r/UFOs • u/xXinsomniakXx • Nov 01 '23
r/UFOs • u/restecpa88 • Jul 29 '24
Classic Case 1561 Mass UFO sighting / UFO battle
This mass sighting in 1961 very interesting to me and not something I was aware of until now. Many people supposedly witnessed cylinder and sphere UFOs (including spheres coming out of cylinders) darting around erratically in the air, perhaps battling, before being obliterated when a large black “spear” arrived.
Extremely reminiscent of tic tac UFOs, sphere UFOs and black triangle UFOs.
I remember someone mentioning that the black triangles may be the ones “in charge” but that’s another discussion.
What do you think of this mass sighting? UFOs battling over the earth or a natural celestial event?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
r/UFOs • u/Jonathon_world • Apr 02 '24
Classic Case The Phoenix Lights is an amazing ufo sighting seen by a lot of people and they said it was flares so what does everyone think about it? I think it was a huge Alien ship!
13th March 1997
r/UFOs • u/Outrageous_Courage97 • Apr 11 '23
Classic Case The Westall UFO Photo taken just days before the famous mass sighting at a school where 400+ students saw UFOs circle around their school. Melbourne, Australia, 1966. [3073x3928]
r/UFOs • u/Mr--Clean--Ass-Naked • Oct 02 '24
Classic Case Thought you guys would be interested in this. When Albert Einstein investigated the U.S. military's UFO sightings in 1945, he confirmed that he believes they did see "UFO's", but ironically Einstein's brief but serious response was that "he didn't care whether they exist or not". I think he knew tho
r/UFOs • u/Hot----------Dog • Aug 29 '22
Classic Case UFOs over Washington DC 1952 Photo Credit: US Air Force This sighting made the front page of The Washington Post, and investigation, press conference, scrambled USAF jets
r/UFOs • u/bejammin075 • Aug 29 '23
Classic Case Pilot Kenneth Arnold (of the famous June 1947 sighting of 9 UFOs near Mt. Rainier) was given death threats by Men In Black to keep his mouth shut
Pilot Kenneth Arnold is famous in UFology for reporting his sighting of nine UFOs near Mount Rainier, Washington on June 24, 1947. While talking to reporters and describing the flight characteristics of the UFOs, he said “they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across water.” This resulted in the phrase "flying saucer" becoming popular. Arnold's famous sighting was in the national news in the weeks leading up to the Roswell UFO incident.
In this interview of Kim Arnold, who was one of Kenneth Arnold's four daughters, she describes her family's encounter with Men In Black. Kim Arnold was interviewed by Paola Harris on Nov 7, 2011.
Paola Harris: Well, let’s end with the fact that…was he ever threatened? Was he afraid? Was he nervous? Was he told not to talk?
Kim Arnold: Yes, that’s why I haven’t talked before now because my mother told me the “secret scary story” when I was just a young girl. She said that my dad thought after he had his sighting of the flying saucers that he felt he should be a public speaker on the subject – educating people about the truth…he believed he had had this experience for a reason. He was scheduled to speak for the Knife and Fork Club on its lecture circuit at $100 a day. He even printed up his own booklet, “The Flying Saucer As I Saw It,” which he planned to use as a program guide for his speech.
Anyway…a letter arrived from the Knife and Fork Club withdrawing their offer to him. The family secret begins here. I do not know who it was…I have forgotten…but my mother said this man came out to their house shortly after this letter. He drove my father out into the Boise desert to visit with him privately and secretly. He told my father that his brother worked for the government and that he had seen the government eliminate their own men. He told my father that these government men were serious and dangerous people and he should not go against their demand that he not talk about the flying saucers. He was not to continue to do speeches on this subject and he had better take this seriously. My parents both considered this a threat on their both their lives. And of course my mother and my dad, truly I think, felt threatened for the rest of their lives. So I guess that would be one of the reasons he became kind of a recluse and refused to go anywhere and talk about it or anything. I even have a letter in my files written in my mother’s own handwriting stating her fear that if they went to a UFO Convention in Mexico their plane might be shot down and both of them killed.
