NUFORC Sighting 125410

Occurred: 1990-02-02 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-01-23 22:09 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Wataree, SC, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

A large slow-moving triangular object passed over the highway in silence while we watched in awe.

In the winter of 1990, I was driving my girlfriend back to Winthrop College in Rock Hill, SC, from Columbia, SC, where I lived. We would often take back roads, rather than I-77, to break the monotony, since we made this hour long drive twice on most weekends. I think we were on Hwy. 200, or some other curvy secondary highway near lake Wateree, north of Fairfield County, when we saw the object on this otherwise abandoned and empty road. It was a cold night with a cloudless sky.

My first thought was that we were witnessing the undercarriage of a large blimp because the object seemed to be moving slowly and silently at about the pace of a light breeze. I soon realized that it was far to big to be the undercarriage of a blimp, and I could see stars above it.

I stopped the car and got out to watch it. I did not know what I was looking at so I crouched down behind the open door of my VW Golf to watch, and started shaking. It was cold, but I was also scared and excited.

What we saw was a triangular object which seemed to be at least a couple of hundred feet long, but possibly much larger. It also appeared to be made from beams and cross members because I remember seeing stars in the sky through it. It also had lights on the corners which reminded me of the can lights you see in theaters (the ones which you use different color films over to light a stage). The color of the lights were a dull greyish blue-green.

The object was not very high over the pine trees as it passed and If I had to guess I would say it was no more than 200 feet off the ground and possibly only 100 feet high. The object was almost silent, but I remember hearing a low rumble which increased and decreased in tempo so that it sounded like I was hearing a diesel train engine a mile away loading cars. I have often asked myself if I was hearing a train in the distance or if the low rumble came from the object.....I am unsure.

After we watched it pass we stood in shock, speechless. We got back in the car and talked about how we would need to contact the authorities or the news paper to see if anyone else had seen this huge object, but it seemed to completely and strangely slip our minds that we had witnessed this. It was not until about a year later when a friend and I were making fun of someone on TV who claimed to have been abducted by aliens, that it all came back to me in a rush. My friend was incredulous and did not believe me so I asked him to call my girlfriend which he did. She told him exactly what I told you but was also surprised that it had completely slipped her mind from that night until a year later.

About 15 years ago, I wrote down the details as best as I can remember them and drew a sketch of the object. It was not until about 10 years ago, while I was telling my father and his wife about the event that I was introduced to the idea that others have seen triangular object too.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2016-01-29

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