NUFORC Sighting 17092

Occurred: 2001-04-15 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-04-02 00:00 Pacific
Duration:

Location: Burnt Hills (Ballston Lake), NY, USA

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Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Burnt Hills/Ballston lake sightings?...mabee not

This is in response to some of the "sightings" in this area. There is a Military Air base at the Schenectady county airport. The C-130's routinely do check flights, touch and go's etc. An oncoming C-130 flying low with the headlights on and landing gear lights up can look real wierd...almost like its "hovering".. especially when you are in a moving car. I have seen these from my house, (right off Route 50) for years.... they are a very quiet airplane when they want to be as well, so the lack of noise is by design. On a foggy night all you see is the bright headlight and landing gear compartment lights....very unusual looking. We are also host to most every Blimp in the Northeast as there is ample space to post a docking mast. Not unusual to see the Goodyear blimp as well as many other corporate blimps doing a stop-over. One of those blimps at a low altitude and the message board lit up with an animation will turn your head too. Just thought you might like to know the area a little. I think there IS something out there.. Dont get me wrong.... I just related to the descriptions provided and drew a conclusion based on MY experiance living in a flight pattern.

NUFORC Note:

No date indicated. We have arbitrarily assigned a date so the report sorts to the month of April 2001. PD

Posted 2001-08-05