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UFO Casebook Newsletter # 56
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06-27-03 / Issue # 56 Featured Articles Breaking News Site Updates UFO sighting reports Quote of the Week Editor, B. J. Booth
Contributor, Billie Brinkley |
STATEMENT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
James E. McDonald, Senior Physicist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, and professor, Department of Meteorology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Prepared statement submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics at July 29, 1968, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Rayburn Bldg., Washington, D.C., by James E. McDonald.
McDonald addressed a number of queries during his time at the symposium, there is only room here to deal with one of those. We will do others in upcoming issues of the magazine.
One cannot study the UFO problem long without being struck by the
preponderance of reports that come from somewhat remote areas, non-urban
areas. Similarly, one cannot escape the conclusion that more UFOs are
reported at night than in day; For the latter, luminosity and its obvious
effect on probability of chance visual detection may go far towards
explaining the diurnal variation of UFO sightings (though I suspect that most
students of the problem would conclude that there is a real excess of
nighttime occurrences for quite unknown reasons). Why, some ask with respect
to the geographical distribution, don't the UFOs, if real and if
extraterrestrial, spend most of their time looking over our cities? That's
what we'd do, if we got to mars and found huge urban complexes , some
skeptics insist.
It is surprising to find scientists who do not see through the
transparency of that homocentric fallacy. If it were true that we were under
surveillance from some advanced civilization of extraterrestrial origin, the
pattern of the observations, the motivation of the surveillance, and the
degree of interest in one versus another aspect of our planet could be almost
incomprehensible to us. Aboriginal natives under anthropological observation
must find almost incomprehensible the motives behind the strange things that
the field-teams do, the odd things in which they are interested. But the
cultural and the intellectual gulf that would separate us from any
intelligent beings commanding a technology so advanced that they could cross
interplanetary or interstellar distances to inspect us would be a gulf vastly
greater than that which separates a Harvard field-anthropologist from a New
Guinea native. And, for this reason, I think one must concede that, within
the argumentation carried out under tentative consideration of an
extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs, incomprehensibility must be expected as
almost inevitable. Hence there is more whimsy than good reasoning in queries
such as, "Why don't they land on the White House lawn and shake hands with the President?"
Nevertheless, the evidence affords a fairly definite answer to the
skeptics' question, "Why aren't they ever seen over or in cities?" They are;
1. Case 16. New York City, November 22, 1966:
A report in a 1967 issue of the NICAP UFO Investigator(reads as follows:
Witnesses mentioned were D.R. McVay, assistant general manager of ANPA and
Mr. W. H. Leick, manager of the ANPA's Publications Department. I telephoned
the ANPA offices and spoke at some length with Mr. Leick about the sighting.
He confirmed that eight or nine persons went out on the 17th floor terrace,
watching the object hover over the UN Building (as nearly as they could
estimate) for a number of minutes as it rocked and reflected the sun's rays
with a golden glint before rising and moving off eastward at high speed. I
asked Leick if they reported it to any official channels, and he said that
A.A. LaSalle called a New York office of the Air Force and was assured that
an officer would be in the next day to interview them. -But no one ever came.
Leick added that they also phoned a New York newspaper "which shall go
unnamed," but "they weren't interested." It got to NICAP almost by accident,
and NICAP sent up their standard witness-questionnaires which Leick said they
all filled out.
Discussion:
submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics at July 29, 1968, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Rayburn Bldg., Washington, D.C., by James E. McDonald.
WHY AREN'T UFOs EVER SEEN IN CITIES? WHY JUST IN OUT-OF-THE-WAY PLACES?"A UFO over the United Nations in New York City was reportedly
seen on November 22, 1966. Witnesses included at least eight
employees of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, who
watched from their offices on the 17th floor of 750 Third Avenue
at 4:20 p.m. on a bright, sunny day. The UFO was a rectangular,
cushion-shaped object ... (which) came southward over the East
River, then hovered over he UN Building ... it fluttered and
bobbed like a ship on agitated water."
