CROP FORMATION REPORTED FROM WILBUR, WASHINGTON STATE

On Sunday, July 1st, 2007, NUFORC received a telephone call from a resident of Lincoln County, apprising us that on Friday, June 29, 2007, he had learned of the existence of a peculiar crop formation, located near the town of Wilbur, Washington.

We quickly made some telephone calls, confirmed that the formation had been witnessed by others, and, thanks to MR. GREG LEYVA, spray pilot and manager of the Wilbur Airport, Peter Davenport was in the air at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 1st, to inspect and photograph the formation from the air. My co-investigator was MR. MICHAEL HEIT, a friend and fellow resident of Harrington, Washington, where NUFORC is based.

The formation was first reported, we believe, by a gentleman who works for a local agricultural chemicals company in Wilbur. Word spread very quickly, and the formation apparently had been visited by an indeterminate number of people. At least two separate footpaths led into the formation by the time we arrived there.

The formation is approximately 150 feet in width and length. The stalks of grain are laid down flat against the ground, oriented in counter-clockwise (looking down) swirls in the central ring, and in the eight outlying circles.

We have received an unconfirmed report that a resident of the area was witness to a bright flash of light on Thursday night in the general area of the formation. Also, we have been apprised that another resident of the area succeeded in photographing with his cell phone camera a peculiar object that he allegedly witnessed hovering near him. We are actively pursuing more information about both of these unconfirmed reports.

In the meantime, we post a number of photographs of the formation here.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

We would like to express our gratitude to the individual who first called our Center, to apprise us of the formation.

In addition, we would like to thank the owner of the property on which the formation occurred for his permission to enter the property to inspect and measure the formation.

In particular, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Greg Leyva, an aerial applicator in Wilbur, Washington, and Manager of the Wilbur Airport, for his generous willingness to fly the investigators, Peter Davenport and Michael Heit, to, and over, the formation. His contribution was invaluable to our being able to locate the formation, and for being able to obtain high-quality aerial photos of the area.

NOTICE TO HOAX CALLERS

In the near future, we will post a statement here regarding the deluge of hoaxed calls and reports that we have been receiving recently over our Hotline. The volume of telephone calls NUFORC receives from rude, impudent, unbelievably foul-mouthed, young Americans has grown to an unacceptable level. Just today, April 27, for example, we received more than 25 obscene calls from youth, who seem to have nothing better to do with their cell phones than to shout triple-X rated filth over our Hotline.

If this condition continues, we are going to implement a plan that will allow them to understand just how inconvenient it can be to receive a large volume of unwanted calls. Within the next several days, we will provide more details here as to what we have in store for them, and how visitors to our site can help put a stop to this inconvenience.

For two years, we have saved all of the obscene messages from, and all of the telephone numbers of, those who have made obscene calls to our Center, and we are about to implement a program, which we think will make them reconsider whether they want to continue their rude behavior.  Our objective will be 1) to deny them use of their telephones, and 2) to identify and contact their parents, in order to play for them some of the filth and stupidity their children are inflicting on others. We think that we can achieve both of those objectives.

Please check back to our website, from time to time, and we will let you know what you might be able to do to help.  In the meantime, if you are a parent whose child has a cell telephone, we strongly urge you to supervise the child, and to consider requiring him/her to keep a written record of all telephone calls that are sent and received over that telephone.

ROCKVILLE, MD, 14:15 HRS. (EASTERN) ON MARCH 30, 2007

A man reports witnessing a bizarre, cigar-shaped craft pass overhead, which suddenly disappeared. He provided the illustration below, which depicts the crafts as seen from 3 different angles.  Full Report 

ROLLA, MO, 20:50 HRS. ON MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007

A husband and wife witness a peculiar pair of "triplet" lights pass from west to east. Husband is an experienced astronomer, and provides this illustration of their sighting.  Full Report

PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON STATE, MONDAY, MAR 5 2007 AT 19:15 HRS

The National UFO Reporting Center received three reports of a peculiar, red object, which was observed from multiple points on the western side of Puget Sound. One of the witnesses  captured the object with her digital camera. Full Report

If there are other witnesses to the event, we would welcome more reports which include 1) the witness's location, 2) the direction the witness was looking, and 3) the angle of elevation (estimated) to the object, above the horizontal plane.

We do not know what the object was, but it almost certainly was not any type of conventional aircraft, and given the duration of the event, and the manner in which the object was seen to move across the sky, we doubt that the object was any type of pyrotechnic device.

U.S.S. MONROVIA (APA-31) CREW MEMBERS (1968)

We recently received an interesting report  from a former crew member of the
U. S. S. Monrovia, in which he describes a very unusual sighting from that vessel in May 1968.  He describes an event in which members of the crew witnessed an oval, self-luminescent object, which remained in the vicinity of the ship for approximately 90 minutes, and then suddenly disappeared.  The presence of the object appeared to affect the ship's magnetic compass, and at least some of the on-board electrical equipment.

