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South African Ham Radio UFO Interest Group. Known as (SAHRUIG).
NEWS Volume 1 News letter No.104
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.
Also any sightings seen by "non Hams" are also welcome via Email.
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Almont, Michigan A Huge Craft Right Over Our Driveway - Humming Sound
Date: Fall of 1990. Time: Approx: 8:00 p.m.
It was the fall of 1990, yes, 16 years ago! I was in my home in Almont, MI. That time of year it gets dark quite early, it must of been around 8:00 p.m., "the times are now just an approximation". My son, who at the time was around 12 came running in the house saying there was a UFO right outside our house. Let me add at this point I was not one that believed in UFOs. I went outside and my son pointed south and upwards and said look! The funny thing was at first I didn't see anything, but I did notice it was unusually dark, then I noticed a very dim light, I suddenly realized that the reason it was so dark was that there was a huge craft right over our driveway.
It was at tree level and was moving north and a very slow pace, "approximately a slow walking speed". There was a very distinct humming, exactly like a large transformers hums, there was a very dull light in the middle and as it travelled down or driveway I made out a row of windows around the craft, the windows looked very large. I remember walking down the driveway with my son, then the next thing I remember is standing out in the field north of my house still looking at the UFO, when suddenly it went from approximately 90 or 100 ft straight up in the sky to where it was a pinpoint of light. It just looked like another star. This happened in under a second. We continued to watch it for quite awhile when it took off in a north westerly direction like a meteor and was gone in a second. There are allot of things I can describe if your interested, but this is the basic part.
I don't feel like I was abducted, but I honestly do not remember how I got from my driveway and then in the field. I ask my son about it and he remembers things the way I do, but what I find unusual is that 1. I didn't really focus on it that much after the initial day it happened until a few years ago. 2. My son doesn't seem as interested as I am, even though he is a very intelligent guy. I was a flight simulator instructor in the air force and I have allot of knowledge regarding aircraft. This will always go down as the most bizarre day in my life. By the way, it seemed like I was being watched by someone in the window, but it was like you could only make out a shadow. I am now fascinated by UFO's and I know that there out there. Please, if you have any more questions feel free to ask. Almont is about 20 SE of Brown City. I have never seen another unusual craft. This was defiantly a UFO, there is no other explanation for it, I am the type of guy that checks his facts, there is nothing on our planet that I am aware of that could do what I saw! The pilots would be dead just from the G forces.
It surprises me that there have been so many incidences in that area and I never heard about it. From my house to the field was approximately 1000 feet, " you would think that with what was going on, I would remember that sort of distance". I am not really concerned weather anyone believes me or not, unless it is someone that is suppose to investigate this sort of thing. They really need to have an open mind and check the facts. The last few years I have gotten increasingly interested in this subject and there have only been a few incidences that I have read about where people have been as close as I was. I guess I am just intrigued. It really fascinates me!
I was so close, 90 ft. The funny thing about it was I didn't feel threatened, In a weird way I felt like it was something from our future, as bizarre as that sounds. I feel that we need to have confidence in our instincts, I felt like I was on display and really being watched. One thing I didn't mention and to this day I am not sure why I didn't act, is that I am a professional photographer. What a dummy! the shot of a life time and I didn't even think about it. This is another thing I cant explain, I take my cameras everywhere with me. The first ten years, I would occasionally ask my son if he remembered everything about that night and he would say yes, but not really want to talk about it. It seemed like more of a dream. WHY? Neither my son or I am the type of person not to act on something so significant, an event of a life time .Another factor about that night was the route the craft was travelling, right down my driveway. My power lines go right down the drive and sometime that winter I had to call Edison out, they told me that the wires were completely bare" no insulation at all", and had to replace them, including the transformer. I am not sure if it relates, but I have read stories about these craft using power lines.
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Near Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia Two Elongated Box Shaped Objects
Date: October 24, 1997. Time: 315:00 hrs Atlantic Daylight Savings Time.
Location of Sighting: near Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Number of witnesses: 1. Number of objects: 1 ?
Shape of objects: Two elongated box shaped objects with something that was connecting them looking like the letter H.
It was on a mild afternoon of Friday, October 24, 1997 at about 15:00 hours. Atlantic Daylight Savings Time (19:00 hours G.M.T.) when suddenly something caught my eye, right over the right to centre of the paved highway on Route #357, just over the tree line gliding silently, making no audible noise. It was "not" an airplane, and Halifax International Airport is not a long way away, estimated to be about 30 kilometres away, as the crow flies, from where I was on this afternoon.
