SUBJECT: VARIOUS UFO SIGHTING REPORTS FILE: UFO894 PART - 3 Report #: 180 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 10-16-1986 Location: GREENSBORO, NC. CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 12 OCTOBER 1986 TIME: 2050 HOURS CFN#: 0296 DURATION: LESS THAN MINUTE WITNESSES: TWO SOURCE: NATIONAL UFO REPORTING CENTER ----------------------------------------- Airliner traveling from Dulles, DC airport to Jacksonville, Florida. Pilot and co-pilot both observed a delta wing shaped object with what appeared to be small objects flying at an altitude of about 21,000 feet. They watched them as they came towards them and then passed under the airliner probably at 1,000 feet beneath them. Estimated size was just large. Said it was really smoking. They called radar & asked what just went by them and radar said they saw nothing up there with them. Duration was less than one minute and was directly over Greensboro, NC. -------------------------- Report #: 181 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 10-16-1986 Location: N. HOLLYWOOD, CA. CASE TYPE: LRS - NL DATE: 13 OCTOBER 1986 TIME: 2050 HOURS CFN#: 0297 DURATION: 04 - 05: MINUTES WITNESSES: ONE SOURCE: BILL MOORE ------------------------------------ At 8:20 p.m. northwest of north Hollywood, California toward direction of Van Nuys a X shaped object strobbing red and blue was observed. First sighted by witness from side of building and then went up on roof with binoculars. Rested binoculars on steady surface and observed that object was definitely moving up and down in a zigzag fashion. Duration was 4-5 minutes. Went out of sight to northwest and with no sound. -------------------------- Report #: 182 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 10-16-1986 Location: LIMA, OH. CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 10 JUNE 1986 TIME: 0430 HOURS CFN#: 0298 DURATION: 10 - 15: SECONDS WITNESSES: ONE SOURCE: NEWS, LIMA, OH -------------------------------------- An offical of the Center for UFO Studies is seeking information from anyone who might have seen a phenomenon similar to one reported by a Lima man. Arley Taylor said he was making deliveries to Scot Lad Foods Inc., 1100 Prosperity Road, at 4:30 a.m. today when he saw an orange light in the sky, "that was the size of a grapefruit and darted about like a hummingbird for about 10 to 15 seconds, then disappeared." Taylor, 55, of 1030 Cornell Drive, reported the sighting to Lima's John Timmerman, vice president of the Center for UFO Studies in Glenview, Ill. Taylor said he studied the sky as he continued on his delivery route, but didn't see the object again. Taylor works for Service American Corp., 1251 N. Cole St. The light was in the northwest, apparently some 200 feet above the ground, and could be seen against the overcast sky, said Taylor. Timmerman asked that anyone who might have seen a similar phenomenon today contact him in writing at P.O. Box 1621, Lima. -------------------------- Report #: 183 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 10-16-1986 Location: WIKIEUP, AZ CASE TYPE: LRS - DS DATE: 10 JULY 1986 TIME: EARLY MORNING CFN#: 0299 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: ARIZONA REPUBLIC, PHOENIX, AZ ----------------------------------------- WIKIEUP - The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the people were sober and on their way to, not from, Las Vegas. The motorists reported an an other- worldly light on the western horizon followed their car as they traveled toward Las Vegas shortly before dawn Thursday. However, an expert on heavenly bodies said later Thursday that the light probably was nothing more than the planet Mars. A member of a group that compiles reports of UFO sightings does not agree. At this point, officers of the DPS don't really care what it was. They are tired of all the hoopla. A motorist, who DPS spokesman Alan Schmidt said wants to remain anonymous, told an officer that she, another adult and her two sons were driving to Las Vegas, Nev., on U.S. 93 early Thursday when she and her sons spotted a strange orange light that hovered above the western horizon and appeared to follow the car as it traveled north. The object was said to "pulsate like a star" and was described as appearing "about twice as bright and twice as big as a star." Patrolman Veronica Minch, Schmidt said, had spotted the object earlier. "She thought little of it and went on about her business," Schmidt said. "Meanwhile, down the road, these people see it." The DPS phoned Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, "to see if any rockets or balloons had been launched," Schmidt said. "They said they had no activity like that." -------------------------- Report #: 185 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 10-16-1986 Location: SONOMA, CA CASE TYPE: LRS - DS DATE: 06 JULY 1986 TIME: 0515 HOURS CFN#: 0301 DURATION: 15: MINUTES WITNESSES: ONE SOURCE: INDEX-TRIBUNE, SONOMA, CA. -------------------------------------- Sightings of strange flying objects have become more frequent in these parts since late May when a California Highway Patrol officer spotted a peculiar light in the sky during the wee hours of the morning. But last weekend, not only did Sonoman Joan Burtson observe an unusual flying object - this one toyed with her and followed her car for several blocks before finally giving up and going away. The head nurse at a local convalescent hospital dismesses the notion that the bright object in the dawn sky which taunted her for some 15 minutes was a space ship carting around some alien beings. "I don't believe in them," she emphatically states. "I don't know what it was but I don't believe in UFO's. Burtson will acknowledge that in the last few weeks she has heard numerous rumors of UFO sightings in Sonoma Valley. For instance, an acquaintance on Eighth Street East reported that ever since the CHP officer saw the strange light two months ago "that thing has been hanging around here." However, Burtson's description and that of the CHP