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South African Ham Radio UFO Interest Group. Known as (SAHRUIG).
NEWS Volume 1 News letter No.112
Don't forget to "LOOK UP TO THE SKIES" you may see something exiting.
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Magallanes Bridge, Manila, Philippines A Metallic Spherical Object
Date: October - November 2006
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Magallanes Bridge, Manila, Philippines.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Spherical.
I was on a bus when I saw a metallic spherical object floating in the sky. It looks stationary and was just about at the side of a building. When the bus got to the bridge the object was covered from sight by the building. After we passed the bridge I looked backed again to where I saw it and the metallic object was gone. I'm sure that it was not a plane because its spherical and it was not moving. It also looks like it was very close to the building.
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Farncombe, Godalming U.K. Round Orange Lights
Date: July 21, 2007
Time: 11:00 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Farncombe,Godalming UK.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 11
Shape of objects: Round orange lights.
I was sitting in the garden having a cup of tea and a roll up at around 23:00 Saturday evening 21/07/2007 at my girlfriends house in Farncombe, England. When Claire pointed up to the sky saying look, fireworks wait for the bang. They flew over us and were clearly not fireworks, but some kind of aircraft. A group of around 9-10 round orange lights with a further one following slightly behind passed over at a speed comparable to a slow plane. I can't be accurate about altitude, but would guess about 15-20 000 feet, we were assuming it was military aircraft using different lights until it dawned upon us both there was no noise at all and it was a still night with little cloud. Just before the objects disappeared a passenger aircraft flew very closely to these objects the passenger plane engines were very loud and distinctive and confirmed the silence of the strange orange objects passing. The cabin crew would have got a very good view being within a few thousand feet.The passing lasted about two minute
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Over Lake Around Beamsville, Ontario Object Low And Glowing
Date: July 22, 2007
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Over Lake Ontario.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Orbish I think.
My family and I were driving along the qew coming home from Niagara Falls.. We were driving beside the lake (there were many other cars around us around Beamsville) and I was in the passenger side, front seat. My wife, who was driving, said look at the boats? The lake was unusually calm, no waves, like glass, and there were 2 fishing boats and 2 jet ski doing their thing.. My eyes were then drawn to the middle of the lake as I thought, wow that plane sure is flying low. I kept my eyes glued to it, then it glowed, sort of an onyx shape and color. Then it slowly turned to the west, and it's shape was less orb-like then, and more air-craft looking (whatever that means?). and the glow stopped and it just took off west, out of sight in a micro-second and left a thin darkish vapor trail on about half the lake that soon dissipated.
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South to Southwest of Edson, Alberta Strange Object Returns Then Drop Downward
Date: August 3, 2007
Time: 12:05 a.m.
Location of Sighting: South to Southwest of Edson.
Number of witnesses: 8
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Circular.
It was just after midnight on Aug.3/07 when a group of 8 of us just finished watching a movie. My little sister and I went out on our Southeast facing deck to have a smoke. I looked to the South and saw this bright twinkling object. At first I didn't point it out to my sis because I thought it must be a plane, but it started just getting brighter in the same spot but moving irregular. At that point I showed her and asked her what she thought that was and her initial reaction was a plane and I told her I was already watching it a little and it was not a plane. We called everyone in the house out to see what they thought. One of the witnesses actually spotted the same type of object 2 nights before. Everything they thought of we ruled out, too quick but stationary to be a satellite, too many irregular movements to be a plane, even thought of the space station because on the odd night the space station catches that sun and lights up like a beacon sailing at steady speed across the sky that dims low and will light up brighter than anything else up there several times in it's pass across the sky. The thought of a comet even struck but was soon dismissed. No way was it a weather balloon.. I have seen all of these and they didn't match what we were seeing.
