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REPORT A UFO Hotline: 206-722-3000 (use only if the sighting has occurred within the last week.) DATA
BANK APPEARANCES Jeff Rense Program Peter currently makes a regular
appearance the 2nd Tuesday of each month on the Jeff Rense
radio program from 7:00 to 10:00 PM (Pacific). The program is heard
over more than 200 stations, and over the internet at www.gcnlive.com and www.renseradio.com. Guests are
witnesses to recent reports featured on this website. PASSIVE RADAR UFO DETECTION PROPOSAL At the MUFON symposium in Denver,
Peter Davenport presented his proposal for detecting UFO's in the near-Earth
environment, using "passive" radar. Download
his paper CONTACTS Director : Peter Davenport - bio National UFO Reporting Center The contents of all material available on this Internet site are copyrighted by the National UFO Reporting Center, All Rights Reserved. |
RECENT ACTIVITY AND HIGHLIGHTS JOIN
US AT THE 13TH ANNUAL McMENAMINS UFO
FESTIVAL, We
invite everyone interested in the UFO phenomenon to join Peter at the 13th
Annual McMenamins UFO Festival in McMinnville,
Oregon, on Friday night, During
the weekend of the Festival, Peter, whose pleasure it is to serve as festival
“MC,” will be away from the UFO Center’s office. Consequently, we would
be most grateful if those who wish to submit reports would refrain from
making extraneous calls to the Hotline, and submit written reports, using our
Online Report Form at www.UFOCenter.com.
A volunteer will monitor the Hotline daily, and Peter will check it
occasionally each day he is away, but it
would be helpful is people would please refrain from leaving any but the most
urgent messages on the Hotline answering service. NUFORC
WEBSITE UPDATED ON We
have updated our website and database with the posting of approximately 815
new, and newly revised, reports. In our haste to
get the new reports posted to our site, we probably have overlooked quite a
number of reports that, given more time, we might not have posted. As you read the reports, please be on the
look-out for flawed reports, or reports which appear to be about objects of
terrestrial origin. Also, if you encounter reports that contain
personal information about the parties who have submitted the reports,
obvious errors about the time or date, or other oversights, please call the
mistake to the attention of the Director, at Director@UFOCenter.com, and we will
correct the mistakes as quickly as possible. MORE SIGHTINGS OF RED, ORANGE, AND YELLOW
“FIREBALLS” We
have addressed this issue almost continuously over the last ten months…and it
appears to us to be occurring unabated. Some people have suggested that
the objects that are being seen and reported are so-called “Chinese
lanterns,” but we do not accept that this theory can explain any but a small
fraction of the reports we have received. We provide links below to
several of the recent reports of these “fireballs”:
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HELSINKI, FINLAND, APRIL 29,
2012, @ 21:20 HRS.
- Two adult witnesses observe eight yellow lights move quickly over the
city. Full Report See image at right. Hi Res #1 Hi Res #2 Hi Res #3 ·
SANDY, UTAH, MAY 1ST,
2012, @ 21:30 HRS.
- Two adults witness a string of orange lights above the Wasatch Mountains in
the eastern sky. Full Report ·
JAMESTOWN, NORTH CAROLINA,
MAY 04TH, 2012, @ 00:38 HRS. - A man who was returning from work
witnessed a peculiar orange glowing light in the night sky. Full Report ·
SANTA FE, TEXAS, MAY 4TH,
2012, @ 22:25 HRS.
- A law enforcement officer witnesses seven orange-colored lights maneuver in
the night sky. Full Report Many
other similar reports can be read among those that we share in our most
recent posting, as well as among those reports from prior months, going back
to June 2011. If
you witness one of these displays of colored “fireballs,” or if you already
have been witness to such a display, we would like to invite you to submit a
detailed report of your experience, using our Online Report Form, found
elsewhere on our website. This
update was posted by Peter Davenport on Sunday evening, May 13, 2012.
We hope to see you in McMinneville, OR on May 18th.
APPEARANCE ON COAST TO COAST WITH GEORGE NOORY, 10:00 P.M., APRIL 18, 2012
· An experienced astronomer/photographer captures a strange blue-green lights, seen hovering near the Pleiades in the night sky at 8:42 p.m., April 02, 2012 Full Report See image at right and Star Map.
