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South African Ham Radio UFO Interest Group. Known as (SAHRUIG).
NEWS Volume 1 News letter No.185
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia A Circular Saucer UFO
Date: November 1973
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Circular saucer.
Weather Conditions: Cold clear crisp night, no moon, lots of star light.
Description: This sighting occurred in late November 1973 on a 200 acre farm,
just a couple of miles from the Greenwood Air Force Base in Nova Scotia. I had
recently left the RCAF after 5 years of service, so I considered myself an
expert on aircraft recognition at the time.
It was about 8pm, crystal clear starry skies and no moon. I was in the kitchen
and facing toward the window looking east ward. I noticed a bright whitish
light above the horizon, but at first paid no attention. A few moments past
before I looked up again and observed that it had not moved. At first I
thought it was landing lights from an aircraft coming in for a landing at the
Greenwood base. After a minute or two, curiosity got the better of me and I
grabbed my coat and went outside to investigate.
At this time I saw a stationary white light illuminating the horse coral from
above. The horse had not been bedded down in the barn yet, and was prancing
around and acting skittish. I could not even begin to fathom what could be
causing this light. I began to walk across the farm yard towards the coral
when the light slowly began to drift towards me. No more than 1 or 2 feet per
second. I immediately yelled out to my friend Paul who was in the farm house
to come out and see what I was looking at.
As the light came closer I could make out a circular saucer object about 40
feet in diameter with a single white light coming from its centre By the time
my friend Paul came outside, the object was still moving slowly towards me.
There was no sound, except for a slight whistling noise. The kind of noise you
might expect if a large object was passing through the air. It came to a
complete stop when it was directly above us, bathing us both in light. Bright
enough to read a book. The UFO was no more than 100 feet above our heads by
this time. We were both totally in awe.
Seconds passed and then suddenly a military tracker (CP-121) aircraft came
roaring over the roof top of our farm house from behind us. It seemed they
were on a collision course when within a blink of an eye the UFO made an
abrupt 90 degree evasive move, travelling 80 feet to the North. Even above the
noise of the aircraft we could both hear the whooshing sound of the object
when it moved. The tracker aircraft made a steep bank to align itself with the
UFO again and put on full throttle to it's engines, hell bent to intercept
this hovering object. Within a matter of 5 seconds the UFO had made 3 quick
jolting movements before I saw it's lights disappear over the North Mountain,
about 6 to 7 miles away. The tracker aircraft immediately throttled down its
engines and returned towards the Greenwood Air Force base.
After collecting my thoughts and realizing what I had just witnessed, I called
a close friend who was still stationed at the base and asked him to get in
touch with the Greenwood Control Tower and find out what was going on. He
called me back shortly after and told me the tower reported no air traffic at
that time, and claimed there had not even been a tracker aircraft in the air
at that time. This only confirmed my total belief that both my friend and I
had seen a real flying saucer. I've been a believer ever since. As a footnote,
about 22 years later I bumped into my friend Paul in Vancouver by sheer
accident on public transport one day. After a few seconds of us both being
amazed at our chance meeting, he couldn't stop talking about our UFO
experience we had together. It had left an indelible impression on both of us,
even after all these years.
http://www.ufoinfo.com/
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Grimsby N.E.Lincs UK A Bright Light Lowers Onto The Houses Roofs
Date: September 7, 2005
Time: 3:45 to 4:00 a.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 2? or 1
Shape of objects: Large light.
Weather Conditions: Clear sky.
Description: My bed is near the window and when I can't sleep I look at the
stars. I saw a ultra bright light very, very slowly coming through the sky.
There was no sound, my bedroom window was open. It seemed to expand and so
slowly come opposite me. (There was 1 double fronted house and a semi attached
to the double fronted.) It slowly lowered itself on to the roofs of the houses
and sort of. I don't know how else to put it. Watched.. It was enormous it
covered all the roofs then after what I suppose seemed like minutes but I
suppose was less it so very, very slowly moved off I just watched gobsmacked.