If any of our readers was aboard the Monrovia for its cruise to the Mediterranean Sea in early 1968, we would be most grateful if they would submit short reports of the peculiar event, using our Online Report Form.  Reports can also be sent to our postal address, which appears at the lower left of this page. Thank you!

ADDENDUM: The individual who submitted the report has just consented to appear on the Jeff Rense radio program at 8:00 p.m. (Pacific) on Tuesday, February 13, 2007, to discuss the incident.

SIGHTING OF DISC-SHAPED OBJECT OVER O'HARE AIRPORT, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AT 16:30 HRS. (CENTRAL) ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 07, 2006

JANUARY 4, 2007 UPDATE:  We are delighted by the recent, and extensive, press coverage of this sighting, which NUFORC first reported on its website on November 14, 2006. 

Following posting of the first report of the incident to our homepage, the Coast-to-Coast radio program, hosted by George Noory, interviewed Peter Davenport briefly about the case on November 15, 2006. At that time, no witness yet had consented to come forward and be interviewed publicly.

On December 12, 2006, the Jeff Rense Radio Program was kind enough to provide an hour of air time for an interview of one of the eyewitnesses to the event. The individual had witnessed the disc-shaped object from the cockpit of a Boeing 777 as he taxied the aircraft at O'Hare.  That program is archived at the Rense website.

Also, we would like to express our gratitude to the Chicago Tribune, and to Jon Hilkevitch, for publishing the January 01, 2007, front-page article about the incident. The article briefly alluded to the National UFO Reporting Center, from which the newspaper had received the case on December 13 (although it failed to indicate that fact). According to Mr. Hilkevitch, NUFORC's role in bringing the case to public attention had been included in his original version of the article, but it had been removed during editing before final publication.  That article can be accessed here (registration required).  We will request permission to post the full text of the article.

The Associated Press published this truncated version of the article, which appeared in USA Today, and in many other publications. The AP did not contact our Center before release of their rewritten version of the original Chicago Tribune article.  In our opinion, it presents only the "official" views put forth by the FAA and the airline involved, which we believe grossly distort many of details of the case. Given that the FAA and the airline apparently have brought pressure to bear, both overt and implied, against their employees to have them remain silent about the incident, the article does not reflect what the eyewitnesses had to say about the case, but rather, what their employers want presented about it.

On January 1st, 2007, Mr. Hilkevitch was interviewed by Melissa Block, host of "All Things Considered," on National Public Radio. The audio of that interview can be accessed here and the text of the interview can be seen below. Regarding that interview, it is unclear to us why working with the National UFO Reporting Center, according to Ms. Block, should be considered to be "odd," given that our Center broke the story in the first place.  We have sent two e-mail messages to Ms. Block at NPR, asking clarification on this point, and have received no response, three days later.

Moreover, it is unclear why Mr. Hilkevitch responds to the question by saying, "...they ((i.e. Peter Davenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center)) kept wanting me to say this was a visit from some other world and further proof that, uh, we, on this planet are visited regularly by other beings..."  To set the record straight on this point, no such representation was made to Mr. Hilkevitch. His claim we consider to be a misrepresentation of the facts regarding our role in the case. We did nothing more than contact the Chicago Tribune in mid-December to apprise that newspaper of the sighting, and to provide Mr. Hilkevitch with details of the case, to include our subjective view of the veracity of the reports, and the apparent credibility of the witnesses. In the final analysis, once we were satisfied that the Chicago Tribune was interested in following up on the case, we contacted eyewitnesses, to request that they contact Mr. Hilkevitch directly, if they were willing to do so.

Contrary to Mr. Hilkevitch's claim during his interview on NPR, we did not attempt to influence him as to what he wrote in his article.

A television interview of Mr. Hilkevitch by CLTV television, Oak Brook, IL, in which he fails to mention the National UFO Reporting Center, or what the ultimate source of his information about this case was, can be viewed here.

Many other publications about the incident can be found on the internet by doing a search for O'Hare Airport UFO.

NOTE: A television interview of one of the witnesses in the case has been filmed, and may appear soon on a national news program.

WE EXPRESS OUR SINCERE GRATITUDE TO THE WITNESSES INVOLVED WITH THE INCIDENT, WHO HAVE COME FORWARD, AT SOME RISK TO THEMSELVES, AND TO THEIR JOB SECURITY, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS INCIDENT.

IN OUR OPINION, IT IS THEY WHO ARE THE TRUE HEROES OF THIS CASE, AND WE BELIEVE THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OWE A LARGE DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO THEM.

PREPARED BY PETER B. DAVENPORT, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL UFO REPORTING CENTER, JANUARY 04, 2007.

TRANSCRIBED TEXT OF THE NPR INTERVIEW, JANUARY 01, 2007

DECEMBER 15, 2006 UPDATE:  NUFORC has an unconfirmed report from a journalist investigating the O'Hare Airport incident of Nov. 7 (see full details lower on page) that the FAA and the airline involved have declared that the incident did not occur.  We strongly suspect a cover-up may be starting to form.

