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REPORT A UFO On-Line UFO Report Form Hotline: 206-722-3000 (use only if the sighting has occurred within the last week.) DATA BANK Report Database Case Highlight List (director's picks) Case Briefs (special articles) Interlink (jet-chase/airline reports) Historical Reports NUFORC Video 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.   Click here for details on past shows 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 Articles for Further Reading: Business Week Lockheed University of Washington Wired Magazine Shawn Herman CONTACTS Director : Peter Davenport - bio director@ufocenter.com Webmaster : Christian Stepien webmaster@ufocenter.com National UFO Reporting Center P. O. Box 700 Davenport, WA 99122 Information and Policies 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 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. PETER DAVENPORT ON JEFF RENSE RADIO PROGRAM, 9:00 P.M. (PACIFIC), FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2012 Peter Davenport, and at least one guest, will join Jeff Rense, to discuss recent sightings reported to NUFORC.  We hope to have the pilot, whose photographs of an peculiar object, taken from his aircraft near Sisters, Oregon, may be one of the guests, if that gentleman’s flying schedule permits him to join the program.   Also, in continuing our discussion of sightings of red, orange, and yellow “fireballs,” we hope to have a witness to such a sighting near Pt. Townsend, Washington, on the evening of February 1^st, 2012.  The witness has not confirmed, at the time of this writing.  LISTEN HERE. Posted by Peter Davenport, Friday evening, February 03, 2012. 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.  STRANGE OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHED OVER SISTERS, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 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 12^TH, 2012 We have proof-read, and posted, approximately 600 new written reports to our database, as of this date, our first posting since December 17^th.  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 31^st, 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 12^th, 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 25^th, 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 LAKEWOOD, CO , DECEMBER 12, 2100 @ 0130 hrs. - A women sees a silent bright light hover, rotate and disappear, and manages to catch the photos below on her cell phone.  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 23^RD, 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! 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.  Click here for highres. Once the facility is cleaned and renovated, which may take up to a year, our headquarters will operate out of this facility, which was the first underground missile complex commissioned by the U. S. government. 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. 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