I couldn't sleep so I lay down and just watched the sky again. About 4:30.ish
I saw it coming back same thing no noise so slow it was nearly stationary and
it stopped once again on the rooftops as if looking I was watching it and it
was watching me. Then it slowly moved off again. I looked in the papers and
nothing was reported.
http://www.ufoinfo.com/
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Bradford On Avon, Wiltshire UK A Number Of Orange Lights
Date: October 6, 2007
Time: Approx: 10:30 p.m.
Approach Direction: East.
Departure Direction: West or South West.
Witness Direction: East.
Description: My wife and several friends saw a number of orange lights in a
regularly-shaped group (roughly rectangular) approaching from the east. The
lights were steady (not flickering) and moving steadily and silently. As the
lights moved across the sky they rearranged into a line formation before
disappearing from view quite suddenly.
The duration of the sighting was several minutes. There was a light cloud
cover with clear patches, and it was difficult for the observers to decide
whether the lights were above or below the clouds. My daughter who is at
college in Cornwall heard of a similar sighting at the same date & time from a
friend who was in Falmouth (Cornwall), so one would assume that the lights
were well above the clouds.
Color/Shape: Orange lights, steady (not flickering).
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Barnsley Yorkshire UK A Green Pulsating Light
Date: April 14, 2008
Time: Approx: 11:30 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: No shape just pulsating light.
Weather Conditions: Good.
Description: I went out to the back of the house and just over my garage I saw
a green pulsating light all the way round my garage, an emerald green. It just
stayed there and pulsated all the time. I looked to my left and it was just
dark, I looked back and it was still there glowing and pulsating. I looked
once again to the left and a green pulsating sort of shaft was over my car
from the roof all over my car. I looked and it was not over anyone else’s just
mine I looked back and it was still over the garage. I saw it 100 per cent,
what it was I have no idea and I couldn’t say it was a UFO. But you just don't
see green pulsating lights and I can't understand why it was just over my car
no one else’s
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Cheadle Hulme Stockport UK White Object Returns From Where It Came From
Date: August 1, 2008
Time: 00:10
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: White ball, bigger than a star at sight.
Weather Conditions: Clear night, minimal cloud cover.
Description: Me and my girlfriend were walking back from a friends house when
we looked up to gaze at the stars as it was a clear night and that's strange
enough for Stockport. Anyway we thought we were looking at a shooting star,
when it changed direction and went back on its self. It then moved in a semi
circular motion, stopped and then vanished. I would have never mentioned this
if I was on my own, but the fact is we both saw the same thing. I have looked
into theories, and we may have seen a passing satellite but the movement of
one of those would have gone in one direction ( I think ) so who knows.
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Prestbury, Cheshire UK A Series Of Orange Lights
Date: August 2, 2008
Time: 10:20 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 8
Number of objects: Multiple.
Shape of objects: Light source.
Weather Conditions: Clear sky with high cloud, very still.
Description: Sat 2nd Aug 08 at approx 2220 from garden in east Cheshire - 8 of
us saw a series of orange lights (2 at first travelling further apart and then
a series of groups of 5 or 6 close together) traversing quite fast, below
cloud cover in a north-easterly direction (taking less than one minute to
travel from visual horizon to the clouds). There was no noise and they moved
smoothly in loose formation across the sky, ascending as they passed overhead,
until they disappeared above the clouds. We captured them on camera, but the
pictures are not very clear as the camera could not be held still enough in
the dark.
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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:
Thank-you very much for your email. 3 of us who witnessed the orange lights on
Saturday have had a look at the UFO balloons website. Yes, it could be them,
and probably that's what we will have to put it down to, accepting that at
night, lights are notoriously difficult to determine distance and speed. We
still think however, that the speed and rate of traversing across the skyline
was too fast to be these Chinese Lanterns.