DECEMBER 07, 2006 UPDATE:  NUFORC has received a second report about this incident from a senior aircraft mechanic, who was taxiing a Boeing 777 at the time of the sighting, and who witnessed the object. His report is here.

ORIGINAL REPORT: The National UFO Reporting Center has received the following information from a single source (see below), who, for the time being, wishes to remain anonymous, and who prefers not to reveal for what entity he works. We have received documentation about the alleged sighting, which satisfies us as to the veracity of the report, and as to the credentials of the party reporting the incident.

We have delayed release of this case, principally because an investigation was begun almost immediately after our receipt of the initial report, and because we were hoping to obtain addition documentation about the sighting, before it could be concealed, or destroyed.

At approximately 16:30 p.m. (Central) on Tuesday, November 07, 2006, Federal authorities at O'Hare Airport received a report that approximately a dozen witnesses were observing a small, round disc-shaped object, metallic in appearance, which hovered over Gate C17 at that airport.

The object was first spotted by an employee, working on the ramp, who was engaged in "pushing back" Flight 446, departing Chicago for Charlotte, NC.

The employee reported to his supervisors that the object appeared to be almost directly above his location at Gate C17, it appeared to be perfectly round, and that its size was approximately equal to a U. S. quarter, held at arm's length. The object had a metallic appearance, according to the first witness, and it appeared to him to be spinning.

The first witness apprised the flight crew of Flight 446 of the existence of the object above their aircraft, and we believe both the pilot and copilot were witness to the bizarre object, as well. The witness also contacted his supervisors, who also witnessed the object, which was visible for approximately 2 minutes.

At the end of that time, the object was seen to suddenly accelerate straight up at a very rapid pace, and it "shot" through the solid overcast, which was at 1,900 feet at the time. The witness added that the object appeared to leave a "hole" in the clouds, where it had streaked upwards through the overcast.

Both the Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration were apprised of the event at the time it was occurring, and FAA personnel in one of the towers at O'Hare may have witnessed the object, probably with binoculars. The FAA apparently reported that the object was not visible on radar, although that fact has not been confirmed at the time of this writing.

We hope to be able to release more information about the incident at some time in the near future. In the meantime, we would like to invite anyone who may have been personal witness to the event to submit a report of their sighting, using our Online Report Form. We would be most grateful if you would indicate in your report where you were located, at the time of the sighting, and what the object looked like, from your vantage point.

Here is another, similar, report for a sighting at Gatwick Airport, near London, on April 12, 2006.

NEWPORT, CALIFORNIA, 2035 HRS., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2006

TELEPHONED REPORT  FROM MOTHER OF WITNESS: A young woman and her boyfriend were driving near Newport, when they noticed a bizarre, disc-shaped object hovering near the road they were on. They reported that the craft had flashing blue and green lights along the edge of the flange. The daughter asserted that there were approximately ten cars parked on the road, and the occupants were watching the object. Police were present, as well, according to the preliminary report. NUFORC has invited the young woman, and her boyfriend, to submit separate reports. We would welcome reports from any of the other witnesses, as well. The young woman took a photo with a digital camera, at which point, the disc rushed at their car, passing overhead. Full Report

MASSILLON, OHIO, 2015 HRS., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2006

An engineer reports witnessing a disc-shaped object streak overhead followed by aircraft. His report can be read here  Below is a graphic rendition he made of what he saw.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 09, 2006

Two pilots, flying a Boeing "Stearman" biplane from Lake Havasu City, AZ, to Palm Springs, California, witnessed a peculiar, ring-shaped formation on the ground. .  When they landed, to inspect the formation, they could not detect it from ground level.  Full Report

Click image for wider view

If anyone knows what the cause of the ring-shaped formation is, we would welcome a report.

MONTAGNY, FRANCE, 20:00 (??) HRS., NOVEMBER 07, 1942

A woman submits a hand-written account of her grandfather's and uncle's sighting of a disc-shaped object on a dark road in NAZI-occupied France. Full Report 

PECULIAR GREEN LIGHTS WITNESSED OVER THE U.S. ON NOV. 28, 2006 (UPDATED DECEMBER 07, 2006)

On Tuesday night, November 28, 2006, the National UFO Reporting Center received a telephoned report from the Kentucky Emergency Management Agency, alerting us about a report their agency had received from a husband and wife in Hyden, KY.  FULL REPORT  The couple were driving two vehicles on a rural highway near Hyden, when they observed, at approximately 5:00 p.m. (local time) a row of approximately seven blue-green lights in the western sky night sky, apparently moving directly toward them. The husband stated that they stopped their vehicles, and continued to watch the formation for approximately 60 seconds, or perhaps a bit less, he thought.

That was the first of several reports that NUFORC has received from a number of other witnesses of the same event. We received reports from Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alaska of peculiar green lights moving across the night sky on Tuesday night.