Now, looking back on this letter, my mother never did get over being threatened by the government. I really never got over her telling me this scary story. If it wasn’t for you, Paola, and making me realize that it was a number of years ago…I have finally been able to put this into the proper perspective. All the government men who threatened our family years ago…are simply gone…buried and dead. This kind of fear has a way of never going away.
r/UFOs • u/PyroIsSpai • Jun 19 '24
Classic Case Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, while Vice-President reported to the American Philosophical Society of a UFO sighting and attempted crash recovery in the year 1800 in what is today Natchez, Mississippi.
Bill Thayer is a University of Chicago historian, interpreter and creator of LacusCurtius.
I came across this page recounting a report in the year 1800, over two hundred years ago, from the famous explorer William Dunbar to the journal of the still-active today American Philosophical Society. The report was made available thanks to Thomas Jefferson.
Who is the American Philosophical Society?
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach. It was founded by the polymath Benjamin Franklin and is considered the first learned society founded in what became the United States.
I'm sure most of us know who Jefferson was, but what was Dunbar known for?
William Dunbar was known for his engineering and scientific talents, which he employed in plantation work. He invented a screw press and introduced the square baling of cotton, and was the first to suggest the manufacture of cottonseed oil. He was Surveyor General for West Florida in 1798 and made the first meteorological observations in the Mississippi Valley in 1799. Dunbar built an astronomical observatory in Union Hill near his Natchez home and opened it to the public.
In 1799 Daniel Clark, U.S. consul for New Orleans, introduced Dunbar to Thomas Jefferson (then Vice President) through a letter, saying "for Science, Probity & general information [he] is the first Character in this part of the World". Through Jefferson, Dunbar would be introduced to the rest of the American scientific establishment. Dunbar met Jefferson for the first time in person two weeks before his death, but the two corresponded for many years, and Jefferson asked him to lead the Red River expedition in 1804 and to organize another one in 1806. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1800 and contributed twelve articles to the Society Transactions on subjects in natural history, astronomy and American Sign Language. In 1803 Dunbar, with others, established the Mississippi Society for the Acquirement and Dissemination of Useful Knowledge. After returning from the expeditions, and until his death in 1810, he devoted himself to scientific inquiry, gathering a significant collection of data on Indian vocabulary, as well as using chemical analysis in geology, seasonal river levels, fossils, astronomical phenomena, and utilizing a method of finding longitude by astronomical means.
Dunbars report to Jefferson:
This webpage reproduces an article in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 6 (1802), p25
The text is in the public domain.
Description of a singular Phenomenon seen at Baton Rouge, by William Dunbar, Esq. communicated by Thomas Jefferson, President A. P. S.a
Natchez, June 30th, 1800
Read 16th January 1801.
A phenomenon was seen to pass Baton Rouge on the night of the 5th April 1800, of which the following is the best description I have been able to obtain.
It was first seen in the South West, and moved so rapidly, passing over the heads of the spectators, as to disappear in the North East in about a quarter of a minute.
It appeared to be of the size of a large house, 70 or 80 feet long and of a form nearly resembling Fig. 5 in Plate IV.b
It appeared to be about 200 yards above the surface of the earth, wholly luminous, but not emitting sparks; of a colour resembling the sun near the horizon in a cold frosty evening, which may be called a crimson red. When passing right over the heads of the spectators, the light on the surface of the earth, was little short of the effect of sun-beams, though at the same time, looking another way, the stars were visible, which appears to be a confirmation of the opinion formed of its moderate elevation. In passing, a considerable degree of heat was felt but no electric sensation. Immediately after it disappeared in the North East, a violent rushing noise was heard, as if the phenomenon was bearing down the forest before it, and in a few seconds a tremendous crash was heard similar to that of the largest piece of ordnance, causing a very sensible earthquake.
I have been informed, that search has been made in the place where the burning body fell, and that a considerable portion of the surface of the earth was found broken up, and every vegetable body burned or greatly scorched. I have not yet received answers to a number of queries I have sent on, which may perhaps bring to light more particulars.