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When an incident such as this is cited to the skeptic who asks, "Why no
UFOs near cities?", I find that his almost invariable retort is something
like; "If that had really happened, why wouldn't hundreds to thousands of
persons have reported it?" There are, I believe, two factors that explain the
latter situation. First, consider the tiny fraction of persons on any city
street whose vision is directed upwards at any given moment. In absence of
loud noises aloft, most urbanites don't spend any large amount of time
scanning the skies
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The first becomes the second only if a witness takes the step of notifying a newspaper, a law enforcement office, a university, or some official agency. It is abundantly clear, from the experience of UFO investigations in many parts of the world, that psychological factors centering around unwillingness to be ridiculed deter most witnesses from filing any official report on a very unusual event. Again and again one learns of a UFO sighting quite indirectly, from someone who knows someone who once mentioned that he'd seen something rather unusual.
On following such leads, one frequently comes upon extremely significant sightings that were withheld from official reporting channels because of the "ridicule lid", as I like to term it, that imposes a filter screening out a large number of good sightings at their source.
Returning to the 11/22/66 New York City report, I must say that, between the information NICAP secured from the witnesses and my own direct conversations with Leick, I accept this as a quite real sighting, made by reliable observers under viewing circumstances that would seem to rule out obvious conventional explanations. When the object left its hovering location, it rose straight upward rapidly, before heading east, Leick said. Although he and his colleagues may well have erred in their slant-range estimate which put it over the UN Building, their description of its shape and its maneuvers would appear to rule out helicopters, aircraft, balloons, etc.
Sverdlovsk Region Haunted by Green UFO
06/23/2003 14:08
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The strange object was moving underneath clouds. The UFO brightly lit the
night sky and disappeared. However, many of the witnesses managed to take
pictures of the phenomenon and filmed it. For the time being, neither local astronomers nor emergency situation services have commented upon the phenomenon. It is not clear what effect the flying object exerted upon the witnesses. According to UralPolit.ru, the Air Defense hasn't issued any comments upon the event yet. |
A green UFO has been observed in the skies over Yekaterinburg for about two years. People from the Turinsky district (Yekaterinburg region) have an opportunity to observe a green spherical luminous object flying in the sky every evening. An eye-witness, journalist from the local newspaper Izvestia Tur Raisa Tomilova says that the local UFO is a small green object of a bulb size. The object can be seen only at night in any season. The locals have already got used to the phenomenon over the past two years.
The green object moves along the same trajectory: it emerges in the sky right above the local match-making factory, then it slowly moves along the Tura River towards the pulp and paper plant, turns toward a railway bridge and withdraws to the city of Tavda. It is interesting that eye-witnesses feel nervous and anxious each time the green object emerges in the sky; local fishermen observe the phenomenon oftener than other people and say the object intensifies their thirst for alcoholic drinks. Specialists cannot so far explain why the green object appears in the city of Turinsk. The locals are inclined to think the object is piloted by aliens who watch the life on the Earth from space.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/378/10299_UFOgreen.html
Recent UFO-related News
Fishermen in Russia say they have been driven to drink by a UFO that regularly passes over them.
Fishermen near Yekaterinburg, western Russia, claim to have repeatedly seen the small green UFO over the last two years.
Some locals admitted they become anxious when they see the object, described by eyewitnesses as a small green object the size of a light bulb and most recently sighted on June 20.
But local fishermen, who claim to see it more often than anyone else, say that every time it passes over them they have an almost unquenchable thirst for alcohol, Pravda.ru reported.
Story filed: 11:28 Tuesday 24th June 2003
Ananova
UFO drives Russian fisherman to drink
One listener, Elaine from Burnett Heads, dropped into the ABC Wide Bay studios with a photo she took in winter, 2002.
This is Elaine's UFO story.
"We were on our yacht, moored at the marina near Burnett Heads.
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"It was about mid morning last year, during winter. The TAFE training vessel was out on the water with a lot of people on it. They were obviously doing a practise run on how to jump into a life raft; about six at a time were jumping in at a time. "So I was taking photos thinking this was an interesting exercise that you don't see often. My husband and I probably took five photos or so over an hour during their training.
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"Before this photo, I had never seen UFOs. I must say that now my mind is open to the idea of a UFO," said Elaine.
"I've shown lots of people who said it must have been a spot on the lens or the negative, but none of the other photos had it, and it doesn't look like a mark or a spot, it's quite round," she said.
ABC Wide Bay
The X-Prize is a competition for the first privately-funded rocket to carry people into space, return them, and then re-launch in a two-week timeframe. About a dozen groups around the world are preparing their spacecraft, including the folks who flew around the world without refueling, but a group in Hungary is working on anti-gravity machines -- "Flying Saucers," if you will. Interesting company to keep track of in Budapest -- Gravity Control Technologies.