Some news agencies in Alabama have reported that the lights were either meteors, or re-entering space debris. We cannot prove, yet, that this was not the case, although the reports we have received do not appear to us to conform to either of these two possible explanations. Two witnesses in Dacula, Georgia, --((LINK TO REPORT #53693.))-- reported that the green objects they observed were seen below broken clouds, which were approximately 5,000 feet above ground level, at the time.  FULL REPORT

If anyone was witness to this phenomenon, we would be most grateful if you would please submit a short, i.e. 1-3 paragraph, description of your sighting, using the Online Report Form. What we would like to know from your report is what the time of your sighting was; where you were located at the time; what direction you were looking, as you faced the objects; and how they were moving across the sky, i.e. from your left to right, right to left, vertically or horizontally; and whether you were moving, or stationary, at the time of the sighting.

UPDATED ON DECEMBER 07, 2006   We still do not know for certain what the cause of the peculiar lights was. However, one witness in Columbus, Georgia asserts, and provides evidence in support of his statement, that some type of recovery operation may have occurred on November 29, 2006 near that city. He reported that a large area was cordoned off near I-80, in the vicinity of the Pratt & Whitney factory, and that a number of government agencies, both state and federal, were involved in that operation. His report is here. We do not know, yet, whether the event is, in any way related to the interesting sightings from November 28, 2006, but that question is being explored by investigators in the State of Georgia. If anyone knows anything about the apparent recovery effort, we would like to invite them to submit reports, using our Online Report Form.

Thank you!!

PHELPS, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 1958

We found this report  to be quite intriguing, and not dissimilar to many that NUFORC has received over the years about sightings in past decades. We thought that the visitors to our site might enjoy this report, in particular.

PECULIAR GREEN LIGHTS WITNESSED OVER THE U.S. ON NOV. 28, 2006

On Tuesday night, November 28, 2006, the National UFO Reporting Center received a telephoned report from the Kentucky Emergency Management Agency, alerting us about a report their agency had received from a husband and wife in Hyden, KY. The couple were driving two vehicles on a rural highway near Hyden, when they observed, at approximately 5:00 p.m. (local time) a row of approximately seven blue-green lights in the western sky night sky, apparently moving directly toward them. The husband stated that they stopped their vehicles, and continued to watch the formation for approximately 60 seconds, or perhaps a bit less, he thought.

That was the first of several reports that NUFORC has received from a number of other witnesses of the same event. We received reports from Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alaska of peculiar green lights moving across the night sky on Tuesday night.

Some news agencies in Alabama have reported that the lights were either meteors, or re-entering space debris. We cannot prove, yet, that this was not the case, although the reports we have received do not appear to us to conform to either of these two possible explanations. Two witnesses in Dacula, Georgia, reported that the green objects they observed were seen below broken clouds, which were approximately 5,000 feet above ground level, at the time.

If anyone was witness to this phenomenon, we would be most grateful if you would please submit a short, i.e. 1-3 paragraph, description of your sighting, using the Online Report Form. What we would like to know from your report is what the time of your sighting was; where you were located at the time; what direction you were looking, as you faced the objects; and how they were moving across the sky, i.e. from your left to right, right to left, vertically or horizontally; and whether you were moving, or stationary, at the time of the sighting.

We will post all newly received reports on Thursday, November 30, which will include all of the reports we have received about this incident.

SOUTHWESTERN U.S., SUNDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 1ST, 2006, AT 23:17 HRS.

This event was reported on our homepage shortly after it had occurred, but we now have more information about it, which makes it even more baffling.  Two very interesting reports were submitted by 1) an airline pilot, who witnessed the event from his cockpit at 37,000 feet over Wyoming (Full Report), and 2) a woman in Canon City, who claims to have witnessed the peculiar lights for not less than 75 seconds (Full Report).  Both reports we consider to have been submitted by superlative witnesses.  If the estimate by the witness in Canon City of the duration of her sighting is correct, then the object almost certainly was not a meteor, which is what many news sources have labeled the event.

KNIK, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2006, AT 23:55 HRS.

A man, with decades of experience in the military and aviation industry, witnesses a very large, totally silent, triangular shaped craft. (Full Report).  The witness provides this illustration:

HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, OCTOBER 27, 2006, AT 20:00 HRS.

A husband and wife observe a very large, V-shaped craft, exhibiting subdued lights on its ventral surface, streak overhead. Full Report 1  Full Report 2   They provided these illustrations of what they observed. 

HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 28, 2006

A hunter discovers a very peculiar area in a field of standing corn, which was laid down in a swirl pattern.  Full Report    The formation is being investigated by the Mutual UFO Network investigators in Pennsylvania, and by BLT Research of Cambridge, MA.  Full Report  

Photo courtesy of Mr. Wayne Gracey, State Director, Mutual UFO Network, Pennsylvania

SANDY, UTAH, OCTOBER 28, 2006, AT 21:41 HRS

A young man witnesses a V-shaped craft, with orange lights on its ventral surface, streak overhead.  Full Report  

CULVER CITY/CAMERON PARK, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 28, 2006, AT APPROXIMATELY 18:00 HRS.

