United States UFO Sightings In 1989

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TRIANGULAR CRAFT MADE 90 DEGREE TURNS Isaw a light approaching from about 5 miles away.After several minutes it looked like the end light on a plane.It executed a 90 degree turn and went directly over my head.

I trained my binocular on it and I saw a light at each end and one in the center,It was a triangle about 2500 feet up.It executed another 90 and it went toward Ocklawaha area, It was silent.That night my friends son saw it in the ocklawaha area.

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Large dark triangular object with two round lights on either end and smaller circular lights in the middle Playing cards late one night I kept noticing a bright light over the island several hundred feet in front of our lakehouse. This was not unusual because plans often came across the lake as one of the flight paths to the Bangor Airport. What was unusual was the light stayed the same with out changing and there was no noise.

Both, my husband and I kept saying "that's weird", but were convinced it was a plane. After some time we knew this was not right and went out side to see what it was and to our amazement we could distinquish in the night sky, a large triangular shaped object hoovering slightly above the trees of this 3 acre Island. Had the object been more directly over the Island, it would not have been much smaller in diameter; the air seemed muffled, but there was no sound.

Two large round lights which looked like the burners of a gas stove(bluish) were on two ends and under the object, in a circular form were smaller lights (greenish- if I recall). It must have been at leat 200 feet long (at least) My kids would swim to island, but it was about 1/4 mile in front of our house. There was no noise! My husband started to walk closer to the shoreline, to get closer, but I was scared.

When he did that it seemed to start to move slowly toward us, and I ran to the house. When I stopped and looked back it sat still for a moment or two, and that just bolted off (still no noise). We called the airport the next day to see if the stealth had been in, but we got no where for information.

I have written on-line,somewhere, but never heard anything. No, we were not drinking, do not have psychological issues, or obsessed about this issue. Just very weird, and after this event I would wake up screaming on many occassions, which I had never done before.

yet, I had no idea why. And, nearly six months after the event both my husband and I were slammed out of bed (in the middle of the night) by nothing we could see. We sat up most of that night trying to figure out what was wrong with us, or the house.

! . Maybe it had something to do with the object, maybe not.? WE sold the house, and the doctor that purchased it has told me he's been happy and not mentioned anything "unusual", and (of course) I was not about to say anything.

Maybe it was really the stealth, and maybe I just had some night screams for normal reasons (I don't know what, but perhaps it happens), But, there truely is no explanation for the violent forced blow sending both, my husband and I, out of the bed and on to the floor. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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We all know we saw the same circular glowing object that night My parents and I (I was 16) we were leaving our development and went to a stop sign. Across the street was a graveyard, we all froze when we saw the glowing lights going around and round. The lights were circular and changed from blue to red and green.

The object hoovered over the trees behind the graveyard. We all just sat there and looked at it until it went away, then left. My parents have always been reluctant to talk about it because of course, people woundnt believe it.

Although we are ALL very sure of what we saw. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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The Saucer Tried To Land On Our Snow-Covered Field As We Crossed To Reach Our School. It was really scary, and I have tried to forget about it, but I have not been able to. I was only 10 years old at the time.

I am 22 now, and have waied a long time to share my story. One darkish Winter morning, my mother and my father were walking my sister and I to school. Our school was fairly close to our old apartment building in Chicago on the Westside.

To get to our school, you have to walk across a huge empty field. This field was covered with snow. Anyway, we were coming across the field, a few other people were ahead of us.

Then it happened. There was a SUPER loud crashing sound. Louder than anything I've ever heard.

Later, I found out that this noise was heard all across Chicago, and some close cities. So you know it was LOUD! Then I saw a white round object that looked hard, hovering over the field. About as high as your average house.

It was low enough to scare everybody on the field. There was a bright strip of light, coming from one side of the Saucer. There was a crazy beeping sound, and everybody on the field hit the ground.

We covered our heads in the cold snow. We were scared. When we got back up, the object was gone, and the sky had gone back to being dark.

Everybody was shaken up. Laughing about what we had just seen. We didn't know what to do, this was 1989.

There was only 1 white spaceship. It never landed. But I believe that it was trying to land on our snow-covered field.

But when they saw humans, they scared us, and left. I am now 22. I'm black.

I'm in college. My father is now dead of a heart attack, he would be 44 in October. My mother is 44.

She works at a hospital. She's the sweetest lady. My sister is 26.

She graduated with a degree in pschology from a 4-year university. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. We will request other reports from the other witnesses.

We have received reports for other dates that are somewhat similar to this one, namely, from Traverse City, MI, and from northern California. PD)).

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bright lite making fast moves and complex I saw a bright light manuevering very fast. It made circles and patterns and went to infinity and came back then shot a sparkler looking thing into the snow. I lost time as when I got home it was 2 am.

