LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 02, 2008, 16:20 HRS. (CDT)

A public employee witnessed a peculiar, seemingly transparent object, move across the sky above his home in Lexington, Kentucky.  We have no idea what the object was, but we provide here the illustration provided by the witness, who appears to us to be a trained observer.  Full Report

SEVERAL INTERESTING REPORTS FROM ACROSS THE U.S. ON SATURDAY NIGHT, JUNE 07, 2008

NUFORC received a number of very interesting reports from many states across the U. S..  Many seemingly credible witnesses reported a very strange light, which passed across the night sky, paused for several seconds, and then shot off at high speed.  We received reports from Missouri, Massachusetts, Maryland, California, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, and Erfurt/Germany (in the German State of Thuringia).  If anyone was witness to this object, we would like to invite you to submit a report to our Center, using our Online Report Form.  For details about the sightings, please see those newly received reports posted to our website for the evening of Saturday, June 07, 2008. 

ALERT REGARDING SPACE SHUTTLE, “DISCOVERY,” AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Every time the space shuttle either approaches, or departs from, the International Space Station, NUFORC receives many reports of two “UFO’s” flying in tandem in the night sky.  Please note that the space shuttle, “Discovery,” is scheduled to undock from the ISS at 07:42 hrs. (Eastern?), on Wednesday morning, June 11, and they will be seen very prominently in the night sky, passing overhead in proximity to one another, for the next several days.  They are not UFO’s.     

ANNOUNCEMENT

Peter Davenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, has formally announced his candidacy for the WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE, District 7, Position 1.  He has been campaigning for that office since September 2007, and he filed for the position last week, during the official filing period of June 02^nd  through June 06^th.

Many voters in the district have suggested that his candidacy is quite credible, and that he stands a very good chance of prevailing in the primary election, which will be held on August 19, 2008.  More information about his campaign will be posted here, in the near future, with a link to his campaign website.

If he is successful in getting elected to that position, he will serve as one of 98 members of the Washington State House of Representatives. 

The fact that Peter has served as Director of the National UFO Reporting Center is well known in the District, and it is a fact that has contributed to his broad-reaching name recognition.  His many appearances on some 2,000 radio and television programs, including his monthly appearances with Jeff Rense, may play a significant role in the campaign.

If any of the visitors to the NUFORC website would like to assist the campaign financially, they may mail checks in the $10.00-25.00 range, and made out to the “Davenport Campaign,” to the following address: 

The Davenport Campaign
P. O. Box 644
Harrington, WA  99134-0644

All proceeds received will be used for campaign literature and other direct expenses for the campaign.  Under Washington State campaign law, none of the contributions may be used for any personal expense. 

Thank you for your support!!

SURRY COUNTY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, SURRY, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, MAY 19, 2008

NUFORC received a very interesting report this morning, on May 19, of a sighting of a strange disc allegedly seen in the vicinity of the Surry Nuclear Power Plant, in SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA.  We provide below a link to a page, which describes that facility: http://www.virginiaplaces.org/energy/nuclearpower.html

Traditionally, we do not post reports immediately upon receipt, given that even dramatic sightings often end up having some terrestrial explanation.  However, in this case, the witness is a skilled scientist (retired), and he was able to observe the object for a considerable length of time, up to 20 minutes, he estimates.

The original report, submitted before we spoke to the witness via telephone, can be read here: 

Date: 05/19/08T
Time: 12:20
Duration: 12-20 minutes
Sighting City: Surry County
Sighting State: va
Sighting County: USA
Witnesses: 1
Shape: Disk
Number of Craft: 1

Description: Disk Sighted Over Surry Nuclear Power Station, Surry Co., VA

At about 12:20 pm, 19 May 2008, I observed what appeared to be a large, metallic disk hovering very near the Surry Nuclear Power Station. (This is a little more than hour from the time of this writing, so the memory is still fresh and vivid).

