Prior Encounters
I’ve witnessed several otherworldly events and UFO sightings over the years, and each was reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). MUFON told me that the county in which I live is a “hot spot” for UFO activity, resulting in a number of sightings being reported.
The reports I submitted in writing are below. They have been edited where necessary and reformatted for the ease of the Reader. My extensive communications with MUFON representatives on the frequent inference experienced with the camera and the resulting images are not included.
NONE OF THESE OFFICIALLY REPORTED SIGHTINGS HAS EVER BEEN EXPLAINED.
DOCUMENTED SIGHTINGS
Filed with MUFON
Sighting 01
August 9, 2007
MUFON Case #24911
While standing outside facing south and looking up at the sky, I heard a loud roar over my right shoulder and turned to look. Out of nowhere, a triangle shaped object appeared and at the same time, the roar stopped. The object was completely silent for the duration of the sighting. It passed over a tree which was west of me by about 40 feet and north of me about 50 feet, and it cleared the 60-foot tree by about 30 feet. The sky was dark, though not black, and airplanes (with running lights on) could be easily seen flying at high altitudes. There were no planes at low altitudes.
The object’s shape was in a triangle. The object was solid, as it had an outline and blocked out the stars behind it. It was very dark, with each point of the triangle having a rather dim white light, and in the center was a blinking red light. These lights turned off for a period of perhaps ½ minute, starting when it was about 60 or 70 feet south of the tree it had passed over, and just after I had moved my position to be almost directly under the object. The size of the object seemed to be about 25 to 30 feet long from the front point to the back, and the dimension across the back, as seen later, seemed to be somewhat shorter.
It traveled very slowly (a human could have outrun it) on an even horizontal altitude toward the south/southwest, over pastures, a road and then a bean-field, for about ½ mile before I lost sight of it. I believe I lost sight of it due to the terrain, as there is a slight slope to the land. As it passed over the bean-field, I noted that the back end of the triangle seemed to be less than 10 feet high, and completely but dimly lit with white light. A few times, the land below and to its left glowed with a soft white diffused light. The sky above the illuminated land was also lighter than the sky above the object, but only up to the height of the object. My view was unobstructed during its path except for a few moments when 2 or 3 trees got in the way. It did not pass in front of or behind these trees; merely my view was obstructed for a few moments.
Duration of sighting may have been about 3 to 4 minutes, hard to tell, as I was rather stunned to see such a thing. I did not think it was an airplane, glider, helicopter or any other object I had ever seen before.
Sightings 02 & 03
September 22 & 23, 2010
uforeportform Result #5742969 No case number assigned
September 22, 2010: I went outside and noticed a very bright, faintly pulsating red light in the southwest, about 10 degrees above the horizon, which I thought could have been a planet as it was so bright (after checking with an amateur astronomer friend, it could not have been Mars, which I initially thought it was). The moon was full with not many stars out and Jupiter was plainly visible near it.
When I went outside again at 10 pm, the light had moved slightly eastward and upward to perhaps 20 degrees above the horizon, and no longer appeared as a bright red color; it was rather white in aspect. I ran inside for my binoculars and camera, and when I came back outside, it was moving in an east/northeast direction. When viewed through the binoculars, it was a grouping of three lights, 2 red and one white, which did not blink but remained constant. As it moved from southwest of me to east/northeast of my position, it was about 50 degrees above the horizon, and plainly visible with the naked eye.
Its altitude at its closest point was very much lower than that of a commercial jet. The two red lights were forward as it moved, with the white light trailing behind. I could not make out any shape corresponding to the lights. There were no planes in the sky, and the speed of the three lights was indeterminate, neither slow nor fast – there was nothing to compare it to. I tried to take pictures (Sony cyber-shot 14.1 on twilight setting) however, it was not possible to see through the viewfinder. I did not think it was a plane due to the position of the lights and the fact that they did not blink.
Camera and image interference noted.
September 23, 2010: At about 7:45 pm, I went outside with my binoculars and camera. In the west/southwest, I saw a dim red or orange light visible just above the tree line about a thousand feet away; no idea of actual location of the object. I took 2 pictures (Sony cyber-shot 14.1, auto-set), then it just disappeared.
Camera and image interference noted.
Sighting 04
December 1, 2010
uforeportform Result #5839752
No case number assigned
While driving up the lane to my rural home, I saw a very bright round orange light to the north, but upon getting closer to the house I could not see the location of where it had been due to trees. In taking out the dogs from the house just moments later, though, I felt nervously compelled to take the camera out with me.