· The brilliantly bright light that passed over a 48’ commercial boat off the coast of Florida, February 12, 2012 Full Report
· The large object that was seen by a Connecticut Highway Patrol officer to descend into a lake in northwestern Connecticut on Tuesday morning, April 10, 2012 Full Report
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· The large, “hat like” disc seen moving over Pompano Beach, FL, at approximately 10:55 p.m., Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Full Report
· The very bright “star-like” object, seen maneuvering over Niagara Falls, NY, during the mid-morning of April 18, 2012
· The very bright “star-like” object seen maneuvering in the daylight sky over Escondido, CA, at 11:30 a.m., April 18, 2012. Full Report
We have revised our database with several hundred new cases, although there are approximately 400 more cases that have to be proof-read, before they can be posted. They should be posted within the next day or two. Posted on Wednesday evening, April 18, 2012. NUFORC WEBSITE UPDATED ON FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH 16, 2012 We have updated our database with the latest sighting reports, submitted since March 13th. They constitute approximately 100 new, and recently amended, reports. As always, please be on the outlook for flawed reports, or reports of pedestrian events of terrestrial origin, and let us know if you detect a report that appears to be out of place. We will correct it, to let readers know that it probably is not UFO-related. APPEARANCE ON COAST-TO-COAST WITH HOST, GEORGE KNAPP, AT MIDNIGHT (PACIFIC TIME ZONE) ON MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 2012 ALERT - We respectfully request that people refrain from reporting the two bright planets, Venus and Jupiter, which currently are dramatically visible in the west, and northwest, sky during the mid- and late-evening hours. Because Venus is close to Earth, at present, it appears exceptionally large, and quite bright. Consequently, NUFORC is receiving many, many reports from people who do not recognize it for what it truly is, and they are calling the NUFORC Hotline frequently. We would be grateful if people would please not telephone our Hotline about those two planets. QUALITY OF REPORTS - Once again, we make an appeal to everyone submitting written reports to please 1) compose your statement about your sighting, using a word-processing program, and 2) please spell-check the text of your statement, before submitting it with our Online Report Form. The quality of many of the recent reports submitted to our Center is lamentably, almost unbelievably, poor, which makes them difficult to proof-read. In the future, we may change our policy, and not post any report, which clearly has not undergone a spell-check or proof-reading process. Thank you! Posted Friday night, March 16, 2012, by Peter Davenport, Director 15th ANNIVERSARY OF THE “PHOENIX LIGHTS” SIGHTING We update our website on the 15th Anniversary of the “Phoenix Lights” sighting, which occurred Thursday night, March 13, 1997. We commemorate the event with an appearance, this evening, on the Jeff Rense Radio Program, together with two of the principal witnesses, Mrs. Sue Watson, and Mrs. Stacey Roads. Mrs. Watson was at her home, located just south of Camelback Mountain, at the time of the event, with four of her children, who also saw the object hovering above them. Mrs. Roads was traveling northwest with her husband and two children on Interstate 10, when they witnessed a huge triangular craft coming at them from the northwest, and which ultimately blanketed out the sky above their vehicle! RECENTLY SUBMITTED REPORTS POSTED ON MARCH 13, 2012 We have posted approximately 500 newly received reports to our website, as of this date. We have proof-read the reports, to the best of our ability, but there is always the possibility that hoaxes and cases of mistaken identity may have escaped our attention. Hence, we request that visitors to our site be on the lookout for errors in any of the reports that are posted in the sighting database, and call obvious, or suspected, errors to our attention by sending a note to director@UFOCenter.com. We will attempt to correct the errors as quickly as possible. CHANGE IN POLICY REGARDING SIGHTING REPORTS SUBMITTED TO NUFORC Our greatest frustration is how much better our service to the public would be if the quality of the written reports submitted to our Center were higher. Many of the reports we receive are just a sentence or two long, and far too many of them are so poorly written, it is almost impossible to understand what the witness wishes to communicate. Consequently, we are preparing statements regarding what to do in the case of a sighting, and what information we would like to have included in a report. Also, we are considering a policy of not posting a report, if it obviously has not been run through a “spell-check” process. The principal reason that it takes us so long to process and post new reports is because apparently many of the people who submit