Our Center has received several reports from Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia, Massachusetts, and Vermont of an object that was visible for approximately 45 minutes from each of those locations. We do not know, yet, what the object was, but from our experience with similar reports over past years, our suspicion is that the object may be a spent rocket, which was "parked" in high orbit, and from which the excess fuel was released from its fuel tanks.The fact that the object could be seen from both Williston, Florida, and Canada, at the same time suggests to us that the object was very large, and at a very high altitude above the surface of the Earth.Peter Davenport will make a brief appearance tonight on the Coast-to-Coast radio program, hosted by GEORGE NOORY, in order to discuss the event, and in order to encourage other witnesses to submit written reports, using NUFORC's Online Report Form.We include here a report from Maine, even though we have no reason to believe that the report from that state is, in any way, related to the event seen from locations in the southeastern U. S..Peter B. Davenport, Director, NUFORC. Posted at 18:30 hrs. (Pacific), Monday, December 10, 2007.
REPORT #1 OF 7
REPORT FROM MONROE, GEORGIA, 18:30 HRS.--Bright object in sky,at first looked like a comet. Watching close with binoculars could see it was not a comet but nothing I have ever seen before.This object was white in color and looked like a cigar.was moving slowly across sky towards the north but was moving up and down and side to side all this time. Another small object could be seen as well with a white light that would flash ever now and then.The weather was mild with clear skies, and Monroe GA is about 30 miles north east of Atlanta Ga.We have all seen the planes coming and going from the Atl airport and these were no planes or helicopters.I'm a 46 year old over the road truck driver and have drove at night for years and never seen nothing close too this.Other witnesses include my wife, 45; son, 23; and his wife, 23.
REPORT #2 OF 7
REPORT FROM PITTSBORO, NC, AT 18:45 HRS.--To whom it may concern,I am an amateur astronomer and was observing here in my observatory at my home in Pittsboro, N.C., observing a double star in the constellation Delphinus.At approximately 1845, I spotted a green hue in the SW skies near the Messier object M15, approximately 45 degrees above the SW horizon. It appeared to be a comet; I quickly slewed my telescope to the object, and viewed it at a magnification of 100X. The object was traveling at a high rate of speed, but much slower than a normal satellite when viewed through a telescope eyepiece field of view.The object contained what appeared to be a head and a tail (very much like Haley's comet looked years ago through a pair of binoculars), and its magnitude was so bright that it was dominant in the sky. There was also a point of light that moved with the object at the same speed, approximately one tenth of a degree from the "head" of the object.I tracked the object for approximately 45 minutes, the "tail" faded (almost appeared to dissipate over time), but the point of light near the haze remained in the eyepiece, it's magnitude and position not changing over the period of time that it was tracked. The object passed very close to the star Schedar in the constellation Cassiopeia. I stopped tracking the object as it passed through the constellation Cassiopeia at approximately 1935 hrs.The object continued to move in a NE direction at approximately 60 degrees above the northern horizon.The Telescope I was using to track the "object" was a Telescope Engineering Company (TEC) 200mm (8 inch) f/9 refractor, mounted on a Astro-Physics 1200gto computerized equatorial mount. The object was tracked by moving the Declination and Right ascension axis in a manual mode.
REPORT #3 OF 7
REPORT FROM WORCESTER, VERMONT, 19:13 HRS.--I am weather forecaster meteorologist with two decades plus of experience observing. I work for a radio station in northern Vermont and what I saw I will describe - not that big a deal really.There is a comet forgotten the name to lazy to look it up but a comet or fuzz ball like or bigger than the 7 sisters that I saw in the eastern sky.This fuzz ball was moving over so slowly but in odd directions to the rotation of the earth not making any sense.A friend of mine alerted me to it and said hey go outside and check out the comet. I did and went out several times only to find that it had moved to odd positions and in weird trajectories that a comet would not normally follow.My only conclusion is that it was man made perhaps a urinal dump that caught the sunlight similar to when you can the ISS or other satellites at night but then why would it move into the different positions over the course of the next hour and half.It is the erratic nature of the movement. The sighting took place this evening in mostly clear skies with good clarity on a cold winter night with temperatures in the 20s.