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Red Oval object in the mountains of Tennessee I remember this very vividly since it occured around my birthday and my parents scoffed since it was before Christmas. I heard my Old English Sheepdog franticly barking and I veered out my window of my 3 story house and saw a red oval object hooving about 500 yards from my home over the pine forest on the back of our home estate. It was hoovering for approximately 5 mins, then in snap propelled into the atmosphere in less than a span of time of 2 seconds.

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loud explosions by white star like light I heard several loud explosions with the same interval of time between each. I went out on the porch and observed a white light which looked like a star. It was hard to judge it's distance but it exploded every 3-4 seconds and dimmed.

I was looking east towards Santa Clara along Evelyn Ave.This same phenomena also happened on Feb. 7th 1991.

This time at 22:30 (approx.) After 15-20 minutes a C-141 came from the north and flew around the area. I talked to a 7-11 cashier closer to the event who jumped under the counter he was so scared, this was several days later.

Probably police reports filed on this one.

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A brightly lit perfectly round sphere floated in front of the car at a traffic signal. A "family member" and myself were waiting at a traffic light on Franklin Blvd. in a small burb between the cities of Eugene and Springfield.

We just picked up a pizza to take home on one of these foggy evenings at this time of year. The fog was just starting to condense and lower towards the ground as it was visible by the city lights. It was already dark and you could see the moon rising to our left.

I was a passenger in the car and noted to my co-occupant that the moon was rising. And then I saw another more bright, round sphere-shaped object coming from the left side of the vehicle. It appeared at first to be the same size as the moon.

But it moved steadily and became brighter as it crossed our plane of view from left to right,(East to West). The object was a bright white lighted sphere, a completely round ball. It's size seemed to be approx.

15-20 feet in diameter. As it moved I got the attention of the person with me and alerted him to it. That is when I noticed that he was in a state of mild shock, for he would never believe in anything like UFO's, ghosts or any thing out of the ordinary.

I quickly focused my eyes on this thing in disbelief myself. It floated slowly in front of us about roughly 1000 ft. away and about 150 feet off the ground.

It appeared to be manuevering around trees and it would rise up into the lowering fog layer creating a glow in the fog. It would then drop back down towards the ground. At one point it came close in and I could clearly see that it was a three dimensional object for it had a shadow feature on the bottom and was more bright in the middle and less towards the edges.

I got really excited and told my "family member" that we should follow it because it moved slow enough to be pursued. It eventually disappeared behind a hill and then my fellow occupant suddenly grabed me by the neck and very forcefully said in no uncertain terms,"Don't tell anyone we saw this thing!" And then he just non-chalantly turned the car out onto the main road and drove off a! s if not hing ever happened. I was shocked by his reaction to witnessing this together.

For I thought; aha.now lets hear him deny that there are things in this universe that cannot be explained! To this day he claims to have no recollection that we ever saw this thing together. He is either under some kind of spell or in deep denial.

It was several months later that my memory of this experience hit me like a sledge hammer and It took me a while to realize It was not some kind of strange day dream. Part of my curiosity about him having such an agressive reaction to something from out of this world is that he is a very close personal friend to an influential congressman and a prominent businessman in the community. His fear would be based on their reputations in the community.

So, I remained silent for many years. One strange thing did happen one evening over a card game with some friends and we got on the subject of UFO's and the like and I told my friends about this experience and Brian suddenly had this wierd look and he recollected a story from a close friend back in Indiana when he was in high school. His friend told him about seeing this exact same thing from a car parked on the side of a country road and it had landed in a recently mowed hay field.

They apparently had a good look at it and were able to size it up based on these rolled up balls(bales) of hay. It was three times the size of one of the hay bales, and Brian's friends brother got out of the car and walked up to it and actually touched it! Later they found themselved in the car together and it was near morning. They claimed to have lost some time.

When Brian's friend came to, his brother grabbed him by the neck and said those exact same words that my "family member" said to me in 1998! "Don't tell anyone we saw this thing!" Now this really blew me out of the water, because I had always wondered if I was simply loosing touch with reality over this experience. My friend Brian is a musician and business man as well and I have never heard him talk o! r discus s anything outside of this realm of existence. Strange, what is this thing? A probe? A time travel device? There was no sound or other lights around or near the object.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. One of two dramatic sighting reports from the same source. PD)).

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rectangular, black metallic, hover, silent, huge, low to ground, two witnesses My friend and I were out looking at Christmas lites. I was driving. We were almost back to our dorm and was stopped at a stop sign.

There wasn't hardly any traffic. My friend and I was amazed. It was huge! Black metallic rectangular shaped.