At it's brightest you could tell it was not in the lower atmosphere but much higher and you could see it making small micro movements (as I call them) that could be made out in triangular patterns and figure eight patterns. What started off as the faint twinkle of alternating red/white light was now 2 distinguishable red and white lights encompassed by these brilliant blue lights that would illuminate in a clockwise sequence. The blue lights weren't constant though. It was almost as if it had moods and the lights would light up once or twice then take a break for a few seconds then flash a few quick ones. It continued to do this random flashing almost the whole time. It spent about 20 minutes in it's original spot then the following 20 minutes it made it's way to the Southwestern horizon using the micro movements. At it's position in the Southwestern sky it was too far away to see the blue lights. You could still see the micro movements faintly and barely make out the twinkle of the red/white lights. By that time everyone pretty much went to bed except for a couple of us. I thought the show was pretty much over when about 15 minutes in it's Southwestern position it made it's way back to the original spot in roughly the same 20 minute time frame. This time it was much, much brighter but didn't look any closer than the first time. It stayed there for another 20 - 30 minutes then with the brilliant flashing and amazing movements it worked it's way in a zig zag pattern straight down and disappeared below the tree line.
I would estimate that we watched it from 12:05am - 1:30am to 1:45am Can't be exact on the time frame because we were in awe of what we were witnessing.. I am no expert in this matter but I do have my Commercial Pilot's License and one of the other witnesses has an extensive background on aircraft and we both agree that there is nothing in that sky that the public is aware of that can move like that or have such a complex lighting system. I have pictures too but not too sure how to upload them.
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Loveland, Colorado Two Brilliant White Discs
Date: August 5, 2007
Time: Approx: 12:00 p.m. (noon)
Location of Sighting: Loveland, CO
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: 2 Brilliant White Discs.
It was about noon and I went to the truck to get something to drink. Suddenly I saw what appeared to be a white Mylar balloon, but after watching for a few seconds it turned into a brilliant white disc which did some tight circles and loops in slow graceful movements. Then another one appeared literally out of the blue. Now both of them were doing maneuvers and getting fairly close to each other. It was an amazing sight.
So I called out to the workers to come see the flying saucers. As soon as they started to come out though, one of the objects moved quickly out of view and the other suddenly appeared to turn into a small plane. It was pretty unbelievable.
Luckily however, one of the other supervisors was with me the whole time, saw the whole thing, and reported it to the workers exactly the same way.
You can't imagine how relieved I am that someone else has seen what I have been seeing for the past two weeks. Let me clarify. I didn't see those discs for two weeks, I have seen other unusual aerial phenomena, almost every day, for two weeks straight.
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Ste-Marie De Kent, New Brunswick Hovering Object Shines Orange Light
Date: August 7, 2007
Time: Midnight/1:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: My backyard, St-Joseph Rd.
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: Balls of light.
This was the night of August 7th, 2007. It was about midnight or 1:00 a.m. when I went upstairs. I looked outside and immediately I saw this flying object in my backyard. It wasn't in my backyard, but it was viewable from it, but it was very far. I observed it for a couple minutes as it hovered above some trees. It's lights blinked several different colours. I wasn't sure what it was. So I asked my girlfriend if she could come upstairs and see this thing, at first, she didn't believe me. But I showed her, and we both observed this object. It blinked, hovered. Then all of a sudden, it shone a very bright orange light. It did this a few times, then started to move very slowly to the left. We went outside and into my backyard, where there were no lights so it made it very easy to observe the sky. It was a cloudless night, with all the stars visible.
The object flew to the left very slowly, then stopped, lowered, and started going to the right again. Then it stopped at the exact same place as it started. Then, we saw another object come in. It started to fly towards the first object. They were the same size and shape. We also noticed another thing: The red lights blinked at the exact same time. The first object flew even further to the right, raised itself. Flew behind some trees and disappeared. The second object stopped, lowered itself, and started to fly to the right as well. It disappeared.
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Canoe, British Columbia A Cylinder Shaped White Object
Date: August 10, 2007
Time: Approx: 10:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: In the sky.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Cylinder.
