NUFORC Sighting 37519

Occurred: 1997-07-26 18:00 Local
Reported: 2004-06-11 03:58 Pacific
Duration: 45 minuts
No of observers: 1

Location: Warrensburg, MO, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Two UFO's observed over Warrensburg MO for 45 minutes in broad daylight.

During the late 1990's, I was on active duty in the Air Force, stationed at Whiteman AFB. On the evening of July 26, 1997 I was washing my car at a self-serve car wash on the north east side of Warrensburg Mo. next to highway 50. The sky was clear and there were still a couple of hours until sunset. I noticed 2 dark objects hovering over the south-central side of town, about 2 miles away, at an altitude of about 1500 feet AGL. The objects were identical, each consisting of an equilateral triangle with a sphere at each corner. The thickness of the triangular portion was approximately one quarter of the objects' length, with the spherical sections' diameter about twice the thickness of the triangular section. They appeared to be about 100 to 150 feet long. The objects were flat black in color with no visible markings, intake/exhaust ports, or windows. I could not hear any sounds from the objects. The southern most object did not move at all, watching it was like staring at a photograph. The northern most object only occasionally yawed from left to right about 60 degrees in each direction. Its position in relation to the unmoving object never changed. After about 45 minutes, I turned away to insert more coins in the car wash, and when I turned back, the objects were gone. Less than a minute after the objects disappeared, three A-10 attack aircraft from Whiteman AFB flew over me less than 200 feet up, they were heading west, paralleling highway 50. I could see that the only ordinance they were carrying were sidewinder air to air missiles. The A-10s turned south and flew over the center of Warrensburg, towards the previous location of the objects. At that location, they broke formation and continued south along slightly different vectors. For the remainder of my Air Force career, I did not report my sighting, nor even tell anyone about it.

Posted 2004-06-18