It was close, hovered, and soundless. We were speechless. In addition, my car actually died and did not start until the craft was out of site.

When it moved, it rotated. I was thankful my friend saw it with me or else I would have questioned my sanity. Before I saw it, I did not believe in the possibility and was strongly against the existance of such things.

However, ever since, I am very interested in the possibility of UFOs and possibility of other intelligent life forms. I am glad that I saw this. Even though many didn't believe us, we KNOW what we saw and experienced.

I will never forget and could draw a picture of it even now.almost 30 years later.

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It was saucer-shaped with multi-colored lights, it made no sound and appeared to be bigger than a large helicopter. Tusayan is a little tourist town near the South Rim entrance to the Grand Canyon. I was walking across the street towards Papillon Helicopters.

Noone was flying at the time and the town was pretty deserted as it is every winter. The sun was going down, but there was still plenty of light out. I looked east out over the helipads and saw a saucer like shaped ship hovering over the tree line.

I looked up and down the street to see if anyone could see this and noone was around. The ship sailed towards me without a sound. There were a lot of different colored lights around the middle of it that seemed to be slowly spinning or pulsing around the craft.

It appeared to be flying about 50 to 75 feet off the ground and was bigger than a large helicopter. The ship hovered over the helicopters for what seemed like three or four minutes and then slowly ascended up and back over the tree line. It was totally silent and I didn't feel any fear, it was just hard for me to accept that what I saw was real.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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the object seemed to use cloud cover to hide behind I was driving on the main road in Juneau Alaska going to work and looked across the channel to Douglas Island when I saw the ufo descending behind the mountains to land.It was like a silver sphere with a pinkish neon colored line going through bottom third of craft. The Mountain it landed on is full of abandoned gold mine tunnels.

The next day I took my boat to back side of island to investigate.After a short while I lost my nerve and went home. I immediately called my wife when I got to work after I first saw it, but I never told anyone else until now.

Because of this incident I never have to wonder anymore of the existance of U.F.O.

's. For I know what I saw. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

Source elects to remain semi-anonymous. PD)).

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Hard orange sphere seen over Deleware Bay winter of '89. The sphere dropped down to both sides of the ferry then departed. Winter evening,winter of '89/90.

Three merchant marine officers were on the bridge of one of the Cape May, NJ - Lewes, MD ferry ( Two of the officers were the Captian and the Pilot. The other was a pilot trainee, me. All of us were ex- military, all had high Merchant Marine Licenses and two of us had a/c pilot licenses.

Just prior to leaving the pier a large, hard edged, orange colored sphere descended down to eye level on the starboard side of the bridge, hovered there for a couple of minutes. It then proceded straight up for a short distance, went horizantal to the other side of the ship (port side) then came straight (vertically) down and again stopped just outside the bridge railing at eye level. After a very short period of time , maybe one minute, the sphere then departed straight up a very high rate of speed then headed southward at an approximate 45 degree angle until it was out of sight.

((NUFORC Note: Date of event is approximate. We will invite the witness to consult his officer's logs, in order to confirm the date of the incident. PD)).

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I saw a slow moving triangle shaped craft moving northward. It's perimeter was light up a burgundy color. I went outside to check the current temperature at my weather station located in the middle of a 20 acre pasture in a rural are 10 miles west of town.

It was a clear and very cold night with a dead calm wind and no moon so it was very dark. Suddenly I felt a breeze come up at approximately 5 mph. As a Space & Atmospheric Weather Forecaster I instinctively looked up and much to my surprise saw a diamond shaped object at a zenith of approximately 70 deg.

The object was completely light up all along the edges with a dull very dark red or burgundy color. It made absolutely no noise and was moving northward at a slow rate of speed. I sized it up by stretching my right arm upward and at that distance comparing it to my finger length.

It was as long as my middle finger. I watched it for approximately 5 minutes until it disappeared across the northern horizon.

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Observed black triangular object with lights at points heades SSE at treetop level. Black triangular object traveling SSE across US 291 south of 23rd st. Object made no noise.

Travelled at close to 60 mph (est) which seemed slow for an airplane, but thought could be "Stealth Bomber" since Richards-Gebauer Airbase was in KC. This made no sense though, since AB is way south and west of this location. AB does not base the B-2.

They were later deployed to Whiteman AFB. I have seen and heard the B-2 since then, and can tell you that what I saw was not that. I would estimate size as roughly front to back 50 ft side to side 150 ft.

No blinking strobe, no navigation lights. I experienced no electrical disturbance, no time loss.

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Three positioned lights brightly moving slowly east over south rim of the Grand Canyon almost dark. On a camping trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, my son, his girlfriend, my boyfriend and myself saw three lights moving very slowing over the south rim of the Grand Canyon. We we on the North Rim looking south.

