NUFORC Sighting 18834

Occurred: 2001-08-04 21:00 Local
Reported: 2001-08-05 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 min.
No of observers: 4

Location: Ashtabula, OH, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

two silver cigar shaped objects. Objects apprear to have bright silver lighting running down the middle. Moving slowly,one moving east, another appears and is moving west, they criss-cross. One moving to the west disappears then reappears. One moving to the west disappears. One moving east disappears. Before they disappear, a jet is seen going east. No noise. Two adults are watching this. Ages: 20's and 40's. Women,homemakers. We are at a elementary school with another adult and 3children. Children ages:12,7&7. They are riding bikes on the other side of the building, they do not see anything. Around 9:30 pm, the other adult and children join us at the front of the school building. Bright silver object apprears, bright silver lighting, red and yellow lighting toward center. This object is very slowly moving toward us. We are all on bikes, scared we all start to take off for home, looking up at it, it is following us. Glancing back it disappears, glancing back again it appears and following. We get home,looking out of house window,we no longer see object

NUFORC Note:

NUFORC Notes: No other reports received for this incident yet. The description seems to us somewhat reminiscent of a sighting of a blimp, but we suspect that blimps flying in formation, or in pairs, would be a rather rare event. We do not know what was seen in this instance. PD

Posted 2001-08-05