| Sighting Report |
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| Occurred : 1/9/2008 21:58 (Entered as : 01/09/08 21:58) Reported: 1/9/2008 10:05:59 PM 22:05 Posted: 1/21/2008 Location: Byron, NY Shape: Unknown Duration:5 minutes |
| Flying object observed with very erratic movement and speed unlike any normal aircraft On January 9, 2008 my wife was letting out our dogs. Her attention was then caught by what looked like a meteor shower in the western sky. There were several lights that looked like stars blinking and falling. She called me over to see this and it did appear to us to be a meteor shower although neither of us had ever seen one before. When I got to the backdoor to look out, we noticed an object to the south that was much more out of the ordinary. The first thing that caught my eye was how bright the object was. This object had to be pretty far away, but it was clear to us that it was not a star or meteor. We soon also ruled out the object being an airplane or helicopter. This object was hovering in a small circular pattern. Then the object would shoot to the east and circle around again. The object would remain in a small area (small from the distance we were seeing it from), but it would hover and shoot to the east, hover and shoot west and so on. The object moved very fast. It was very strange. Neither of us had ever seen anything like it. The object blinked with lights and when it moved they seemed to disappear briefly and then re-appear. The distance the object moved in such short periods of time was unbelievable. This went on for about five minutes. I called my mother who lives about 7 miles away to see if she could see it. By the time I got her on the phone, the object started flying directly east in a normal straight pattern. It took off continuing east, but very fast. Faster than any plane I have ever saw fly. The erratic patterns the object made and the speed of it lead us to believe it was definitely a UFO. It sent chills down my spine and my wife was in tears. She wasn’t scared, just in disbelief of what we were witnessing. Now we are wondering if the first group of objects we saw may have been connected to this one in some way. My wife is a biology major working on her Master’s Degree for teaching. I am a mortgage banker, so neither of us have any knowledge about the stars or UFO’s. What I can say is that we saw something that was flying, had very bright lights, and speed unlike any aircraft. |