UFO Reports June, July, August, Sept., 1996
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National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 6/15/1996 23:02
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Eau Claire, WI
Summary : 2 boys see rectangle shaped object w/4 orange/yelow lights fly silently over
head. no blinking beacon lights, no sound, only a few hundred feet overhead.
Lights: 1 front, 1 on each side, 1 in back.
My neighbor and I were standing half way down my driveway when we saw this object
fly overhead due west. The sky was clear with no clouds. It didn't have any blinking
beacon lights, and we could not make out shape. The 4 lights were orange/yellow color,
somewhat bright, and and they were positioned in the shape of a diamond around the
object. It was very low, compared to most aircraft that fly, at night, and made no sound.
We viewed it for about a 7 or 8 second duration, in which time it just flew over our heads
and over the trees out of our view. I do not know what the object was,because I figured
that if it was airplane flying at night, it would have beacons, which the object i saw did
not. And it went very slow for the altitude it was at, which must not have bee more than
a few hundred feet up. To this day, i have never again seen an air-plane or jet fly at night
with no blinking beacons and lights at the head, each wing tip, and tail.
From: NUFORC
6/28/96 22:00
Walled Lake, MI
Blinking light moved W to E. Faded out, came back,
dropped "real quick" when plane approached, then went
back up behind it.
06/26/96 20:11 Ramsey, MN. Man went
outside the front of his house to test a new night vision scope that a
friend had borrowed him. As he scanned the NE horizon he noticed a bright
red light blinking just above the the tree line approximately 1-2 miles
away. This light was very large and did not blink in the typical fasion
of most aircraft. He noticed no other lights but the red. The object appeared
to be moving very slow across the sky too slow to be an airplane but possibly
a helecopter. He decided to view it better through the night scope and
saw it much brighter. The object appearing to come to a stop just behind
a tree. "I did not hear any sound like that of an aircraft, especially
a helicopter. I was distracted for a few moments by my son and quite a
few viscious mosquitos. When I looked back behind the tree through the
scope and around the area the object had disappeard."
July '96 Reports
August '96 Reports
8/15/96 02:30
Grand Rapids, MI
Light
We saw two red dots of apparent unearthly origin. (NUFORC)
8/15/96 02:30
grand rapids, MI
Light
Two small objects that appeared to be non-teresteral. (NUFORC)
Courtesy: UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World
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Subject: UFO Sighting Report
Submitted by ([email protected])
Sighting Date: August ?, 1996, 11:00pm-11:30pm
Sighting Location: New Brighton, Minnesota
(I cannot be sure what the date was in August... but if August
8th happened to be on a weekend night (a friday night or
Saturday night) then odds are this was the same evening.)
Sighting: I was night fishing for catfish off of a dock with
some other friends in the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities.
There were about 5 adults and 1 child in all. We all saw this
light, white at first and passed it off as a police helicopter.
First we thought it to be a airplane, but it did not move for
over 15 minutes. Then I happened to notice that it did not have
the traditional beam of light from the police spotlight. So we
watched it more carefully. After a few more minutes it passed
over us. Moving very slowly closer and closer we noticed 3 lights
like you always hear. A white, red, and orange. This object was
flying EXTREEMLY low and slow. I swear it could'nt have been more
than 1,000 feet high. It just missed the trees as it came across
the lake. I had a lantern that lit up the dock, if that is any
factor. Anyway it moved over and 2 things caused us to get chills
across our bodies. It had absolutely no sound. No noise whatsoever.
No hum or anything. 1,000 feet above us. nothing. Only a helicoptor
can stay in 1 spot for 15 minutes and most helicoptors rattle
windows when flying by. But the weirdest thing was the 3 lights....
they made a triangle (yes I know sounds typical ufo story) and its
movement was twords the flat side. Meaning that if it was a triangle
(which the lights indicated) the front of the object was flat and
the back was pointed. Shortly after it passed 2 more lights appeared
across the lake that moved very haphazardly. These we dissmissed as
police helicoptors or perhaps military aircraft.
(This report from NUFORC)
WISCONSIN MAN SEES F-16 IN PURSUIT OF WHITE UFO (8/9/96)
If you're on the streets of Stanley, Wisconsin, USA between the
hours of 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Central time, you're liable to run into UFO
buff John K., out for his nightly walk. Stanley is a small town in
north central Wisconsin, 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Eau Claire and
165 miles (264 kilometers) west of Wausau.
