NUFORC Sighting 31462

Occurred: 2003-09-13 15:35 Local
Reported: 2003-09-14 09:39 Pacific
Duration: 18 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Tacoma, WA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Video taped 3-6 shiny objects for 12 min hovering in the sky in a V formation while other objects flew around them.

On 9/13/03, in Tacoma WA, my wife and I were on our front porch having a smoke when she asked me what "that" was in the sky (West direction). I looked where she was pointing and I knew right off the bat that this was not man made. I saw 3 bright objects in a v shaped cluster between some trees in the sky. They looked like orbs but very metalic bright like sun reflection off of chrome.

I ran into the house to get my video camera (2 min. time)and when I came back, the objects were gone. I asked my wife what happened and she stated that they just blinked out. I went South 1/2 a block from my house looking West and Southwest in the sky looking for them. I found them and they had moved several miles from the point of first sighting. I started taping them with a Sony digital video camera.

The objects stayed in a V shape formation with 2 at the top and what looked like several miles below there was 1. They kept blinking in and out. I taped the objects for 12 min. While taping them, I saw what I thought were things falling out of the sky (during replay I had caught other objects flying around the first 3 objects). At the last min of taping, my battery was going dead on my camera, and the objects came together and formed a tight V shape and rotated counter clockwise to a line. My battery went dead after that. I went into my house to get my telescope to see them and the UFO's had gone when I came back. Around 2 min time had elapsed.

I went into my house and dubbed the tape to a VHS tape and I was amazed at what I had recorded. I caught more then what I was looking at. I caught objects that I did not see while taping. What looked like flashes and falling objects were other UFO's that I did not see. I had to jog the tape frame by frame to see some of these other UFO's doing manuvers that we as a people could not do with the technoligy that we have.

I manage several high value warehouses for World wide companies. I also have passed FBI background checks. I have been employed with my job for 5 years. My wife manages a company also. We bought our house on this street over 5 years ago. We have 2 kids and are respected in our fields.

NUFORC Note:

Witness was kind enough to provide us with 10 minutes of video footage of the objects. We have reviewed the tape, and we find it to be ambiguous, with respect to the issue of the three objects being bona fide UFO's. They could be three slowly drifting balloons in a clear, blue, cloudless sky, we believe. PD

Posted 2003-09-17