When we first saw them there were three. We watched them proceed east in a straight line, very close to the horizon. After about 30 minutes, they disappeared one at a time.

First each side light, then the middle one. The middle one also was at a point of the other two. It was a wonderful, neat experience for us.

We never reported it, but after watching so much on the Phoenix Lights, I just had to tell someone. They did look exactly like the "Phoenix Lights" appear on television. They didn't change brightness, blink, or no strobe light appeared as with an airplane.

Thank you for letting me tell this. I wish we had had a camera.we didn't.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)).

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On a december night head lights approached us. Then shot into the sky. My family and I were searching for the Metro North Mall.

We are from Saint Joseph and were not familiar with this area. It was sometime around Christmas. We were shopping for presents.

We ended up on a road that lead us somewhere around a open field. It was night and we saw headlights approaching us. My father did not know how to get back on the highway, so he was going to wave the other car down and have them tell us directions.

My father came to a stop and waited for the other car to pull up. Except it stopped about 25 feet infront of us. That is when we notice that the head lights seemed to be floating in the sky.

After a few seconds my father pulled a little further up, and the lights raised about 15 feet in the air. My step-mother freaked out at that time and opened her window. She thought that it may of been a helicopter( I have since lived by a hospital that life flights out and know better).

There was absolutley no sound what so ever. Not even a car motor. It remained there for about a minute and then it raised a little more.

Then, suddenly it shot kind of diagonal into the sky. And eventually straight up and out of sight. I would like to put that the speed that it traveled was amazing.

Not helicopter like at all. I do not know if it was from this world or not but I do know what I saw. What my whole family saw.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Triangle lights hover over pond I was working at the boarding stable where I keep my horse. It was dark out and the horses where wanting to come in to eat. It was getting late.

The horses were moving around alot and the ducks were making alot of noise. The other person there went to the one pasture gate and I went to the other gate to start bringing them in. The pasture gate I went to has a pond.

Out of nowhere there appears a huge triangle of lights. Only three lights but super bright. But I could still look at the lights without squinting my eyes.

There wasn't any noise at all from the object. I noticed all the horses stopped moving and the ducks stopped making noise as well. It just hovered over the pond.

Its lights lit up the pond and the area around it. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. Then it just zipped out of sight, like someone turned off the light switch.

Gone and still no noise. I looked over to the other gate and ask the other person if she saw that and she said yes. We never! mentioned to each other again.

The next day there were reports of the same thing in the county north of Vancleave. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Big chrome balls It was either late '89 or very early '90 because it was about 530pm or 6pm when I saw them and it was getting dark. I was sitting facing almost due west in a small parking lot on business hwy35/Steele rd. I was looking out the windshield and started seeing something shiny and small coming toward me about 60ft in the air.

There was a small antenna tower behind the building I was in front of so I tried to estimate the height by the tower. It couldn't have been much higher than that. The closer it got the more confused I became.

At first (with the sun setting behind) I thought it was an ultralight flying due to the slowness and altitude. But then I realized it wasn't one object but 5. I have excellent vision, especially from far off, so I knew within the space of about 30 seconds it was more than one thing coming in my direction.

As it flew closer and went over my head it seemed like they were almost floating. They were totally silent. They looked like big chrome balls, about 2.

5-3 feet in diameter, and they were in a v-formation. The reason I say "chrome" is because I could see reflections of everything around me in the balls. Maybe they were mirrored, I don't know.

They flew right over my head and just kept going. I lost sight of them almost immediately because across the street from where I was parked there is a farmhouse with big oaks in the front yard. It looked like they were traveling roughly parallel to Steele Rd.

I have never come across anything like that in any description of a ufo. It still drives me crazy that I have no real idea of what those things were. Were they some kind of drone? Did they have some little creature in them? No blinking lights, no sound.

I didn't feel anything weird except jaw-dropping amazement. Just me for years afterward wondering what the heck they were.

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We saw orange-white balls of light, approximately 40o above the horozon, slightly to the north-west of our house. 6:35 p.m.

, dark, clear, 21oF, new moon. I was surprized when my father was calling us outside from the front porch saying: "Do you want to see a UFO?" I then rushed outside after my sister and mother onto the porch to see several orange-white balls of light approximately 40o above the horizon, in the north-west sky. From our vantage point, they were about the size of 1/4 the size of a dime held at arm's length.

Some increased in brightness, then decreased or went out, and right next to it another ball of light appeared. We're not sure how many there were, because they appeared to hopscotch each other vertically to the left and right, we saw perhaps 5 or 6 as they were appearing, disappearing and lighting.

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Woman repts. bizarre, triangular ship w/ stunning, red, blue, green, & white lights. Surrounded by a haze.

Excellent rept.