I was outside having a smoke, I was looking up in the sky like I usually do and kind of out from no were was this cylinder shaped white object flying in the sky. It wasn't flying as high as a commercial air craft, but it was low enough to see that it didn't have any wings on it and it wasn't making a sound and had no contrails. It wasn't going really fast. This is the first time I have ever seen something like this. My sister had witnessed this with me.
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West Of The City Of Lethbridge, Alberta Bright Light Turns Red
Date: August 11, 2007
Time: 12:30 a.m.
Location of Sighting: West of the City of Lethbridge.
Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round - Looked like a headlight then went red and dim.
During the early morning hours of August 11, 2007 at approximately 12:30 a.m. I was standing outside the Lethbridge Lodge Hotel. An extremely bright light, high in the sky caught my attention. I remember thinking, "that's odd, a plane with a spot light on it". The object had no flashing lights, moved unusually slow and resembled that of a giant headlight. This object was extremely bright and appeared to be very high in the sky (approx 20,000 feet). As I faced west looking approx 45 degrees in the sky, the object was travelling directly at me in an easterly direction, again, at a very slow rate of speed. As the object got closer I thought it to be about half the size of a full moon whilst high in the sky. The object then came to a stop made a 90 degree turn to the left (north) and travelled at the same slow speed in that direction.
After travelling North for approx 10 to 15 seconds the bright light began to fade slowly then turned a very bright red color, then back to white and then disappeared while still travelling north. Shortly before and after seeing this bright light, I did see several falling stars. This bright object that I saw in the sky did not in anyway shape of form resemble a falling star. Stars fall or shoot. This was travelling very slow and had no flashing lights. Shortly after the sighting I was joined by a co-worker. I said to him, "you wouldn't believe what I just saw!", he said. "What, the bright light in the sky". I said "ya, you saw it too." He said yes, him and 2 other friends were watching it as well. Before saying anything to him about what exactly I saw, I asked him to describe to me what he saw. He described exactly what I saw, including the "red" color and the brightness.
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Gazelle, California A Bright Neon Green Ball
Date: August 11, 2007
Time: 1:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Gazelle, CA.
Number of witnesses: 5
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round.
While driving home down Interstate 5 from Yreka, CA, after playing in our band at the fair, my keyboard player and myself saw a very large, bright neon green ball appear and head downwards at a very fast speed and then disappear behind a mountain ridge. It was so quick, so large and traveling so fast that it was hard to judge the distance it was away and therefore the size, but just by being over the ridge it was at the very least larger than a house. It was a very bright, almost glowing neon green color with a small reddish orange halo around it. At the same time, two other band members were in another vehicle 15 miles ahead of us and when we met up a half hour later, they had seen it too. They felt it was traveling perpendicular to the earth rather than straight down and was actually down south father like Redding, CA area which would have made it enormous in size. Another band member traveling a different road home, also saw it. We all agreed with the description and have not seen or heard of any other sightings or crashes of a meteor in the area.
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Shoreditch, London Two Lines Of Bright Orange Lights
Date: August 11, 2007
Time: Approx: Midnight.
Location of Sighting: Shoreditch, London.
Number of witnesses: 6
Number of objects: 9
Shape of objects: Round.
Sometime around midnight on 11, 08, 2007 one of my customers (I am a Publican) who is an engineer came in from the terrace and asked me to come outside, which I did in company with four other customers. We saw two lines of bright orange lights moving slowly from south to north. They had exactly the same distance between them horizontally and vertically the symmetry was perfect. A row of four then another row of four above them and a single light, centrally above the two formations. They did not look or behave like aircraft and there was no noise. As we watched, one by one the lights were extinguished until only the central one at the top remained, after about 20 seconds that light went out as well. The whole "experience" lasted 3 to 4 minutes.
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North Surrey, British Columbia A Round White Light
Date: August 12, 2007
Time: 00:01
Location of Sighting: N. Surrey, B.C.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round white light.