Two reports were submitted to NUFORC in rapid sequence from witnesses in Culver City (Full Report) and Cameron Park  (Full Report), California.  In the latter case, a disc-shaped object, with very peculiar lighting on its ventral surface, flew directly over the witness's vehicle.  She got a very good look at it. 

MAJOR SIGHTING EVENT REPORTED FROM COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO ON SUNDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 01, 2006:

Our Center has received a number of seemingly quite credible reports of a very dramatic aerial event, witnessed from the states of Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, at approximately 23:17 hrs. (Mountain Daylight Time), Sunday night, October 1st, 2006.

COLORADO: Multiple witnesses from Colorado reported to us having witnessed a cluster of lights, which appeared to be moving generally to the southeast.

We received reports from individuals who were located in the towns of Cascade, Hartsel, Fairplay, Boulder, Silverthorne, Grand Junction, McCoy, and Monument, in Colorado.

The witnesses reported a cluster of at least four lights, which were described as being yellow, orange, red, or gold. One of the witnesses was a commercial pilot, with forty years as a military or commercial airline pilot, who, together with his First Officer, witnessed the objects from the cockpit of his airliner. He stated that he had never seen anything like it, and that he had reported the event to the FAA.

NEW MEXICO: The objects were also reported to our Center by witnesses, who were located in the towns of Raton and Silver City. In addition, we understand from members of the media that their offices received multiple reports from the Albuquerque area of the same, or similar cluster of lights.

One peculiar aspect of the report from Silver City is that the witnesses there were looking at the luminescent objects in the western sky, and they were below the mountain tops to the west, and the were seen to be moving from left to right...i.e. to the north.

We would be most grateful if anyone who was witness to these events on the night of October 1st would please take a few minutes to submit a report of their sighting, using our Online Report Form. Please first write a short, factual statement, detailing all aspects of their sighting, and then "Cut & Paste" that text into the "Description" box in our report form, fill in to other boxes on the form, and then click on the "Submit Report" button at the bottom of the report form.

Please include in your description where you were located, what direction you estimate you were looking, how high up you estimate you were looking (i.e. 30 degrees up, 45 degrees up, overhead, etc.), and what direction the objects were moving across the sky.

We will post all reports to our website in the near future.

Thank you!!

Peter Davenport, Director, National UFO Reporting Center, Washington State

May 15, 2006

Here are some cases that we think the visitors to our site might find particularly interesting:

1) SEATTLE, WA - On Sunday night, March 19, 2006, at 23:20 hrs. (Pacific), a witness in the Mountlake Terrace neighborhood of Seattle, located approximately 15 miles north of the Space Needle, witnessed a very peculiar fireball pass across the southern sky, traveling approximately northwest to southeast. Full Report   The witness created a very nice animated graphic of her sighting, which can be seen here.  Other witnesses in Kelso, WA, apparently witnessed the same event. Full Report

2) PORTLAND, OR - On Saturday night, April 29, 2006, at 23:50 hrs. (Pacific), several witnesses near downtown Portland, OR, witnessed at least two clusters of very unusual, red, self-luminous, disc-shaped objects over the downtown area. Everyone reported the event in similar terms, and NUFORC still has not been able to identify the objects. If anyone witnessed the event, we would invite them to submit additional reports, using our Online Report Form. If anyone knows what the lights were, we would welcome hearing from the party.

3) PAINTSVILLE, KY - We received a report about a very interesting, and apparently dramatic, collision between a freight train, and a suspected UFO near Paintsville, KY, during the early morning hours of January 14, 2002. If anyone visiting our website knows anything about this event, we would invite the person to contact our Center to share what they know. Full Report

PORTLAND, OR, APRIL 29/30, 2006

NUFORC has received a number of reports from the Portland, OR, area, regarding a number of very interesting sightings that occurred at approximately midnight, Saturday night, April 29, 2006. The duration of the event was approximately ten minutes. Many citizens there have reported having witnessed at least two groups of brightly lighted objects, seen moving over the downtown area of Portland, where they reportedly hovered briefly, and then disappeared to the south. Shortly after the first sighting, a second formation of similar objects was seen.

We have elected not to report here the details of the event until we have received as many independent reports from other witnesses as possible.  Under circumstances like those reported in this case, the first possibility we usually address is whether the lights might have been part of a nighttime advertising display. Such displays are reported to our Center frequently. However, in this case, our preliminary assessment is that the objects were not projected beams of light, either laser-based or incandescent.

If anyone in the Portland area was witness to the event, we would be most grateful if he/she would submit a short, factual statement regarding the sighting, using our ONLINE REPORT FORM. We would like to know 1) where the witness was located at the time of the sighting, 2) what direction he/she was looking, 3) how the objects moved across the sky, i.e. from left to right, right to left, overhead, etc., 4) how many object were observed, and 5) what they looked like. Any other information would be useful. Please be as precise, and complete, as you can, in describing what you saw.