Approximately, 8 1/2 kilometres from where Route #357 starts north from the intersection of Highway 7 in Musquodoboit Harbour, something caught my eye moving very slowly across the tree line ahead. I quickly pulled over to the shoulder of the road, and got out to get a better look. What I seen did not make sense!
This was no airplane. I never saw anything quite like it. It was box shaped, long and tapered on the front and there was another one, right beside it. Between the two box shaped crafts, there was a tunnel like thing joining the two long fuselages; and from my vantage point, it looked like the letter "H". I would say that the altitude of this thing was no more than two hundred feet high, and only about 300 feet north of where I stood, slowly moving in an easterly direction. The mid section of this fuselage had these ribbons like things hanging down from it. I had my 4 year old son with me and I started getting a bit nervous, as I was not sure what I was seeing and I feared for his safety. I told him to stay seated and after watching this thing for about 40 seconds to perhaps a minute at the longest, it disappeared out of site blocked out by the tree line.
To this day, I don't know what it is that I seen. It was large, based on the surroundings, and width of highway, and with my working background in Land Surveying and often using triangulation to determine approximate distances, I would estimate the length of this craft to be about 180 to 200 ft long and between 40 to 50 ft between the two fuselages. There were no wings that I could see, and the sky had scattered clouds and sunshine. I seem to recall what appeared to be a greenish mist around this thing before it disappeared from the tree line. It made no noise, and glided slowly, guesstimate at about 5 knots more or less. I recall getting back in the truck and driving up the road a bit further where there was a turn in the road to see if I could get another glimpse of this thing, but I could not find it any longer. I recall looking to the Northwest and seeing what appeared to be a Dash 8 plane going in a NW direction toward Halifax International Airport, which was not too far away. I know that my mind could certainly make out the planes that I am familiar with that fly in and out of Halifax Airport. What I saw a few minutes previously, was not an airplane. It was not a helicopter, and had no wings or propeller blades that I could see, and it was silent, so what was propelling it.
When I got home, I told my wife about it and told some of my friends, but I did not call any authorities and did not tell too many people about it, outside of my immediate family and friends. When telling my sister in-law about it a few days later after I saw this thing, she mentioned that a number of people reported seeing strange lights in the sky further down the Eastern Shore during the night time hours that same week, and apparently it went on for a few days. There were I believe some military (navy) exercises for NATO forces doing beach landings that same year, but do not remember if it was during the same time I had my sighting or not.
It was years later when I went into the Casebooks form, another member there urged me to post my sighting and tell others about it. I guess that I waited for almost 8 years before telling others about it, as I feared ridicule and did not want the media to come hounding me, as the only thing that I have, is the sighting etched in my memory and can not show any other supportive evidence to collaborate my story. It basically amounts to my word and if others want to choose to believe or disbelieve it. But I know what I saw, and no one can ever change my mind; it was something flying in the air that I have never seen before or since. In doing some online investigations on looking for others who have seen similar craft, there are possibly sightings in Ireland and another in Quebec, Canada. One thing that I would not be able to answer, was it an earth based craft, or something from outer space. I don't think that I could ever answer that question, but I do know, it was not a standard type aircraft that normally flies in our skies, and I have never seen anything like it before that day, or since that day.
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Muncie, Indiana Black Triangular Craft
Date: June 20, 2007. Time: Approx: 10:30 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Muncie.
Number of witnesses: 3. Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Triangle.
A large black triangle with two bright white lights on the back points floated in the sky in kind of a horseshoe like shape. Then it started floating in a straight line to the right of us, it then paused, and the white lights changed to orange and then the whole craft disappeared.
Additional Information:
To answers your questions.
1. - I would estimate that I saw the craft for 3-5 minutes.
2. - There was absolutely no sound at all.
3. - The pond we were fishing at was right next to the Muncie Airport. There were not any aircraft in the sky during the event, we did notice a few commercial jets that night, at a much, much higher altitude thought. I paid particular attention to these because I wanted to compare the two different crafts. Anyway, nothing in the sky seemed to notice the Black Triangle, before or afterwards.
4. - The weather was almost perfect, the sky was practically clear, I know this because before the sighting I was relaxing and enjoying the stars, Moon and Venus. The weather was so nice, that I was wanting to stay and fish until late that night.
5. - I don't feel comfortable estimating an altitude because I don't really know much about it. I can tell you that the craft seemed to be really low. Definitely not as high as the jets, probably more along the range of where I think a small airplane would be flying.
6. - Again I don't feel comfortable estimating the size either, I am no expert and don't want to be wrong. It was much bigger than what a small airplane is. I know the size of it is what made me look up in the first place, it was as if I could feel it going over me. Then I noticed the lights.