I was on my bicycle riding east on the Colonial Parkway (James City County) when I spotted an object over the James River, moving from east to west at a very slow speed. At first I thought it may have been a kite because it was a very windy day (the winds were gusting out of the SW at 20-30mph) and people do come out and fly their kites from the beaches when the winds are good. But when I came to an open spot in the road unobstructed by trees I stopped to get a better look and decided it was much too large to be a kite. It is a about a mile across the channel to the Surry Station and what I saw appeared to be very near the station’s twin domes and it must have been at least as large as they are, and perhaps larger. Besides that the object was moving very slowly against the wind, left to right from my vantage point, and its upper surface caught the sunlight and reflected like a sheet of aluminum foil. Its underside was dark. Then I thought that it might be an advertising balloon or dirigible, but the shape did not seem right. This was definitely a flattened disk. And, because it was so windy it did not seem like a good day to take a blimp up. (And, with security so high these days it does not seem logical that anyone would be permitted to get that close to power station. I have seen military helicopters on training missions over the river, but even they keep a wide berth from the power plant.)

I have eliminated the possibility of helicopters and small aircraft because, as I say, this object was hovering/drifting and appeared to be making a very leisurely circuit of the power plant. I walked down to water’s edge to see if I could get a better look, but without binoculars I couldn’t make out any other useful details. I watched it like this for a good 15-20 minutes. In that time it completely circled the station, moving against the wind. It appeared to correct its angle at times, very slowly rocking up and down.

I then decided to hurry home, grab my binoculars and camera and see if I might get a better look. It took me about ten minutes to bike home from there and another fifteen to get back on the Parkway by car. But, by the time I returned to my original position the object was gone. I drove a few miles down the Parkway hoping that it might have drifted elsewhere, but the sky was empty except for a few white clouds. Now, I wish I had stayed until it left. It would have been interesting to see which way it went.

((END ORIGINAL REPORT))

We had several communications with the witness, following receipt of his written report, and following our first telephone conversation with him.  We are impressed with the thoroughness with which he has pursued an explanation for the sighting.  We provide below one of his follow-up communiqués to our Center:

((FIRST FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION FROM WITNESS))

Mr. Davenport,

I've already done some of the things you suggested. I called the Ft. Eustis Public Affairs Office and was told by a very helpful female officer that there are no Osprey flying out of Ft. Eustis at this time. She knew of none even being stationed at the base, though their fleet of SAR helicopters is slated to be replaced by Osprey at some future date. She then told me that she'd heard from some fellow soldiers that they'd seen what they thought was the Goodyear blimp flying near Patrick Henry Mall in Newport News. Could it have been a blimp, I wondered? I did not see any writing on its sides, but who knows, I might have missed it. I checked the online photos and I think that I would have seen those bold, yellow letters even from that distance. And, if it was a blimp, why would it be hanging out near a nuclear power plant?

I then called the Patrick Henry Mall management office and asked them what they knew of the Goodyear blimp being in their area and was told they'd heard nothing about it, and that their security personnel did not report seeing one. The spokesperson said that if the blimp had been in their area they would have known about it, because of the publicity it would have generated. I then tried to get in contact with Goodyear, but they, unfortunately do not have a contact phone number. I left them an email message.

Perhaps they'll respond.

The local police have no reports of UFOs over the river and were not interested in taking mine down. (I could hear the borderline ridicule in the dispatcher's voice).

I called our two local papers, but to date I'm the only one to have reported anything unusual at Surry. They also know nothing of the Goodyear blimp being in our area. The reporter at the Virginia Gazette (our local paper) was very receptive to the story and pumped me for every tidbit.  She may run the story.  She also lives on the other side of the James River where the Surry Station is located and is going to ask her contacts down there if they've heard/seen anything.  She's also been to the station and says that their security is extremely professional and quasi-military to the point of paranoia.  But, she also knows that the plant is surrounded by very tall trees and if a silent craft were hovering just at the treeline a hundred or so yards out from the perimeter, it is very unlikely that anyone on the ground would have seen it. I can attest to the fact that I only saw the object through gaps and clearings in our own treeline.

