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National UFO Reporting Center
Sighting Report
Occurred : 1/11/1999 02:45
Posted : 1/28/1999
Location : Gilbert, MN
Shape : Circle
This is the forth or fifth time I have seen the green balls in sky
at number of locations in northern MN. Green circle glowing brightly
and some times changing directions east to west, altitude also has
varied. My girlfriend and I were on our way home from her job and
when we got out of the car I happened to be looking up and noticed
the strange light heading east to west in the sky, kind of zig zagging
back and forth. This is I beleive the fourth instance that I myself
have seen this same object. My girlfriend has seen on two occasions.
Some nights it appears to be much slower and more erratic in its
trajectory although it has not been low enough to get a close look.
It is fairly obvious that it is not an airplane/jet for there is no
sound at all and the manouvers are so erratic that any normal
aircraft pilot would have lost his flight privaleges. I am a business
owner and my girlfriend is college student.
((NUFORC NOTE: Time of sighting is ambiguous in original report.
May be 1445 hrs..))
Feb. '99 Reports
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:39:07 -0500
Subject: UFOSSI UFO NEWS BULLETIN! Billy Dee See's UFO's!
At roughly 8:00 pm tonight my wife Sherry came running into the
UFOSSI headquarter's computer room telling me to come quick and see
a very strange thing in the sky. I grabbed my one of my video
camera's thats always in stand by and hurried out the back door
to see what ever was in the sky.
What I saw was rather unusual. There was a fairly large orange to
white orb in the sky with a smaller orb just beneath it but both
clearly visible. The light was very bright. I immediately went
through my mental check list of what it could be. Was it just a
star? I saw no twinkling or colors changing. I did not see the
orbs fading in or out (which again signify's it could be just a star).
Then I checked the direction of the two orbs. They were both in
the south sky. Well, that ruled out Venus and Mars. I also weighed
out the brightness of the orbs. They were both the brightest objects
in the sky (there were many starts out tonight). But it did sit
stationary and led me to believe that it might be just a star.
Well, I video taped about 10 minute's of this sighting. And I just
couldn't get away from the unusual color and the bright clearness
of these objects.
My wife Sherry jumped in the car with a 35 mm camera in hand (it was
a $400 camera when we bought it 5 years ago. It can take any kind
of picture.) I went back inside. Sherry showed up about 20 minutes
later and very excited. She had told me that it was getting lower
to the ground about 2 to 4 miles south of here. And then she said
she saw two planes fly in from two different direction's in the path
way of these orbs. But when she told me a "Helicopter" showed up
around the area of the Orb then I got excited.
Its a good rule of thumb with a UFO sighting that its almost 100%
a UFO when "choppers" show up on the site. If I have seen this once
I've seen many times before. Plus the planes.
Our home and UFOSSI headquarter's is located in a fly way between
Truax field (Madison, Wisconsin. About 35 miles away as the crow
fly's) and to the North (about 40 miles away) is Camp McCoy a huge
military base and air field. Not to mention other military base's
to the north, west and I think east. There are continual military
planes, jets and Helicopter's flying almost daily over this area,
and now recently there is a lot of activity at night.
Getting back to what my wife saw tonight. Sherry had driven about
2 to 4 miles south from here and watched the two orbs still
stationary in the south sky but getting lower the ground. That
is when the 2 planes and the "chopper" came in. As soon as the 2
planes and chopper came in and closed in on the orbs, the orbs
vanished completely. The lights were gone.
I am convinced that what we saw was either one Ufo or two. The
reason I say one Ufo is because the smaller orb below the large
one appeared in someway as a probe of some kind. The other
possibility is that there were two Ufo's both hovering one below
or above the other.
I was able to get about 15 minutes of video footage. But one thing I
noticed very strange about taping the orbs at one point was how they
would appear and not appear in the camera's lens. They were bright
enough to be seen by the video lens and I would stop every minute and
look away from the lens and see if the orbs were fading out. But
they weren't. They were just as bright as when we first saw them.
When I first started taping them they were just as clear and bright
as could be in the camera lens. But as I said, about 10 minutes
later, this strange disappearing and reappearing in my camera lens
started.
I haven't been able to look at the video yet, but I will be taking a
close look at it later tonight.
To add. These two orbs were big. I am not talking about a pea size
sighting here. The largest orb was about the size of a large egg
and the other was the size of about a medium sized egg. They were
stationary in the sky until they later lowered to the ground just
as the 2 planes and chopper came in and closed in on them. Thats
when they vanished and did not appear again. Stars don't act that
way, and planes and a helicopter weren't chasing stars!
I will keep everyone up-todate on the video tape and how it came out.
If it did come out good I will post some stills of the orbs on the
UFOSSI website.
