APRIL 16, 2008 - Several interesting reports were submitted to NUFORC on the evening of Wednesday, April 16, 2008.  We summarize them below:

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - An experienced fishing boat captain called to report a very strange display of six lights to the southeast of his home, which he first observed at approximately 20:10 hrs. (EDT).  He reported that the lights were seen to deploy very rapidly in a straight line, and they appeared to be in the vicinity of downtown Atlantic City.  He could not determine whether they were on the near side of the downtown area, or beyond the city.  He added that he and his wife heard a “tremor,” while the lights were still visible.  Full Report

The witness telephoned our Hotline, after the initial report, and added that a source in the Federal Aviation Administration had informed him that the lights were part of an offshore exercise by the U. S. military, a fact that has yet to be confirmed.

We would welcome reports from any other witnesses to this event.  We would like to know where witnesses were located, at the time of their sighting, and what direction they were looking, as they faced the lights.  This information will allow NUFORC to perform triangulation, in order to determine the location of the lights, and where they were, relative to downtown Atlantic City. 

KOKOMO, IN - NUFORC received two reports from the Kokomo area, from witnesses who reported observing some very strange lights at approximately 23:30 hrs. (CDT).  One witness reported that the lights appeared to come from the west, and they then moved off rapidly to the north.  Full Report

NUFORC would very much like to receive reports from anyone who witnessed this event, either visually, or aurally.  Most of all, we would like to know where in the Kokomo area any witness was located, and the direction he/she was looking, while looking at the lights when they were stationary in the sky. 

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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 08, 200

A very peculiar object was reported to NUFORC recently, which reportedly was seen by many people near Stephenville, Texas.  We have not spoken with any of the witnesses yet, but an article from the Associated Press was released over the internet on the date of this posting, January 14. 

We include below the “raw” reports which we have received to date about the alleged incident.  We also would like to invite anyone who may have been witness to this event to please submit a short report, detailing the sighting, using our Online Report Form.  Thank you!

Peter B. Davenport, Director, National UFO Reporting Center. Posted:  21:30 hrs. (Pacific), Monday, January 14, 2008

Report #1: 

Flashing strobes, silent, flames out the back side and jets chasing it!

On 1-8-2008 at 6:15 pm CST. my friends and I was watching the sunset when several strobes or flashing lights coming from the east at about 3500 foot agl heading west toward Stephenville, TX.  Estimated speed was about 2000 to 3000 mph.

The strobes made several changes of flash patterns and configurations. The flight duration lasted about 3 minutes. The front two strobes was about 1/2 mile a part and the back ones was about 1 mile back from the front strobes. The back side of the flashing lights came to a vertical flashing.

Then there was 2 separate vertical flames about 1/4 mile apart for several seconds and the craft was gone.

We never head ANY noise from the craft!  They headed west towards Abilene, TX.

Then about 10 minutes later here came the craft again with 2 jets chasing.  They were headed east towards South Ft. Worth, TX, at about 4000 ft. agl.  The jets were unable to catch and went off into the distance at FULL throttle.

I am a pilot and have been fling for 30 years and have never seen anything like this.  I also fly several times a week in the area.  The craft is NOT from around these parts!

The witnesses are 1. ((male name deleted) 254-((number deleted)), rancher/trucker  2. ((male name #2 deleted))  254-((name deleted)), delivers mail for the U.S. Postal Service  3. ((male name #3 deleted))  (myself) 254-((number deleted)) or cell 817-((number deleted)) owner of a large transportation/trucking firm.

Report #2:

1MILE LONG BY 1/2 MILE WIDE  TRAVELING AT EST 3,000 MPH BEING CHASED BY MILITARY AIRCRAFT

NOT WITNESSED BY ME.  KNOW THAT CREDIBLE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED.  MILITARY AIRCRAFT WERE CHASING THE SECOND APPEARANCE. 

A COMPLETE ARTICLE IS IN THE STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE TRIBUNE 1-10-08 EDITION .

THIS ONE IS FOR REAL!

OBJECT SEEN OVER THE EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN U. S. ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2007

Our Center has received several reports from Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia, Massachusetts, and Vermont of an object that was visible for approximately 45 minutes from each of those locations.

We do not know, yet, what the object was, but from our experience with similar reports over past years, our suspicion is that the object may be a spent rocket, which was "parked" in high orbit, and from which the excess fuel was released from its fuel tanks.

