NUFORC Sighting 60574

Occurred: 2007-12-04 17:00 Local
Reported: 2007-12-31 01:02 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Current, NV, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Amber light observed in rural Nevada very far away from military test range

I am a Police Officer with many years of experience in rural Nevada.

On December 4, 2007 at approximately 19:00 hours I, along with another officer, observed a single bright amber light while driving southbound on state route 379 in Nye County Nevada. The light pulsated and disappeared as the object generating the light moved quickly to the other side of a small hill.

It was dark but the sky was clear and I am very familiar with the hills and mountain ranges in the area.

We continued southbound on 379 for another 15 miles to US highway 6 without seeing a second sign of the object. At the junction we decided to “black” the patrol unit out and look down the valley toward where we saw the object.

We had a clear view of the small mountain range. In the desert valley 15 miles is not too far to see clearly and mountain silhouette was recognizable even with the nightfall because of the star light.

After a few minutes of observing the mountain range the amber light again appeared. It moved slowly at first then suddenly moved very vast along the range. It reversed its direction and seemed to climb and descend at great speeds then occasionally stopping after accelerating to what seemed to be supersonic speeds. It would traverse literally in the blink of an eye an estimated distance of about 5 miles.

As I said earlier I am very familiar with rural Nevada and I have had the opportunity on many occasions to observe supersonic aircraft flying overhead. From these experiences I know that after seeing an aircraft accelerate to those speeds a “sonic boom” can be heard even at that distance. We heard nothing aside from the usual sounds of the high desert. Also I can think of nothing living or inanimate that would be able to survive the “G” forces associated with those maneuvers, though I must admit I do not have an aeronautical background. This was just common sense.

After watching the object for about ten minuets a second suddenly appeared. It emitted the same amber light and flew in the same manner as the first.

There were other vehicles traveling down that stretch of highway. We observed something that leads us to believe that the objects were not without intelligence. As the vehicles on the highway approached the mountain range the lights would either disappear or move to the other side of the mountains. It appeared that these lights were avoiding the cars.

We observed this activity for about half an hour before we decided to continue driving. We drove East bound on Highway 6 for another ten or fifteen miles when just on the East side of Current Summit at the Nye and White Pine County Line we observed two more sets of amber lights behaving in the same manner as the first set. I do not know if these objects where merely the same as the ones we’d seen earlier or a different set altogether. These objects hovered over the trees of the Humbolt National Forest at about fifteen feet. They were only about two miles to the North of us we again “blacked out” and observed the lights which had to be aware of us at this point. We observed for only a few minuets because one of the objects disappeared and the other seemed to be distracting us by hovering in plane view. Since it is said that curiosity killed the cat my feline compatriot and I decided drive away as fast as was safe.

I cannot say that this was my first experience with these objects. I grew up in this area and this experience marks the fifth time I had seen these lights. I was 15 the first time and I had been traveling the same stretch of highway with my grandmother. After we had seen the object and it disappeared my grandmother told me that she had been seeing the lights since the early nineteen thirties in the same area and that most people just didn’t talk about them.

I can say that I am very concerned about these objects. I have tried to rationalize what I had seen before as military test aircraft. However the area where I’ve seen these objects is about a hundred miles from the Tonapah military test range and I would assume that the US military would want to keep top secret craft within secure airspace.

There have been reports of cattle mutilation in the area as well. I have to say that whatever these objects are they worry me. I cannot fathom what their intentions might be; frankly that’s what scares me.

Posted 2008-03-04