NUFORC Sighting 17665

Occurred: 2001-03-22 03:30 Local
Reported: 2001-05-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 3

Location: Tacoma, WA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Landed

UFO observed visiting several homes in my neighborhood

Had been hearing a distinctive humming for a couple months prior to the sighting. On the night in particular we turned off the lights pretending to go to bed but stayed quietly inside observing out the windows. At around 3:30am we began to hear the hum, but then it changed into the sound of a small aircraft. I then observed white lights just above the trees at the side of the house circling over the tree-tops. It made at least 6 circles. We then opened the back door to look at the 'airplane' when it suddenly turned on very bright white lights and slowly moved toward the back behind our home and went down about 2 blocks behind us in the neighborhood. It later appeared to approach our house from the back direction when it suddenly began flashing lights all over the craft and turned slightly to my left and came down at a house on our street about 1 block away. At approximately 5am I had gone to bed but the other 2 witnesses observed the craft right over our house, it was straight above their heads, then it appeared to go straight up until it looked like just another star. It was a black cylinder shape with two round appendeges on either side which appeared to rotate with lights on them. The back end of the cylinder appeared to open and close with the thrumming of the sound and when open the inside could only be described as having 'liquid' light. We got a camcorder the next day, and saw it that night but at a distance and attempted to capture it on video, and though it doesn't look like a normal aircraft the video isn't that definative. I think this is important and needs to be shared.



NUFORC Note:

Witness includes photographs of object, apparently fabricated out of which paper. It looks somewhat like a BOMARC missile. We will attempt to post the photograph. PD


Posted 2001-08-05

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