Thank you!  We will be posting all newly received reports as soon as we can get them proofread and posted.

NOTICE: We apologize for the delay in posting newly received reports to our site. The delay is explained, in part, by the fact that we are in the process of moving the National UFO Reporting Center to a new location in Washington State, and the move is taking the bulk of our time. We hope to be ensconced in our new location by not later than the end of May.

However, there are other factors involved in our delay in posting, which visitors to our site, and those who use our Online Report Form, have a significant effect on. I discuss them below:

1. PREPARATION OF REPORTS

Please READ THE INSTRUCTIONS on our Online Report Form before filling it out! Even though the instructions clearly request that people not include personal information, e.g. names (either last or first), addresses, telephone numbers, e-addresses, website addresses, etc., in the "DESCRIPTION" box of the form, almost one half of the reports contain such personal information, which, if it is left in the "Description," can be used to identify individuals who were involved in the sighting. In order for us to fulfill our guarantee that people's identity will no be revealed, all of that personal information has to be removed manually, a very time-consuming task. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!!

Also, regarding reports, we, once again, request that people please strive to submit only reports that are carefully prepared, i.e. which are literate, factual, grammatically correct, and which use proper punctuation, capital letters, complete sentences, and which, generally speaking, can be easily read. Please break the text up into logical paragraphs, rather than clumping your report into one, massive blob of text!! If you are not experienced in composing text, you might consider asking a friend for assistance, and please consider running the text of your report through a computer spell-checker.

2. HOAXED REPORTS

PLEASE do not use our Report Form to submit false information! This message is directed, in particular, to those school-age children, who are flooding our Center with falsified reports. Each one of those reports has to be inspected and discarded, a screening process, which in recent months, has begun to consume significant quantities of our time.  At least one-half of all the reports we now receive are, or appear to us to be, prank reports. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A HOAXED WRITTEN REPORT!!

3. PRANK TELEPHONE CALLS

PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR HOTLINE FOR PRANK CALLS.  Whereas only five or ten percent of the calls submitted to our Center as recently as a few years ago, were prank calls, now the percentage is as high as eighty or ninety percent! NUFORC is now being flooded with prank calls, each one of which is a serious nuisance to us, and is an impediment to our operation. Most of these prank calls are being placed by young children and students, and many of them amount to little more than unmitigated filth. We are very tired of this stupidity, and we are asking all users of our facility to avoid using our services so callously.

If this flood of prank calls continues, we simply will not be able to continue staffing our telephone Hotline. We already are severely overworked, and we do not welcome having to handle what has become dozens of abusive calls per day from ill-disciplined children. Moreover, we may begin posting the telephone numbers of those repeat offenders, such that their parents may deal with the problem directly. In that event, we hope that the parents will consider removing the cell phones from the offending individuals.

A small ovoid object observed coming in from the San Gabriel mountains and hovering over Pasadena on March 2.  The full report can be read here.

On Sunday evening, February 29, 2004, NUFORC received a telephoned report from a family in Brooklyn, MD, who asserted that they had witnessed a disc-shaped object just outside their home. The two young daughters had witnessed a bright flash, which penetrated the heavy drapes on their bedroom window and allegedly filled the room with very bright light. They rushed to the window, opened the drapes, and witnessed a brightly lighted disc, hovering within an estimated 30 feet of their window. After an estimated 5-10 seconds, the disc began moving away from the home slowly, and then accelerated at a breath-taking rate.  The mother reported also having seen two flashes, and witnessed the object streak off. Other neighbors reportedly also witnessed the event.  (image supplied by daughter)

Multiple sighting occur the evening of February 14, 2004, all across the U. S.

On Saturday night, February 14, NUFORC received multiple, seemingly independent, reports from across the United States, to include New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Alberta (Canada), and perhaps California. We do not know what the objects were, but their movement across the U. S., from New York State to Oklahoma at least, appears to have occurred very quickly, and in the proper chronological sequence for corroboration of the reported sightings. We would welcome reports from any other witnesses to the events.

Amityville, NY, February 16, 2004.

We would like to call special attention to a sighting report from Amityville, NY, telephoned in on February 16, 2004.  The dramatic nature of the sighting, combined with the unusual background of the witness, suggests to us that the event was quite unusual, and that it was reported sincerely and accurately.

NUFORC has received several impressive new reports of classic flying saucers, which we highlight here.

The first two images portray an object allegedly witnessed by an adult couple in Ft. Myers, FL, at approximately 1430 hrs. (EST) on Sunday, January 04, 2004. The object was seen to be hovering, dipping, bobbing, and maneuvering just below light clouds. Because of the line of work the principal witness is in, he has declined numerous appeals to make a radio appearance to describe his sighting. His written report can be read here.