The fact that the object could be seen from both Williston, Florida, and Canada, at the same time suggests to us that the object was very large, and at a very high altitude above the surface of the Earth.

Peter Davenport will make a brief appearance tonight on the Coast-to-Coast radio program, hosted by GEORGE NOORY, in order to discuss the event, and in order to encourage other witnesses to submit written reports, using NUFORC's Online Report Form.

We include here a report from Maine, even though we have no reason to believe that the report from that state is, in any way, related to the event seen from locations in the southeastern U. S..

We include here some of the written reports NUFORC received about the event, as of the time of this posting.

Peter B. Davenport, Director, NUFORC. Posted at 18:30 hrs. (Pacific), Monday, December 10, 2007."

REPORT #1 OF 7

REPORT FROM MONROE, GEORGIA, 18:30 HRS.--Bright object in sky,at first looked like a comet. Watching close with binoculars could see it was not a comet but nothing I have ever seen before.

This object was white in color and looked like a cigar.was moving slowly across sky towards the north but was moving up and down and side to side all this time. Another small object could be seen as well with a white light that would flash ever now and then.

The weather was mild with clear skies, and Monroe GA is about 30 miles north east of Atlanta Ga.

We have all seen the planes coming and going from the Atl airport and these were no planes or helicopters.

I'm a 46 year old over the road truck driver and have drove at night for years and never seen nothing close too this.

Other witnesses include my wife, 45; son, 23; and his wife, 23.

REPORT #2 OF 7

REPORT FROM PITTSBORO, NC, AT 18:45 HRS.--To whom it may concern,

I am an amateur astronomer and was observing here in my observatory at my home in Pittsboro, N.C., observing a double star in the constellation Delphinus.

At approximately 1845, I spotted a green hue in the SW skies near the Messier object M15, approximately 45 degrees above the SW horizon. It appeared to be a comet; I quickly slewed my telescope to the object, and viewed it at a magnification of 100X. The object was traveling at a high rate of speed, but much slower than a normal satellite when viewed through a telescope eyepiece field of view.

The object contained what appeared to be a head and a tail (very much like Haley's comet looked years ago through a pair of binoculars), and its magnitude was so bright that it was dominant in the sky. There was also a point of light that moved with the object at the same speed, approximately one tenth of a degree from the "head" of the object.

I tracked the object for approximately 45 minutes, the "tail" faded (almost appeared to dissipate over time), but the point of light near the haze remained in the eyepiece, it's magnitude and position not changing over the period of time that it was tracked. The object passed very close to the star Schedar in the constellation Cassiopeia. I stopped tracking the object as it passed through the constellation Cassiopeia at approximately 1935 hrs.

The object continued to move in a NE direction at approximately 60 degrees above the northern horizon.

The Telescope I was using to track the "object" was a Telescope Engineering Company (TEC) 200mm (8 inch) f/9 refractor, mounted on a Astro-Physics 1200gto computerized equatorial mount. The object was tracked by moving the Declination and Right ascension axis in a manual mode.

REPORT #3 OF 7

REPORT FROM WORCESTER, VERMONT, 19:13 HRS.--I am weather forecaster meteorologist with two decades plus of experience observing. I work for a radio station in northern Vermont and what I saw I will describe - not that big a deal really.

There is a comet forgotten the name to lazy to look it up but a comet or fuzz ball like or bigger than the 7 sisters that I saw in the eastern sky.

This fuzz ball was moving over so slowly but in odd directions to the rotation of the earth not making any sense.

A friend of mine alerted me to it and said hey go outside and check out the comet. I did and went out several times only to find that it had moved to odd positions and in weird trajectories that a comet would not normally follow.

My only conclusion is that it was man made perhaps a urinal dump that caught the sunlight similar to when you can the ISS or other satellites at night but then why would it move into the different positions over the course of the next hour and half.

It is the erratic nature of the movement. The sighting took place this evening in mostly clear skies with good clarity on a cold winter night with temperatures in the 20s.

REPORT #4 OF 7

REPORT FROM DORA, ALABAMA, 18:03 HRS.--Comet-like cloud with faint flashing light appeared in clear starry sky, drifting North across Casseopia.

Sighted comet like cloud moving towart constellation casseopia, has faint flashing light, called son in N Florida who also could see object.

