Virginia UFO Sightings in 1984

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Large, orangey colored sphere rose slowly from behind trees in the distance and traveled silently across the sky. This happened when i was a kid-(im almost 35 now.) I know i was around 13 or 14, and my little brother and his friend,who was spending the nite, (both around 10 at that time)-were outside after dark, probably around 8ish or so one nite during the summer.

We lived in rural Suffolk, and on a long dirt road. Our house was surrounded by some open fields, and after those were lots of woods. So, we were out there goofing off, and one of us notices this bright, orangey colored ball of light rising off in the distance.

I cant say for certain, but im certain this light was at least several miles away from us. But this 'ball' still looked huge. It just rose slowly, straight upwards--not sideways, not at an angle, but straight up in the sky.

This color was orangy, but could be described as an orangy-yellowish color too. It was very bright, and VERY noticeable. It was like watching the sun rise, except you could look at it, or like how a basketball might look big in the sky if you could float it at a distance in the air of around 2 or 3 storys high--That's how large it looked, even though it was obviously at a distance of several miles away from us.

I do not recall if it pulsated or anything like that--im pretty certain that it did not, but i know that the color never changed, nor did the shape change at all. The boys ran inside to get my folks. My mom came out figuring it was probably an airplane or something.

However, she was just as puzzled, excited, and scared of this as we were. She had no clue what it could be. We realized that the object was not rising any longer.

It was moving horizontally now, and towards us somewhat. It was moving at a VERY slow, non-hurried speed. When we realized it was moving towards us, my mom sent my brother in to get our dad.

The object was travelling more sideways than towards us. It got closer, but not much. We just stood there, watching it as it slooooowly made it way across the nite sky in front of us.

We could hear nothing at all! After a minute or so of trying to convince our dad no one was pullin his leg, he came out like mom did at first--expecting to see an airplane or helicopter. Instead, he caught a quick site of it as it finally disappeared over the tops of trees in the distance and we could no longer see it. He TOO was mystifyied as to what it was.

I have never to this day seen anything that even remotely resembles it. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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circular object headed towards the sky This sighting happened a few years ago but I don't remember the exact month or day of course. This is something I kept to myself. Anyway, I was about 14 years old and there is a play park next to my mother's house.

I would always look out of the window and look at the stars before I went to bed. This one particular night I looked out of the window and saw a circular object with a yellowish light going around it. I swear it just took off from somewhere because it was headed toward the sky.

I observed it for about 5 minutes and it disappeared right before my eyes. There is an airport not too far from where I lived but I saw this very clearly. It was a clear night with a full moon.

((NUFORC Note: Time and date are approximate. One of three reports from same source. PD)).

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During the summer of 1984 as I was going to work I was getting on the interstate, I-81north . As I was merging on to 81 I looked over my left shoulder to check the traffic as I did I caught something in my view about 1/4 of a mile down 81 south. As I was driving I kept looking ahead and looking back several times.

It was about 100-200 feet in the air and seemed to be following the center of road.At first I thought it was one of the Apollo Space capsules that was being taken somewhere by helicopter but as I looked again I saw nothing above it or any cables to hooked to it .It was just spinning as if on a string while moving about the same speed of the traffic.

Later on I was talking to a friend about what I had seen and much to my astonishment his sister and her friend had seen the same thing as I. I would realy like your input on what I saw .

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I spent many hours looking at stars as preparation for navigation with a sailboat using a sextant I was laying on my on my back at about 11:00 in the evening studying stars for navigational purposes. I observed a round disk coming from the Washington DC area with what looked like small wires on the perifery as it rotated. It took a 90 degree left turn and proceeded down the Shenandoah Valley, The total time was about 6 seconds.

I inhaled and waited for an explosion due to the speed involved. There never was a sound. I have 1600 hours flying and never have seen anything like it.

In August or Sept.of that year, Popular Mechanics or Science featured a craft like it on its cover. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

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Seen 6 bright objects flying over mountains behind our house in v shape formation My Brother walked out on our parents deck to have a smoke. He came back in and told my mother and I to come look at something. When we came out we seen 6 roughly triangle shaped objects flying over the mountains.

My brother went and got his telescope and we were able to see them more clearly.They were flying the lenght of the mountain in a v shape formation ,they had no blinking lights and appered to glow over the entire surface. The distance to top of mountain from our house is about 4 miles.

We did not here any sounds coming from them.We watched them till they went out of sight.I at the time made a hobby of all types of jets and I could not find any thing like this in my books.

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