"On Friday night (August 9, 1996), I was walking up a street that
faces due east," John K. reported. "August can really exhibit beautiful
clear skies, and this (night) was one of them. I was just gazing upward
and taking in the panorama when I saw this white light which seemed to
be almost 'floating' (the closest I can describe it) across the sky,
heading northward. I stopped walking, for I thought the motion was just
an illusion caused by my own motion. Well, I stopped but the white light
didn't. I'm not too good at judging altitudes and speed, but the light
was way up there, seemingly right in between the stars. My guess is
that it had to be at least 30,000 to 40,000 feet. The object's speed
was probably between 100 and 200 miles per hour. It had to be a craft
of some sort because it was an exceptionally clear sky. The object
would sort of dip toward the east, then slip back into a northward
direction. The weirdest thing is that after ten seconds of watching this
thing, it simply disappeared."
"I didn't think too much about it, except that it was strange, so I
kept walking up the hill. I stopped about halfway and looked upward,
and saw an F-16, or what I took to be an F-16. It was going pretty
slowly (usually by the time you hear them, they're gone.) The F-16 was
at about half the altitude of the white object and heading east. When I
reached the top of the hill, it had banked and was heading north in the
path of the object."
"On Saturday night (August 10, 1996) I was on the other side of
town and saw something rather unusual. Once again it was about 10 p.m.
but I was heading south this time and saw the same kind of bright white
object heading at a very slow pace toward the southeast. The strange
thing is that it was being flanked by an F-16 (which was practically
above my position) about five miles to the north of it (the UFO),
maintaining the same airspeed."
John points out that the UFO seemed to be headed in the
direction of Fort McCoy.
This is the first UFO sighting in Stanley, Wisconsin since
October 1995. For a month, residents reported seeing F-16s
flying combat air patrols over the town. On one occasion, an F-16
circled downtown Stanley three times, as if searching for something. The
October 1995 flap began when the police department in nearby Chippewa
Falls, 26 miles east of Stanley, received numerous reports of "a star"
that literally "dropped into the atmosphere and zigzagged to below
treetop levels."
(This report was submitted direct to Minnesota MUFON)
August 8th, 1996 (Thurs), 11:13pm CDT, Lino Lakes, MN
I (witness name withheld) was out browsing the sky (I am an amateur astronomer)
when I saw 3 white pinpoint lights moving from NW to SE directly across zenith.
I first noticed them in the constellation of Draco - they passed between the summer
triangle stars Vega and Deneb, and proceeded SE. Normally, as an astronomer my
first reaction was that the lights where satellites. However, the lights where
configured in a perfect right triangle.
The point of the triangle was leading/pointing toward the SE. The lights were separated
by a distance of approximately the diameter of a full moon - perhaps a bit more. In no
way did the configuration of lights vary in direction or in configuration - which really
startled me. I've seen thousands of satellites in the sky at night - even 2 at a time.
However, they never move in a fixed pattern in relationship with each other. They
always converge or diverge or typically have different luminosities. The lights then
seemed to slow, fade and stop at about 45 degrees from the horizon in the SE and then
disappeared just north of the constellation of Aquarius.
The lights were white as far as I could tell. They did NOT look like airplane lights -
there were only single points of lights (very much like satellites). I thought that
perhaps I saw a slight side to side wobbling motion in each light but I wasn't sure the
atmosphere was playing tricks on me.
From: sightings.org
Aug. 2 1996 4:23am
Name:Timothy Ayer
Mt. Vernon, Iowa
On Aug. 2 1996 at 4:23am two freinds and I saw our first UFO. One
thing I remember is it was a foggy night. We saw it at Palisades-
Keplar Park in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. we were stargazing on the beach
when we saw a bright eminating from the tops of the trees. It was
a "V" of lights. when we saw it we nearly shit our pants because
we knew exactly what it was. A UFO. Once it passed us it was a
triangle of lights and one bright white light with a hint of red
in the center. We did not tell anybody til weeks later for fear
people would think we were crazy. After the first sighting we have
seen several more.
