NUFORC Sighting 98977

Occurred: 1961-06-01 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-06-26 09:55 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Aroostook (Canada), NB, Canada

Shape: Sphere

Bigger than fullmoon sized yellowish-silver sphere flying over house at dusk seen by boy on bycycle.

I was a boy of 7 years old, riding my bike on the street in front of my home. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was at dusk, still very much daylight I was busily pedaling my bike from a dead stop ,and looking toward my right. Suddenly popping up over the eastern horizon directly in my sightline came a moon-like object yellowish-silver in color and moving very fast, it flew right over my house and disappeared behind the tree line on the western horizon. It probably took 12-15 seconds from eastern to western horizon.

In comparison it was bigger than any full moon I've ever seen. It also had some sort of protrusion at about 2 o'clock resembling an elongated "Z" like tail approx 1/10th the diameter of the body of the object. I had not even heard of flying saucers at this point and told myself that it was a comet because a comet was the only thing like this I'd ever of which had a tail.

I saw what I believed to be a similar object 30 years later.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD

Posted 2013-07-03