Lockergnome
(this report was sent in through our on-line report form- B J)
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I took this picture last night about 8:45 p.m. June
19 2003. I rushed into the house to get my camera {which will not take
pictures at night unless there are bright lights, I didn't have the time to
turn flash on. I am not sure what kind of aircraft it was, but after it had passed right over top of me and about 100 to 200 feet away, I could tell it had a v-shape. It was only about 300 feet above me, if that much, and it did not make hardly any sound.
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In GODS love,
Mrs. Simkins.
NEW JERSEY CROP CIRCLE AND GREEN GLOW STICK
MOUNT BETHAL TOWNSHIP - Irregular shaped patches of grass were reported in Larison's Corner on June 15, 2003. There have been 44 crop circles reported so far this year in Australia, Italy, Germany, Canada and the US. Perhaps the most interesting was found in Ogbourne, St.George, England with a complex design of crescents based upon eight-fold geometry found on June 15, 2003. Lake hopefully forms the 'definitive' database of crop formations available on the Internet. Crop Circle Research has an excellent website with over 2000 formations logged. This is one of the most comprehensive online databases of crop circles in the world. http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/database
TRENTON -- I was outside in my garden watching the sky on June 10, 2003, and I saw, in the course of a few minutes, two slow moving meteors that moved across the sky in five to seven seconds each. They were moving very fast but slow compared to meteors I have seen before. I went in to get my wife, as I thought there might have been a meteor shower going on. She came out and within a minute she and I saw seven points of light moving closely together in the same direction at the same speed. They appeared to be crossing each other's paths and came closer together as they moved across the sky. The movement was extremely fast and somewhat organic as they flew across one-third of the arc of the sky. The lights were about as bright as a star but more of a yellow/orange color.
PARKWAY NORTH - A dull green oval crossed the skyline on June 15, 2003, at approximately 11:20 PM. The witness writes, "I had just gotten on the Parkway from Route 1, when I saw a dull neon greenish oval pass from a high altitude to low at a downward diagonal, somewhat northwest to southeast, at a very high speed. My first thought was that it was a glow stick, but it was too fast, too large and covered to much distance in the skyline to have been a glow stick. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
OCEAN GROVE - The witness reports, "I was walking toward my home around 11 PM, on Monday, June 16, 2003, when I noticed a bright star. Then, suddenly it began to move and slowly became dimmer then finally it disappeared. The object was not a satellite, or space debris. It made a sudden movement from a fixed bright star or planet to a short movement forward. Then it seemed to stop and grow dim...no trailing off or anything or reappearing somewhere else. It was great, truly my first UFO observation. I was in the airline business for 20 years and know what aircraft look like at a distance, and how they behave. This was none of that! Thanks to Beachwon@webtv.net
MARYLAND - STRANGE SOUNDING LOOKING SHADE
ARNOLD - The witness went out to check the thermometer in his driveway on June 17, 2003, at 1:30 PM. In a wooded area I heard a sharp shriek very close to me. My wife came out and asked what it was? I told her, "I don't know, get back inside NOW " I was very frightened and looked around the woods and over in the valley I saw a very dim object. It was a strange color that I've never seen before. It was not any kind of color, more like a shade. I was sick to my stomach just looking at the thing in the sky about 200 yards away. My wife came back out and asked what I was looking at? I said, "I don't know, go back inside!" It had an extremely low hum and the shade got brighter and it made the loud shriek again. My wife thought it was fireworks, but I knew it wasn't. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
NORTH CAROLINA - A ROUND BLACK OBJECT MOVING WITHOUT LIGHTS
HIGH POINT - The observer says, "I saw a round black object move across the moon from west to east at 10 PM on June 13, 2003, that moved like a floating balloon, but it was traveling horizontal to the ground at a pretty good speed. I noticed there wasn't any wind at all so I didn't think it was a balloon. There were no lights and there was no sound. It was pretty quiet around our neighborhood. I watched it for about 1 minute, it flew over the lake and I lost sight of it in the night sky. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
GEORGIA - HOVERING SAUCERS OVER RIDGE