As soon as I got outside, I saw an object which had an easily discernable dark triangle shape, but seemed somewhat rounded in the back. It had 3 solid bight white lights on the back, with a red blinking light on each side of these 3 lights, and seemed to have a dull solid white light on the front point. It came from the north, traveling south/southwest, and was at a height much lower than the average commercial aircraft, certainly less than 5,000 feet in altitude. I could not tell its true size, but a nickel at arm’s length would have easily covered it. It seemed to move a little slower compared to the usual aircraft sighted in the area, and may have emitted a faint rumbling sound, but I’m not sure.
The path of this object was nearly identical to a triangle object which I saw on August 9, 2007 and reported earlier this year. The sky was very dark and completely clear of any cloud cover. It should be noted that all commercial flights in this area travel from either east to west or west to east, at a much higher altitude, and do not have the pattern of lights that I saw on this object. Duration of the sighting was less than 30 seconds before it just seemed to fade away, perhaps due to distance.
Camera and image interference noted.
Sighting 05
May 31, 2011
MUFON Case #29630
I saw a definite silver cylinder with slightly rounded ends, about the apparent same size of an ordinary passenger jet, traveling almost overhead, at a fairly slow speed, although a person could not have outrun it. There was no sound. The object traveled west to east at a level altitude but much lower than a commercial plane - perhaps just a few thousand feet. Very smooth movement, very smooth shiny surface, but there were definitely no wings, as I could see the back end of it as it moved away from me.
At one point, there seemed to be air displacement around it. Just after that point, it looked like it may have separated horizontally slightly for a brief moment, at which time there seemed to be a red band between the two sections. The sky was blue and cloudless. From the time I noticed it in the sky until it disappeared, it traveled a distance of what seemed like a few miles. It seemed to just fade away, but that could have been because of distance. Sighting lasted about 1 minute and was fascinating. I did not have time to go back inside for my camera.
Sighting 06
May 26, 2022
MUFON Case #125141
I first saw the lights from the kitchen deck, appearing to be just over the northern edge of my property and on my neighbor’s adjoining field which has a higher elevation than my deck. There seemed to be about a hundred of them, separate globes of glowing, sparkling golden lights of various sizes, stretching for well over 100 hundred feet in an east/west orientation. The lights started close to the ground and I estimated that the total height from the ground of the mass of lights varied between 5 and 7 feet. There was also a smaller, shorter cluster of these golden globes, separate and apart from the main group, on my land and further to the west.
Then I heard a loud rumble coming from the northwest which sounded like a truck or farm equipment. Trying to see the source of the sound, I used binoculars and now there were no globes but I saw rows of very thin rectangular shapes, uniformly 7+ foot tall and about 8 inches wide, moving as with a light breeze and gold in color as if lit up by golden headlights. The rumble suddenly ceased, the globes reappeared and I could hear no sound other than insects and frogs.
I was determined to see what this was all about. I drove my truck west down my lane and stopped at its crossroad: turn south to head to the main road, turn north and the lane goes down a hill, over a bridge and up a hill on my land then turning north onto my neighbor’s land. I felt that the lights were gone. I turned the engine off; there was no sound. By the time I got up to where the lights would have been, they had completely vanished; there was nothing but a plowed field.
After making my way back home, I told myself that if such a thing were to happen again, I would merely walk to the spot. I went immediately onto the kitchen deck. I saw they were back, but different. They were only dozens now and then for a few moments their color was dark gray, seemingly due to a lighter gray-colored beam of light coming down upon them. The beam appeared quite wide at ground level but oddly thin in depth and was angled from a moderately easterly position. Where it hit the ground, the beam looked to be at least 30 to 35 feet wide. At the top of what I could see of it, it was maybe 10 or 12 feet wide. There were walnut trees just to the south of the beam, the foliage of which starts at about 20-25 feet and the trees are no taller than about 40 feet. There was no sign of the beam above the trees. The beam abruptly shut off and the globes were gold again.
All this was enough to make me put on rubber boots and begin walking there in the dark. I walked straight down from the house and turned west onto the wide path between the ponds and the creek. I could still see them but as I walked, their number was dwindling. By the time I got to the bridge, I knew they would be gone. Coming to the where they had been, there was no sign of them at all.