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South African Ham Radio UFO Interest Group. Known as (SAHRUIG).
NEWS Volume 1 News letter No.177
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.
Address them via Packet to ZS2ABF @ ZS0ELD.ECP.ZAF.AF
Posted to BBS : 20/07/2008
MORE NEW SIGHTINGS
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Stanley Co. Durham, U.K. Cigar UFO
Date: November 5, 1975
Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Cigar.
Weather Conditions: Dark but clear
Description: I was walking with my friend going towards the swimming baths
when I noticed this huge orange cigar shaped object motionless ahead, as we
started walking towards it, it started moving very slowly forwards, then
stopped and shot backwards and then again motionless, by this time we were
very frightened and tried to hide as it felt as if we were being watched. It
continued to make angular sharp turns and then finally started to drift slowly
in its original direction. While it was there I didn't see any cars passing,
but when we got to the swimming baths I got some adults to come and look
outside, they didn't know what it was but didn't show much interest.
It was very low in the sky and making impossible maneuvers, it glowed a
yellow/orange color and felt menacing. Years later I was talking to a builder
in my sister-in-laws house and we got onto the subject of UFOs, it turned out
that he and a number of people at beamish which is the direction I saw it
heading had witnessed it also. He said that it had been reported
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Trans-Canada Highway Near The Border Of Saskatchewan And Manitoba UFO
Date: November 1999.
Time: Between 8:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Trans-Canada Highway near the border of Saskatchewan and
Manitoba (we were in Saskatchewan by then).
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Flat cone dome top, with large middle section. Could not see
bottom/base due to fog.
Full Description of event/sighting: Hello,
Very recently a friend told me that two of his friends experienced a UFO
flying closely over them while sitting by a field and that he believes them.
After some reassuring, it led me to tell him my own story and ever since, I've
been looking for reports and stories by other people that I can relate to.
In 1999, my family moved from Regina, Saskatchewan to Winnipeg, Manitoba
(Canada)
In early November that night on the highway, there was a heavy storm. We left
later than planned, and it quickly became dark just
after 4pm or 5pm.
After a long drive in the dark rain for a couple of hours, we entered a thick
fog. It made the space around us seem a little brighter but in fact it didn't
help our visibility because we could still only see a few meters of the road
that was directly in front of us. However, the rain wasn't as heavy.
After 20-30 minutes in the fog, we saw that we were driving towards a section
that was lit up. The light was coming from what we thought was the top of a
grain elevator. We've made the trip between Regina and Winnipeg many times
during our lives and know that grain elevators would be the only thing that
would stand as tall. But I also thought, right away, that it was unusual for a
farm building to be that close to the highway. I remember pondering the very
thought in the situation, comparing past trips and recalling only to have ever
seen a backlit highway billboard to have a light shining as close to the road.
We could see that the area ahead was brightly lit - as bright as it would look
as if it had been day. I remember feeling some relief, though, and feeling
thankful that a farmer was considerate enough to erect a building with a
bright light shining on the road for travelers in the dark.
Just before we pierced through the fog to pass by the structure, the rain had
completely stopped and we found ourselves in what I assumed to be the middle
of the storm. Fog still surrounded us, but the light was bright enough that I
could see through parts of it. My eyes scanned upwards towards the light where
it was clearest and I saw that the top was a flat cone shape dome/roof. I
thought that maybe I was wrong about the grain elevator because it looked more
like a silo. However, just below the light was a second level of the structure
that was a larger sort of base continuing to grow out like a wide-based cone.
I could not see any lines, nor see through some patches of the fog to discern
what the entire shape of the base was but it's presence was large - it took up
as much ground space as a tall building would (that's the best I can describe
it). I did not see any other lines, seams, addresses or words on its surface
and there was no other colour but silver. It looked newly built out of metal.
I observed all of that within 5-10 seconds only. My eyes quickly moved to the
closest light, facing towards the road. There were at least 2 other lights
that I could see through the fog. They were rectangles- not too square, but
not long like a fluorescent bulb either. It was so bright that eventually I
felt blinded by it and saw only white. At that point, I considered that it was
a new kind of agricultural architecture. I even considered that it was a set
for a movie, and that some production company was shooting a film and had
their brightest lights out.
