NUFORC Sighting 11456

Occurred: 1978-06-01 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1999-12-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes?
No of observers: 3

Location: Sterling Park (near Dulles Airport), VA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

My brother, sister and I saw several strange lights in the sky descending slowing towards the ground. My sis and bro looked thru binoculars and saw they were disk shaped with multi-colored lights. They hovered a bit, moved around a bit, then in a blink of the eye shot straight up and disappeared. Later that evening while getting ready for bed, I looked out my window to look at the sky again and saw a floating, red, glowing ball move slowly from the woods to right outside my window and then float away down the street. I called my sister into my room and she witnessed it just as it was moving away. When I saw the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" they showed almost the exact same type of orbs moving with the UFOs. Anyway, we all asked our friends the next day if they saw the lights and no one we knew saw them. It was incredible and I wish I could remember more about that night but I know what I saw and I've never seen anything like it before or since.

They were saucer or disc shaped with multi-colored lights. There must have been at least 50, maybe more. The night was clear and calm. I can't remember what time of night or even the time of year it was. That data I gave is all approximation. My sister first observed them while walking home. They were moving around quite a bit apparantly. She came in the house and got my brother and both went outside and looked through binoculars. They kept yelling for me to come outside and look but I was on the phone. Finally, I hung up and looked and it was the most incredible thing I've ever seen. I couldn't look through the binoculars because I was wearing glasses and it was difficult to focus. We watched for quite a while it seemed. They descended slowing towards the ground in no particular formation spread throughout a portion of the sky just northwest of our neighborhood. There could have been a hundred of them, I really can't remember and couldn't tell at the time. There were many. We determined that they weren't airplanes because airplanes can't hover and they weren't helicopters because they can't move that fast. When they left it was so fast and sudden.

Posted 2000-01-07