NUFORC Sighting 28693

Occurred: 2002-08-21 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-05-06 12:46 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Sisseton, SD, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

Intelligent white light floating above us. Took off when it knew we seen it.

Last summer my younger brother (age 18) and I age (34) were outside my trailer house shooting off fireworks into a soybean field and then playing around with a spotlight shining it in the fields looking for coyotes, when I happened to look up as something caught my attention. The night was clear, dark and warm with a slight breeze and a lot of stars. There was no moon. Directly overhead of me (At a high altitude, or so it seemed.) was a bright white light, with a haze around it, about the size of a 50 cent piece held at arms length away. At first I thought it was the moon because it was bright, shining down on us. I told my brother to look up which he did and said "What is that?" Exactly when my brother looked up the light shrank to the size of a pea held at arms length away. It seemed like it knew we had seen it. What creeped me out the most was that I wondered how long it was above us shining down on us before I (we) noticed it. The light sat still for about 5 seconds then moved South of us at a slow speed, and then blinked off. I am familiar with aircraft and satellites and stars and planets and I'm 99.9% sure it wasn't any these objects. I would compare the sighting to a helicopter shining a dim spotlight on us from a great distance above. But the light emitted no noise and was totally silent. The light seemed to know we had seen it and took off!



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-05-09

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