The second two saucer images are from the following report:  At approximately 1100 hrs. (Pacific) on July 27, 2003, an adult male was watching an aerobatic display by two jet aircraft during a break in the hydroplane races on the Columbia River near Richland, WA, when his attention was drawn to a tiny, metallic-appearing disc in the daytime sky. He, together with another adult bystander, watched the object for an estimated 20 minutes as it maneuvered against a clear blue, cloudless sky. The witness has a very strong technical background, and holds a very responsible position with a public agency. His report can be read here.

At approximately 1945 hrs. (EDT) on August 02, 2003, Mr. Kim Shaffer, a MUFON Field Investigator in Bristol, TN, captured on video tape a disc-shaped object, which was seen to perform complex maneuvers in the clear blue, cloudless sky. His report can be read here. The tape is some of the most dramatic video footage of an unidentified object we have seen in quite some time. We provide here two still images taken from the tape.

The witness to the October 25, 2003, sighting in Trotwood, OH, at 22:40 hrs., provided this graphic of what she had seen to Ms. Donnie Blessing, Southern Ohio State Section Director for MUFON, who conducted a follow-up investigation of the case. We express our gratitude to both parties.

A strange object was seen over Los Angeles International airport on Nov 27.  The witness has provided detailed analysis of flight paths and some stunning graphics which can be viewed here.

On 11/22 the W shaped object depicted to the right was sighted over Bergenfield, NJ.  Full report

The Missouri Investigators Group has filed a follow up report on the West Central Missouri UFO flap which occurred in early autumn 2003, where the following craft was sighted (drawing by Brian Adams)

On Saturday night, November 08, 2003, the National UFO Reporting Center began receiving the first of what ultimately would be several reports from the eastern United States of a peculiar, "boomerang"-shaped cluster of lights, which were reported from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York City, and New Jersey. Similar objects were reported from Ontario, Canada, and Colorado Springs, CO, and other peculiar sightings were reported from Maine and Virginia for the same time period. The sighting dates for that date period can be read here.

A witness to a UFO sighting on October 13 in Trenton, OH submitted the drawing below.  Here is the full report.

A witness reports to us that at approximately 20:30 hrs. (EDT) on Wednesday, September 17, 2003, he and his wife were out jogging near their home, approximately 12-14 miles north of downtown Atlanta, GA, when their attention was suddenly drawn by a bizarrely lighted "panel of lights"  in the evening sky. They witnessed the object for only an estimated 3-6 seconds as it silently glided across the night sky. The husband, who prepared the graphic, has 20/10 vision, having undergone laser eye surgery to improve his distant vision. Their full written report can be read here.

The National UFO Reporting Center has received literally hundreds of reports of bizarre looking, triangular objects with white lights at the apices of the triangle, and a rotating red light in the center. We recognize that some of these sightings may be the result of commercial aircraft, but the object sighted over Mt. Gilead, NC, recently we find to be quite interesting. The sighting report can be read here, and to the right is the graphic provided by the witness.

The events over St. Clair County, Illinois, on the morning of January 5th, 2000, constitute, in our opinion, one of the most dramatic UFO-related events in recent years. Police officers there reported a large, triangular-shaped craft that apparently was able not only to hover, but to accelerate at unimaginable rates. Moreover, the many witnesses to the object reported that it appeared to be from one, to two, times the length of a football field. It apparently was very large. Some of the witnesses' reports to NUFORC can be read here.

A totally silent 'Flying Wing' (depicted below) was seen twice within the D.C. Beltway on March 8.  Full report

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This craft was sighted over West Seattle on May 1.  Full Report

On Friday evening, January 24, 2003, a witness sighted a large triangular craft near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.   She supplied the following drawings of her sighting.  Her full report can be read here.

The following Image depicts what a witness saw in  Eden, TX, @ 19:00 hrs. on Sunday, January 13, 2003.  Full Report

This Illustration accompanies Sighting Report #27423, from Penang, Malaysia, @ 0045 hrs. on Saturday, February 1st, 2003

On November 1st, A Silent V-shaped aircraft slowly glided over Williamsburg, VA, then disappeared instantly.  Full Report

FOX 23 NEWS IN ALBANY, NY, CAPTURES UNUSUAL OBJECT ON VIDEO. FBI IS ANALYZING THE TAPE.

On Monday morning, October 21, 2002, NUFORC received a telephone call from a television journalist with FOX 23 news in Albany, New York, who apprised us that one of their photographers had captured a very unusual object on tape. In subsequent conversations with the journalist and the station news director, we have learned that a copy of the tape was provided to representatives from the Albany, NY, office of the FBI. We have confirmed with that office that the tape is undergoing analysis.  Here is our full report.

A new report has been received on the July 23 chevron sighting in California.  The observer is an experienced amateur astronomer who has been working in aerospace engineering for 30 years, and he provides an estimated ground-track for the object(s), as well as an estimate of size and velocity.. Read his detailed report.