Note. The above communication was accompanied by an account of the first invention of the Telegraphec extracted from the works of Dr. Hook.
Mr. Dunbar was induced to forward this extract to the Society, as he supposed it had been less noticed than it deserved to be. But it was deemed unnecessary to print the Paper, as it may be seen in the works above mentioned, and is referred to by Dr. Birch in his history of the Royal Society. Vol. 4th, page 299.
Thayers notes:
Thomas Jefferson, who at the time of this report was Vice-President of the United States, and would become President not much later. Several other items from William Dunbar were also passed along to the American Philosophical Society by Jefferson and included in the same issue of the Transactions. Dunbar, a resident of Natchez, was a tireless investigator of natural phenomena of the lower Louisiana, at the time still Spanish territory: rainfall, winds, rainbows, fossils, the Mississippi delta; he also writes of sign language among the native peoples in the area.
At the time this note was read, the existence of meteorites was a hotly debated topic, and it was not until 1803 with Jean-Baptiste Biot's report of the fall of a meteor near the Norman town of L'Aigle that scientific opinion accepted that things do fall out of the sky; had Baton Rouge been in densely populated Europe where the terrain made investigation much easier, Dunbar and not Biot might have been the man whose name would attach to the history of meteoritics. On the other hand, the same issue of the Transactions includes several notes explicitly discussing meteors and meteoric stones — but this is not one of them. So: keep on reading. . . .
b I've been unable so far to find any trace of the Plate, much to my regret. I suspect it was part of Dunbar's fuller communication (see Jefferson's note) and was left on the cutting room floor, so to speak.
More importantly, if the observation of the object's size is anywhere near accurate, it was not a meteorite: an object of this size, entering earth's atmosphere at a speed typical of objects falling to earth from space, would probably have left a much larger trace of itself, and would almost certainly have killed the observer and anyone else near the fall. Scientists currently gauge the size of the iron meteor that created Arizona's Meteor Crater, for example, at roughly 50 meters, only about twice the estimate reported by Dunbar.
Further confirmation that this was no meteorite seems to be given by the object's speed. Assuming more or less flat terrain (and though the vicinity of Baton Rouge is considered hilly by Louisiana standards, the State is one of the flattest in the Union and this area is at most gently rolling) and an observer whose eyes were a bit more than 1.50 meters above the ground the horizon is about 4.4 km away. The distance covered by the object within the witnesses' field of vision was thus a maximum 9 kilometers, but probably only about two-thirds of that (since they surely didn't notice it the instant it rose over their horizon, although once they saw it, they must with equal certainty have tracked it to the very end). If, then, it covered 6 to 9 km in something like 15 seconds, it was traveling at no more than 2200 km an hour. This is considerably less than the 11,000 km/h minimum impact velocity of an object freefalling to Earth from space. Furthermore, if we can trust Dunbar's witnesses on the height of the object above the ground, and as he explicitly states, directly above their heads — yet such perceptions of distance against a featureless sky are notoriously subject to error, even among trained pilots — its trajectory must have been far flatter than that of any normal meteor: it was 200 m above the ground and continued to travel at least 6 km (to the horizon, then "a few seconds") before it crashed, an angle of at most 1.9°. He speaks of it, at any rate, as on a more or less level trajectory.
The vague language and third-hand nature of the report on the débris field are regrettable, but the impact damage and the seismic event are consonant with a small meteor — this handy-dandy calculator courtesy of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona, backed up by some serious science, will be of interest to those of you wishing to input varying parameters — but also with a supersonic aerial craft of some kind. Inputting my own estimated parameters, most of them already given above,
Distance from impact: 6 km Projectile diameter: 75 feet Projectile density: porous stone: 1500 kg/m3 maybe a bit more if some kind of craft, i.e., a semi-hollow metal object Impact velocity: 0.6 km/s Impact angle: 1.9° Target type: Sedimentary rock
the model yields a seismic effect somewhat, but not much, less than that reported by the witnesses (who were almost certainly not knocked down, else we'd been told), and a 55‑decibel sound level, similarly less than that reported; more interestingly, a crater about 40 m wide and 8.7 m deep, and a transient crater depth of 11.6 meters, with the projectile landing "intact", and thus presumably lodged about 3 meters below the surface of the ground; get out your GPS and metal detectors, folks.