As I said before it was/is very windy, and though it was a bright, sunny day, there were not as many people out on the river beaches as usual. I found it enlightening that even though dozens of cars passed by me as I was observing the object not one of them stopped or even acted as though they saw what I was seeing.

From a distance it may have appeared to be a helicopter. I was the only cyclist crazy enough to brave those high winds this morning (and it was murder, let me tell you).

I went back down to the river late this afternoon and scanned the Surry Station with my binoculars from a half dozen different vantage points.  The wind was still blowing hard and the river was churning with whitecaps. Nothing was in the air. Not a single plane or aircraft.  No kiters.  Even the large birds one usually sees this time of year (it is Spring) were lying low.  It was then that I realized that I may indeed have seen something far out of the ordinary.

I tend to agree with you that the response from Surry security may have been canned.  They returned my call within 20 minutes and, though I cannot be certain, there was something in the man's voice that told me that he really didn't enjoy what he was doing.  It seemed to come as relief to him when it appeared that I was buying his explanation. I did not argue, thanked him, and hung up.

One final, unanswerable question: if it was the Goodyear blimp, where did it go?  I was back at the river by 1:15 with my binoculars and the sky was empty as far as I could see.  Surely it could have not gone that far in such a high wind.  Damn, if only I had waited, I might have seen the thing fly off.

((END FIRST FOLLOW-UP))

We post the report, principally because of the high-quality of the witness, and also because of the seemingly dramatic nature of the event.  Also, if anyone in the area of the Surry Nuclear Facility witnessed this event, we would be most grateful if he or she would submit a short, written report of the sighting, using our Online Report Form, found here:  ((LINK TO REPORT FORM)).  If anyone knows for certain whether a blimp was airborne in that area at about noon on May 19, we would welcome a report to that effect, supported by whatever evidence the witness may be able to provide.

We will post updates, as we receive them.  The database of reports will be updated as soon as I can complete the proofreading of some 600 newly received reports.

Posted on Monday night, May 19, 2008, by Peter B. Davenport, Director, NUFORC

APRIL 16, 2008 - Several interesting reports were submitted to NUFORC on the evening of Wednesday, April 16, 2008.  We summarize them below:

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - An experienced fishing boat captain called to report a very strange display of six lights to the southeast of his home, which he first observed at approximately 20:10 hrs. (EDT).  He reported that the lights were seen to deploy very rapidly in a straight line, and they appeared to be in the vicinity of downtown Atlantic City.  He could not determine whether they were on the near side of the downtown area, or beyond the city.  He added that he and his wife heard a “tremor,” while the lights were still visible.  Full Report

The witness telephoned our Hotline, after the initial report, and added that a source in the Federal Aviation Administration had informed him that the lights were part of an offshore exercise by the U. S. military, a fact that has yet to be confirmed.

We would welcome reports from any other witnesses to this event.  We would like to know where witnesses were located, at the time of their sighting, and what direction they were looking, as they faced the lights.  This information will allow NUFORC to perform triangulation, in order to determine the location of the lights, and where they were, relative to downtown Atlantic City. 

KOKOMO, IN - NUFORC received two reports from the Kokomo area, from witnesses who reported observing some very strange lights at approximately 23:30 hrs. (CDT).  One witness reported that the lights appeared to come from the west, and they then moved off rapidly to the north.  Full Report

NUFORC would very much like to receive reports from anyone who witnessed this event, either visually, or aurally.  Most of all, we would like to know where in the Kokomo area any witness was located, and the direction he/she was looking, while looking at the lights when they were stationary in the sky. 

MARCH 28, 2008 - L.A. TIMES RUNS FRONT PAGE STORY ON NUFORC

Read the LA Times front page story on Peter Davenport and the National UFO Reporting Center Headquarters.

STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 08, 200

A very peculiar object was reported to NUFORC recently, which reportedly was seen by many people near Stephenville, Texas.  We have not spoken with any of the witnesses yet, but an article from the Associated Press was released over the internet on the date of this posting, January 14. 