patrolman are vastly different leading one to believe there are several odd things hovering around up there. What was seen on the early morning of May 21 was a bright orange "X" shaped object heading at a high rate of speed over the Valley to Petaluma. The only similarity with Saturday's unexplained illuminating object was that both were apparently headed in the same direction over the hill to Petaluma. Burtson remembers it as a "solid mass of white light, it was circular about the size of an apple. "There were no colors and it was not flashing." she recalls. Burtson's curious find took place at 5:15 a.m. as she was on her way home from Napa after dropping her husband Pat off at work. She initially noticed the stationary light in the vicinity of Eighth Street East and Napa Road. Later as she approached Leveroni Road from Fifth Street West the flying object moved along with her and made the same right turn. She subsequently made three U turns and each time the object would seemingly use its remote control to reverse its course also. "I thought to myself this is weird so I made three U turns to test it out," she says. On occasion, the UFO would become obscured by the trees but almost the entire way home, no matter what Burtson would do " it would move right along with me," she laughs. Finally, the flying object, for whatever reason, decided the game of cat and mouse was over and it headed towards the Diamond A area, disappearing over the hill. -------------------------- Report #: 186 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 10-16-1986 Location: ONEIDA, KY CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 08 JULY 1986 TIME: UNKNOWN CFN#: 0302 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: FIVE & MORE SOURCE: ENTERPRISE, MANCHESTER, KY ------------------------------------------ Roosevelt Spurlock was relaxing on the front porch of his Oneida Home. Mary Helton was at her Countryside Restaurant. Margy Turner was also finishing up her duties at the restaurant. Vernon Stidham was at his Red Bird home. Still, they all said they seen it. A large square object with red lights, windows, hovering just above the big hills in Bullskin. What these four people saw as well as many more Oneidians Tuesday night has this small calm, peaceful mountain town in a complete uproar Wednesday morning. Air traffic controllers at the London Airport say it must have been a large plane...possibly a B-52 flying a low altitude. However, Roosevelt Spurlock, a forest ranger with the Peabody Ranger Station says what he saw was no plane because he has seen a lot of planes in his day. Mary Helton swears what she saw was no plane. "I saw it and it was very big, scary, and square with windows," said the Oneida restaurant owner. "It was the scariest thing I have ever encountered." said Spurlock. "I was sitting on my front porch and it came over the Bullskin mountains barely cutting the mountaintops. It had two front redlights and two back red lights. It was square and large and it scared me," said the forestry man. "It just made this loud earpiercing sound, sort of like a whistling sound" said Helton. "This thing circled and came back traveling at a very slow speed," said Spurlock, "and no plane could go that slow." -------------------------- Report #: 188 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 10-16-1986 Location: VALHALLA, NY CASE TYPE: LRS - NL DATE: 10 JULY 1986 TIME: UNKNOWN CFN#: 0304 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: CITIZEN REGISTER, OSSINING, NY ------------------------------------------ Ray Nethercott saw a "big hot dog" fly by his Valhalla home Thursday night. "It was weird," the 18 year old said "It was going pretty slow and had lots of lights on it." Alison Yuri, 20, of Fishkill was driving through Ossining on Route 9 when she saw something hovering over her car. "My boyfriend saw it first," she said. "It was rounder than a hot dog and had about 20 white lights and two red lights on it." Nethercott and Ms. Yuri were among dozens of people along the Hudson River in Westchester County and in New Jersey who called police departments and local airports to report strange lights flying along the river. >>Comments: Hard to say. Could be Ultra- light aircraft, but people of upper Westchester County are on to that charade, which local pilots pulled three years ago. I'd say S4/P4, based on past experience. -------------------------- Report #: 189 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 10-16-1986 Location: DETROIT, MI CASE TYPE: LRS - NL DATE: 12 AUGUST 1986 TIME: UNKNOWN CFN#: 0305 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: NEWS, DETROIT, MI ------------------------------------ It moved ever so slowly through the night sky like a glowing, spiraling, one-armed pinwheel. Wherever it came from, whatever it was, the UFO gave 110 Metro Detroit stargazers more than they bargained for Tuesday night. It also spawned hundreds of calls of inquiry around the country Wednesday after sightings of the mysterious object elsewhere in Michigan and in nearly every other state east of the Mississippi. Residents of Kentucky's Clark County, east of Lexington, heard a boom accompany the show. "Some people said they saw great big ball of fire," said Clark County Deputy Larry Lawson. "The people said their homes shook and windows vibrated as if there had been an explosion or earthquake, but it was just for just a very few seconds. They said the whole sky lit up. "All these people weren't imagining or seeing things. Some of them were very terrified over it right after it happened. Some said they smelled something like gunpowder." The object was seen by Detroit skywatchers who had gathered at the Troy Outdoor Education Center's farm for an outdoor lecture and a look at the annual Perseid meteor shower. The campfire was blazing and marsh- mallows were roasting when suddenly one of the attendees stood up, pointed up into the southeast sky and shouted, "What is that?" ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************