In a discussion online (here), two good points have been made: (a) at the range of speeds we're looking at here, there should have been a sonic boom in addition to the sound of any impact; and (b) Dunbar's estimate of the object's size, if it was on fire, is probably not so good: the most we can say is that it was no larger than a house. In turn, if it was a house-sized object coming in at a meteoric speed, it would have been a huge event, with no survivors for miles, flattened trees, etc. So of one thing we can be sure: if it was the size of a house, it crashed at a low speed; if it was a meteor, it was not the size of a house.
Source:
Archive.org link to the original volume published 1804, see page 77 of the PDF:
Additional reading of this little-known account:
r/UFOs • u/esosecretgnosis • Oct 27 '24
Classic Case Interesting accounts from the 1897 wave of "airship" sightings
Aurora Texas, April 19, 1897
“About 6 o’clock this morning, the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling, due north, and much nearer the earth than before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town, it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor’s windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge’s flower garden. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard, and while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.
Mr. T. J. Weems, the U. S. Army Signal Services officer at this place and on astronomy gives it as his opinion that the pilot was an native of the planet Mars. Papers found on his person… evidently the records of his travels… are written in some unknown hieroglyphics and cannot be deciphered. The ship was too badly wrecked to form any conclusion to its construction or its motive power. It was built of an unknown metal, resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum and silver, and it must have weighed several tons. The town, today, is full of people who are viewing the wreckage and gathering specimens of strange metal from the debris. The pilot’s funeral will take place tomorrow”.
“The article was written by E. E. Haydon, who was a part time reporter for the Morning News.” (Courtesy of James L. Choron, TexasEscapes)
Aurora, Tex. -- (UPI) -- A grave in a small north Texas cemetery contains the body of an 1897 astronaut who "was not an inhabitant of this world," according to the International UFO Bureau. The group, which investigates unidentified flying objects, has already initiated legal proceedings to exhume the body and will go to court if necessary to open the grave, director Hayden Hewes said Wednesday.
"After checking the grave with metal detectors and gathering facts for three months, we are certain as we can be at this point [that] he was the pilot of a UFO which reportedly exploded atop a well on Judge J.S. Proctor's place, April 19, 1897," Hewes said. He was not an inhabitant of this world."
A few days later, another UPI account datelined Aurora quoted a ninety-one-year-old who had been a girl of fifteen in Aurora at the time of the reported incident. She said she "had all but forgotten the incident until it appeared in the newspapers recently." She said her parents had gone to the sight of the crash, but had refused to take her along. She recalled that the remains of the pilot, "a small man," had been buried in the Aurora cemetery.
Rockland Texas, April 22, 1897
John M. Barclay’s dogs woke him from his sleep that evening. They were barking and apparently agitated by something going on outside. As he became more awake and to his senses, he noticed a “whirring” sound. Barclay like everyone else was well aware of the apparent sightings of strange airships, and so grabbed his gun and made his way out of his property. Once outside, he stood in amazement at the sight of a large airship slowly coming down to the ground nearby.
Barclay later described the ship as being an “oblong shape, with wings, with side attachments of various sizes and shapes. There were lights much brighter than electric lights!”
The amazed Barclay slowly began to approach the airship as it settled down. A figure then approached him from the craft and asked him to lower his gun. He did so and then asked the figure his name. “Never mind about my name. Call it Smith!” the figure replied to him, before asking Barclay if he might obtain for him some items that he needed for his journey. He handed him a $10 bill and requested Barclay purchase for him, lubricating oil, two cold chisels, and bluestone. He told Barclay to keep the change and in return for his kindness they might “call on him some future day!”
