NUFORC Sighting 138563

Occurred: 1967-11-15 22:15 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2018-01-23 20:11 Pacific
Duration: 90 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

Two lights hover over my house silently and then begin to drift away rapidly gaining speed disappearing in a split second.

It was a clear cold night in November of 1967. I was living in the upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs. My two older brothers and I were Boy Scouts and my father was our scout troop leader. We were just returning home after a troop meeting in town.

As we came to a stop at the curb in front of our house, two lights in the sky over the house caught my eye - a red light and a green light. They were small, appearing to be spaced a couple feet apart horizontally. Immediately I thought to myself, “Piper Cub, Cessna; running lights, red starboard, green port side. (sic. Red light is on port/left side; green is on starboard/right side) Okay, wonder if there’s anything to snack on tonight?”

I exited my father’s station wagon, shut the door and looked up again to see the lights were still there, though a bit farther apart as if whatever it was had descended in altitude. They were standing still hovering there. My mind was rapidly abandoning the fixed wing aircraft narrative as I tried to reconcile the fact that the lights were hovering and there was no sound to be heard. Were it an airplane, given the space between the lights, I’d have put it at no more than two hundred feet overhead. All this mental processing was taking place rapidly and I called to my older brother who was coming around the front of the station wagon and told him to come look at this. My father and our assistant scout master, ((male name deleted)), were already going through the front door into the house to sit down, have a smoke and shoot the breeze.

My brother and I stared silently at the lights for a what may only been thirty to forty-five seconds. The night sky was quite black, the stars bright, but I could not see anything discreet between the lights. In the next moment, those lights began to drift off to our right, which was to the south as we stood. The lights moved in unison in a gentle sine wave, low amplitude, low frequency. Then the lights accelerated gaining amplitude and frequency in a split second, merging into a single point of light, cutting a long trail of light as if on an oscilloscope, and disappeared all the way out to the vanishing point to the south.

My brother and I burst into astonished excitement, neither of us able to believe what we’d just seen. We ran into the house, both shouting to my father and the assistant scoutmaster, Roger, that we just saw a UFO. While we were desperately trying to describe what we saw, my father pulled out his imaginary violin and in a mocking way, began playing us his “tell me another one” song. ((male name deleted)) was sitting silent and motionless in an easy chair next to my father’s chair.

((male name deleted)) was an active duty Air Force ((senior)) sergeant in charge at the local radar tracking site on the southern edge of town at that time. He sat there in the living room, silent, one elbow on the arm of the chair, head propped on his thumb and forefinger, cigarette in the other hand. As I turned to look at him, he took a drag on his cigarette, narrowed his eyes and slowly nodded to me a silent “Yes.” Note: The pattern of flight this craft exhibited closely matches that of a UFO seen by Mr. Peter Davenport as a child. His description is relayed in a podcast of a presentation he gave at an Ozark Mountain UFO Conference. I just now watched that podcast and was compelled to offer this account. I've heard only one other such description of this pattern of motion as a UFO departs a location.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD


Posted 2018-01-25

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