NUFORC Sighting 181331

Occurred: 1988-07-16 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-04-30 08:08 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Sheffield, MA, USA
Location details: Field located on E Stahl Rd, treeline located 200-300 yards away

Shape: Light
Color: Yellow-white
Estimated Size: Unknown
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: NE
Angle of Elevation: 35
Closest Distance: Unknown
Estimated Speed: Slow at first, later extremely fast

3 independantly moving lights above treeline

Time is approximate, but it was full dark outside.
Year is approximate within 2 years.
Date is fully approximated, based on playing outside at that time frame.

I was playing with 2 friends outside near the house. Treeline was located a pretty far distance, but at the end of the property. We saw 3 lights hovering in a formation that made a diagonal line downwards to the right from our view. Lights were not perfectly still, and were moving independantly (shifting to different directions at the same time as others). After a few minutes of observation, 2 of the lights shot off vertically or nearly vertically at an extremely high rate of speed, while the 3rd light slowly sank down and to the right before disappearing into the treeline.

Night was too dark to see if there was any larger shape that lights were attached to.

While objects appeared over treeline and one descending below it, because they were lights, they could have been much farther away.

Observers were all children, approximately 7/8, 9/10, and 9/10 years old. While this may color analysis, I am in my 40s now, and I've only had one other encounter that might have been a UFO, and that one was vague enough that I assume it was an explainable event. This one has stuck with me due to the unnatural movement of the objects.

Posted 2024-05-05