As the car moved further away, the fog began to cover the light and gradually
the rain pounded the road and we were back to driving in a dark storm.
No one in our car had said a word while driving through the middle of the fog.
It felt as though we were in a trance for what seemed to be 10-15 minutes back
into the storm. Finally my father said out loud, "What was that?!" and we all
agreed that it was a strange sighting. Still, no one mentioned that it could
possibly have been a UFO until the next day when my father hesitantly voiced
the idea on our drive back. It was a clear sunny day with an entirely blue
sky. All three of us watched the side of the road hoping to find a structure
at the same location the night before to confirm that it was just a regular
building, but we only saw farm fields and groups of structures in the
distance.
It was only when we arrived home that we agreed that we may have seen a UFO
up-close. But we've never talked about it with each other any further. Very
rarely over the years we've had to ask one another about the incident to
confirm that it wasn't our individual imaginations at work that night. But
still to this day, we've kept it to ourselves because we don't think anyone
else would believe us.
One car passed us in the opposite direction just after we drove through the
fog, and there was one car at varying distances before and behind us during
most of the drive. I've always wondered if they've reported anything. I feel
very hesitant and awkward to talk about it, and to admit what I saw, but I'm
writing this now for the record because I'm not sure I will talk about it
again. If there are people who saw the same thing that night at least they can
know that there are three people who saw it too.
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Perth Western, Australia A Saucer Shaped UFO
Date: December 15 - 16th, 2007
Time: Approx: 11:57 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 2 +
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Saucer Shape.
Weather Conditions: Cloudy, windy.
Description: I was driving east along Marangaroo Drive in Girrawheen with my
15 year old daughter in the passenger seat of my car on the night of the
sighting. One boy on a bike darted in front of my car, just before the
Girrawheen shops on that same road, and rode as fast as he could in a north
west direction. I swore as I had to brake to allow him to get across the road.
Another boy followed and only stopped to wait for my car. He followed his
friend as fast as he could, crossing just behind my car. I commented to my
daughter at the time that they looked like they were trying to get away after
committing a crime or getting caught doing something wrong.
As I drove, what I thought was a plane came into view and I said to my
daughter, "Is that a plane. Oh my God, that plane's going to crash." It seemed
to be just above houses ahead of us heading east. After driving further and
becoming closer to 'the plane' we noticed it hover then completely change
direction towards us (west). My daughter starting crying and repeating,
'That's not a plane. That's not a plane" when she undid her seatbelt and slid
into the area of the car under the glove box crying and screaming.
The object was to the right of us, above some houses and seemed to be the size
of the foundation of a small house. At that point it became very clear that
the object was not a plane. It was a saucer shape with white lights around the
underside (in a circle) on the outer part of the bottom of the saucer. These
lights flashed around and changed to blue and red but were predominately
white. The middle of the underside of the object just seemed blank - black.
The object then hovered for some time and changed direction again heading
east. There was a car driving in the right hand lane next to us and as the
object was almost directly above us but to our right I looked over at the
driver who mouthed "Oh My God", while looking up at the object, as I did so. I
was feeling total fear at this point although I don't know if it's because of
pre-conceived ideas and ideas presented in the media/movies about UFO's. At
some point my daughter fumbled for her phone and went to video the sighting. I
yelled at her to put it away in case 'they' saw us. They being whatever was in
the object. I don't know why I said this but thought if they did see us
something bad would happen.
I put my foot down and sped to my house at the time with the object now behind
me, not far from the sighting (within a kilometer or 2). We bolted into the
house, closed all blinds and turned off all lights and huddled in my study
where I phoned the police and the Perth Observatory. The police assured me
that no-one had called in with sightings and referred me to the Perth
Observatory. The guy at the observatory laughed at me and implied that I was
drunk or on drugs. I was neither and further, do not touch drugs and rarely
drink alcohol. I assured him that on this night, over a period of
approximately 5 hours, I had consumed 1 Vodka cruiser over the course of the
night as I would be driving - but I never drink to excess anyway. The next day
I also rung the national UFO hotline number and left a message and my number
but the call was not returned.