Billy Dee-UFOSSI
National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 2/2/1999 02:00
Posted : 2/16/1999
Location : Mt. Horeb, WI
Shape : Other
F-16's chasing object
Madison has a Ait Guard unit, equipped with F-14 or F-16, I live on a
farm 20 miles southwest from Madison, I heard a loud noise outside (like
a thunder type noise) I got outside, I was standing on my deck when I
saw two I guess what were the fighters (could see the flames comming
out the ends of them(afterburner), they were chasing a bright orange
something, I guess it could be described as a orange cloud or distortion,
this lasted for about 40 seconds, then it was all quiet. I saw the planes
leaving in a south west direction. I called the Air Guard tower in Madison,
and they said there was no flight activity that night, by them or Volk Field,
or Mc.Coy. It was definately strange.
Mar. '99 Reports
Thanks much to Jeff Westover for passing along the following message:
A front page news story concerning area UFO sightings ran this past
Wednesday (March 31) in the Marlette (Michigan) Leader and Huron
Daily Tribune (Bad Axe, MI) newspapers.
The DeBoever/Unionville sighting was the topic of a WNEM TV-5
(CBS affiliate from Saginaw, MI) news story covered by Jay Brandow.
The following week, on Friday March 26, WEYI TV-25 (NBC affiliate
>from Clio, MI) also covered local UFO sightings in their local
newscast. The reporter allegedly had her own sighting just before
the cameras rolled. I did not watch the TV-25 broadcast but am led
to believe that they reported a completely different sighting in the
Bay City/Midland area.
Below is the transcripted news story as appeared in the 3/31 Marlette
Leader Newspaper:
UNUSUAL SIGHTINGS IN THE SKY PEAK INTEREST IN THE THUMB
The Marlette Leader- March 31, 1999
By Stacy Langley (Huron Daily Tribune-Bad Axe, MI)
Unusual sightings have been the talk of town in Unionville (Michigan)
and several surrounding communities as residents compare stories and
probe officials about the weird light spotted in the skies last week.
The past few years, sightings of unidentified objects in the sky
have been quite common and without much explanation.
Adiel DeBoever of Unionville said he was the first person to call
Tuscola County Central Dispatch around 8:30 p.m. March 16 just after
he spotted the lights in the sky hovering over his home.
DeBoever said this is the first time he's seen lights like this. He
said they were bright orange in color and looked to be shining from
the inside of an object.
"The lights weren't like a spotlight shinning down from the sky,
but they were very noticeable", he said.
The sighting by DeBoever was just one of five reported that night by
area residents who say they saw the unidentified flying object(s).
DeBoever, who lives on Cottage Drive near Unionville, says the lights
would just blink out of sight and then come back on, but the object
seemed to remain in the same place the whole time.
"The lights were off and then came back on, it was eerie", he said.
DeBoever recalls that as far as distance, the light probably were
half a mile away to the east, just above the Department of Natural
Resources wetlands when he saw them.
"They spanned about the entire length of a football field. There were
two sets of light clusters which were bright orange. The larger one
could have been further away", he said. "When my nephew came out of
the house I said 'Eddie, there's a UFO in the sky' just joking and
then the light blinked out, but came on this time.
"It appeared to separate into six other lights and they all moved
and stopped in the shape of a large triangle object which then
appeared to rotate on its axis."
Officials at the Tuscola County Central Dispatch say they have no
explanation for what the lights were that night, but say that
DeBoever wasn't alone in the sightings.
Shortly after DeBoever's call, Central Dispatch reports a call came
in at 8:57 p.m. from a Juanita Township resident who reported seeing
orange lights in the sky.
Just two minutes later, a Novesta Township woman called with a
similar sighting. Callers from Fremont Township and the Fairgrove
area followed. The caller described seeing orange lights in the
shape of a football field, while the Fairgrove residents reported
seeing a Z-shaped formation in the sky.
Officials from Selfridge Air National Guard Base said they couldn't
offer any explanation about the lights in the sky, and no sightings
were reported to the base.
End of article
Michigan ufologist Jeffrey S. Westover interviewed news reporter
Jay Brandow of WNEM-TV, Channel 5, a CBS affiliate in Saginaw,
Michigan. Westover wrote, "Brandow told me that Selfridge had
sent two F-16s into the area" the night of the UFO sightings. (See
the newspapers Marlette, Mich. Leader and the Huron Daily
Tribune of Bad Axe, Mich. for March 31, 1999, "Unusual sightings
in the sky peak interest in The Thumb." Many thanks to Jeffrey S.
Westover for forwarding the newspaper article.)
*
The following article is courtesy of Mr. Jeffrey S. Westover, an
investigator from Michigan. The article mentions several recent
sightings near Unionville, Michigan on March 16. (1999)
On March 11 and 14th, two sightings were reported from Clyde and
Fremont, Ohio, one of which was sighted by a deputy who was dispatched
to the scene. I opened my map and was slightly curious about a near-
straight line that could be drawn from Unionville, Michigan to Fremont,
Ohio with the locations of Milan, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio -where
other sightings were reported from- situated in-between. Details of
Toledo and Milan remain elusive. There were some indications that
UFO sightings were reported near these two locations around this
same time-frame, but these vague reports are without verification.
For info on this see - http://home.fuse.net/ufo/fremontupdate.htm
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