Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1997

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NOTE: I received a letter from the witness on 07/16/00. I sent her a letter asking if she would like to file an offfical report with MUFON. Here is details from her account.

I am a forty-five year old female who has had a life-long interest in UFO's since the age of five. On December 31, 1997 around 5:45 p.m.

I was walking my dog. On one side of the street there were lots of pine trees, but I could see through their tops. I live near the airport so I know there is constant air traffic, so I glanced up twice at an aircraft before finally taking a longer look.

The craft was like a triangle shape but each of the three sides were a different length, and the bottom of the craft was covered with blue-white lights, so it must be a UFO. I was looking at it through the trees but couldn't tell how big it was. I started running towards a clearing to get a better look and it was like it read my mind.

As I started running all the lights on the craft went out and it was no longer in view. Everything around was still and quiet.

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Triangle UFO near Gulfport, MS 12/31/97 While walking her dog near the Gulfport airport, a woman noticed an isosceles triangular object high in the sky beyond a nearby line of pine trees. The underside of the object was covered in bluish-white lights. She began to run toward the trees, intending to get a better look on the far side, but the lights on the object immediately extinguished.

She was then unable to see the object in the night sky. Distance from the witness and altitude were undetermined. Duration of the event was about 45 seconds.

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cigar shaped ufo sighting in southern mississippi. huge. at night.

Sir, i must tell what i saw, one night at my home, on my 50 acre ranch in the country. i walked out onto my second story balcony, which faces east and looked across my 4 acre pond and above the pine trees i saw a jet black cigar shaped craft no more than a 2 thousand feet up. barley over the tops of the trees from my vantage.

it was massive in size. i estimate 3 football fields in length. moving slow at about 50 or 60 mph.

given its size and my vantage point to look at it, i saw it for about 7 minuets. it was moving north to south. the night was clear, stars were out and the moon lit up the night pretty well.

so my visibility was good. i could clearly see it. it made no noise at all.

it had what looked like windows in the front of it. rectangular shaped. and as i was observing it, calling on my cordless phone to my neighbors to run out side and see it, the windows lit up from the inside of it in the very front of the cigar.

and i saw shapes inside, though di! stant, of what were heads of human like people. than the lights went out. they were only on for a few seconds.

i was lucky to see it. in a straight line it was less than 2 miles from me. i have 20 20 vision.

i was 38 years old. i am well educated. world traveled.

and know what aircraft are and look like under any circumstances. my 1st impression was that this was a military ship of some kind. there are major air force bases in the area and airports.

however i also thought, well this could be extra terrestrial too. nobody i called was home at that time so i was the only witness. i will never forget it.

it was huge. and very, very real. it had no lights on the outside at all.

just black in color. i feel strongly i should report this sighting too you. i hope you mark it well.

so others can know. it was real.

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SAW BRIGHT ORANGE FIREBALL CROSSED SKY LEFT TO RIGHT IN FRONT OF CAR.LOW AND BRIGHT FOR 5 SECONDS LEFT TO RIGHT. EXPLODED TO BRIGHT GREEN LIGHTING SKY AS WENT DOWNWARD BEHIND TREELINE WE WERE DRIVING WEST ON HW 72 ABOUT 10PM ON 8/2/97.

ABOUT 1 MILE BEFORE THE INTERSECTION OF HW 15. A BRIGHT ORANGE OBJECT WAS OBSERVED ABOUT 20 DEGREES ABOVE THE HORIZON, GOING LEFT TO RIGHT. TOOK ABOUT 5 SECONDS TO CROSS, BURSTING TO A GLOWING BRILLIANT GREEN AND DESCENDING BEHIND THE TREE LINE ON THE HORIZON.

WE LEARNED LATER THAT THIS IS NEAR WHERE THERE WAS NASA FACILITY BEGUN BUT NEVER OCCUPIED AS GOVERNMENT FUNDING WAS CANCELLED?? I WILL NEVER FORGET HOW BRIGHT IT WAS AND LIT THE SKY. IT MAY HAVE BEEN FAR AWAY BUT DIDN'T SEEM SO WHEN WE SAW IT. IT WAS LIKE OBSERVING A COMMERCIAL AIRLINER LANDING FROM SAY A MILE AT MOST.

BUT THE COLORS WERE SO BRILLIANT AGAINST THE PITCH BLACK SKY THAT NIGHT.

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I experienced a u.f.o.

sighting that I dont fully understand who,what or why?. I seen three egg(not quite perfectly round)orange/reddish egg shaped object's off in a marsh like feild on a penisuale in the gulf of mexico by a naval base near ingel's ship building yard.The sky was clear,and there were star's out in the sky.

the egg like object's were the size of hot air ballon's,and there were three of them.they sat on the ground about 75 feet apart for approx.1 min.

,the object's then appeared to simotanisley ascend into the sky getting closer to each other the higher they got.The three object's then mergerd into one big object of bright orange/reddish color about 400ft. into the sky,and stayed hovering in the same spot for 30sec.

,then ascending into the sky at a angle of maybey 37 degrees.the object moved at a increadable speed,faster than any civilan or military aircraft's could go at that angle untill it was not visible.From the time I spotted the object to the the time it was in the sky and then not visible anymore was approx.

3min.I am posotive of what I saw and a little spooked.Iwas in the navy at the time I saw this event,but never reported it or told anyone fearing no one would believe me and would have me commited.

At the time I had on a walkman radio and during the sighting of the object I experinced radio reception trouble other than just average radio static.I went from getting in local station's loud and clear to getting nothing but static(shortwave like static).Then about 3min.

after the object was no longer visible I was able to get in local station's again.I checked the batterie's and the connection on the radio and both checked out o.k.

What ever It was,what was It doing so close to a military base?Maybey studying/analizing military behavior and/or equpment?What ever It was I'm convinced It was not of this world nor this time and space.There was also one other important thing about the object/object's,It never really made a sound.The object was defintley not a ball of light from naturaly earthly marsh or water or any other kind of vapor/gas reflection's.

The object's/o! bject we re a solid mass.the object was also NOT a secret spy vehicle or experimental wheather ballone's,not at the way it ascended then merging and leaving at the angle and speed it left at.The speed the object left at would be like going from 0-300mph in 10sec.

or less!Impossible for any aircraft of this world at that low of altitude and angle. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. Experience is similar in some respect to a well-known case that occurred in Pascagoula, MS, in October 1973, involving Messrs.

Hickson and Parker. PD)).

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Flashing Lights Seen Over Treeline in Kosciusko, MS 1997 I had had a horrible thing happen to me a few weeks before this incident. I was about 16 years old and had a slumber party one night where two of my friends came over to spend the night. We went to sleep .