I was sitting on deck while waiting for my wife to come home from work. Observed a numbers of planes on departure from YVR coming my way for once, (heading east) Also observed a number of meteorites, one which appeared to be over White Rock was quite spectacular. The sky had quite of but of clear space with odd groups of patchy clouds. A large white light suddenly appeared almost due west of me and at approx: 45 degrees above the horizon and just above the cloud cover. At first I thought maybe a plane had just turned on it's landing lights, but when I checked with my binoculars it appeared to be a fairly large round luminescent globe without any strobes. Definitely not an aircraft. It was traveling about the same speed as the commercial planes. Heading from south to north. I watched it for approx: ten seconds as it crossed a clear spot and then moved behind a small cloud surrounded by clear sky. I watched it about half way as it passed behind the cloud until it just vanished. I waited and watched for it to come back into the open, but never saw it again.
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San Rafael, California A Triangle With Rounded Corners
Date: August 12, 2007
Time: Approx: 11:00 p.m.
Location of Sighting: San Rafael.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Triangle with rounded corners.
My girlfriend "J" and I were watching the meteor shower last night on our rooftop patio in downtown San Rafael. We're about 20 miles north of San Francisco and it's a fairly urban area, so light pollution is fairly high. There was no moon, however, so we had a better view of the stars than usual.
We were stretched out on two lounge chairs, with a blanket over us. We weren't under the influence of any drugs, though I had finished about half a pint of Guinness. I had a mini mag light flashlight with me, and my binoculars. We weren't seeing many meteorites, so out of boredom I had been swinging the flashlight beam around into the sky in big sweeps.
I got up to go to the bathroom, and I got a few steps away when J started yelling "UFO! UFO!" I started looking up and around and a couple seconds later I spotted a dark triangular shape with rounded corners moving quickly across the sky, from approximately north to south, more or less right above us. It had a small red circle in each corner, and was completely silent. I'd estimate that it was about the size of 2 or 3 full moons. I said "hand me the binoculars!, hand me the binoculars!" but was too dumbstruck to look away to grab them, even though J was holding them out to me (her eyes also locked on the triangle). I watched it for about 4 or 5 seconds until it disappeared in the haze of light pollution to the south. I'd say it traveled about 1/8 of the full arc of the sky in the 4 or 5 seconds that I was able to visually track it.
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Lorain, Ohio Unusual Maneuvering UFO
Date: August 13, 2007
Time: Approx. 1:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Lorain, Ohio.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Unknown.
I was on my back deck observing the meteor shower. I was facing east/northeast. At approximately 1:00am, I observed a flashing light coming from the north. I expected it to be an airplane, but it was moving at an extremely high rate of speed, going from north to south in about 3 seconds. It was a very bright, strobe-like light, brighter than any light on a plane. It moved far faster than any plane, emitting no sound, and much faster than any satellite, which takes a few minutes to cross the sky as well as the fact that satellites don't blink on and off. As it got to the south it stopped and moved back north slightly. Then it did one of two things, being unable to distinguish because of the bright flashing. It moved slightly west and then either (A) did a 360 degree circle back to its original location or (B) did a series of 90 degree moves, moving down, over to the right, up and then left, back to its original location. This move was done in approximately 1-1/2 to 2 seconds.
It then moved south again, and I lost sight of it due to a dense tree-line. It moved way too fast to be any man-made aircraft, as well as it is impossible for any man-made craft to do the maneuver I observed before losing sight of it. It was not a meteor, moving slower than any meteor I have ever observed, beside the fact I know of no meteor that has ever stopped and reversed its track. It also was not a meteor skipping in and out of the atmosphere, as the flashing had a distinct timed pattern to it. I was ready to dismiss it as "seeing things" until it pulled that last move. I have never observed any object do what this object did (the circle/90 degree moves) in the brief time period it did it in. It's not physically possible for any man-made object to move in the fashion this object did. Because of the briefness of this event (happened in about 10-12 seconds), it was impossible to determine an altitude, although it definitely was not a "tree skimming" height -- was definitely much higher than that. Also unable to determine any shape or size of the object.