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Tipton, Indiana A Large Orange Light
Date: July 4, 2008
Time: Evening.
This past 4th of July my family and I were watching the Tipton, IN fireworks
from our front yard, which is about 15 miles south east. Some people across
the field were lighting off some nice ones too. We saw many go up and
explode, but one large orange ball of light stayed in the air. We thought is
was a helicopter watching the fire works. About one hour later we came back
out to the front to see what was being fired off and then we saw the light
moving horizontally, still thought is was a helicopter, but it was not
blinking and was just too big to be one, but what do I know. We left the
front again and came back about 10 minutes later to shut the barn doors and
saw it was still in the sky. All of a sudden it started to vibrate and turned
into a tiny red light and was gone within less than a second. My husband,
daughter and I all looked at each other with the look of "holy crap"! What
the ---- was that?!
The weird thing was that about 20 years ago when I lived in Michigan as a kid,
my brother came screaming in the house about a craft with orange lights and
pipes underneath, that he saw hovering above the streetlight at the end of the
driveway. I remember the air smelling like a chemical gas like smell. 3
adults and 1 child (me) all jumped in my brothers supped up Firebird and
followed this big orange light (going about 100 mph down the back roads) for
several miles until we couldn't catch up and go any further. It was very low,
just above the telephone wires. For that one, my mother called the state
police and there were many other reports of the orange light. The next day it
was in the paper as a downed weather balloon. There is no way a weather
balloon can do what we saw the orange light doing.
The 4th of July one looked exactly like it! Someone else in this area had to
have seen it, it was quite large. I was thinking about reporting it to the
police, but I don't have much respect for the law enforcement in my area, they
act like Barney in Mayberry.
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Oswego, New York Oval/Disc Shaped UFO
Date: July 5, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 11:30 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 5
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Oval, disc shaped.
Weather Conditions: Clear Sky.
Description: On July, 5th 2008 my two daughters, three friends, and myself
were sitting in our front yard in Oswego N.Y. under a crystal clear sky. At
approx. 11:15-11:30 pm while pointing out stars to the kids, ex. (big dipper,
little dipper) we observed a very large object that seemed to appear directly
overhead coming out of nowhere. The object was approx 300 ft. above us making
no sound at all. The object was glowing red with many lights, my daughters
said they thought it was a large spinning disc shape. I was not sure what I
was observing. In an instant the object took off out towards the lake at an
extremely high rate of speed that which is uncommon of any plane or aircraft
in nature. The object did not disappear out of site, but appeared to vanish in
mid air such as it appeared. Once again for a craft of this size (bigger than
any plane I have ever seen) this produced NO sound what so ever. My oldest
daughter is 13 years old. My self or her and her friends could not explain
what we had just seen.
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Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England Disc/Ball Shaped Object
Date: July 5, 2008
Time: 11:40 p.m.
Number of witnesses: one
Number of objects: one
Shape of objects: Disc/ball shaped.
Weather Conditions: Cloudy but fine.
Description: I was in my bedroom watching TV with the lights off and I saw out
of my window this massive bright ball shaped object gliding right past my
house. The object was huge and was the same level of height from the ground as
my house roof. It came right past my house gliding and slowing down as it got
closer, I had a great view of it. It lasted a few minutes or so and then made
a perfect left hand turn and headed across the valley and out into the
distance. It seemed very controlled and was moving in a straight line not
making a sound. It was incredible!
UFOINFO Note: As with other similar reports I asked the witness to have a look
at the UFO Balloons website to see if this is what might have been seen and
received the following reply:
Hello thanks for returning the E-mail.
What I saw looked nothing like those weather balloons. What I saw was very
controlled and looked a lot different from that. Plus it came down low and
slowed down and then made a perfect left hand turn then across the valley then
eventually up into the sky. Moving perfectly. I know what I saw and it wasn't
one of those.
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Three Lakes, Wisconsin A Huge Orange Object
Date: July 6, 2008
Time: 12:10 a.m.
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Circle.
Weather Conditions: Clear Skies, Night.