REPORT #4 OF 7
REPORT FROM DORA, ALABAMA, 18:03 HRS.--Comet-like cloud with faint flashing light appeared in clear starry sky, drifting North across Casseopia.Sighted comet like cloud moving towart constellation casseopia, has faint flashing light, called son in N Florida who also could see object.Object drifted into Casseopia around 6:15 CST, becoming vague. pointed structure, moon size, white flashing light about every 5 Minutes.I'm an amateur astronomer, never saw anything like it in 50+ years.
REPORT #5 OF 7
REPORT FROM WINDER, GEORGIA, 19:00 HRS.--Cigar shaped object with bright light zigzagging above Winder Georgia.It was dark outside and we saw a cigar shaped object in the sky, It had a light as if a flashlight and that was shinning, that was the only light on the object. It had zigzagged through the air for about 2-3 minutes than it look as if it had stopped but the light kept getting dimmer and dimmer as if it was going up. It had looked like the lights were changing colors from white to yellow.At first we thought it was a plane but it was going way to slow, and about 4 planes had passed it, and it was to high up. It also couldn't have been a shooting star because you could see the outside of the shape. We tried to take a picture but everything else in the sky would show up on the camera except the object in the sky.Also the light was in what we thought was the front of the object, but then it started going sideways. There was a white haze around the object.
REPORT #6 OF 7
REPORT FROM WILLISTON, FLORIDA, 19:00 HRS.--Some sort of explosion above earth's atmosphere.
I was getting into my truck at seven pm when I sighted a brillantly glowing cloud. The glow appearred almost directly overhead but somewhat to the north and west, from my location in Williston, Florida.I quickly called my wife who is currently in Canada, and she went outside and saw the same glowing cloud. I was able to view the object through night vision monocular and it appeared very much like a comet with a nucleus and tail aligned toward the northwest; initially the tail was nebulous, but also contained a split so that it appeared as a V.But this appeared to be drifting toward the east very slowly, but too fast to be a comet.As I was observing the cloud I saw five distinct small flashes of light toward the nucleus area; gradually the object faded in luminosity and disappeared.
REPORT #7 OF 7
REPORT FROM PHIPPSBURG, MAINE, 17:30 HRS.--Burning bright orb with a plane above following it then it either burned up, crashed or just lit up when out of view.
It was about 5:30 p.m. and it had gotten dark about an hour before so it was almost pitch black out. Me and my friend were sitting in our car with the lights off at the end of a peninsula that is in the middle of the Kennebec River right near the mouth of the river. Popham beach fort was directly in front of us.I wasn't really looking at the sky when all of a sudden my friend yelled "look at those shooting stars!" I looked up and saw two lights traveling east so they were moving towards our left because we were looking south.They were at about a 20 degree angle. And at least a couple miles away but close enough so that I saw a jet trail on the top one. I only saw them for about three seconds but I remember every detail about them. They were moving at the same speed. One was above the other about a quarter inch apart. The one on top had a white light like most planes do and I remember noticing it had a trail just like a jet has. The bottom one however was many times bigger, had no trail and was glowing bright orange. It looked like a perfect circle and about the size of a BB while the one on top looked like a star. They were moving almost horizontal, but most shooting stars come down at an angle.Almost as soon as I saw them the bottom one steadily grew from dim orange to burning, bright, orange without changing shape at all. Right as it passed over and behind a peninsula to our left it became so bright and right when it was out of view it lit up the sky around the area it was in and we saw what seemed like a bright flash or explosion above the trees, but not a quick flash just a steady flash. As soon as it was gone we said, "((deleted))t, what was that?"We debated for a while about what it was and we concluded that they could not have been both shooting stars because the one on top had a trail and the bottom one didn't. My friend had seen them traveling west to east for maybe ten seconds and said he didn't pay much attention at first because he thought they were planes. He said they were flying horizontally and as fast as planes far away, not as fast as shooting stars It was like nothing we had ever seen before and it was so big for the distance it was at if it was a meteor it would have caused a tsunami or something.I saw a few ufo encounter reports about glowing amber orbs and saw drawings of what they described and it looked like the same exact thing but must have been larger because of how far away it was.I'm dead serious about this I wouldn't have spent the time reporting it if I wasn't, believe me.
(NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)
CROP FORMATION REPORTED FROM WILBUR, WASHINGTON STATE
On Sunday, July 1st, 2007, NUFORC received a telephone call from a resident of Lincoln County, apprising us that on Friday, June 29, 2007, he had learned of the existence of a peculiar crop formation, located near the town of Wilbur, Washington.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
We would like to express our gratitude to the individual who first called our Center, to apprise us of the formation.In addition, we would like to thank the owner of the property on which the formation occurred for his permission to enter the property to inspect and measure the formation.In particular, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Greg Leyva, an aerial applicator in Wilbur, Washington, and Manager of the Wilbur Airport, for his generous willingness to fly the investigators, Peter Davenport and Michael Heit, to, and over, the formation. His contribution was invaluable to our being able to locate the formation, and for being able to obtain high-quality aerial photos of the area.
NOTICE TO HOAX CALLERS
In the near future, we will post a statement here regarding the deluge of hoaxed calls and reports that we have been receiving recently over our Hotline. The volume of telephone calls NUFORC receives from rude, impudent, unbelievably foul-mouthed, young Americans has grown to an unacceptable level. Just today, April 27, for example, we received more than 25 obscene calls from youth, who seem to have nothing better to do with their cell phones than to shout triple-X rated filth over our Hotline.If this condition continues, we are going to implement a plan that will allow them to understand just how inconvenient it can be to receive a large volume of unwanted calls. Within the next several days, we will provide more details here as to what we have in store for them, and how visitors to our site can help put a stop to this inconvenience.For two years, we have saved all of the obscene messages from, and all of the telephone numbers of, those who have made obscene calls to our Center, and we are about to implement a program, which we think will make them reconsider whether they want to continue their rude behavior. Our objective will be 1) to deny them use of their telephones, and 2) to identify and contact their parents, in order to play for them some of the filth and stupidity their children are inflicting on others. We think that we can achieve both of those objectives.Please check back to our website, from time to time, and we will let you know what you might be able to do to help. In the meantime, if you are a parent whose child has a cell telephone, we strongly urge you to supervise the child, and to consider requiring him/her to keep a written record of all telephone calls that are sent and received over that telephone.
ROCKVILLE, MD, 14:15 HRS. (EASTERN) ON MARCH 30, 2007
A man reports witnessing a bizarre, cigar-shaped craft pass overhead, which suddenly disappeared. He provided the illustration below, which depicts the crafts as seen from 3 different angles. ROLLA, MO, 20:50 HRS. ON MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007 A husband and wife witness a peculiar pair of "triplet" lights pass from west to east. Husband is an experienced astronomer, and provides this illustration of their sighting. PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON STATE, MONDAY, MAR 5 2007 AT 19:15 HRS The National UFO Reporting Center received three reports of a peculiar, red object, which was observed If there are other witnesses to the event, we would welcome more reports which include 1) the witness's location, 2) the direction the witness was looking, and 3) the angle of elevation (estimated) to the object, above the horizontal plane. We do not know what the object was, but it almost certainly was not any type of conventional aircraft, and given the duration of the event, and the manner in which the object was seen to move across the sky, we doubt that the object was any type of pyrotechnic device. U.S.S. MONROVIA (APA-31) CREW MEMBERS (1968) We recently received an interesting report from a former crew member of the If any of our readers was aboard the Monrovia for its cruise to the Mediterranean Sea in early 1968, we would be most grateful if they would submit short reports of the peculiar event, using our Online Report Online Report From Reports can also be sent to our postal address, which appears at the lower left of this page. Thank you! ADDENDUM: The individual who submitted the report has just consented to appear on the Jeff Rense radio Program at 8:00 p.m. (Pacific) on Tuesday, February 13, 2007, to discuss the incident. 
from multiple points on the western side of Puget Sound. One of the witnesses captured the object with her digital camera.
U. S. S. Monrovia, in which he describes a very unusual sighting from that vessel in May 1968. He describes an event in which members of the crew witnessed an oval, self-luminescent object, which remained in the vicinity of the ship for approximately 90 minutes, and then suddenly disappeared. The presence of the object appeared to affect the ship's magnetic compass, and at least some of the on-board electrical equipment.