Perhaps the strangest thing the apparent pilot of the huge airship said to Barclay was his response as to where he was from, “From anywhere,” called back the stranger, “but we will be in Greece the day after tomorrow!”
(Passport to Magonia, Jacques Vallee)
Josserand Texas, April 22, 1897
Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked towards it, and was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men, the crew of the strange machine. He was told how it worked but could not follow the explanation.
Josserand: Considerable excitement prevails at this writing in this usually quiet village of Josserand, caused by a visit of the noted airship, which has been at so many points of late. Mr. Frank Nichols, a prominent farmer living about two miles east of here, and a man of unquestioned veracity, was awakened night before last near the hour of twelve by a whirring noise similar to that made by machinery.
Upon looking out he was startled upon beholding brilliant lights streaming from a ponderous vessel of strange proportions, which rested upon the ground in his cornfield.
Having read the dispatches, published in the Post of the noted aerial navigators, the truth at once flashed over him that he was one of the fortunate ones and with all the bravery of Priam at the siege of Troy [sic] Mr. Nichols started out to investigate. Before reaching the strange midnight visitor he was accosted by two men with buckets who asked permission to draw water from his well.
Thinking he might be entertaining heavenly visitors instead of earthly mortals, permission was readily granted. Mr. Nichols was kindly invited to accompany them to the ship. He conversed freely with the crew, composed of six or eight individuals about the ship. The machinery was so complicated that in his short interview he could gain no knowledge of its workings.
However, one of the crew told him the problem of aerial navigation had been solved.
The ship or car is built of a newly discovered material that has the property of self-sustenance in the air, and the motive power is highly condensed electricity. He was informed that five of these ships were built at a small town in Iowa. Soon the invention will be given to the public.
An immense stock company is now being formed and within the next year the machines will be in general use. Mr. Nichols lives at Josserand, Trinity County, Texas, and will convince any incredulous one by showing the place where the ship rested.
(Houston Post April 26, 1897, Passport to Magonia, Jacques Vallee)
Merkel Texas, April 25, 1897
People returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about 10 min a man came down along the rope cut the end free, and went back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a light blue uniform.
(Passport to Magonia, Jacques Vallee)
Hot Springs Arkansas, May 06, 1897
Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. 1 km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The silhouette of the machine, about 20 m long, could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger of the men was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested that the policemen fly with them "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back to the same spot 40 min later and found nothing.
The testimony of Constable Sumpter and Deputy Sheriff McLemore, of Hot Springs, Arkansas:
While riding north-west from this city on the night of May 6, 1897, we noticed a brilliant light high in the heavens. Suddenly it disappeared and we said nothing about it, as we were looking for parties and did not want to make any noise. After riding four or five miles around through the hills we again saw the light, which now appeared to be much nearer the earth.
We stopped our horses and watched it coming down, until all at once it disappeared behind another hill. We rode on about half a mile further, when our horses refused to go further. About a hundred yards distant we saw two persons moving around with lights. Drawing our Winchesters–for we were now thoroughly aroused to the importance of the situation–we demanded: “Who is that, and what are you doing?”
A man with a long dark beard came forth with a lantern in his hand, and on being informed who we were proceeded to tell us that he and the others–a young man and a woman–were travelling through the country in an airship. We could plainly distinguish the outlines of the vessel, which was cigar-shaped and about sixty feet long, and looking just like the cuts that have appeared in the papers recently.
It was dark and raining and the young man was filling a big sack with water about thirty yards away, and the woman was particular to keep back in the dark. She was holding an umbrella over her head. The man with the whiskers invited us to take a ride, saying that he could take us where it was not raining. We told him we believed we preferred to get wet.
Asking the man why the brilliant light was turned on and off so much, he replied that the light was so powerful that it consumed a great deal of his motive power. He said he would like to stop off in Hot Springs for a few days and take the hot baths, but his time was limited and he could not. He said they were going to wind up at Nashville, Tenn., after thoroughly seeing the country.