Description: Three of us (all men), were sitting around a camp fire at the
edge of Big Fork Lake in Three Lakes Wisconsin. All of the sudden, from the
right edge of the tree-line from our shore, a huge orange circle emerged
moving fairly quickly in a northern direction. It was estimated to be 1 to 2
miles in front of us, moving horizontally, about 3,000 to 5,000 feet high.
Having watched the night skies in the area for 30+ years, we have never seen
anything like this. It was huge, to the point that we thought it was a meteor
about to hit the ground. I literally stood up thinking there was going to be
immanent impact. But after 5 seconds or so, it disappeared. The two guys I was
with said they saw it as green towards the end.
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Penticton, British Columbia Three Oval UFOs
Date: July 11, 2008
Time: 10:50 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Penticton, BC.
Number of witnesses: 1-3
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: Oval.
Full Description of event/sighting: I have lived in the Okanagan Valley, more
or less the better part of my life and have enjoyed star watching for many
hours in the summer nights as a child with my grandmother and with my friends.
I am familiar with comets, shooting stars, satellites, northern lights, planes
etc. I have never before seen anything like I saw this night. It was almost
eleven o'clock on a clear summer night. I had just sat down on my back patio
when I looked up over the roof of my house into the night sky. Immediately I
saw an object, which at first glance I thought was a shooting star. However it
was moving too slowly and it was not bright enough and did not fade. It moved
in a continuous motion coming closer and higher in the sky traveling north
over my house. As I watched the object passed in the sky it moved into the
darker part of the sky more directly above my house and out of the city
lights. It was then I could clearly make out the shape of three oval objects.
They did not seem to have lights, per say, but were rather reflective in
nature. These three objects were traveling in a diagonal formation and passed
over my house from south to north at a consistent and fast rate of speed. I am
guessing twice the speed of a jet plane. They continued north until out of
sight. The sighting may have lasted about 20 seconds in total. I continued to
watch the sky for approximately another one or so. Within 25 minutes of the
first sighting, I noticed what appear to be a typical satellite in size and
movement, however this light was passing from north to south at a much quicker
speed than a normal satellite. Because of it's unusually fast speed and what I
had just previously witnessed, I continued to watch the small light. I
followed it until it was in the southern part of the sky. All of a sudden the
light paused, stopping momentarily, and then changed direction shooting off to
the east and immediately out of
sight.
Although my husband and son were watching with me at this time, they did not
gain sight of the small light in time. What followed, they did see. We
continued to watch the sky and out of the south east sky came a bright flash
of light - just light someone had taken a picture with a camera flash. My
husband saw it too. Three more similar flashes of light followed over about
the next twenty minutes. My husband and son saw the next one. I continued to
watch and saw another two. I noted the exact locations of the flashes. None
were from the same spot. The four flashes, if connected, would have formed a
rough diamond shape. Finally, at about midnight and we were starting to head
in for the night when out of the corner of my eye I again spotted three oval
shapes low in the eastern sky. They were again traveling from south to north,
maybe a bit quicker, but this time they were in a triangle formation.
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Saanich, British Columbia A Burnt Orange Spherical Object
Date: July 12, 2008
Time: 2:43 a.m.
Location of Sighting: See notes.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Spherical.
Full Description of event/sighting: The object was sighted in the
east-north-east sky (approx 60 degrees as indicated using a Silva compass and
subtracting 23 degrees to compensate for magnetic declination) from the above
noted location. The inclination angle was measured at +/- 16 degrees using a
Suunto hand-held clinometer. These measurements were taken on July 13 2008.
The object appeared to be spherical in form, but without well defined margins.
It was a "burnt orange" colour. From my vantage point, the object appeared
to be about 10 times the size (apparent) of Venus. The intensity of the
emitted light could be likened to a 100 watt porch light as viewed from a
block away, or slightly brighter than last night's moon.
The object was viewed for less than 10 seconds as it flitted with great speed
in the area of the sky described. The event ended with the object departing
in a westerly direction extremely fast.
The object appeared to be over the area of Haro Strait where it converges with
Georgia Strait... approximately mid-way between Sidney BC and Bellingham WA.