HELEN -- Tom Sheets, MUFON Director reports that on May 13, 2003, a married Tennessee couple was visiting the Blue Ridge Mountains and lodging at one of the motels when at 11:30 PM they noticed a white flashing light moving slowly over a nearby ridgeline. The couple was rocking in their chairs enjoying the view when the craft stopped, and began to hover. She then noticed red, blue and green lights and felt it did not appear to be like any standard aircraft. The witness' husband had gone to the motel office, so she ran in and grabbed their video camera and began to take footage of the object. He returned in about 15 minutes, and the craft was still in place. The object vanished after 30 to 45 minutes, but not before two similar craft appeared. These also vanished. The craft was saucer shaped with an apparent size of a penny at arm's length. They flew at an estimated altitude of 500 feet, at less than one mile. It moved in a straight-line path before taking up it's extended hover, and seemed to fade in and out, all against a cloud cover. The lights were steady, but then seemed to also pulsate. Duration of the event was thirty to sixty minutes. They are submitting a copy of the video to MUFONGA for analysis. Thanks to Tom Sheets. MUFONGA
FLORIDA - THREE STAR SHAPED OBJECTS
LARGO -- I was driving east at 11:15 PM, then out to the right of my car window on June 13, 2003, I saw 3 large white star shaped objects flashing at different times one was higher at the top left than the one at the right which was a little lower, then another one underneath these more to the right, they were together, but not in a formation and not far apart. I yelled to my son to look but he wasn't sure what or where I was talking about. I wanted to pull over but I was going 45 mph in the center lane and another vehicle was in the right lane. The road curves and the tress were now blocking my view. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
ALABAMA - DISC ABOVE DIVINITY SCHOOL
BIRMINGHAM - Two divinity school students report, "My friend and I were walking on the Quad at Samford University on June 13, 2003, when we noticed a saucer-like object hovering about 1/4 of a mile above the Divinity School dome. At first I thought I was seeing things, or possibly the rapture-taking place (no JOKE!) but my friend and I saw it as well. We never believed in any of that UFO crap until tonight at 12:18 AM. We ran back to our dorm and reported this to campus safety, which ignored us, but we think they are just covering up the TRUTH! Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
TENNESSEE -SLOW ERIE GREEN CRAFT
MANCHESTER -- If you get any more reports of this incident please email me, thanks. I was at the Bonnaroo Music Festival outside of town on June 15, 2003, it was the last show of the festival, the grateful dead, I would have to approximate on the time that I saw it, but just after it was no longer visible the band started playing Dark Star so I would approximate 9:15-9:45 when I first saw it. The angle of elevation was at least 60 or 70 degrees. It began off right stage and for three minutes rotated clock wise and slowly moved right across the sky. It had an eerie green glow. The UFO itself was triangular or possibly had 3 darker areas that gave the impression of a triangle. I approximated that if the object was 35 meters in length then it was at least 2000-4000 meters in altitude. My friend, also witnessed it. As I pointed it out later, a female friend, also, agreed that she had seen it when I mentioned it back at the camp sight. I had not been drinking at all because I wanted to remember the show. I have an IQ of 135 and do not want to sound like I'm crazy, but I got the feeling the entire night that they were here to examine human emotion and the invisible ripple effect of feelings, emotions and thoughts that were occurring. It's the same reason that "yawning is contagious". Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
ILLINOIS - FOUR FOOT ALIEN BEING PRODUCES "ORB" OF BRIGHT LIGHT
SPRINGFIELD -- My wife arrived home from work late at 10:30 PM, on June 10, 2003, in a state of panic and terror. She was pounding on the front door so shaken; she was unable to get her key into the lock. It was very disturbing for me to see my wife going through the fear she was experiencing and I assumed she had been assaulted or raped. As I was getting ready to call the police, she calmed down somewhat and she told me to put the phone down, that it would not do any good anyway. Confused and shaken I asked why? She explained, that as she was pulling into our apartment complex, she noticed what appeared to be a small child playing around a large steel waste dumpster in the corner of the parking lot about 15 feet from her. She got out of her car to get her brief case and saw movement out of her periphery. Her next concern was if this child was too young to be playing out in the dark late at night. She began to slowly walk towards the dumpster to ask where the child's parents are at.
