NUFORC Sighting 37647

Occurred: 2004-06-16 00:00 Local
Reported: 2004-06-17 22:04 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Willoughby Hills, OH, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Triangle object, multiple witnesses, 100 feet from ground. Hovering over wooded area

Some brief but much needed history behind this sighting is needed before writing this report to you. My wife is as un-likely a person, in my mind, to discuss UFO sightings as I've ever met. We were sitting on our back deck just talking about our work days the night before when we stumbled upon a dual sighting, hers much better than mine but ironic to say the least.

I am a veteran ((law enforcement officer in Lake County, Ohio)) (20 miles east of Cleveland on Lake Erie)and in good standing within. I'll tell you the story in a chronlogical order as it occurred to me and how it unfoled to me as well. To begin, this is not the first sighting I've had but the first in which my wife and I saw something together. We were apart when it occurred and we did not have the opportunity to talk about it when it happened. This is, however, my first report I've ever filed with any agency.

I signed up to work a side job for the ((deleted--local community)) and was waiting for the rest of the bingo crowd to arrive. I was in the parking lot waiting to direct the patrons into their spots when there was a lull in the traffic coming in. As you probably know, there has been some pretty violent weather in the area and I was checking a storm that had blown over (approx. 1745 hrs). I first saw a very normal jetliner cruising through the sky at normal height and speed when I saw an object not familiar to me. I've seen satellites, helicopters, small planes, big planes and weather balloons due to the fact we live 25 miles from Hopkins Airport and have three smaller air fields in our patrol zone as well as a nuclear plant 10 miles away (busy with with activity). I followed the plane for about 15 seconds and lost sight of it after it flew over a cloud deck. I continued to check out the sky to see if threatening weather may be on the way. I then saw this object in the sky that was much higher than the plane I'd just seen. The speed was unreal compared to the speed of the plane lower in the sky. I picked it up much further to the east that I'd seen the plane just seconds prior. At first, I thought it was a satellite because of the small overall look it had and incredible speed it appeared to be cruising at. I then realized that it should have been difficult to see a satellite with it being daylight. After just a second or two, it appeared to get bigger but I realized it was getting closer. I saw what appeared to be a triangle object that was still far away...probably at 10,000 feet, but it was oddly shaped and had no wings or tail. It looked to be about the size of my thumbnail in the sky. I dismissed it, as I have in the past, and just wondered as to its origin. My day ended with nothing else worth noting.

That brings me to my wife and I talking on the deck. She and I were just talking about everyday things and our work days the day before, I never talk to her about UFO's and the like and had pretty much forgotten about my "sighting." My wife then said something about her needing to call me at 1645hrs the day I worked the bingo detail but she didn't because I was probably enroute to the location or already in the armory (location of the bingo game) where my cell phone gets no reception. My wife then told me what happened and said she was driving east on I-90 eastbound between SR 91 and SR 306 and said, " I saw a triangle thing in the sky, I was so scared cause it looked like it was watching something." I asked her what she meant and had still forgotten about what I'd seen and expected a normal explanation from her.

My wife proceeded to tell me that the 'thing' was hovering and not moving. She said that the 'thing' made no sound and didn't even bounce in the sky. I asked her if it could of been one of those self-made gliders moving real slow like they do and she became adamant that this thing was "HUGE, no way." I realized at this point that she didn't have a clue what she was describing in respect to the relevance to UFO reporting. She's never heard of the triangle phenomena or even the UFO research being conducted. It was like asking an innocent kid about seeing a crime or describing their first home run....it was completely honest and very compelling. I then recalled what I had seen but didn't tell her because she gets really freaked out about these types of things, you'd see if you ever spoke to her.

I then asked her if she could tell how close it was to the ground. I figured she'd give me an airplane type altitude. She looked at one of the trees in our neighborhood and said "about 100 feet above that tree." I then became very curious but skeptical about her sighting and asked her if she was sure it wasn't a plane or something else she'd seen before. I know my wife and it was clear that she was freaked out because she had went to work and told her friends she thought something was going on with "911" and we were being watched. I told her that I would have been the first to know being that I'm in law enforcement and being next to an international airport and nuclear plant (at least I'd like to think so). My wife then told me that she thought it was a plane but she couldn't believe it was a plane because it just stood still in the air. She said that she had to stop looking at it because, as she kept driving, she was losing her field of vision at it, and thought she might wreck if she kept trying to watch it as she kept driving. She said she saw it over a very thick wooded area and thought it was looking at something. We live only 5 miles from that location. She then arrived at work and her sighting ended. She described the object as being a triangle with no wings and no tail. She said it was a darker grey shape with no lights or no other markings worth noting. Anyway, our story and wherabouts can be easily verified as well as her telling her co-employees about it and our wierd way we came about this story. I would have never written if she hadn't told me about her story. Times dates and actions during the sighting can be verified. Thank you.

Posted 2004-06-18

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