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Bourne, Lincolnshire UK Object With Changing Colors
Date: August 2, 2008
Time: 11:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Hard to tell at night with no visual references
Weather Conditions: Clear with scattered clouds,
Description: Sitting out in the garden enjoying a Brandy and a cigar, I
noticed an object to the south of my position. It was moving slowly and
visible lights that kept changing colour (It wasn't Aircraft lights as I'm a
commercial pilot with 9 years experience) The approx height of the object was
between 2-3000ft, but again with no visual references it is difficult to
estimate. It's movement was erratic changing course directions every 20-30
seconds or so. After about 5-6 minutes the object at speed headed in to a
south westerly direction.
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Sandstone Lake, Ontario A Round Orange Glowing Object
Date: August 2, 2008
Time: Approx: 11:15 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 14-20
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round orange glowing object.
Weather Conditions: Clear.
Description: We were having our August long weekend fireworks out at Larry's
Cabins Trailer Park on Sandstone Lake. Sandstone is about 40 air miles from
Thunder Bay, Ontario in the middle of the wilderness. No electricity in our
area. About 10 miles from the Minnesota border(USA). The object came out of
the south very slowly and one thought asked if it was a planet, but it was
moving ever so slowly and it was much larger than any star in the sky, much
larger. The object got larger as it got closer, and somewhat brighter, though
not much. It moved slowly, steadily north until it was above the lake (no
flashing aircraft lights, no white lights, just glowing orange), it stayed in
one spot for a minute and then simply moved east at a very rapid speed and
disappeared. At least 14-20 people saw it and talked about it that night and
the next day.
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Stratford, Ontario An Orange/White Object In The Sky
Date: August 9, 2008
Time: 9:20 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Stratford, Ontario.
Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round.
Full Description of event/sighting: Myself, husband and 2 children getting out
of our van when our youngest asked, what was the bright light in the sky?
Off in the distance - South west of us. We witnessed an orange/white ball in
the sky travelling east. It was moving slow and moving up and down. The
brightness never changed and it just faded into the night. Duration of
sighting approx; 3 min. There were two planes that come up from behind the
object and seemed to have passed it. The object disappeared shortly after
that. This is our second sighting in as many weeks, not something we want to
brag about.
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Salem Oregon A Triangular Craft
Date: August 12, 2008
Time: Dusk.
Location of Sighting: Liberty Rd. S Salem OR.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Triangular.
Full Description of event/sighting: I witnessed an unexplained aircraft in
flight while driving southward on Liberty Road, shortly after crossing Salem
Heights Road. The object was in a perfect triangular shape, there were three
white, flashing lights that almost flashed as quick as a strobe; flashing much
too fast to be an airplane and there was no red or green lights visible to
indicate it was an airplane. Near this location it is very rare to see an
airplane from the airport, and after viewing the meteor shower later that
night, none of the airplanes could even compare to what I had seen earlier.
Between these three flashing lights there was no visible craft that could be
seen, just the flashing lights in their perfect triangle, even though it was
right after sunset when there were still a few moments of light remaining
which would have allowed me to identify a plane or helicopter.
The craft made a slow, tilted turn above the trees, for a few seconds I was
able to maintain a clear view of the object before it disappeared behind the
trees while I was driving along Liberty, indicating the object was fairly low,
but still high enough to be well above the trees in it's direction, which to
me at the time was southeast not more than a half mile away. I tried to keep
view of it while driving, but at that point after it turned, the object moved
further to the southeast, it became just one flashing light in the distance,
maybe five miles away. After fighting the urge to follow further south to
keep view of it, I had to return to my home nearby off of Liberty. I still
cannot explain what I saw, although I after a little research of pictures on
the internet, the best comparison of what I saw would be the UFO picture from
Hoboken, NJ May 9, 1984. Obviously, the lights are not flashing, but if they
were it would be almost identical to my sighting
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Lafayette, Iowa A Large Red Oval UFO Splits Into Two
Date: August 19, 2008
Time: 10:25 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Lafayette.
Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: Two curved red ovals.
