National UFO Reporting Center

Sighting Report
Occurred : 9/26/2003 21:00 (Entered as : 09/26/1903 21:00) Reported: 12/26/2003 8:39:18 PM 20:39 Posted: 1/17/2004 Location: Richmond, KY Shape: Light Duration:~1 hour
Long duration sighting, likely at least 10 miles distance, but undoubtedly strange behavior. I was walking my dog West, on Ole Daniel Boone Road, toward I-75. I had been watching the sky quite a bit because Mars had been close to Earth and this is also the first I have lived back out away from city lights in about 10 years. There was what I thought was a star, cradled in a dip in the tree line. It looked large the way Mars had, so I was particulary interested, though Mars at this time of night was SouthEast. I thought it might be a larger planet or something, but when my dog stopped to go to relieve himself, I realized that it was moving. There were powerlines that also ran through the dip in the tree line that gave a point of reference and it was moving in relation to that, most noticeably. I figured that it would be gone shortly, so I stood a and watched it a while. I didn't think it's movement was anything a helicopter couldn't do, but I also knew, from a figure I'd just heard that it costs about $500/hr. to operate a helicopter and that helicopters are typically going somewhere. What point would there be to just bobbing and drifting side, after dark? I was basically white and oval and some times seemed to shade to having a blue-ish halo. The center never changed colors. I kept expecting it to dart off as they supposedly do, but after a while, I decided I wanted to see if I could get some witnesses, so I could talk about it to somebody without them thinking I was making it up. So, we ran back to my fourplex where we have a second floor apartment, where my wife, sister-in-law and nephew were. I breathlessly (I'm overweight) told them to come out on the balcony, hoping that it would still be there. It was a little harder to see, because there's a big orange security light behind the building, but it was still there. We stood back there and watched it and talked about it for a long time, and we all were kind of waiting for it to dart off, but it just bobbed and weaved. I actually knelt down and put my chin on the heels of my hands to make sure my head moving wasn't making it look like some fixed object was moving because the treeline was only about 100 yards away. I saw on FOX that a lot of people watching Area 51 thought they were seeing a UFO weave side to side, but that they were seeing an airliner, bringing people to work there, correcting itself, as it was approaching a runway. So we talked about that for a while and decided that if we were watching a plane from head-on that it would eventually make some progress, but it never seemed to. My nephew didn't really understand what it was and was starting to get bored and acting up a little bit, so we actually all just finally went inside and the clock showed it was 10:10, but my wife sets it up a few minutes so she won't be late for work, where there's a fast clock. When my sister-in-law left, about 30 minutes later, we looked again from the parking lot to see if it was still there and we didn't see it, but she later told us that as she was driving home she could see it, West of I-75, but South of where she lives in Lexington. If I had to guess, I believe the light was between Richmond and Nicholasville, KY. I would not have reported this, normally, but I have just read the story of what happened in Morehead, KY and the c! rop formation in Flemingsburg. Though this may not be a particularly interesting UFO story, it may be significant that there was a certain level of activity in Central and Eastern Kentucky, within a certain time frame. I am going to e-mail an animated gif I have created in photoshop to demonstrate, in a very simple way, how it behaved, though it didn't move quite this jerky and had no particular pattern of movement. ((NUFORC Note: We have altered the date above to 2003, which we believe is what the witness intended. We believe our Online Report Form may be malfunctioning. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))