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South African Ham Radio UFO Interest Group. Known as (SAHRUIG).
NEWS Volume 1 News letter No.55
Don't forget to "LOOK UP TO THE SKIES" you may see something exiting.
Your Comments, Sightings or UFO/Paranormal stories will be welcomed and
are needed. When submitting Sighting reports please send as much detail as possible.
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Redding, California Light Coming Out Of A Arch Shaped Thing On The Disk
Date: 1982
Message: Something happened to me and 5 other people. We were burning brush in two different piles, far apart. It was almost dark and back in 1982. (in Redding CA) There was a light like what you would see from a helicopter coming over the trees in our yard. I thought we were in trouble for no fire permit? I said to my friends, "get ready to be blinded"! As it came over the tops of the trees we remarked how it made no noise at all! Then we noticed a florescent green glowing cloud in the air and in the distance as well. We could see enough to tell the white light that it was shining was coming out of an arch shape thing on the disk? All of the sudden the thing pointed it's light at the ground, and shot upwards becoming invisible and with all kinds of shiny things hitting the ground in our yard? (much like a mushroom cloud, as it shot up and much like 4th of July fireworks things hitting the ground as it disappeared!) We watched the florescent green cloud fade into the distance for at least 20 minutes and at that time it was dark. It's something that I never believed in before I saw it. But then you have to believe! Are there any other sightings like that that you know of? It haunts me, still, and I know of 5 other people who I am sure, feel the same! Thanks!
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A U.K. Traffic Officer Catches UFO On Patrol Cars Video Camera
I have been asked to remove the actual day of this sighting, which I have done in this report. So the date reads, May 2003. I of course will protect the identity of the police officer and the person who sent me the report, photo and map. Also the footage will be posted when it arrived to me.
A Traffic Officer some years ago in my force handed me a Digital-8 tape from one of the patrol vehicles. The Officer had been travelling westbound on the A59 road between Skipton and Bolton Abbey, lovely towns in North Yorkshire, UK. This was a routine patrol, (actual day of sighting removed ) May 2003 approx 2130 hours – the time and date is accurately shown on the speed-detection overlay the pursuit vehicles are equipped with.
The officer of course had a far better view than the limited resolution of the camera. The Officer remarked that the light was clearly made up of a packed cluster of small, very bright lights. It kind of shocked the officer greatly and you can see the vehicle’s speed slow down as the officer tries to take in the scene. The officer is experienced and well used to the Nightsun searchlights of the neighbouring force’s Police Helicopter and the officer was adamant this was not such a searchlight. No sound was heard (granted the officer was inside a moving Subaru Impreza, a fast chase car not noted for quiet travel as our local speedsters can attest when caught! The Officer feels this was not a fighter aircraft with reheat engaged (afterburn).
The video is not remarkable, it shows a white light slowly flare up to a peak brightness, then fade out again (I checked, it wasn’t Iridium’s) I enclose GIFs of a video-capture of a frame, and a detailed Ord map of the witnesses’ position relative to the image capture, also showing the approximate direction of the object from the officer. Distance was impossible to guess.
To view the photo and map: http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4795
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Waterloo, Iowa A White Cigar Shaped Craft
Date: August 5, 2006
Time: Approx: 5:40 p.m.
Message: On August 5th, 2006 I have seen a "White Cigar shaped craft" in Waterloo, Iowa. It was over the street in front of my sisters house and over houses in the residential area. When I first spotted it, it gave a bright white light. So bright it almost was blinding as I was sitting in the Hot Tub. My friend's birthday was that day and she was there and witnessed it after I pointed it out to her. After 30 seconds or so we seen this long rounded at both ends no wings no tail, no chemtrail (smoke) that I could see, and no wire or antennas plus just real "long!" I didn't see any writing of any sort. It seemed to be moving slow or just gliding through the air, but at that size and bulk it could have been going much faster. It seemed to be solid and a bit metallic white.
There was also no noise that it made. This cigar shaped craft was flying really low. It was 70-85 feet in the air just over the tops of the tallest trees The tallest trees being 45-50 feet tall. It was a sight no one would forget. I watched this craft for 4 and half minutes! Watching it with my friend. It was around 5:40 pm.. There were only a few clouds, and when it reached a cloud as I watched it go behind the cloud, and waiting for it to reappear it just was gone. No it wasn't a plane or a blimp, Weather balloon, or swamp gas.