them either do not read, or do not heed, the three simple instructions we have posted on our Online Report Form. Many people include their names, or other personal information, in the “Description” box on the report form, which we ask them not to do, and all of that personal information has to be deleted, before the report can be posted. It is a tedious, laborious, and quite time consuming, process to detect all of that personal information, and then delete it, before the report is posted to our site. Please watch for announcements on our homepage about the new instructions that we will post, in the near future. NUFORC POSTS NEW SIGHTING REPORTS ON FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 We have posted 132 new, or newly amended, reports to our database, as of February 10, 2012, As you read the reports, please be on the look-out for errors and oversights on our part, as well as for reports that appear to have a terrestrial explanation for them. Posted on Friday night, February 10, 2012, by Peter Davenport NUFORC DATABASE UPDATED FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2012 We have posted approximately 165 new, or revised, reports to our website. In proof-reading the reports, we have made our best effort to remove, or properly label, those reports that appear to us to describe something other than probable sightings of “bona fide” UFOs, but we always request that visitors to our site be on the alert for reports that have escaped our scrutiny. SIGHTING REPORTS UPDATED ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012 We have posted approximately 240 new, or amended, sighting reports, received as of this date. We have proof-read them to our greatest ability, but as we always request of the visitors to our site, please be on the look-out for errors, omissions, and oversights on our part.
We received a sighting report, and several interesting photographs, from a very experienced airline pilot, who inadvertently captured a very strange, high-speed, object with his camera, as he was flying his Grumman “Albatross” from Seattle to Los Angeles. We post below two of the photos he forwarded to NUFORC, and request that anyone who can identify the object please contact our Center. In our opinion, the object appears to be reminiscent of an SR-71, but we are not aware that they are painted in international orange. Full Report High Res Photo #1 High Res Photo #2 REPORTS OF RED, ORANGE, AND YELLOW “FIREBALLS” HAVE NOT ABATED NUFORC has addressed this phenomenon over the last year and a half, and recent reports suggest to us that it continues. We invite the visitors to our site to scan the reports for the last several months, an note the number of reports which describe these peculiar objects, for which we cannot come up with a logical explanation. Posted by Peter Davenport, NUFORC Director, on Tuesday night, January 24, 2012. WEBSITE AND DATABASE UPDATED ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 12TH, 2012 We have proof-read, and posted, approximately 600 new written reports to our database, as of this date, our first posting since December 17th. We have proof-read the reports in a somewhat hasty manner this time, so there probably is an abnormally large number of items that we have missed during our survey of the reports. Consequently, we request, as we always do, that visitors to our website keep on the alert for errors and oversights in the newly posted reports and materials. We have attempted to remove, or label, those reports which we believe describe sightings that are not UFO-related. In addition, we have attempted to detect and remove profanity, personal information, and other objectionable material from all the reports, but we suspect we have not managed to properly detect all of it. If you find what you suspect is an obvious error or oversight, please let us know, and we will address the issue immediately. Whereas typically, NUFORC has been receiving and posting approximately 10 credible reports per day, in recent months, that volume has increased noticeably. As an example, NUFORC received approximately fifty reports on December 31st, 2011, and approximately sixty on the following day!! Many of those reports were submitted by seemingly quite credible sources, and interestingly, many of them appear to address similar events, i.e. clusters of red-, orange-, or yellow-colored lights. We invite visitors to our website to scan the reports for December 2011 and January 2012, which will provide them with a good overview of the volume of reports of that nature that we have received recently. In fact, many similar reports can be seen in the data for last summer, an issue we addressed as the phenomenon was occurring last year. We just received some interesting video of a sighting of orange “fireballs,” apparently seen by a group of young people over Corpus Christi, TX, on the evening of December 28, 2011. We will post this video tomorrow. It is not atypical of the many still photos and video clips of similar objects, which have been forwarded to our Center, over recent months. If