We include below the “raw” reports which we have received to date about the alleged incident.  We also would like to invite anyone who may have been witness to this event to please submit a short report, detailing the sighting, using our Online Report Form.  Thank you!

Peter B. Davenport, Director, National UFO Reporting Center. Posted:  21:30 hrs. (Pacific), Monday, January 14, 2008

Report #1: 

Flashing strobes, silent, flames out the back side and jets chasing it!

On 1-8-2008 at 6:15 pm CST. my friends and I was watching the sunset when several strobes or flashing lights coming from the east at about 3500 foot agl heading west toward Stephenville, TX.  Estimated speed was about 2000 to 3000 mph.

The strobes made several changes of flash patterns and configurations. The flight duration lasted about 3 minutes. The front two strobes was about 1/2 mile a part and the back ones was about 1 mile back from the front strobes. The back side of the flashing lights came to a vertical flashing.

Then there was 2 separate vertical flames about 1/4 mile apart for several seconds and the craft was gone.

We never head ANY noise from the craft!  They headed west towards Abilene, TX.

Then about 10 minutes later here came the craft again with 2 jets chasing.  They were headed east towards South Ft. Worth, TX, at about 4000 ft. agl.  The jets were unable to catch and went off into the distance at FULL throttle.

I am a pilot and have been fling for 30 years and have never seen anything like this.  I also fly several times a week in the area.  The craft is NOT from around these parts!

The witnesses are 1. ((male name deleted) 254-((number deleted)), rancher/trucker  2. ((male name #2 deleted))  254-((name deleted)), delivers mail for the U.S. Postal Service  3. ((male name #3 deleted))  (myself) 254-((number deleted)) or cell 817-((number deleted)) owner of a large transportation/trucking firm.

Report #2:

1MILE LONG BY 1/2 MILE WIDE  TRAVELING AT EST 3,000 MPH BEING CHASED BY MILITARY AIRCRAFT

NOT WITNESSED BY ME.  KNOW THAT CREDIBLE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED.  MILITARY AIRCRAFT WERE CHASING THE SECOND APPEARANCE. 

A COMPLETE ARTICLE IS IN THE STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE TRIBUNE 1-10-08 EDITION .

THIS ONE IS FOR REAL!

OBJECT SEEN OVER THE EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN U. S. ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2007

Our Center has received several reports from Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia, Massachusetts, and Vermont of an object that was visible for approximately 45 minutes from each of those locations.

We do not know, yet, what the object was, but from our experience with similar reports over past years, our suspicion is that the object may be a spent rocket, which was "parked" in high orbit, and from which the excess fuel was released from its fuel tanks.

The fact that the object could be seen from both Williston, Florida, and Canada, at the same time suggests to us that the object was very large, and at a very high altitude above the surface of the Earth.

Peter Davenport will make a brief appearance tonight on the Coast-to-Coast radio program, hosted by GEORGE NOORY, in order to discuss the event, and in order to encourage other witnesses to submit written reports, using NUFORC's Online Report Form.

We include here a report from Maine, even though we have no reason to believe that the report from that state is, in any way, related to the event seen from locations in the southeastern U. S..

We include here some of the written reports NUFORC received about the event, as of the time of this posting.

Peter B. Davenport, Director, NUFORC. Posted at 18:30 hrs. (Pacific), Monday, December 10, 2007."

REPORT #1 OF 7

REPORT FROM MONROE, GEORGIA, 18:30 HRS.--Bright object in sky,at first looked like a comet. Watching close with binoculars could see it was not a comet but nothing I have ever seen before.

This object was white in color and looked like a cigar.was moving slowly across sky towards the north but was moving up and down and side to side all this time. Another small object could be seen as well with a white light that would flash ever now and then.

The weather was mild with clear skies, and Monroe GA is about 30 miles north east of Atlanta Ga.

We have all seen the planes coming and going from the Atl airport and these were no planes or helicopters.

I'm a 46 year old over the road truck driver and have drove at night for years and never seen nothing close too this.

