NUFORC Sighting 47869

Occurred: 2005-06-04 22:15 Local
Reported: 2005-11-21 10:06 Pacific
Duration: 1hr 45min
No of observers: 0

Location: Trout Lake, WA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Four UFOs in less than 2 hours, all of which "parked" above us, witnessed by a dozen people.

Here's my UFO witness report from Saturday June 4, 2005.

I tried to power up my digital (still) camera for the really awesome one of the four UFOs I saw that would have shown you something interesting, but was too late to capture it.

BTW, these are the first UFO’s I’ve ever seen.

We were 13 miles South of Mt. Adams looking towards the mountain at 10:15 pm Saturday night until midnight.

Here's a synopsis: First sighting: a star sized white light UFO was crossing the sky directly above us going from approximately North to South at a fairly fast clip, and was "snaking" perhaps 10 degrees back and forth by several nearby stars. It moved across the sky for about 20 to 30 degrees of arc, and stopped, parked there and dimmed. With the hundreds of stars visible and the fact that it stopped moving, I soon lost track of the UFO's exact position. Another witness had a telephoto lens and saw a red light attached to its tail, while it was moving. I managed to spot this UFO first, as I have excellent long range vision.

Second sighting: a brighter star sized UFO came into view from the East traveling in a Westerly direction. It traveled for about 10 to 15 degrees of arc across the sky at about a 60 degree angle from the ground. Then, in a very short space, it took a smooth 30-40 degree arcing turn to the NNW, traveled a short distance, and stopped high above Mt Adams. No dimming. Lost site of it among the hundreds of stars that were out (I can only go so long without blinking!).

Third (and best) sighting: A medium bright, star sized UFO came in from the WSW, meandered somewhat randomly for 10-15 degrees of arc, heading in an Easterly direction. It stopped right next to a dimmer star. Suddenly it "lit up". I don't mean it got a little brighter; it got hundreds of times brighter than it was. Imagine Mars, when in view, is the brightest object in the sky by 2-3 times the brightest stars in the sky, and multiply that by 50-100 times. The "lighting up" lasted for 3-5 seconds, then dimmed to a faint star in size and brightness, and moved off into space, dimming to nothing, within a couple arc degrees, in a snaking trajectory, heading ENE. When that UFO lit up, the dozen or so people there reacted with awe, cheering and yelling for more. That UFO was just letting us know it was undeniably there and perhaps saying "Hi" - I was extremely impressed... Absolutely drop dead awesome!!!!!!

Fourth sighting: A star sized UFO traveling from the North and very dim, was moving South when it "flashed" like a strobe pulse, maybe 5-10 times brighter than Mars would be, then returned to a very dim object (barely visible). A few seconds later, it flashed again, and dimmed. This scenario repeated 10-15 times while crossing directly overhead, and traveling 30-40 degrees of the sky, changing directions several times, along the way. The flashes were randomly timed, varying from a second to several seconds in between. The UFO then stopped almost directly above us, and parked there for the rest of the night, dim and unmoving. It was SE of the big dipper, then, and was aligned to two stars below it, where I could see and check on it, and it didn't move again.

During the viewing time I saw a shooting star (which I've seen dozens of before), and airplanes, which were obvious by their trajectories, flashing colored lights, straight traverses and speeds. Observed them many times before. The four UFO sightings, above, were nothing of the kind.


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NUFORC Note:

We cannot be certain what the witness observed, but we have an opinion on the third and fourth sightings.

The third is not inconsistent with the flash of an Iridium satellite. Data for the evening of June 4th, 2005, can be seen below:

04 Jun 04:51:10 -1 18° 80° (E ) 69.9 km (E) -6 Iridium 96
04 Jun 05:13:47 -5 17° 33° (NNE) 1.8 km (W) -5 Iridium 28
04 Jun 23:01:56 -7 28° 40° (NE ) 4.8 km (W) -7 Iridium 17
05 Jun 03:23:02 -1 42° 127° (SE ) 34.4 km (W) -8 Iridium 25
05 Jun 04:37:20 -1 18° 80° (E ) 64.3 km (E) -6 Iridium 28


http://www.heavens-above.com/iridium.asp?lat=45.998&lng=-121.527&alt=579&loc=Trout+Lake&TZ=PST&Date=38507.4153333333&Dur=2

An Iridium "flare" would have been visible for a few seconds in the northeast sky. The reports appears to us to be consistent with the direction a witness would have to have been looking, in order to witness the "flare."


The fourth sighting is not inconsistent with a tumbling booster in space, but that is only a guess.

PD))


Posted 2005-12-16

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