by Peter Davenport, Director, NUFORC.

WEBSITE UPDATED ON JUNE 23^RD, 2010

In keeping with our attempt to post newly received reports on a more regular basis, we have posted approximately 151 new reports to our database.  As we always request, in the event that you encounter a report, which clearly is a hoax, or which is defective for any reason, please send us an e-mail, with a link to the report, and we will amend or delete the report. 

We summarize below two of the reports, which we found to be unusually interesting:

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA (IN FLIGHT), AUGUST 1987 - An experienced airline pilot witnesses a “cranberry red” object closing on his aircraft at an estimated 400 knots, and an estimated 4,000 feet below his altitude.  The peculiar object appeared to the pilot to be flying directly toward a storm cloud, and instantly changed its course, apparently without slowing down, by approximately 140 degrees. Full Report

AFGHANISTAN (U. S. FORWARD BASE OF OPERATIONS), JUNE 11, 2010, @ 23:30 HRS. (Local) - A member of the U. S. military witnessed a bizarre looking, V-shaped craft, with five lights, as it flew over the military airfield where he was on duty.  He went outside his tower, and viewed the peculiar object with his night-vision device.  The object overhead appeared to him to be the apparent size of his clenched fist, held at arm’s length. Full Report  The witness may appear with Peter Davenport on the Jeff Rense radio program on Friday night, June 25, 2010.  Please see www.RENSE.com for details.

Posted by Peter Davenport, Director, National UFO Reporting Center, on June 23^rd, 2010.

NEW REPORTS POSTED ON JUNE 03, 2010

Some of the report that we found to be of particular interest are the following:

SMITH’S FERRY, IDAHO, AUGUST 1957 - Two adult males witness a very brightly lighted object passes within feet of the truck they are driving home from work.  The incident was featured in a book, written by Frank Edwards, celebrated radio personality during the 1960’s.  Full Report

HUNTINGTON, INDIANA, AUGUST 1957 - A large group of people witness a large, unlighted, “horse-shoe” shaped object for an estimated 20 minutes.  The object suddenly begins to move slowly, and moves off in the nighttime sky.  (Submitted in February 2009.)   Full Report 

ROUYN-NORANDA, QUEBEC, CANADA, JUNE 01^ST, 2010 @ 22:56 HRS. (Eastern Time) - A professional/commercial pilot witnesses a strange “V-shaped” cluster of lights streak overhead.  Full Report 

WAYNESVILLE, MISSOURI, JUNE 01^ST, 2010 @ 22:50 HRS. (Central Time) - Two adult witnesses observe a “V-shaped” formation of 10-12 orange lights for an estimated 10 seconds duration. Close to Ft. Leonard Wood military base.  Full Report

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, JUNE 02^ND, 2010, @ 19:10 HRS. (Pacific Time) - A male witness observes a dark, oval-shaped object pass overhead, between layers of clouds. Full Report

TEMPE, ARIZONA, JUNE 02^ND, 2010, @ 21:10 HRS. (Mountain Time) - Three university-age witnesses observe an oval shaped object, with a peculiar pattern of lights.  Full Report

NEW POLICY FOR POSTING REPORTS - Beginning this month, we are going to initiate a policy of posting all newly received reports at least once per week.  We recognize that our posting, over recent months, has been sporadic, a fact for which we apologize.  Our plan is to post reports either on Monday or Tuesday of each week, and to include photos and illustrations, submitted in support of the written reports.

 UPDATE ON HOAXED REPORTS AND PRANK CALLS - The flood of prank calls we have been receiving goes unabated, despite our efforts to reason with the inconsiderate dolts who seem amused by this nonsense.  We recently received in excess of 60 prank calls during a 16-hour period, many of them from the same group of individuals in Utah.  The volume of calls now takes up, we estimate, the majority of our time, and it is threatening to cause us to have to end our policy of either answering, or returning, all telephone calls placed to the UFO Hotline. 

In the near future, we are going to dedicate a portion of our website for posting the names, telephone numbers, and any other personal information we can glean of the people who are the worst offenders.  We would like to enlist the aid of those people who visit our website, inviting them 1) to call the offenders, letting them know how inconvenient it is to have to field a large number of calls, and 2) to try to identify the parents of the young miscreants, to have them intervene in their children’s inconsiderate behavior.    

The plan we outline above technically is a violation of our policy of guaranteed privacy for those people who contact our Center.  However, we are now fighting for our continued existence, and we will not allow a handful of rude, foolish, inconsiderate children cause our Center to have to curtail or reduce its services, without a fight.  Frankly, our intention is to make the people who pester us wish they had never even heard of our Hotline, and we would like the assistance of those serious-minded folks who visit our site.  Please watch for a new section on our website, dedicated to making names and numbers of the miscreants available publicly, so that their parents will know what mischief their children are getting involved in.  Thank you!