I have also seen this craft before with my sister but she refuses to get involved.
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West of Rosthern, Saskatchewan Numerous Objects Being Observed
Date: August 6, 2006
Time: 11:45 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 5
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round
Full Description of event/sighting: I have found though my past research that sometimes something happens once in a while when you just have to seek out thoughts and people with the similar experiences to try to understand that certain happening, this is one of those times. This incident was both mind-boggling and amazing. I would truly appreciate it if anyone else tries this or has tried it that they would contact me with their experience or results for comparison.
I must admit that I was a little reluctant in attempting this mainly because of reports of those who have tried it and had some bad experiences and results but I feel we are not going to learn much more about these things by only looking at videos and photos. If there really is a risk, at least for me its worth taking in hopes of learning something new. It could very well be communication, although very basic.
For the past few weeks there has been a dramatic increase in UFOs (daylight white spheres) over Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada which for some reason seems to be a yearly happening at this time of year and I do admit that I feel there is a relationship to the Saskatchewan's crop circle season which is just getting under way. It's getting to a point where it is frustrating seeing these things and not given the opportunity to learn more. When these spherical UFOs show up in the daylight skies they have a tendency to sit motionless for some time before either disappearing on the spot or slowly traveling across the sky until out of sight. I began to wonder if they are also around at night so this past weekend my family and I decided to go out to our family acreage away from the city lights and set up a tent, some lounging chairs and just see what happens in the sky throughout the night with the accompaniment of a very bright flashlight.
It was a beautiful clear night as we set up camp on a hilltop and then sat in our chairs to begin what I hoped to be an interesting night of sky watching. For the first hour or so of darkness we watched in amazement at how bright the stars where compared to in the city and discussed the various usual satellites that we were seeing crossing the sky in a perfectly straight orbit. It was then that I reached for my flashlight and while looking up at a small portion of the sky I turned the light on and then off very quickly. I really have no idea why I picked that particular area of the sky. What I saw kind of shocked me. What I thought was just another star sitting motionless began to move slowly to the right in relationship to the surrounding stars and also taking a slightly curved path almost as if the flash from my light was a cue to begin moving, almost as if I woke it up.
Without thinking I again flashed my light, but this time I was almost in disbelief as I observed it flash right back instantly with a brief but very strong white light. Almost speechless I pointed the area of the sky out to the others with me. Maybe 10 seconds had passed and now we were all watching this object move slowly, much slower than the satellites we saw previously. As it made a slight turn I then flashed my light at it twice with maybe a 3 second interval between flashes. With all of us watching, it sent back two immediate flashes with the second one being much brighter and intense. As you can imagine, everyone's excitement was also intense. By now the object has sped up a bit and I wanted to keep flashing at it but purposely waited about 30 seconds before I tried it again, when I gave it a single quick flash it immediately sent back a flash that was much, much brighter than any previous flash. It was hard to tell if the flash it gave was at a higher intensity or if the object itself was at a lower altitude. After the last flash it gave us it just proceeded a short distance and then just disappeared, like it went out. The rest of the night was pretty uneventful except for a few shooting stars, more satellites and a great borealis show.
It wasn't an airplane, it wasn't a satellite. What was it? I don't know. But what ever it was, was it using very basic communication or acknowledgment? Again, I don't know but I do plan on pursuing this further and just maybe I found a new tool for my research.
As mentioned earlier, I would very much appreciate hearing any thoughts or from anyone with similar experiences. I can be contacted at the below email address.
You are welcome to contact Dennis at his email address: dbrentt@shaw.ca (HBCC UFO Research Note: Permission was granted to post the man's name and email address).
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Burnaby, British Columbia Seem To Be Triangular.
Date: August 12, 2006
Time: 9:50 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: Seem to be triangular.
