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Occurred : 8/12/2007 23:30 (Entered as : 08/12/07 23:30)
Reported: 8/13/2007 1:23:30 AM 01:23
Posted: 8/14/2007
Location: Stayton, WA
Shape: Triangle
Duration:10 seconds
Large, triangular object gliding silently but very quickly across visible sky.

We were watching the Persids Meteor Shower. The sky began to shimmer slightly above us, and a triangular shape of three lights appeared. At first it was disorienting because we were looking for meteors, but this object appeared, and we didn't know what it was. After a few seconds I said, "It's a UFO." It moved very gracefully; the best way I could describe it would be "gliding." It was absolutely silent. The object moved from just above us to near the western horizon within the space of a few seconds. It was really large, but the realization of that didn't occur to us until after it disappeared. Only then did we get a sense of how huge it had been.

The object seemed to be quite high in the air, but it covered a much larger area of the sky than any airplane would have. It looked at first like three stars moving at the same time, but it was apparent there was a solid object, not three separate ones. It glided silently across the visible sky and then seemed to vanish as it had appeared -- with a sort of rippling of the air.