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Caledon, Ontario A White Luminous Sphere (UFO)
Date: July 12, 2008
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Caledon direction.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: White Luminous sphere (quite large).
Full Description of event/sighting: I was watching the thunderstorm and
looking out towards Caledon/Inglewood direction which is westerly from Bolton.
Suddenly, something very huge and white luminous in color just blipped on up
in the sky about 30 degrees upward from my position (back porch facing
north)and started a nice smooth travel across the sky heading in a northern
direction. It was moving downward at about a 15 degree angle as it traveled
northward. It went below tree line/horizon. Duration was about 20 seconds or
more. It was big enough to be convincing. With an outstretched arm, my arm
being 3 feet. Thumb to eye, the object was about the 1/2 size of my thumb. I'd
say it was over by Hwy 10 and Olde Baseline Rd. area. 16 km away or so.
Calculated roughly to almost 2km wide object (?). Probably alot smaller.
I was the guy who saw a boomerang craft over Bolton in last year's summer
while stargazing in July (2007).
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Bristol, U.K. Globe Or Orb Shaped UFO
Date: July 12, 2008
Time: Between 10:40 and 10:45 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Globe or orb shaped
Weather Conditions: few clouds and breezy
Description: Golden orb slowing moving right, then the loud sound of an
aircraft looking like a small plane, though second witness believes it was a
helicopter. Plane/helicopter shot across the sky from left to right, it had a
bright blue light, second witness believes it was green however. It made a
thunder like sound and moved extremely fast across the sky passing the golden
orb. Orb then moves left at a similar speed, drifts for a few seconds before
flickering and becoming smaller, then disappearing all together.
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Leicester, England U.K. Triangular Shaped UFO
Date: July 12, 2008
Time: 9:50 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: Approx: 9
Shape of objects: Triangular (ish)
Weather Conditions: Mostly clear with scattered clouds, no breeze.
Description: I was walking back from the shop about 9:50pm when I glanced up
and saw at first what I thought was a flock of birds. I took another few looks
and noticed an orange light on at least two of them. They made no sound
whatsoever and were moving quite fast. I raced home and called my wife to see
them too and she is still somewhat freaked out at what she saw as has always
been a realist and found an explanation for things. They were heading towards
Leicester City Centre so surely someone else must have seen them? We live 15
miles from East Midlands airport and are used to planes, these were not engine
craft, they seemed to glide.
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Northenden Manchester M22 England 10 Circular Objects
Date: July 12, 2008
Time: 10:40 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 10
Shape of objects: Circular
Weather Conditions: Clear with scattered clouds.Nil wind.
Description: Just pulled up in my car at home when my neighbor called me over.
We stood and looked in complete amazement. The objects were traveling from the
West-North-West,heading towards East-South-East. The ten objects were
traveling in a straight line occasionally crossing over or veering to one
side. These objects were very bright and circular in shape, traveling at high
speed under the cloud base no noise very quiet. We all saw this and it was as
clear as a bell.There was no signs of flashing or other lighting associated
with aircraft.
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Corona, California Round Light
Date: July 12, 2008
Time: 10:30 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round Light.
Weather Conditions: Mostly Clear.
Description: I live in Eagle Geln and taking my puppy out when I saw a bright
white light so white it looked blue moving erratically and then disappearing.
Would then reappear it also looks like it would land and turn off it lights.
Sometime the light would turn red. It was not an aircraft or helicopter as
nothing could move that way. I viewed this for about 5 minutes and called my
husband and mother. I thought it had disappeared for good but it reappeared
about 10 minutes later. I found my RCA small wonder camera and begin to film
but it was about 3 or 4 miles away and the camera is kind of cheap and it
looked further away than what was filmed.
It was over the Cleveland National Forest. When my mom arrived it has
disappeared but then we say a very bright white light we thought perhaps a car
light but the light traveled low on the hill going east and there is no road
there. I called 911 to report around 10:45 PM and they asked if something had
crashed and I said no it was an aircraft not from here. It looked like they
sent out fire department or a car went to look behind The Retreat in the
Cleveland National Forest the object would disappear or turn lights off.
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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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