Full Description of event/sighting: Last evening we saw a UFO and so tonight I kept watching the sky. At approximately 9:50 pm I found what looked like a star flashing. I got out the telescope and sure enough it was another of the UFO's like we'd seen last night , but further away. We found two barely visible through the telescope , but we could see that they were flashing red and blue lights, with white being the most visible with the naked eye. So to the average person they simply look like stars unless you look with a telescope. Both of my children witnessed the two craft. They have stayed in the same spot for the past 39 minuets. It is now 10:29 pm. There was what seemed to be an airplane that crossed beneath them at a much lower altitude. I am not sure if it was the same airplane that came back or if there were two airplanes but they moved visibly fast across the sky and did not stay in the same spot as the two UFOs.
The location of the UFOs was looking over the back of the Value Village from Edmonds street, just above the south east corner and the other one was just above the south west corner of Value Village but more at a high altitude. The one to the left disappeared around 10: 20 but the one to the right is still hovering there but has moved gradually just slightly to the right and has stayed there for the past 10 minuets or so. And it has pulsing colors of red, sometimes green and blue with white being most intense.
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NNE Of Burke Mountain, Port Coquitlam A Glowing Ping Pong Ball
Date: August 13, 2006
Time: 11:35 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1 or 2
Shape of objects: Two round globes.
Full Description of event/sighting: Hi Brian, it was exceptionally clear the other night and that multi colored star/light whatever? was really putting on a good show. I decided to video tape it in time lapse and see if I could get some good shots. After getting the camera set up and running I was looking at it (the star) through my 10X binoculars. I noticed just below and to its right what appeared to be two small dim stars. I didn't pay much attention at first then realized that one of them was pulsing, bright to dim, Never really vanishing and not as fast as a strobe or as bright. That kind of caught my attention. I switched over to my bigger binoculars, half expecting the light to be gone by the time I got them aimed in that direction. But for once the object was still there. Turned out that what I thought was a single light was actually two globes one situated slightly behind the other. The one in the forefront was pulsing from a bright yellow and down to a dull orange and back again.
The rearward globe was going from the appearance of a glowing ping pong ball to the greyish sheen of a pearl. I could not tell if they were connected but both were pulsing in unison and after watching for a few moments I realized they were slowly drifting in an easterly direction. I could not tell how high or how far away they were but they possibly were either in space or close to it. With the naked eye I couldn't see them at all. They moved to slow to be either a plane or a satellite. I watched them for approx: five minutes until they just seemed to fade away. They maintained the same distance and appearance the whole time I was watching.
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Moosomin, Saskatchewan Elongated Diamond Shaped Object
Date: August 14, 2006
Time: Approx 10:40 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Elongated diamond, sort of.
Full Description of event/sighting: Hi Brian, well of all places. I was coming back from Saskatoon yesterday/last night and was in Moosomin at the southern part of town. I was traveling with a group. We had a vehicle break down as we made our way from Saskatoon. Everyone was at the breakdown before Moosomin (north of the town) as I waited for them to get back on the road I was out of the truck and looking up at the night sky, admiring the milky way.
It was approximately 10:40 when suddenly and silently an object came from the south and headed north. I watched as it flew right overhead, very quick speed and faster than the speed of a military fighter. It covered the entire sky in about 4 or 5 seconds. It was totally silent and made no noise and had no contrail. There were no lights on it that I could see. The object itself had a faint glow as I watched it head straight north and disappear on the horizon. The object looked like an elongated diamond but the sides cut off. It was fairly high, but not high enough where I had a problem making it out. It was very clear in the sky to see.
Additional Information:
I should explain that drawing I made, was the bottom of the object from what I saw as it passed overhead. But I also would like to say that as it headed north it appeared that it may have been the same shape all around as that's all. Thanks.
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Heritage Mountain In Port Moody A Small White Strobe Flashing
Date: August 16, 206
Time: Approx: 4:15 a.m.
One more unusual sighting. Approx: 04:15 this morning the 16 of Aug. I was sitting here looking out at all the lights while waiting for the sunrise and noticed a small white strobe flashing over Heritage Mountain in Port Moody. Usually there is not much in the air at that time of the night so I took a look through my binoculars and noticed a small bright red strobe next to the white one. So the logical assumption would be, small plane. I continued to track it in a westerly direction towards Seymour Mountain. The speed and altitude all implied small plane. The object took up perhaps 1/10 of the field of view, maybe less then that. suddenly the entire field of view was filled by large white and red strobes. I ended up panning back and forth trying to take them all in. These new strobes were much bigger than the first two. I was trying to see if this was one huge object or many flying in unison. But it was too dark to make out anything other than the lights. After about 30 seconds the big lights went out and the two small ones continued on their way. I lost sight of them over by Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver.