Object drifted into Casseopia around 6:15 CST, becoming vague. pointed structure, moon size, white flashing light about every 5 Minutes.

I'm an amateur astronomer, never saw anything like it in 50+ years.

REPORT #5 OF 7

REPORT FROM WINDER, GEORGIA, 19:00 HRS.--Cigar shaped object with bright light zigzagging above Winder Georgia.

It was dark outside and we saw a cigar shaped object in the sky, It had a light as if a flashlight and that was shinning, that was the only light on the object. It had zigzagged through the air for about 2-3 minutes than it look as if it had stopped but the light kept getting dimmer and dimmer as if it was going up. It had looked like the lights were changing colors from white to yellow.

At first we thought it was a plane but it was going way to slow, and about 4 planes had passed it, and it was to high up. It also couldn't have been a shooting star because you could see the outside of the shape. We tried to take a picture but everything else in the sky would show up on the camera except the object in the sky.

Also the light was in what we thought was the front of the object, but then it started going sideways. There was a white haze around the object.

REPORT #6 OF 7

REPORT FROM WILLISTON, FLORIDA, 19:00 HRS.--Some sort of explosion above earth's atmosphere.

I was getting into my truck at seven pm when I sighted a brillantly glowing cloud. The glow appearred almost directly overhead but somewhat to the north and west, from my location in Williston, Florida.

I quickly called my wife who is currently in Canada, and she went outside and saw the same glowing cloud. I was able to view the object through night vision monocular and it appeared very much like a comet with a nucleus and tail aligned toward the northwest; initially the tail was nebulous, but also contained a split so that it appeared as a V.

But this appeared to be drifting toward the east very slowly, but too fast to be a comet.

As I was observing the cloud I saw five distinct small flashes of light toward the nucleus area; gradually the object faded in luminosity and disappeared.

REPORT #7 OF 7

REPORT FROM PHIPPSBURG, MAINE, 17:30 HRS.--Burning bright orb with a plane above following it then it either burned up, crashed or just lit up when out of view

It was about 5:30 p.m. and it had gotten dark about an hour before so it was almost pitch black out. Me and my friend were sitting in our car with the lights off at the end of a peninsula that is in the middle of the Kennebec River right near the mouth of the river. Popham beach fort was directly in front of us.

I wasn't really looking at the sky when all of a sudden my friend yelled "look at those shooting stars!" I looked up and saw two lights traveling east so they were moving towards our left because we were looking south.

They were at about a 20 degree angle. And at least a couple miles away but close enough so that I saw a jet trail on the top one. I only saw them for about three seconds but I remember every detail about them. They were moving at the same speed. One was above the other about a quarter inch apart. The one on top had a white light like most planes do and I remember noticing it had a trail just like a jet has. The bottom one however was many times bigger, had no trail and was glowing bright orange. It looked like a perfect circle and about the size of a BB while the one on top looked like a star. They were moving almost horizontal, but most shooting stars come down at an angle.

Almost as soon as I saw them the bottom one steadily grew from dim orange to burning, bright, orange without changing shape at all. Right as it passed over and behind a peninsula to our left it became so bright and right when it was out of view it lit up the sky around the area it was in and we saw what seemed like a bright flash or explosion above the trees, but not a quick flash just a steady flash. As soon as it was gone we said, "((deleted))t, what was that?"

We debated for a while about what it was and we concluded that they could not have been both shooting stars because the one on top had a trail and the bottom one didn't. My friend had seen them traveling west to east for maybe ten seconds and said he didn't pay much attention at first because he thought they were planes. He said they were flying horizontally and as fast

as planes far away, not as fast as shooting stars It was like nothing we

had ever seen before and it was so big for the distance it was at if it was a meteor it would have caused a tsunami or something.

I saw a few ufo encounter reports about glowing amber orbs and saw drawings of what they described and it looked like the same exact thing but must have been larger because of how far away it was.

I'm dead serious about this I wouldn't have spent the time reporting it if I wasn't, believe me.

(NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)

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. Although our telephone number and e-mail address will remain the same, our postal mailing address will change to the following:

National UFO Reporting Center
P. O. Box 700
Davenport, WA 99122

However, we will maintain our old mailing address for the next year, or so, and all mail will be forwarded to the new address, so either address is suitable for mailing items to our Center.

Thank you!
Peter Davenport, Director