On Sunday, August 04, 2002, the National UFO Reporting Center received a telephoned report from Pittston, Maine, apprising our Center that some kind of formation in tall, standing grass had been detected by the owner of the field where it was located. The report was forwarded to Nancy Talbott, Director of BLT Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, who traveled to the site the next day. We express our gratitude to Nancy Talbott for following up on the report, and for sharing her preliminary findings.

A military jet scramble occurred over Waldorf, MD on July 26.  At least one witness described seeing the jets chasing an anomalous, maneuvering, blue light.  Read our full report here

The National UFO Reporting Center has received a number of interesting reports of an apparently dramatic sighting in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and surrounding areas, at approximately 22:00 hrs. (Pacific) on Tuesday night, July 23, 2002.  The event was so bizarre that we thought we would feature the case here, and provide an illustration provided by a witness in Valencia, CA, who has had considerable experience in aviation.

We call to the attention of the reader the fact that NUFORC received a number of other, seemingly similar, reports from other parts of the U.S. within several days of this event. However, we have no way of knowing whether those events are in any way related to the sighting over California. (Please see our summary of the events in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., and Waldorf, MD, for July 26, 2002, mentioned above.)

To read the eleven reports we have posted, please click here for July reports.

AREA 51/GROOM LAKE REPORT: Although the National UFO Reporting Center does not subscribe to the notion that there is any relationship between the secret Area 51/Groom Lake facility in Nevada and the UFO phenomenon, we nevertheless share this report with our readers. We found it to be of interest, principally because the source is well known to our staff, and because the source has several decades of experience in electrical engineering, communications, and cryptology. Hence, we consider him to be an exceptional authority on the information he reported to our Center. We express our gratitude to the source for sharing the information with us!

The following picture was submitted to accompany a report from Iowa:

June 20 New Hampshire Event Probably Flares

We post this statement, following our posting on June 20, 2002, of a summary statement of the events that occurred over central New Hampshire at approximately 21:20 hrs. on June 18th.

We express our gratitude to the many people who submitted information to the National UFO Reporting Center, following our appeals in the Laconia, NH, "Citizen" and on the Jeff Rense radio program for additional information about the events over Plymouth, NH, on the evening of June 18, 2002.

Based on the several excellent follow-up reports we have received, we suspect that the incident was caused by flares, expelled by either F-16 or A-10 aircraft, possibly from the Vermont Air National Guard. This is a tentative conclusion, but is based on what appears to be reliable information from seemingly capable observers.

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A Cape Girardeau, MO, police officer reports witnessing a large, unlighted, disc-shaped object, which floated across State Route 74 while he was on traffic radar patrol on Saturday night, January 26, 2002. The object's ventral surface was light colored, and it reflected the lights from oncoming vehicles. The object was approximately 50 feet in diameter, the officer estimated, and it was traveling at approximately 30-40 m.p.h., he believed. He had the presence of mind to "shoot" at the object with his hand-held radar unit, but curiously, no return was registered by the instrument. 
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Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Senior Border Patrol agent reports witnessing a cluster of discs passing over his patrol vehicle in the California desert at approximately 0530 hrs., Thursday, January 31, 2002. He reported that his patrol dog, a German shepherd began acting strangely, at about the time the officer began hearing a strange "warbling" sound. One disc passed over the top of his vehicle, followed seconds later by a cluster of not fewer than a dozen similar objects, with a "boomerang shaped" object in their midst.
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A man recently reported to NUFORC his peculiar experience in Fontana, CA, which occurred when he was a young boy in the mid or late-1930's. He and two young friends were walking home from a local movie theater, when all three of them were suddenly "bathed" by intensely bright light, that was being projected down on them from above. They looked up, but could see nothing but "light." They became frightened, and hid under a nearby orange tree, when the light suddenly became noticeably brighter, much brighter than daylight. The man had peculiar dreams for many years afterward.
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On Monday night, January 07, 2002, at approximately 2103 hrs. (Mountain Standard Time), a prominent meteor passed over southeastern New Mexico, where it was visible to observers on the ground for an estimated 2-3 seconds. There was nothing unusual about this event, except for the fact that several observers on the ground reported that they had "heard" the event, concomitant to their visually witnessing it. Given that meteors traditionally are at least 15 miles above ground level, and usually much higher than that, the report raises the question of how such an event could be detected aurally at the same instant that it is visible. The traditional "sonic boom" that often follows such an event should not be detectable at ground level until several minutes following the event.

The two witnesses appeared with Peter Davenport, Director of NUFORC, on the Jeff Rense radio program  on January 8 to describe the event.  Please see www.Rense.com for archive availability over the internet.

This is yet another of the many reports of what are currently referred to as "electrophonic" meteors, a phenomenon which has been reported over several centuries, and for which there appears to be no satisfactory explanation. The phenomenon was reported as recently as November 18, 2001, during the dramatic display of the annual Leonid Meteor shower on that date.

Several other dramatic aerial events were reported from other locations in the U. S. on the same date. We will be posting these reports shortly.
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Quicktime movie of meteor from Sandia Skycam
Introduction to electrophonic meteors
Graph of amplitude vs time