7 . - Well, I am no artist but I tried to draw a rough diagram. I know my picture is blue, but the triangle was black. But that is basically what it looked like, in real life there were not any details on the craft either. It was almost as if it were trying to be camouflaged with the darkness of the sky, but at the same time it had the brightest white lights on the back of it. These lights were by far brighter than anything else I have ever seen in the sky. Also the lights turned orange right before it disappeared.
8. - Anything else, well, I can say I was mesmerized by the way the craft floated overhead without any sound. I must have screamed, "Oh My God" at least a hundred times. And the way that it lit up to orange lights and disappeared is what really let me know this thing was out of the ordinary. After seeing it, I sat at the pond for a few moments then I had my friends take me home because I was kind of creeped out by it.
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Vaudreuil, Quebec A Strange Light Emanating From A Cloud Changing Color
Date: June 30, 2007. Time: 11:30 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Back of my house looking southeast.
Number of witnesses: 2. Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Roundish cloud.
I want to report an unidentified aerial phenomenon. On June 30 ,07 I witnessed along with a friend a very strange light emanating from a cloud near my house in Vaudreuil, Quebec within a few kms from Montreal.
First let me start by saying I am very experienced with auroras (been tracking them for years) I am also an amateur astronomer, I have experience with aircraft and flight and have a sound knowledge of weather. What I saw along with my friend that night I cannot explain. I ruled out lights from a plane, fireworks, auroras, lightning and static discharge.
It was around 11:30 pm, we just finished looking at the moon through my telescope and I was looking out at the night sky when I saw this cloud southeast from my home, it looked close and had just been over the house so I know it was a low cloud by the speed it was travelling. I thought it was pretty against the light of the almost full moon. All of a sudden, the cloud turned red with a little orange tint then pulsed to blue and then changed to green. It lit up the whole cloud telling me that whatever was creating this light was big. The light lasted about 4 seconds and turned off. I then yelled to my friend to come see what I just saw and miraculously the light re-appeared just in time for her to see it. The second view also lasted about 4 seconds and pulsed from red with orange tint to blue to green almost mechanically. Having seen it twice and having the same light pattern rules out a natural phenomenon.
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Kelowna, British Columbia Cylinder Shaped Craft Entirely Lit Up
Date: July 2, 2007. Time: Approx: 11:00 p.m.
I live on (removed) Rd. Kelowna. On Monday night I was sitting on my front steps talking to my friend on the phone and saw something strange in the sky as well. This also may confirm the stories that my friend read in Fridays paper.
Brian Vike telephoned the witness on July 10, 2007 to see what other information I might be able to gather.
The witness tells me she had arrived home from a friends place and noticed another friend had left a message for her to call. The lady took her telephone outside as she was returning the call, plus having a cigarette. As the two friends talked on the phone the witness noticed a long cylinder shaped light. Her first thoughts were that she was just seeing an airplane, as she is close to where the flights fly directly overhead, but the woman went on to say, the object was a little odd looking as it wasn't exactly on the normal flight path. Plus there were not any of the normal NAV lights on this object. The entire craft was fully lit up. After approximately 3 or 4 minutes of viewing time it was gone, the witness said it was like someone turned off the light switch. (we are not sure if the craft moved quickly away from it's location, or with the lights out and due to the darkness the object just wasn't visible)
The object was stationary and not a sound was heard coming from it. It also wasn't sitting at a high altitude, lower than a small Cessna would fly at. Rather low she mentioned and there were also no flashing or blinking lights on it at all.
The lady mentioned to her friend on the telephone that possibly she may have just been witness to a UFO sighting. Both kidded around about what was seen and talked for a while longer then hung up.
On July 6, 2007 the witness gets a phone call from the same friend informing her about an newspaper article on UFO sightings that was reported in the local Kelowna newspaper. (Kelowna Capital News). This is when the lady decided to write an email to me asking if I would telephone her.
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Large Round Craft Hovers For An Hour Over Okanagan Lake (Kelowna) British Columbia
Date: July 2, 2007. Time: 2:00 a.m.
HBCC UFO Research Note: A lady must have called the Kelowna Capital News to request my phone number as the witness called me up and explained what it was she witnessed over Okanagan Lake. The lady said she saw the same UFO twice over a weeks time period.
The first sighting of the craft was on Monday June 25, 2007 and again on the evening everyone else witnessed the unusual UFO event, which would have been July 2, 2007.