TRINIDAD, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010, at 21:40 HRS. (PACIFIC) - A father and his 13-year old son, witness five bizarre objects streak across the nighttime sky, in rapid sequence.  The father is 20-year veteran of the U. S. military aviation.   Full Report 

O’FALLON, MISSOURI, DECEMBER 15, 2009, @ 1815 HRS. (CST) - A woman returning home from work witnesses a very peculiar string of lights in the western sky.  When she arrives home, she alerts her husband, who also witnesses the lights.  The objects disappear to the west. Full Report

SPRINGERVILLE, ARIZONA, DECEMBER 17, 2009 @ 0500 HRS. (MST) - Two adult males, father and son, both of whom are veterans of the U. S. Air Force, witness a very bright flash in the eastern sky.  They have no explanation for the event, which covered 10 percent of the visible sky, and which was bright enough to leave a very pronounced “after image” in the visual field.  Full Report

PINE LEVEL, ALABAMA, DECEMBER 29, 2009 @ 2015 HRS. (CST) - A truck driver, licensed as an airline transport pilot, witnesses a peculiar string of lights in the eastern sky.  They appeared to have no lights, which are characteristic of typical aircraft, and they move off to the east, maintaining unwavering position, relative to each other in their formation.  Full Report

LA PINE, OREGON, DECEMBER 29, 2009 @ 2100 HRS. (PST) - A father and son witness four illuminated, disc-shaped craft, descend out of a clear night sky, and then move off to the west.  (Note:  La Pine is the site of the Oregon State University observatory.  Full Report

DECEMBER 12, 2009 - We have just posted over 1,800 new, or amended, reports to the NUFORC database.  We apologize for the long delay since our last posting.

As always, the newly posted reports may be fraught with errors on the part of the authors, and oversights in proofreading on our part.  We would be most grateful if the visitors to our site would remain on the lookout for any obviously hoaxed reports, profanity, personal information in the “Description” portion of the reports, and reports which obviously can be ascribed to events of terrestrial nature, e.g. over-flights of the International Space Station, “sightings” of Jupiter or Sirius, missile launches, or the many other prosaic events which have nothing to do with genuine UFO’s.  We have attempted to purge all of the prank reports from the new reports, but we probably did not properly identify all of them.  We would welcome any assistance in identifying those reports that have nothing to do with sightings of genuine UFO’s.  Any errors can be reported to the Director, at director@ufocenter.com.  Thank you!

Here are a few reports, which caught our eye, and which we think that visitors to our site might find particularly interesting: 

SPRING HILL, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009 @ 22:00 hrs. (Central) - A man and his wife, and a police officer, witness a disc-shaped object, with yellow and red lights in its center, pass silently overhead.  Object disappears, and then returns, making a second brief appearance.  Full Report

AUBURN, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 06, 2009 @ 01:20 hrs. (Pacific) - An experienced UFO investigator, driving home on Route 167, witnesses two large objects, with peculiar lighting, pass slowly overhead.  One of the objects may have been hovering, when first observed. Full Report 

NORTH PORT, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 03, 2009, @ 13:22 hrs. (Eastern) - A woman reports that an unseen object passed over her home very rapidly, dimming the light entering through an overhead skylight.  The event was accompanied by a loud boom, which frightened her cats, and which was reported throughout her community. Full Report

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009 @ 21:39 hrs. (Central) - An experienced airline pilot witnesses a large, gray, triangular-shaped craft pass overhead at apparently very high speed. Full Report

HINSDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 1973 @ ~10:00 hrs. (Eastern) - A 17-year old boy witnesses a humming disc, which hovers over a large local field.  The object suddenly accelerates, and shoots off out of sight. Full Report

NEW HOTLINE POLICIES - Because the steady stream of pranks and obscene telephone calls has not abated, we are considering a change in our policy regarding staffing of the Hotline.  On a typical day, 50-80 percent of the calls we receive are hoaxes and pranks, more often than not, accompanied by some of the worst profanity a person could imagine.  This situation is having a deleterious effect on the Director, and we are going to have to fight back, if the National UFO Reporting Center is going to continue providing its service to the public.  We will be posting those new policies, which may include posting of the telephone numbers of the individuals who continue to pester our operations.  Perhaps visitors to our website could induce these cretins to stop disturbing us with their foolishness. 

Also, we will post new guidelines for submitting reports.  There is a great deal of room for improvement of the written reports, and we are going to implement new policies for what we would like to have people include in their written reports

Peter B. Davenport, Director, National UFO Reporting Center, December 12, 2009. 

WE HAVE MOVED!

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