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Port Coquitlam, British Columbia Bright Light Flys Over The Witnesses Home
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Sherwood Park, Alberta A Triangle 2 Or 3 Football Fields In Size
Date: August 13, 2007
Time: 11:30 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Sherwood Park.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Triangle.
I was walking outside to close my garage door on my acreage before bed and as I was walking back into the house. I noticed something strange and stationary in the night sky. It was a perfectly clear and calm evening with the stars and galaxies shining brighter than the nearby lights of Edmonton. I remembered at first there was a meteor shower that night and took more of a glance in the near vicinity. Within seconds I noticed a falling meteor and quickly followed it across the sky thinking "wow". When I looked back I noticed a triangle with 3 white lights on every point and the internal black body very close in the nearby distance. The strange object blocked out the stars behind it and looked like it was positioned/camouflaged within the stars. But if you looked closely you could really see it was much closer and about the distance of typical low lying clouds.
The triangular object seemed to be that of 2-3 football fields in size. I had a glimpse of the object for about 5 seconds and it seemed to morph or turn very quickly. All I could really see were the 3 white lights on its corners all move at the same time and that is what startled me. I fell to the ground feeling the need to take cover and when I did, I noticed another flash of that was resembling a bright meteor coming from the exact position of the triangle, and soon the strange object just disappeared. I then ran into the house to grab my girlfriend and when I came back outside all was gone. Crazy.
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Glens Falls, NY (North Of Albany - 50 Miles) Fast Moving Objects
Date: August 14, 2007
Time: 3:15 a.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: Round.
While viewing the sky for the Perseid meteor showers, I observed 2 objects moving at an incredible speed (slower than the meteors I observed, but many times faster than anything else I have ever observed in the sky before) out of the eastern sky traveling due west and slightly curving to the west/northwest at a very high altitude. Total time of observation from approximately 30 degrees above the eastern horizon to the same at the western horizon was approximately 5-6 seconds. The size was as big as the largest stars visible; however, both objects were not as bright as the largest stars, and their color was white to off-white. The odd thing is, they were moving very close (approximately an eighth of an inch at arms length) and parallel to each other until one slightly veered away from the other for about a second, then moved back into its original position until both were no longer visible. I have always been a sky watcher and always believed in UFOs until recent years (I am 49), and I can honestly state this is truly the first time I have ever observed anything that I have no explanation for. Has anyone else observed sum .sky was extremely clear, and the objects made no noise. The objects were not bats and not any species of night flying birds (like nighthawks), as I am an avid bird watcher.
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Vancouver, British Columbia Ongoing Sighting ?
Date: Past two months (June, July, August 2007)
Time: Approx: 11:00 p.m.
It's been quite a while since I have taken consideration of UFOs, the thought always remained in my head if they where real or not. I have always been a
fan though and sought to believe they are real. Just recently, maybe the past two months I have been seeing strange things in the night sky, strange objects moving. Just looks like shooting stars but without the trails that belong to them and very naked to the eye. It's strange though because its not just once in a while, its like maybe 4-6 times a night.
I will see these fluttering about. Just recently around 11:00 p.m. I was standing on my front porch, to see a very bright large one with two moving behind it zipping in the other direction. And shortly after, in less then maybe two hours I went out for a run recording them into my mind of seeing 10 (I had to stop running to just make sure it wasn't me). Some I have seen seem to disappear and reappear or never seem to come back out of the background of a thin cloud.
My first UFO encounter was when I was probably 13, my first year in high school staying out late I saw one, well believed to have seen one. Now I'm 19 and seeing all these. I defiantly know that something strange is happening.. Something strange enough for me to be seeing these zig and zag for the past 2 months,
and the fact that others have seen it on my street and locally is the weirder part. I wish I knew an answer honestly. Maybe a real war of the worlds is actually happening above us on this tiny rock we call home.
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73's and Bye from Peter ZS2ABF - East London, South Africa.
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