anyone has witnessed one of these events, or had any other type of interesting sighting, we would like to encourage all the witnesses to submit reports, using our Online Report Form, which can be found on this website. We will be posting more information to our website, in the near future. Most of all, we hope to post soon some guidelines for preparing, and submitting, written sighting reports. There is substantial room for improvement in the quality of reports we typically receive, and we are going to attempt to incorporate a few changes in the reporting process. Statement posted on Thursday night, January 12th, 2012, by Peter Davenport, Center Director. NUFORC POSTS NEW SIGHTING REPORTS ON DECEMBER 12 (940) and December 16 (56) Following a Herculean session of proof-reading of more than
1,000 new reports, received since October 25th, we have posted all
those reports to our website. We apologize for the delay in updating
the site, and we address below the issue of how people can help us get newly
received reports posted more promptly. We are certain that there are errors and omissions that we
have failed to detect, so we invite the visitors to our site to be on the
alert for things that have escaped our attention. We suspect that there
are many reports posted to our site, which address “twinkling” stars,
“flares” caused by Iridium satellites, over-flights of the International
Space Station, and out-and-out hoaxes, and which have escaped our attention
during the proof-reading process. Many of the reports have been
proof-read in the early morning hours, so a few errors and oversights on our
part are almost a certainty. If, in the course of reading the reports, you find a
suspicious report or fact, please “Copy & Paste” the heading of the
report into an e-mail, addressed to director@ufocenter.com, and we will look
at the report, and amend it, if we believe a change is warranted. A FEW NOTEWORTHY REPORTS We list below links to a few reports that we believe deserve
special attention. The reports we highlight are not significantly
different from many others, but they simply have caught our attention, for
one reason or another, and might be of particular interest to those who visit
our site. EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, DECEMBER 11, 2011, @ 2000 HRS. - Three people see an estimated 8 orange objects pass from south to north in the night sky, covering approximately 60 degrees of arc in an estimated five minutes. Two more lights appeared shortly after the first group had disappeared, and followed approximately the same path as the first group had followed. Full Report BELTON, MISSOURI, DECEMBER 11, 2011 @ 1801 HRS. A husband and wife witness an intensely orange object move across the sky, turn yellow, and suddenly gain altitude and disappear from their sight. Full Report SHERMAN PASS, WASHINGTON STATE, NOVEMBER 23RD, 2011, @ 2300 hrs. - A young woman, driving from Colville to Republic, for Thanksgiving, witnesses a cluster of white flashing lights off to the north side of Highway 20. She slows her car, in attempt to identify the lights, and quickly realizes that they are affixed to a very large object. The object proceeded to move slowly over her car. Full Report BERLIN, WISCONSIN, NOVEMBER 16, 2011, @ 1800 HRS. - A woman, driving home from work, encounters a car stopped on a rural highway. She drives past the other vehicle slowly, rounds the next curve, and then witnesses a bizarre curved row of quadrilateral lights ahead of her. The lights appear to be moving away from her position, and then they suddenly begin to disappear from her sight, as if a curtain is being drawn over them. Full Report Illustrations supplied by the witness are shown below.
COLOMA, WISCONSIN, NOVEMBER 16, 2011, @ 1750 HRS. - A
husband and wife witness a strange cluster of six lights, oriented
horizontally, which suddenly all dim and disappear from their sight. Full Report KAYENTA, ARIZONA, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 @ 17:40 HRS. - A father and his children are playing basketball, when they notice a string of approximately 15 lights pass across the sky, traveling generally to the west. Many other reports posted for this date. Full Report WE HAVE MOVED!
Our telephone service should operate smoothly, since all incoming calls to our Hotline will be automatically forwarded to our telephone. In addition, we anticipate that our internet services will be uninterrupted, although it may require several days for us to activate our new high-speed internet connection. Hence, please be patient while we get these services set up, and operating smoothly. For a list of past featured reports and highlights click here.
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After 32 years in the Seattle area, the
National UFO Reporting Center is moving to a new locale in eastern
Washington, a decommissioned U. S. Air Force ICBM missile base, located
between the towns of Davenport and Harrington, WA, in Lincoln County. This
photo of our new "digs" shows the property as it looked in the
early 1960's. 