Full Description of event/sighting: Aug 19, 2008 at 10:25 P.M. It was red at
first and it was one big red oval. It then split in two oval shaped pieces
which were bright red in color. We first saw it when we were coming home from
state centre. We looked off to the side and we saw a big red oval shaped thing
in the sky. We stopped and turned the car off too look at this object in the
sky. We knew it wasn't a plane, because planes don't look like what we saw. It
was incredible and the sighting lasted for about 10 minutes, then got lower to
the ground and got smaller. Then in a blink of an eye it was gone. Sighted by
(Four of the eye witnesses names removed from this report).
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Red Deer, Alberta Three Bright Orange Objects
Date: August 22, 2008
Time: 12:00 a.m. (midnight)
Location of Sighting: Backyard of home in Red Deer.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: Round.
Full Description of event/sighting: I was standing in my backyard by the
garage. I looked up into the sky and seen a bright orange ball travelling
southwest it was visible for about 30 seconds. Then it faded off into the
distance, just as it faded away another one came from the exact same direction
and did the exact same thing. Then a third. These were really strange I don't
know what they were but they weren't comets shooting stars etc. No tails
tracers and they were in our atmosphere maybe 15 000 feet or less.
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Stratford, Ontario A Bright Glowing Orange Ball
Date: August 23, 2008
Time: 8:50 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Stratford, Ontario (Witnesses address removed).
Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Rounded top straight along the sides.
Full Description of event/sighting: My husband and I along with our 2 children
were swimming in our pool at 8:50 pm on the evening of Aug 23 2008, when my
husband said "what's that" looking up at the roof of our home. Myself and the
children looked up and saw this big bright ball with an orange glow coming
over the roof. We all sat in the pool and watched this thing pass over us and
float north into the distance.
The object was travelling from the south straight north at a steady rate of
speed. Not very high in the sky. Bright orange/white light equal to that of a
huge flame. The altitude never varied and it travelled along the same path.
The brightness as it moved never changed or dimmed. The object just
disappeared out of site. Duration of sighting about 40 - 60 seconds. The
object moved slow and methodical.
Thank you. P.S NO...it was not a hot air balloon.
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Ridgeville/Fonthill Ontario An Orange/White Object
Date: August 23, 2008
Time: 9:25 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Ridgeville/Fonthill Ontario (Bissells Hideaway
Campground).
Number of witnesses: 4+
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Slightly oblong.
Full Description of event/sighting: At our campsite at near Fonthill, my
girlfriend (34) jumped out of her seat, excitedly demanding that our two boys
(11 & 15) and I (33) 'Come see this" followed by "oh my god, what is that,
come see this, oh my god, what is that".
We had to move to her position to see past a tree. We were looking to the
East. There was an orange/white flickering (like fire) slightly oblong sphere
moving rather quickly and silently (compared to the planes we had frequently
seen flying over all day and night) to the north.
We really couldn't believe our eyes. We could also hear the same type kind of
excited "What is that?" from nearby campers which is why I say there were 4+
witnesses.
The entire sighting lasted 3-5 minutes. We couldn't tell if it was either,
really big and high or small/low. It was hard to estimate an altitude on such
a clear night in unfamiliar surroundings. We thought, if it was really
big/high that might explain the silence but we tend to think it was lower
(probably at the altitude a small/light aircraft would cruise at) but still
pretty big, bigger than any of the planes we had seen all day.
It continued moving from the South to NW. It passed us and once it seemed to
be quite far off to the NW it seemed to turn slightly to go directly North.
It was at that distance that a plane or jet moved in to a position to follow
it until it completely faded from view.
We enjoyed the next few hours trying to explain what we had seen and
regretting that we didn't have a camera to prove it.
I'd agree with the report "Stratford, Ontario A Bright Glowing Orange Ball"
(on the same night a half hour before we saw it) that it was not a hot air
balloon. There's no way a hot air balloon goes that fast. And since it made
it from Stratford to Fonthill (114 miles) in about a half hour (2h 20m drive)
that would put it's speed at about 230 mph but since we saw it come from the
South (Welland or Fort Erie - Stratford is north-west of Fonthill) it may have
travelled a lot further to go around us and come from the south - so it could
have been a lot faster than that.
