NUFORC Sighting 42407

Occurred: 1959-07-19 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-02-25 15:05 Pacific
Duration: hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Salem, OH, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

1959 Saucers-huge- pattern of four shifting high in Ohio skies-white-yellow perfectly formed-moving very fast

My younger sister woke me up probably after midnight. She told me to look out the side bedroom window which was to the left of the bed we slept in. My other baby sister remained asleep in her big crib in the opposite corner of the room. I rolled over onto my left side to glimpse outside the bedroom window.

It was a warm summer's evening, the sky was clear but I do not remember any moon. The view was looking down the street we lived on. There was an old buckeye tree in the front yard of our neighbors house [across the street] 4 houses down. My sister pointed into the sky, saying to look above the buckeye tree. There was no way I could miss it. Four huge white-yellow glowing saucers were hoover above the tree, but at a great distance. I can only say [as I was a young child] that they were higher up than any planes we saw flying [up at Pittsburgh airport].

My sister & I leaned on our elbows and just 'gazed' out the window at this amazing sight. The 'saucers' moved perfectly together in a pattern of four like on dominoes, up, down, sideways but never out of our view. It seemed like this went on for a very long time. We felt the saucers themselves must have been going around in circles[rotating] at great speed because we could see a faint halo towards the middle, fatter part of the saucer. We did not see any windows or flashing lights. They were huge and perfectly formed, not like clouds in any way.

Suddenly, they moved/shifted upwards then, at what must have been an incredible speed, in a direction away from Earth or at least away from us or from our view...they moved so fast as to disappear from our view within seconds of shifting upwards. We both looked at each in disbelief! During this episode, the objects always remained in a perfect pattern of 4 even as they disappeared from view. We told our mother the next day [we stayed quiet as to not wake baby sister and be told off] she told us we were imagining things. Back then, we told very few people as it was weird that no one seemed to believe us or just said nothing.?? So, we just accepted that we must have seen 'flying saucers'[UFO's] from outspace because we heard stories about such things. And, no other explanation fits.

My sister and I still agree on this sighting. Had we been older and had a more curious mother, we may have discovered others who witnessed a similar siting at the time. The exact date and time I am not sure of, but I will never forget seeing something moving profoundly fast and in formation with an intelligence unlike that of anything on Earth up in the skies of Ohio.

I have had 2 other experience since then. I think once something like this happens to you, you have an altered perception of reality and begin to think more laterally.

One was a falling star which split in two as it fell. My husband and I witnessed that in England back in 1986. A rare sighting, I think, but explained.

The other was a bright pulsating light I witnessed in the Andes at Macchu Piccu in 1974. This light was again a white-yellowish color. It pulsated light [rhythmic like a heartbeat]. Somehow it woke me up that night. I think it could have been the odd low-level noise it made. I can only describe the sound as a 'low-pitched' single sound of a gyrating quality. That, and the pulsating light filling up my rear hotel bedroom window had me frozen with fear. Though I could look out the back window, only light was coming in. I could not 'see' anything. Strangely, after watching this for what seemed a long time, I must have fallen asleep. Next morning when I looked out the back window, there was nothing to see but a steep wall of rock behind the hotel.

Very early in the evening the hotel shuts off its electricity. There is nothing above the hotel except a small mountain path. I hiked up the mountain/cliff behind the hotel to see if I could discover where the light source was coming from. Nothing. The path cast a view across to the temple of the Sun at MP. Make your own conclusions. The only other view is the mountain tops of the Andes and huge butterflies.

I heard the mountains produce their own eeries lights. I met another person who also saw what I did that night. He was from Austrialia-doing oil exploration down in the Amazon Basin. We just could not figure it out, as nothing was up there [too high for helicopters in the night, moonless night?] but the hotel and us. The hoteliers saw nothing and said nothing is up there, could be no light, no electricity.

It is so dark up there at night that when the electricity is turned off that I could not see my hand even when I placed flat against my nose. That is dark! But, something lit up MP that night. I will never know what it was.



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-04-16

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