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Nipawin, Saskatchewan A Series Of Red And White Lights
Date: August 15 - 16, 2006
Time: 11:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: No shape, just 3 lights.
Full Description of event/sighting: Brian, I've been wondering whether or not I should report this, but after reading the similarities to the August 19th report from Port Moody I thought I better speak up. My girlfriend and I have been spending sometime this summer enjoying the night sky and observing the usual things, satellites, meteorites, etc. Well on August 15th and 16th at 11:00 I noticed a series of red and white lights moving across the sky that was low enough to be a plane, but as far as I could tell, made no apparent noise and moved slower than what a plane would've flown. I could make no shape out of this object, just 3 flashing lights. There was one red light on the "front" that would flash and that flash was followed by two white flashes from the back. The object did not appear to be very big, as big as a small plane perhaps. Besides the lights, nothing else could be ascertained about the shape of the object. This is actually the fourth time I have seen this object in the last 3 months or so and it seems to come from the south and then heads in a northern direction.
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Black Point, Nova Scotia A Disc Hovering Over My Aunt & Uncles House
Date: August 18, 2006
Time: 1:18-1:25 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Flying above neighbors house.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: A giant round object with two big spot lights on bottom and two large flashing blue and red lights on the bottom as well.
Full Description of event/sighting: I was in bed, and we are near a route for airplanes and I've lived here close to 6 years and by now I know what airplanes sounds like.
At first before I was going to go to bed I went to close my window and I happened to look out and there was this blue small orb just dancing across the sky zig zagging and such. I knew what it was so I didn't want to believe it so I went back to bed.
A couple minutes passed and I couldn't sleep because I left my window open in my bathroom and I went to close it and I happen to look around because I've been hearing these loud airplane noises going by for a while and I couldn't see any going by, then this big round disc showed up out of the blue hovering over my aunt and uncles house, which is right beside us. It was about 20 feet on top of the house and maybe going about 20mph. I could see the out line of the craft, it was round, but on the bottom was 4 lights, 2 were big spot lights on the top and end of the craft, and on each side were two blinking lights which were blinking with a white and blue light.
It was traveling slow so I ran back to the other side of the room, which was on the front. As the object went higher it slowly made it towards the distance and turned off it's bottom lights. Now what I could see was these red top lights. It hovered in the sky for about 3 minutes until it slowly faded, but for a couple more minutes I could still see a tinge of red lights in the sky then all the sudden it vanished.
*Note: I have came across something similar to this kind of object once before around this time last year, but earlier in the day and just after the sun went down at 8:00 p.m. We were driving a no street light, old light house route and something similar to this had appeared over the trees and it hovered over our car about 20 feet for about 5 minutes following us. I could see the lights on the bottom of the craft which were all white big lights, then in turned and went over the trees and vanished. I wouldn't doubt it was the same thing.*
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Vancouver, Washington Bright Light
Date: August 18, 2006
Time: 9:40 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Orchards in my back yard.
Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Bright light.
Full Description of event/sighting: I was watching for satellites. I saw a bright object moving from east to west and directly over my house. It seemed to be consistent with the speed of satellite, but much brighter and larger, moving, gliding and no noise. I ran in to get my son, nephew and brother in law. We all saw the same thing. I also tried to video it but only got a quick shot. The object seemed to be about 20K/30K feet up, hard to tell but, alot lower and brighter than any satellite which I see often. After it went over the house and passed, it started getting dimmer. After another 10-15 seconds as the total time we watched was 30 seconds. Then it quickly was consistent with high speed acceleration, which is what we all agree it did. It made a 10 degree turn to the south and quickly dimmed out of site.
Now I see and watch for satellites and they always tend to go south to north. This originated from about the nine o'clock position looking due west just off Jupiter. I caught it when it was over my house just passing through some trees. Were still in awe as we all listened for sound. It was silent and didn't have any additional navigational lights, ie: plane? There were none.