Other witnesses include my wife, 45; son, 23; and his wife, 23.

REPORT #2 OF 7

REPORT FROM PITTSBORO, NC, AT 18:45 HRS.--To whom it may concern,

I am an amateur astronomer and was observing here in my observatory at my home in Pittsboro, N.C., observing a double star in the constellation Delphinus.

At approximately 1845, I spotted a green hue in the SW skies near the Messier object M15, approximately 45 degrees above the SW horizon. It appeared to be a comet; I quickly slewed my telescope to the object, and viewed it at a magnification of 100X. The object was traveling at a high rate of speed, but much slower than a normal satellite when viewed through a telescope eyepiece field of view.

The object contained what appeared to be a head and a tail (very much like Haley's comet looked years ago through a pair of binoculars), and its magnitude was so bright that it was dominant in the sky. There was also a point of light that moved with the object at the same speed, approximately one tenth of a degree from the "head" of the object.

I tracked the object for approximately 45 minutes, the "tail" faded (almost appeared to dissipate over time), but the point of light near the haze remained in the eyepiece, it's magnitude and position not changing over the period of time that it was tracked. The object passed very close to the star Schedar in the constellation Cassiopeia. I stopped tracking the object as it passed through the constellation Cassiopeia at approximately 1935 hrs.

The object continued to move in a NE direction at approximately 60 degrees above the northern horizon.

The Telescope I was using to track the "object" was a Telescope Engineering Company (TEC) 200mm (8 inch) f/9 refractor, mounted on a Astro-Physics 1200gto computerized equatorial mount. The object was tracked by moving the Declination and Right ascension axis in a manual mode.

REPORT #3 OF 7

REPORT FROM WORCESTER, VERMONT, 19:13 HRS.--I am weather forecaster meteorologist with two decades plus of experience observing. I work for a radio station in northern Vermont and what I saw I will describe - not that big a deal really.

There is a comet forgotten the name to lazy to look it up but a comet or fuzz ball like or bigger than the 7 sisters that I saw in the eastern sky.

This fuzz ball was moving over so slowly but in odd directions to the rotation of the earth not making any sense.

A friend of mine alerted me to it and said hey go outside and check out the comet. I did and went out several times only to find that it had moved to odd positions and in weird trajectories that a comet would not normally follow.

My only conclusion is that it was man made perhaps a urinal dump that caught the sunlight similar to when you can the ISS or other satellites at night but then why would it move into the different positions over the course of the next hour and half.

It is the erratic nature of the movement. The sighting took place this evening in mostly clear skies with good clarity on a cold winter night with temperatures in the 20s.

REPORT #4 OF 7

REPORT FROM DORA, ALABAMA, 18:03 HRS.--Comet-like cloud with faint flashing light appeared in clear starry sky, drifting North across Casseopia.

Sighted comet like cloud moving towart constellation casseopia, has faint flashing light, called son in N Florida who also could see object.

Object drifted into Casseopia around 6:15 CST, becoming vague. pointed structure, moon size, white flashing light about every 5 Minutes.

I'm an amateur astronomer, never saw anything like it in 50+ years.

REPORT #5 OF 7

REPORT FROM WINDER, GEORGIA, 19:00 HRS.--Cigar shaped object with bright light zigzagging above Winder Georgia.

It was dark outside and we saw a cigar shaped object in the sky, It had a light as if a flashlight and that was shinning, that was the only light on the object. It had zigzagged through the air for about 2-3 minutes than it look as if it had stopped but the light kept getting dimmer and dimmer as if it was going up. It had looked like the lights were changing colors from white to yellow.

At first we thought it was a plane but it was going way to slow, and about 4 planes had passed it, and it was to high up. It also couldn't have been a shooting star because you could see the outside of the shape. We tried to take a picture but everything else in the sky would show up on the camera except the object in the sky.

Also the light was in what we thought was the front of the object, but then it started going sideways. There was a white haze around the object.