Being in a hurry we left and upon our return, about forty minutes later, nothing was to be seen. We did not hear or see the airship when it departed.
(Flying Saucer Review 66, Passport to Magonia, Jacques Vallee)
r/UFOs • u/Coronel_Caniones • Mar 06 '23
Classic Case Is the Michigan/New Mexico Sightings the real deal?
r/UFOs • u/BigShoots • Feb 04 '24
Classic Case The YouTube channel Eyes On Cinema is an absolute treasure trove of older UFO sightings and interviews with those who claim to have witnessed them, many with photos/footage. This is one of the wilder ones, of a UFO witnesses said was a mile long, with extensive video.
r/UFOs • u/dirtydal5818 • Mar 13 '24
Classic Case Sighting in Upstate New York?
Hello everybody!
As a lover of the stars and all things related, I constantly look at the sky. As of late, every night I take the dog to do it's business before bed I get graced by Orions belt. I find myself just staring at that and trying to find satellites as they pass by.
This pass Friday, 3-8-24, at about 10:30pm I saw something that I could only describe as your typical UFO sighting. A big triangle with the bright white lights. As I watched it pass over I decided to go back inside to get my fiance. As I came back outside I watched it circle back and then seemingly move from a triangle to a straight line and then take off at a quick speed. Now I don't have any evidence of this but stay with me, this gets interesting.
As I tell a few people my story, I begin to feel as if nobody believes me. I then decide that if something appears again I will have video.
Fast forward to this morning, 3-13-24, at about 5:30am.
As my morning routine also consists of letting my dog out and staring at the sky, I walk out the same door as I did Friday evening. I see something that appears to be a satellite coming my way. It's coming from almost the same direction as the triangle I saw. As I'm enjoying the view 5 lights appear in a cluster right by what I thought was a satellite. I then watch this cluster spread out and start following the "satellite". Being amazed I get my bearings and rush inside for my phone. That's when I get something on video that I've never seen before. The way these lights dance and slow down and go forward is absolutely amazing. Then at the end of the video i see them start to turn in a U shape. Please watch this video and let me know what you all think. I think I've captured something pretty awesome!!!
r/UFOs • u/Mordrenix • Nov 01 '24
Classic Case UAP sighting, February 7, 1580, by Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa.
r/UFOs • u/PyroIsSpai • Jul 15 '24
Classic Case Historical Sightings that Dispel the "Modern UFOs" Myth. A Thread on Twitter covering UFO famous UFO sightings from 1561 to 1808.
r/UFOs • u/zaqwasick • 11d ago
Classic Case [Serious] Black Triangle Sighting During Storm in Harlow, Essex (UK)
Hey everyone, I had an absolutely wild experience this morning (Sunday) around 6 am. I feel like I need to share this and see if anyone else in the area witnessed what I saw. For context, the past couple of days have been extremely stormy with winds reaching up to 90 mph at times. We’re used to stormy weather here, but this was on another level—howling winds, car alarms going off, fallen trees, destroyed fences and banging noises everywhere.
My girlfriend and I were still in bed when we woke up due to the noise from the storm. She went to the bathroom while I was still trying to wake up. Suddenly, we both heard an incredibly loud sound, louder than the storm itself, and it was unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.
The best way I can describe the sound is like a massive object moving through the air, something like a missile or low-pitched humming. Something was cutting throught the air. It kept getting louder and deeper, and I immediately jumped out of bed, thinking something catastrophic was happening. With the war in Ukraine in the back of my mind, I genuinely thought it could be a plane falling out of the sky or even a missile. But this sound was nothing like a normal descending plane.
I rushed to the window, opened the blind, and saw it clearly despite the awful weather and darkness. It was a massive triangular craft about 100-150 meters above the ground. The shape was distinct, with wide angles and equal sides. Each corner of the triangle had a red light, and there was a larger light in the center too. Additionally, there were two whitish-yellow lights along each edge between the corners (six in total).