The witness said she was awake and got up at 2:00 a.m. and watched the craft for approximately one hour. The object was hovering, she said it did not move from it's position over top of the lake. There were a string of lights that went around the bottom part of the object and as she watched, the bottom lights would fade out and lights at the top of the craft came on, still appearing to circle the object. Also the top portion of the craft seemed to be lit up. The woman also stated that beams of light would shoot out from the top of the UFO and also from the bottom. Finally after roughly the hour had passed by, the craft shot up quickly and was gone and out of sight.
She reports that not a sound was heard coming from it. The lady lives on lake frontage and had an amazing view of the event. The object was low and again stationary over the water. (not touching the water at anytime) The witness said it appeared to be looking for something, or that is the impression she got from observing the event.
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Richmond, British Columbia Three Slow Flying Cylindrical Objects In Delta Formation
Date: July 12, 2007. Time: Approx: 1:10 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Richmond, Ackroyd Rd. (near Garden City - Westminster Hwy)
Number of witnesses: 1. Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: Cylinder, silver-gray, yellow and orange colour on bag, but not all the time.
It was a beautiful night when I was on my balcony watching Barret Owl, bats and there was one common Nighthawk flying around when suddenly something scared a couple of Redwinged Blackbirds from the cedar trees. So I pointed my 10 x50 Pentax PCF binoculars toward the birds and noticed immediately and I did see 3 big, really slow flying cylinder objects in delta formation (looked to me like a airplanes without wings) flying slowly east. There was no engines noise at all ! It is hard to exactly estimate how big the cylinders were, but I think the cylinders in the sky were about 1/2 size of Boeing 747 and no more then 1000 meters high, and I think that I did observe it about 3 minutes before they disappeared to east.
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Rossland, BC, (West Kootenays) Star Shaped Then Elongated
Date: July 12, 2007. Time: 10:30 p.m. to 11:15 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Rossland, BC, West Kootenays.
Number of witnesses: 1. Number of objects: 3-4
Shape of objects: Star shaped, then elongated.
Re: Kelowna BC strange lights in the sky (about the blinking coloured lights)
I have been noticing in recent months in the early evening a stationary star like object to the south that is below and slightly to the right of what I presume to be Mars. I have been intrigued by the objects' flashing colours of red, yellow and green, but because it has always appeared stationary I eventually assumed it was just a colourful star. However, tonight when I stepped outside to enjoy the cool evening air, at about 10:30pm, when I looked to the south, an object of that description barely cleared the horizon, it's position in the sky was much lower down than usual, in a more south eastward position. As I was looking at it, it suddenly moved across the sky making a smooth straight trajectory in a southwest direction until it stopped in the position below Mars right where I had seen it stationary on previous nights.
Suddenly another light appeared on the horizon at about the same spot where the first object originated moments before. I then grabbed my binoculars. It was a circular orb-like shape, like a very large glowing yellow star; it appeared to flicker and get brighter then dimmer; in comparison, the other "regular" stars in the sky were small, crisp, twinkly, with Mars being higher up and to the right. Anyways at this point I was thinking, I should get my handycam, but I didn't want to miss anything with the binoculars so I continued to watch the sky. Meanwhile the yellow one was disappearing and reappearing a few times, each time in positions a little further to the left from where it first appeared. I couldn't take my eyes off my binoculars when a while later a third object appeared to the right of the bright yellow one. The third object looked similar to the first coloured one, and then this third coloured object began to move in straight lines in a kind of triangular formation, sometimes disappearing then flashing a new in different spots. I couldn't describe it better than the report from Port Colbourne, Ontario where the witness articulated that what they saw"...took small hops at times like a skipping stone effect. This would occur with such speed that it seemed it would be in one spot and suddenly in another at the same instant.
Then, I was very astonished to see this object, with a sort of pulsating, blurred movement, stretch out into an elongated shape that had a softer semi-opaque whitish appearance. It was slightly thicker in the middle than at the ends. Then in a moment it shrank back to its original size and star-like shape, and I watched for a while longer as it moved some more in a back and forth motion. Then the objects disappeared by fading, except for the one below Mars. I believe that a fourth star like object appeared above the bright yellow one, but I was so intently watching this third one that I was unable to watch the fourth one. The whole observation took about 45 minutes.. I estimate that the objects were located at some distance away over Washington State.
I just want to add something with reference to the first multicoloured object just below Mars that appeared stationary upon my previous observations.
Last month in June I was on holiday in the Cariboo and I noticed a stationary coloured object exactly like it directly to the north. I observed it for the whole week that I was there, at least on the evenings that it was clear out. At that time I commented to my partner that it looked just like the one at home in Rossland that we had seen previously to the south under Mars.. I've been wondering if it was one object in orbit, or more than one object in different places.
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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.
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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