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Bountiful Utah, Colored Objects Changing Shape
Date: August 23, 2008
Time: 9:45 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Bountiful- Back yard of home.
Number of witnesses: 6
Number of objects: 7
Shape of objects: Various shapes.
Full Description of event/sighting: I am writing this report out of curiosity
to see if anyone else in the area has seen these lights that we have seen on a
regular basis for years. I would very much like to know what they are. We are
located about 20 miles south of Hill Field Air force base in Utah, but I have
never seen nor heard of anything like what we see on almost any given night.
In an hours time from about 9:15 pm to 10:00 pm or so seems to be the period
of greatest activity and we regularly spot anywhere from 2-10 of these flying
shapes - no two seem to be identical. They move at a pretty good speed, cross
the horizon in 10 seconds or so with no noise association nor any other
visible colored lights such as what the FAA would require.
The lights are a pale bluish/green in color and are very faint almost
translucent looking and are clustered together and change shapes. When you
look at them through field glasses you can see distinct individual lights that
make up the outline of the cluster sometimes they appear to be arrayed in a
boomerang shaped, other times a more triangular shape and other times more of
an elongated cluster, the number of individual lights various from as little
as 6 or so to up wards of 80 or more depending on the shape of the cluster.
The height of the flying lights is about cloud height or maybe just a little
higher as the occasional cloud is our only reference point we can compare to.
Sometimes as you are watching one of these objects in the sky the lights begin
to move around and change shapes- I have no idea what we are seeing but we see
them every time we go out at night looking for them- We have observed as many
as 3 of these in our field of vision at the same time and 2 of them seemed to
be zig zagging back and forth as though they were messing around.
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Thousand Oaks, California Object Drops Behind The Mountain Range
Date: August 23, 2008
Time: 10:45 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Thousand Oaks.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Fireball on entry, blinking blue light on vertical descent
(landing?).
Full Description of event/sighting: Thousand Oaks, CA - We were on a hike at
10:45pm at the Southern end of Moorpark Ave, half way up the "bench trail."
While looking North, a friend and I noticed a large meteor with a cobalt blue
flare, which entered the atmosphere from East to West at about a 130 degree
angle, one of the most large flares that I have ever witnessed. It seemed to
burn out briefly however reignited at the same intensity, which caught our
attn (since normally you would expect a meteor to burn out). However while
still approaching the horizon at a fast speed, we're thinking it's going to
hit the ground, however the blue flare suddenly shifted horizontally (cardinal
West) and faded to an faint orange dot (similar in size to viewing a satellite
in orbit with the naked eye). Visibility was great since we were well removed
from any city lights; the Milky Way was faintly visible, which for So Cal
Suburbs is normally rare.
This orange dot then reversed completely 180 degrees then arced slowly
counter-clockwise to 0 degrees and rose in altitude quite a distance (for
about 5-7 seconds). More amazingly is when we saw the same cobalt blue flare
return (more sphere-shaped without the entry trail) and blink every second for
a total of 24 viewable blinks as it lowered to the horizon and behind a hill
between our city and a neighbouring community. It was difficult to gauge the
distance of the object from us, but looked to be within the local vicinity,
possibly as far as Fillmore, directly North. Not knowing the actual size of
this object, this could have been further North, as far as Bakersfield. The
total event took all of 40-45 seconds, ending as it lowered behind the
mountain range to the North.
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Gedling Village, UK Two Objects Glowing Orange
Date: August 24, 2008
Time: 10:30 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Gedling.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: Round.
Full Description of event/sighting: My mum was outside bringing the washing in
and she shouted me outside. She was pointing at two round objects in the sky,
slightly apart one higher than the other. They seemed to have a glowing orange
colour, they moved very slowly next to each other for about a minute then
moved further away and disappeared. It definitely wasn't a plane because there
was one close by flying above them and you could see the flashing lights on
each wing. Once the two orange objects have disappeared there was a blue light
that was moving quite quickly above where the other two were, we first thought
it was a shooting star but it was moving to slow to be one. Very strange !
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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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