NUFORC Sighting 11432

Occurred: 1981-11-20 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1999-12-19 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Sherwood, OR, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

I looked up in the sky, and right above me, about the height you'd see a landing airplane if you were near an airport, were two flying wing-type craft. Both flew north and disappeared into the clouds.

I look up into the sky quite often, anytime I hear a flying object in the vicinty, be it man-made or animal, or anytime I wish to take pictures, look up at the stars, the cloud formations or the local weather, especially thunder and lightning storms. Rarely do I see some unusual natural phenomenon. I have seen plenty of those high, distant lights that move acros the night sky, many repeatedly stopping, then starting again in a different direction. Satellites or what? I have also seen how people can mistake a common airplane for a UFO with certain angles and lighting and I believe I would be able take a photograph of said object and presto! a UFO. I've even considered writing a book about how to fake UFO photographs with everyday objects. So then, there I was standing in my front yard, facing north. It was dark and somewhat cloudy. I look up and lo and behold, straight above me are two flying wing-type craft, flying close together like two fighter planes in close formation, one slightly ahead of the other, below the clouds. The one ahead was to the east. They made no noise and left no trail. Judging by the size and speed I've seen of landing jetliners, they appeared to be of the same height and size and traveling at the same speed. Are there places a jetliner could land so near Sherwood Or.? Mainly what I could see of them were their lights. The lights were in the same formation and color (white) as the string of lights on a jetliner, I believe on the bottom, back edge of the wings. But there was one difference, these objects had NO blinking lights. As I watched them they slowly flew north and the one to the west, which was slightly behind the other, moved slightly ahead, about as much ahead as the other was before. I still heard no sound and saw no blinking lights. They disappeared into the cloud cover. If I stretched my arm out above me and measured hand-width from where I first saw them and where they went into the clouds, it would be about two-and-a-half to three hand-widths.

Posted 2000-01-07