Bullhead City, Arizona UFO Sightings in 1987

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Two separate "fireball" incidents in very distant locations of the world. (AZ & Hawaii) I heard Peter express interest in experiences of those who have had UFO encounters in the past as well as present, so after hearing this, I was compelled to share this. Please forgive the explanation, because I've never formally reported anything like this before.

But after hearing the stories tonight, I had to share. All of the times reported above are not exact. This first experience happened when I was 17 while driving from Bullhead City back to Phoenix, AZ.

I was doing a scheduled pickup & delivery from Bullhead City with my cousin around sunset. As we approached a large mountainous rock formation, the road curved around it. Before we even got to the curve, we both saw a very large ball of light cross the sky slowly (separate of the sun), and stop dead in the air near the rock formation we were approaching.

We both were stupified, and couldn't shake the feeling of wanting to rush over to this light. So I remember speeding up, and then slowing down and pulling over to the side of the road. We both got out, and walked toward this ball of light.

I specifically remember looking back at my cousin in disbelief because this proved not to be just a reflection off of the glass of the windshield from the vehicle we were driving. I also remember walking with him closer to this ball of light. The sun was going down, and by this point, you could actually see that this ball of light was now higher in the sky than we saw originally.

And to make things even stranger, this ball of light seemed to move away, just as we would get closer. At the closest I can remember, we were about 100-200 meters away. Next thing we know, both of us were cussing, and we were both scared.

I still to this day cannot remember why we were feeling scared. My heart was racing, and we both ran back to the vehicle, jumping in, and started it up. The only strange thing that completely made me get scared was the fact that I don't remember seeing this ball fly away.

My cousin doesn't either. Even more, it was complely dark when we were running back to the vehicle. By the time we got back to Phoenix, it was dark night.

When we got back, my uncle cussed us out, and accused us of taking the vehicle for joyrides and paryting. We didn't do any such thing. But instead, we just agreed with him and took our punishment for fear of ridicule, and not being beleived.

We had also realized that there was at least 45 mins. to and hour of missing time. A similar experience happened to me again way later when I was stationed in Hawaii with the ((deleted/military unit).

At the time, our battalion was sent to the big island of Hawaii for training. The training area is located in the very middle of the big island of Hawaii. It's called P.

T.A. (Pohakuloa Training Area).

Anyway, this PTA is located between the 2 volcanoes. I was ((deleted/on assignment)), it was like 0300 hrs, and I was facing North I beleive (there's an observatory on the top of the volcano). Anyway, since I was on ((assignment)) for 2 hours, and because it's so incredibly beautiful there (the sky has literally millions of stars which can be visible on a clear night).

Well, I was viewing the sky through my NVGs (Night Vision Goggles), and looking in the direction of the observatory in the North. After looking for like 4 minutes at shooting stars, something to the left caught my eye. Actually, the NVGs flashed brightly to my left, so I put them down because I thought that some dumb soldier was using a white light (which is totally against field rules during training or combat).

When I put down the NVGs, I saw a brigh light approach silently from the West (my left) toward my position. As it got closer, it increased in brightness. As it got close enough to see that it was perfectly round, it stopped in the air.

I called in on my telelphone to report, and they thought I was joking. When I told the Sgt. to come out and look, he did, and about 10 seconds after speaking with him, the light got very bright, and then shot across the sky.

What makes this sighting even more crazy is that maybe not even 4 minutes after this "fireball" shot across the sky, a large group (maybe 10 or 15) of wild boarhogs came running through our position as if something was chasing them. Normally, these boarhogs don't usually just come runnning through, especially when we have our battery setup. They might come in individually to scrounge around for food, but you won't normally see them just "stampede" through like they did that night.

Out of all the many times I had to go out to the field for training there in PTA, I never experienced another stampede of boarhogs again. I also didn't see another fireball there either. Later the next day, I was questioned by my Platoon Sgt, and Commander about what had occurred.

I reported it, and they made no visible reaction, other than telling me that it was from one of the volcanoes. There is no way that this was from a volcano. The ball stayed in mid air for that whole time, and then shot across the sky.

I've never seen any lava do that before. The area we were moving around in was in a large valley, with wide open spaces, and very dusty fields. We weren't even close to the active volcano, or to the black rocked lava fields.

The space is very wide open, with the occasional "PU" here and there. (A PU is the Hawaiian word for large hill) When we finally got out of the field after over 2.5 weeks, it was big talk.

Apparently, MANY other soldiers who were also in the area from the other batteries saw it too. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. We would most welcome reports from other members of the military who might have been witness to this event! PD)).