NUFORC Sighting 97103

Occurred: 1977-07-24 23:45 Local
Reported: 2013-04-12 11:14 Pacific
Duration: 25 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Cerrillos, NM, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted beams, Landed, Electrical or magnetic effects

We saw a craft flying making instantaeous 45 degree turns and landed less than 100 ft from us.

Two witnesses to this event.

On July 24th, 1977 I was with another witness at location 37 25.818' N & 122 05.36'W south of the town of Cerrillos, NM. In the clear night we saw a craft flying erraticly making instantaeous 45 degree turns caught our attention and landed approximately 75-100 ft on a small plateau infront of us. The craft was dark black in color with red & green lights along the edge.

The size of the craft was 45-60 feet in length. The craft was clearly visable to us and made no noise except for a slight humming mechanical sound. The craft landed and had three thin legs, centerwise to the orientation of the 3 triangular legs it had a light that came out from underneath with a mechanical articulated 3 joint arm. That seem to interested in the ground for some reason. On the side of the craft had red and green lights emminating with a slight color alternating.

After 15 min my other whitness decided to approache the craft despite my best efforts to! stop him he moved toward the craft. The commotion of our struggel seemed to be recognized by the craft and the craft immediately shown the light directly at myself and the other witness.

At that point we both froze in our shoes. Then the craft retracted the light and retrieved the landing legs folding inward and hovered rock solid in air with no support and completely stationary. At that point we began to hear a very low frequency sound beginning to emminate from the craft. This startled us so much and we ran to both of our cars. The frequency of the sound emmating from the craft continued to increase both in freqency and amplitude until after a few minutes it was shaking the hood of both cars. My car started immediately but my whitness truck would not turn over. Both of our chests were vibrating as well from the noise of the craft. The craft moved slightly forward (as though you had removed the parking brake on a car) then the craft slowly moved forward (east) then elevated in flight to a 45 degree angle and took off at a high rate of speed estimated to be 2-5K MPH continuing upward into the night sky and in less than a minute it was out of sight.

The remaining evidence of what we saw that night was the indentation of the ground of the legs of the craft and some burnt grass where the light had shined on the ground. My proximity to the craft and seeing it first hand in full operation has haunted me for all these years. I don't know what is that we saw but it had to be an advanced aircraft of some kind. Over the years I have researched various kind of aircraft flight systems and know the USAF was working on an advanced design similar to this in Albuquerque but what I saw was literly 50-100 years ahead of what we would be seeing today.

Posted 2013-04-12

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