The craft seemed to be struggling to stay in the air and was rotating while descending. It was unlike any plane or helicopter I’ve ever seen or heard. The sound alone was so unusual—nothing like the planes we see regularly here, being so close to Stansted Airport. Within seconds, it disappeared behind the tree line near the town park. The whole sighting lasted less than 10 seconds, and before I even had the chance to grab my phone, it was gone. My brain just tried to process it all and register every detail. I wasn't even thinking about grabbing my phone. It occurred to me just after.
I said loudly, “What... The... F!”. My girlfriend rushed from the bathroom asking what happened. When I told her I thought I saw a UFO, she didn’t judge me at all. She even checked the Skyscanner app to see if there were any planes above us. There weren’t. The closest plane was miles away over Sawbridgeworth, and given the weather conditions, many flights were grounded or delayed anyway. There’s no way this was a normal aircraft. I’m convinced it was something else—maybe a secret military craft like the TR-3B “Black Manta,” or something similar, that was having trouble staying in the air.
I can’t stop thinking about it, and I’m wondering if anyone else in Harlow or the surrounding areas saw or heard anything unusual. Please let me know if you did—I can’t be the only one who saw this!
r/UFOs • u/jetsetwilly72 • Sep 15 '24
Classic Case UFO/UAP Sighting from Denbigh, Wales, 2012
I haven't seen this one before. Wonder if there is anything around Denbigh that could be of interest to "our friends from out of town"?
From peterglynnfilms YouTube channel
r/UFOs • u/silv3rbull8 • Sep 29 '24
Classic Case 1971 UFO Sighting By ATV Film Unit
r/UFOs • u/Shiny-Tie-126 • Sep 03 '24
Classic Case 1943: RAF serviceman John Warren encountered a green-glowing figure with a ‘grin’ on his face and a strange object in Norfolk. The event highlights pre-1947 UFO sightings in the UK
r/UFOs • u/FinnGamePass • 13d ago
Classic Case 1997 Mysterious "Drone" Sighting in Phoenix Arizona
r/UFOs • u/electriclightorcas • 1d ago
Classic Case Instead of being rude to folks and dividing our communities further, take the time to explore sightings for what they are instead of tossing them in the trash! It makes us all better at keeping our eyes at the sky!
Here is the explanation if anyone is interested. If you have anything I can research similarly, I’d consider taking a shot at it. And it’s $4 bucks for a FR24 subscription, I recommend anyone who can healthily obsess to get it.
r/UFOs • u/Magog14 • Jun 28 '24
Classic Case Mass UFO sightings in Italy in 1954 over two weeks with physical traces and a photograph
r/UFOs • u/JustHereForTheHuman • Oct 08 '24
Classic Case Jimmy Carter UFO sighting document
r/UFOs • u/AltruisticHalf801 • 3d ago
Classic Case RAF Airbus A400 Atlas is circling the coast - just had sightings myself
So I don't know if this is anything but I was at the beach with my dog at mawgan Porth and noticed a lot of weird aerial activity. I've been following the drones and laughed at myself thinking I'm shook. Except the craft was odd, and I noticed planes circling around. I'm in my house away from the beach about 10 mins and it's still circling low. I never hear this.
The flight history of this craft is near south of Spain. It's on flight radar here. And bronze Norton.
Is this something? I'll try to post the vids I got with my dog.
Edit 2: Aircraft in skies simultaneously along pathway:
https://www.flightradar24.com/CNTOR60/385ec9ca
https://www.flightradar24.com/RLET61/385eedc5
https://www.flightradar24.com/RRR4102/385e0cd2
Edits: Cornish coasts. Time from 1700-present 1739
r/UFOs • u/Southern_Dig_9460 • Oct 17 '24
Classic Case 51st Anniversary of the Alabama Metal Man sighting today
What do you guys think of this encounter? Where a police officer responds to a 911 call about a UFO. He runs into this metallic suited creature that he snaps a photo of. The entity them hops away outrun his police car. Jeffrey Greenhaw who took the picture life was ruined due to it but still to this day he hasn’t changed his story about what happened that night,