As she approached the dumpster she could make out the contrasting shape of a head peeking out from one corner as she calmly spoke. She approached to within 6-8 feet when she heard a loud banging noise and this "child" suddenly had ability to high jump 5 feet. It was then standing on top of the dumpster's steel lid staring down at her. At this point she described feeling a pressure in her head, nausea and dizziness. She told me she strained to identify if it was a neighborhood child who was staring at her for about 20-30 seconds, a kind of "standoff." Just as she realized this was not a child, the "being" produced a glowing-white orb of light about the size of volleyball in its hands and held on to it at about chest height. The light cast off from the glowing orb illuminated its head for several seconds and she described a large almond shaped head with big black eyes staring intently at her movements. She told me that she just stood there in stunned silence trying to understand, everything was happening in slow motion. The "being" seemed to tighten its grasp on the glowing orb of light and it jumped feet first into the dumpster and disappeared without making any noise. Right after that is when she began to breakdown emotionally and ran to the apartment.
Between the times she entered our apartment and calming her down and debriefing her was about an 1-hour. With much reluctance, I'll admit I was really crept out to do this. I went back out to the exact spot she described with my metal softball bat and D-Cell Mag-Lite. I examined that whole area, even to the point of looking inside the dumpster and I did not see or notice anything. Over the past several years we have seen many electric-white blue streaks of light in the evening around this parking lot, and have had frequent, but brief power outages. My wife and I conclude that these may be related to what she experienced. This is going out on a limb here, but my wife thinks that the orb of light was some kind of device that gave this "being" an ability to disappear, conceal or transport itself. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
TEXAS - FAINT BLUE CRESCENT
WAXAHACHIE - The observer went outside on June 15, 2003, and was enjoying the cool breeze, when he saw a plane heading for Love Field and DFW Airport to the north at 10:25 PM. It only took a second to realize this thing was moving too fast with a faint blue crescent or what may have been lights around the leading edge and sides with a faint yellowish circle in what would appear to be the middle. It was traveling at 1200 to 1500 miles per hour at around 10,000 to 15,000 feet. It crossed roughly 30% of the sky in about 3 to 4 seconds. There was no noise from its engines. I grew up around the airline industry and was unable to identify it. I called the Dallas Fort Worth Airport Information line and they referred me to you. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
CALIFORNIA -FLYING TRIANGLE
CAMARILLO - A Doctorate level professional in education saw a Chevron shaped black object flying low and slow with no sound on June 6, 2003. The observer was driving south on Lewis Road near the Point Mugu Naval Air Station and saw three Navy planes flying low along foothills of Santa Monica Mountains that veered around mountains to south and went out of sight. I thought it was "cool," a free air show, like the Blue Angels. Then at 5:30 PM, I looked to my left (east), and saw a large, low flying black chevron shaped craft moving slowly. I thought Stealth Bomber, because of its low altitude and a straight on view. It appeared completely flat on top, unlike the stealth bomber. It flew overhead with no sound. I parked and looked towards where it had been heading. Nothing was there. It had been flying east to west. I assume it is some craft I'm not familiar with. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
OREGON - THIS OBJECT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN A JET
PORTLAND -- Early this morning just after midnight, my wife and I were watching the skylight on June 18, 2003, as there was a storm well off in the distance. In between the flashes of the lightning, we were looking up at the stars and at the same time we both pointed out a bright object moving at a constant rate of speed. I thought at first that it was a jet, but it was much too high in the sky to be so. It traveled from north to south and was not blinking like lights on an airplane would be. The object looked exactly like the other stars we were gazing upon. We watched this object travel through the sky -- it did not appear to increase nor decrease its speed -- until it faded from our view as it came within proximity of another star still well above the horizon.