We see alot of planes coming into Portland but this object was illuminated very bright and completely solid. No flickering, huge star-like is all I can say. It was 20 times a satellite in brightness and size, which is what I originally thought it could be. I know of a web site that you can input the GPS coordinates of your town and see if there were satellites or solar flares or other orbit objects going over? I just thought I would let you guys know. Oregon must still be interesting to something out there? I hope someone else saw it, as it was impressive.
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Laval, Quebec A Glowing Ball Exploded And Disappeared
Date: August 19, 2006
Time: 11:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round ball.
Full Description of event/sighting: Glowing ball shot through the sky last night right over our house then exploded and disappeared. There was no sound at all. We drove around this morning to see if there was any debris of chunks of meteorite or possibly space ship reminisce, but didn't see anything. Pretty neat and scary. The ball came directly at our house but blew up before it hit us.
It really looked like a large ball of white light, very large, with a trail of grey smoke behind it. (You asked if it had a trail, so there must be something to that? meteor?) No sound at all even when it exploded) North/northeast heading south. I looked on the internet news to see if it was mentioned and so far nothing. I will try to watch the news tonight. Also there is a large woods area near here and it was headed in that direction, when we drove around we found nothing, if it went in there or bits of it, it would be hard to find...too bad :
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South Edmonton, Alberta Cluster Of Lights In Formation
Date: August 20, 2006
Time: 1:00 a.m.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 8
Shape of objects: Cluster of lights in formation.
Full Description of event/sighting: My friend was walking me home across the field between our houses, on the south side of Edmonton. Suddenly a small cluster of lights appeared on the northern edge of the horizon. There were maybe about 6-8 small points of white light, and they were in formation such that there were two 'rings' of lights one above the other, it made me think of an octagonal tube. They were moving very fast across the sky, much faster than a plane or a helicopter would have been able to travel, and they were rotating in formation as they moved, so that the basic shape of the formation seemed more or less maintained. They were not overly bright, seeming almost dim or immaterial at times, more like glowing points of light than really bright spotlights. The word that came to mind was "cloud of lights" but more structured.
I stopped dead when I saw it, and followed it's trajectory silently halfway across the sky (thinking I was crazy) before I said to my friend "Do you see that?" and pointed it out. She also saw what I have described. She didn't see it right away, but was wondering what I was looking at until I pointed it out to her. It almost seemed insubstantial at times, as it moved, probably because of the kind of rotating movement it was describing as it traveled, and because of its great speed. We watched it out of range to the south. It only took a few seconds for it to cross the entire night sky.
We were (and I still am) really freaked out. I've never seen anything like this before. I know I saw it, only because I have a witness to confirm it. I found one other similar sounding story on this website, also from Edmonton, but other than that nothing seems similar to what we saw tonight.
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Madeira, Portugal A Strange Noise ?
First, I'm from Portugal, from an island called Madeira (32ºN 17ºW).
I'm not sure of what this is, but I heard a strange noise coming from a little metallic storage place that we've got on the side of the house, it can fit more that one person, so its not that small.
The thing is, there is nothing that can cause any sound in there, there's only a couple of bikes, some wood and some stuff that we don't need anymore. Sometimes I hear this sound very far away, but tonight (18-08-2006 0:00 approx) it was very loud and I recorded with my mp3 player (if you guys want I can send it to you, its a .wav file and I did about 30dB boost on it, but I still have the original, just tell me how to send it).
It's very weird that when metal vibrates produces sound, so I touch it to see if it stops, but it didn't, it was like the metal was reflecting something... then after a while I was looking to it with a flashlight and it stops, just like that, with no apparent reason!!
Maybe I'm over reacting on this, but there is something going on in this place, most of my family have seen stuff happening in the sky and then just disappear. We thought we were the only ones that had seen such things, but a very close neighbor once told us about a light in the middle of the night that was coming in their direction from the sky, they just run and when they saw the lights of a car approaching, the light.
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This document is shared information that is intended to assist anyone and everyone with a further understanding of UFO information from around the world, copyright is supported where due. Our usual thanks go to Brian Vike for his Canadian contribution.
73's and Bye from Peter ZS2ABF - East London, South Africa.
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