REPORT #6 OF 7

REPORT FROM WILLISTON, FLORIDA, 19:00 HRS.--Some sort of explosion above earth's atmosphere.

I was getting into my truck at seven pm when I sighted a brillantly glowing cloud. The glow appearred almost directly overhead but somewhat to the north and west, from my location in Williston, Florida.

I quickly called my wife who is currently in Canada, and she went outside and saw the same glowing cloud. I was able to view the object through night vision monocular and it appeared very much like a comet with a nucleus and tail aligned toward the northwest; initially the tail was nebulous, but also contained a split so that it appeared as a V.

But this appeared to be drifting toward the east very slowly, but too fast to be a comet.

As I was observing the cloud I saw five distinct small flashes of light toward the nucleus area; gradually the object faded in luminosity and disappeared.

REPORT #7 OF 7

REPORT FROM PHIPPSBURG, MAINE, 17:30 HRS.--Burning bright orb with a plane above following it then it either burned up, crashed or just lit up when out of view

It was about 5:30 p.m. and it had gotten dark about an hour before so it was almost pitch black out. Me and my friend were sitting in our car with the lights off at the end of a peninsula that is in the middle of the Kennebec River right near the mouth of the river. Popham beach fort was directly in front of us.

I wasn't really looking at the sky when all of a sudden my friend yelled "look at those shooting stars!" I looked up and saw two lights traveling east so they were moving towards our left because we were looking south.

They were at about a 20 degree angle. And at least a couple miles away but close enough so that I saw a jet trail on the top one. I only saw them for about three seconds but I remember every detail about them. They were moving at the same speed. One was above the other about a quarter inch apart. The one on top had a white light like most planes do and I remember noticing it had a trail just like a jet has. The bottom one however was many times bigger, had no trail and was glowing bright orange. It looked like a perfect circle and about the size of a BB while the one on top looked like a star. They were moving almost horizontal, but most shooting stars come down at an angle.

Almost as soon as I saw them the bottom one steadily grew from dim orange to burning, bright, orange without changing shape at all. Right as it passed over and behind a peninsula to our left it became so bright and right when it was out of view it lit up the sky around the area it was in and we saw what seemed like a bright flash or explosion above the trees, but not a quick flash just a steady flash. As soon as it was gone we said, "((deleted))t, what was that?"

We debated for a while about what it was and we concluded that they could not have been both shooting stars because the one on top had a trail and the bottom one didn't. My friend had seen them traveling west to east for maybe ten seconds and said he didn't pay much attention at first because he thought they were planes. He said they were flying horizontally and as fast

as planes far away, not as fast as shooting stars It was like nothing we

had ever seen before and it was so big for the distance it was at if it was a meteor it would have caused a tsunami or something.

I saw a few ufo encounter reports about glowing amber orbs and saw drawings of what they described and it looked like the same exact thing but must have been larger because of how far away it was.

I'm dead serious about this I wouldn't have spent the time reporting it if I wasn't, believe me.

(NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)

After 32 years in the Seattle area, the National UFO Reporting Center is moving to a new locale in eastern Washington, a decommissioned U. S. Air Force ICBM missile base, located between the towns of Davenport and Harrington, WA, in Lincoln County. This photo of our new "digs" shows the property as it looked in the early 1960's.  Click here for highres. Once the facility is cleaned and renovated, which may take up to a year, our headquarters will operate out of this facility, which was the first underground missile complex commissioned by the U. S. government.

Our telephone service should operate smoothly, since all incoming calls to our Hotline will be automatically forwarded to our telephone. In addition, we anticipate that our internet services will be uninterrupted, although it may require several days for us to activate our new high-speed internet connection. Hence, please be patient while we get these services set up, and operating smoothly. Although our telephone number and e-mail address will remain the same, our postal mailing address will change to the following:

National UFO Reporting Center
P. O. Box 700
Davenport, WA 99122

However, we will maintain our old mailing address for the next year, or so, and all mail will be forwarded to the new address, so either address is suitable for mailing items to our Center.

Thank you!
Peter Davenport, Director