September '96 Reports
Occurred : 9/11/1996 22:45
Location : Arden Hills, MN
Shape : Light
SUMMARY: A bright white light was seen in the night sky.
It quickly darted over to the north, stopped, and then
took off back south and suddenly disappeared.
I was out star gazing which I do often, when I noticed
one of the stars was misshaped. It was oblong like a
football, slightly wider at one end. Within 15 seconds
of when I first saw it, it took off very quickly to the
north and suddenly stopped. In about five more seconds,
it took off back to the south, slightly faster, and
disappeared with its light trail following behind. (NUFORC)
This report courtesy ISUR
Monday September 16, 1996 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA Approx. 8:30 PM
Sighted a lighted object in western sky (not the Moon, I checked with
USNO). Object first appeared as almost perfect triangle. Moments later it
transformed into a solid circle, or disc shape. It illuminated a bright
white light with no apparent texture or variation within the light.
Moments after appearing as a circle it once again changed shape into a
elongated triangle, point at the bottom. Then once more it quickly shifted
into a circle shape. It held this shape for only a few seconds. The
object then faded away completely. I witnessed this object from approx.
1 to 3 miles away in distance. Object was absolutely silent. Object was
approx. one third the size of a full moon regardless of shape assumed.
This is not my first sighting of unusual objects. It is however my first
sighting since 1994.
(From: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 1, Number 33)
UFOs SPOTTED JUST WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS
On Monday, September 30, 1996, at 8:45 p.m., Donald W.
Jeppersen was standing in the yard of his apartment house in
Mound, Minnesota when he spotted nine UFOs streaking
across the clear night sky.
He described them as "nine slightly luminescent objects
streaking across the sky, about 10 degrees each second,
speeding from west to east. Their luminescence was similar
to a medium brightness star." He said their motion reminded
him of "swimming dolphins," adding, "They moved from 45
degrees (above the horizon) west to 45 degrees east, flying
overhead for nine seconds. They were grouped in a roughly
diamond cluster, slightly accelerating and decelerating in
relationship to each other."
Don's home in Mound is close to the intersection of
Minnesota Highway 10 and County Road 15, about 17 miles
(27 kilometers) west of Minneapolis.
(This report recieved directly by Minnesota MUFON)
Northfield, MN man sees Jet Aircraft pursue UFO
Date: Sept 28, 1996 (Saturday)
Time: 7:22 AM
UFO Location: approx. 5 miles SSE of witness.
A Northfield man heading east on Hwy 19, 1 1/2 miles west of Northfield, MN
spotted the closely spaced contrails of an unidentified jet aircraft (possibly
military) suddenly shift 90 degrees to an almost completely vertical ascent
from horzontal. He thought this was a strange and rather unsafe maneuver
and continued to watch from inside his vehicle.
As the aircraft ascended, he noticed a shiny object heading towards the jet's
path. He did not see where it came from, but watched as it did a circular
maneuver around the jet in a somewhat erratic manner. The UFO was moving
much faster than the jet and easily out classed it. This occured a little below
the cloud layer. As the UFO did it's circling, the witness noticed it tilt a
little revealing it's disk shape. He was about 5 miles from the UFO & aircraft.
As he watched in amazement, his view was suddenly obscured by trees, so he was
unable to view the 2 from that point on. Both very clearly visible with no blurring.
The aircraft was approx. edge-on making it hard to identify. The UFO was much
brighter and at least twice the size of the jet, possibly as big as a house.
Minnesota MUFON has investigated the sighting and a full report can be seen
here.
(This report recieved via Skywatch)
Date: Monday September 16, 1996, Approx. 8:30 PM
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Witness: D.R. SHOOP
Sighted a lighted object in western sky (not the Moon, I checked with
USNO) Object first appeared as almost perfect triangle. Moments later
it transformed into a solid circle, or disc shape. It illuminated a
bright white light with no apparent texture or variation within the
light. Moments after appearing as a circle it once again changed shape
into a elongated triangle, point at the bottom. Then once more it
quickly shifted into a circle shape. It held this shape for only a few
seconds. The object then faded away completely. I witnessed this
object from approximately 1 to 3 miles away in distance. Object was
absolutely silent. Object was approximately one third the size of a
full moon regardless of shape assumed. This is not my first sighting
of unusual objects. It is however my first sighting since 1994.
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