CRESWELL - My friend and I were outside playing basketball in front of her house and I noticed two bright lights blinking at a very rapid speed. It was moving extremely fast through the sky on June 15, 2003, just a few minutes after midnight. One minute it was in one spot and the next it was on the other side of the sky. We watched it for about five minutes as it zigzagged left and right and also up and down. We noticed it dropped something small and red. Then it kept trailing off into the sky and then it finally disappeared. It seemed to have a pattern: left, up, dropped down fast, then it went up really fast, then it went right, then all of a sudden it went left then disappeared. What we both thought was very odd was how the object sailed all the way across the sky in about 30-45 seconds and then disappeared and ended up turning around while repeating the pattern 5 or 6 times. Then all of a sudden it came really close to the ground and paused for a couple of seconds. When it came down close enough to see, it for a minute looked like a plane but then I noticed running lights: red and orange. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
CANADA - BRIGHT BLUE LIGHT
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - In an email report on June 16, 2003, at 11:05 p.m. the witness writes, "I think I saw a UFO as I closed my blinds on my window that faces north. I saw a single blue light traveling very slow towards the east. Then it flew slower and slower, and came to a complete stop, and that's when I opened my window to see if I could hear any sound and I couldn't. Then it flashed a big bright white, yellowish light and made a sharp left turn and moved faster towards the north, the light fading as it moved. I lost sight of it over the high buildings in the downtown area. Do you know of any aircraft that has this kind of lighting and can move like that? Thanks to Brian Vike
ENGLAND ALMOST AN ABDUCTION AND LIGHTENING BOLTS
CAMBRIDGE -- Walking down the street with my friend on June 15, 2003, at 4:10 PM, we saw this big long cigar shape but with spikes all over it. It came right above us, then lowered down and suddenly shot off at the speed of sound (very fast) away.
VALE OF PEWSEY - During the early hours of June 22, 2003, brilliant lightning bolts without thunder, or rain hit the area. Shortly after midnight, until well after sunrise, bizarre orange lightening bolts shot around the sky even though the air was very calm and still near Avebury, in Wiltshire. Orange lightening was also seen to leap between the clouds and orange lightening appeared in the form of a momentary circular glow in the clouds, as though the affected clouds had been punched-through by a giant cookie-cutter. Another bizarre factor was that these orange lightening bolts frequently occurred in pairs, with a separation of something less than a second.
We were situated on Knapp Hill, and the orange lightening bolts formed an arc across the horizon in front of us, and our area remained unaffected. This relative calmness ended at around 7 AM, when the wind picked-up speed, and the clouds blew over our area. As dark clouds massed overhead, a barrage of small hailstones and heavy rain hammered down on our car. East field, directly below us, was then pummeled by normal looking, blue-white lightening and earsplitting thunder. This location is known as being a hot spot for crop circles, and UFOs. Thanks to Steve Clementson.
INDIA - BOOMERANG SPOTTED
BAY OF BENGAL - To begin with, I would like to throw some light on my self and my friend. I am Anish Naidu, 27, and my friend David is 30. We are management graduates (MBA) and a network engineer. We were lying flat on the beach on May 19, at 9:45 PM having a discussion of a partially cloudy night, when we noticed this strange object, the exact shape of a 'Boomerang' just flying its way towards the land (west) from the Bay of Bengal side (east). My friend and I are damn sure of one thing, what we saw was a UFO or something really supernatural but one thing is sure after seeing it, we surely believe that we aren't alone in this astronomically huge infinite universe, we have company.
It was flying at a great height and all we could see was the exact cloud colored frame of the huge Boomerang like object, that had no lights and was flying smoothly, fast, agile and with ease in between the clouds. We saw it take two rounds, each after a gap of 4 to 5 minutes and then disappear. We have never seen anything like it ever in our lives. It was too high-tech, not the least bit like the modern day spy aircraft's used by the US and other developed countries. Thanks to UFO India NUFORC
AUSTRALIA - A BIG TRIANGLE NEAR MY SCHOOL
CANBERRA - On June 11, 2003, the student reports, "My teacher was reading us a book when my friend told me there was a UFO outside, I quickly looked outside and I saw it at 1:40 in the afternoon." It was really strange, because it kept on disappearing and reappearing as different shapes and colors, firstly it was a white cigar, then it disappeared and reappeared as a black cigar, it then disappeared again and reappeared as 2 white blobby things, it then seemed to turn and it was a big triangle thing with big lights on it and each end, firstly i thought it was a stealth bomber or something but it did not have any weird tail, and it seemed to move really strongly, my other friends saw it too and we were all convinced it was a UFO. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
The UFO Sightings and Updates on this page come from a wide
variety of sources. Among them are:
NUFORC, MUFON database, Filer's Files, UFO Round-up, UFO Wisconsin,
and the UFO Casebook.
2. Reports of unidentified flying objects are the result of:
a. A mild form of mass hysteria or "war nerves."
b. Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity.
c. Psycho pathological persons.
d. Misidentification of various conventional objects.
--Ruppelt, scoffing at "official" statements regarding UFOs
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