NUFORC Reports for Month 199710

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media
Open	10/04/1997 01:57	Scottsdale	AZ	USA	Light	Location facing East at 01:57AM East being 12 like a clock face..look at 12:45-13:00 just above the horizon and just below a group of s	10/04/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/04/1997 13:00	Taylorsville	KY	USA	light	I observed approx. 5 small blinking lights clustered together, after about 5 min. they turned off or fazed out. These could not be see	10/04/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/04/1997 18:00	Warrenton	VA	USA	Light	Bright star like object going from south to north at extreme high rate of speed.	10/05/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/01/1997 01:10	Fort Jennings	OH	USA	Other	I saw an object moving from north to south which appeared to have red and orange revolving lights around it. The craft was absolutely	10/04/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/01/1997 23:15	Lakeland	FL	USA	light	3 oval shaped reddish-orange lights flew over my house, heading directly south. The lights formed a perfect triangle, but flying severe	10/07/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/07/1997 20:30	Twin Mountain	NH	USA	light	FLASHING BLUE AND GREEN LIGHTS ACROSS THE SKY AND THEN IT DISAPPEARED IN A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT.	10/08/1997	08/16/2002
Open	10/10/1997 21:00	Austin	MN	USA	Other	i was traveling northbound on state highway 105 approximately 8 miles south of Austin MN when an object came down directly above my car	10/10/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/10/1997 16:00	Connersville	IN	USA	Chevron	3 differants types , cluster ,delta , and one in a 3 pointed star design . followed it for six miles .	10/11/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/09/1997 11:40	Camarillo	CA	USA	Circle	all three of us were friends. My friend,(deleted), saw it first. He said "What's that shiny thing in the sky?" I said, "Where? I d	10/12/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/09/1997 19:00	Detroit	MI	USA	triangle	A wedge shaped object flew over head of us as we stood on our deck in our backyard. Ther was a bright light in the middle of the ship a	10/13/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/01/1997 21:55	Martinsville	VA	USA	Other	Yellow/Orange lighted object moving from NE to SW. Very bright toy top shape with no sound. About the size of a penny held at arm reach	10/14/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/11/1997 23:30	Eslö, Scania (Sweden)		Sweden		During an IYCW (International Youth Camp Weekend), when we were sitting in groups of different campfires in an area of a quarter of one	10/14/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/13/1997 22:15	Hollister	CA	USA	Light	I was walking on a county road looking at the stars as I often do When I noticed a star becoming brighter, Then to my amazement it move	10/14/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/14/1997 23:55	San Diego	CA	USA	Light	I walked outside and there were a few stars that were twinkling. Which were in the configuration of ORION. I called my boyfriend outsid	10/15/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/15/1997 19:35	Austin/Eureka (between, Hwy. 50)	NV	USA	light	I was driving west on hyw 50 and saw 6 bright lights 3 on a ship, and then they were gone!	10/16/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/16/1997 19:05	Hollister	CA	USA	Light	Very dim light, extreme altatude, traveling from Pacific easterly aprox. over San Jose or S.F., dramatic turn to south/east toward Araz	10/16/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/20/1997 00:00	Rome/Armuchee (between)	GA	USA	light	ON THE 20 OF SEPT WE SAW BIG BRIGTH LIGHT IT CAME DOWN	10/17/1997	09/28/2002
Open	10/16/1997 08:00	Rooseville	MI	USA	light	I was coming down the I94West ramp onto the freeway, when I was eye level with the sky, I looked at the clouds and there was a light as	10/17/1997	01/11/2002
Open	10/12/1997 19:00	White Tank Mountains	AZ	USA	light	Saw bright light past mountains. Looked at it through binoculars. It was very large. Must have been 18 or 19 miles away. Due to it's si	10/19/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/19/1997 02:00	Crofton	MD	USA	other	I heard a strange noise in kitchen.I thought that my cat knocked over the trash bin again.So I whipped my silk rob on, and walked down	10/23/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/24/1997 00:00	Norfolk	VA	USA	circle	Green, luminous round object that had a dark vertical line (or absense of light)appeared suddenly descended and disappeared.	10/23/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/23/1997 16:30	Billings	MT	USA	cylinder	Dark gray, cylindrical, object about 100m wide and 40m tall. Hovered in circle, about 20 miles away.	10/24/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/24/1997 22:05	Santa Rosa	CA	USA	circle	Circular object; leading edge visable and dull white;shape of crecent moon; heading nw to se; twice size of moon; no details other than	10/25/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/18/1997 15:00	Evansville	IN	USA	unknown	Daughter & I were fishing and when we heard & saw a plane I said "look honey, see the plane!" At that time somethuing appeared just beh	10/25/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/23/1997 22:30	Weehawken	NJ	USA	other	Green orb without streaking, incoming over Hudson River between NYC & NJ. A high-speed descent that looked like it was destined to cras	10/25/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/25/1997 21:45	Minneapolis	MN	USA	triangle	A small V of lights moving very quickly from west to east	10/25/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/24/1997 06:30	Blountville	TN	USA	circle	Brightly lit circular object (circular light pattern) hovering 1 1/2 minutes and suddenly darting away faster than conventional aircraf	10/25/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/24/1997 18:00	Houston	TX	USA	triangle	Witnessed black, metallic UFO pass by airplane window at 28,000 feet. Witnessed by several people in daylight.	10/27/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/28/1997 18:05	Sacramento	CA	USA	light	I was driving when i saw lights flashing on and off. The lights were very fast, faster than a plain. When the object flew over my head	10/28/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/29/1997 16:30	Glen Alpine	NC	USA	Light	I herd a humming sound and a bright lite. From - Thu Oct 30 14:34:07 1997 Return-Path: nobody@colorado.nwlink.com Received: from colora	10/30/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/29/1997 19:00	Childress (approx 20 miles north of	TX	USA	Light	A bright light, which I thought was a "falling star", suddenly leveled off at my altitude, veered to the north, then came directly at m	10/31/1997	08/05/2001
Open	10/31/1997 22:18	Santa Ana	CA	USA	Light	Saw an orange, round object in the northern sky under clear conditions. Object was flickering in brightness and was moving very slowly	11/01/1997	06/02/1998
Open	10/13/1997 03:00	Buffalo	NY	USA	other	Please Not Post	11/01/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/28/1997 20:15	Jackson Center	OH	USA	light	three orange lights appear in back of our factory while on a smoke break all moving back and forth!!!	11/01/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/31/1997 00:00	Nocona	TX	USA	Sphere	A very dim, round ball of light that moved at a very high speed across the sky--much faster than a jet, but slower than a meteorite.	11/05/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/15/1997 10:00	Dallas	TX	USA	Light	My friend and I were driving home from a date, I opened the sunroof to view the moon lite sky. As I was starring at the stars somethi	11/06/1997	06/02/1998
Open	10/31/1997 10:00	El Paso	TX	USA	Other	I saw what appeared papers swirling high in the atmosphere. They changed into two huge white kite like objects which then turned into	11/06/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/13/1997 20:15	Reno	NV	USA	Other	We saw several objects performing naneuvers that not possible for present day aircraft to accomplish. This sighting is indescribable th	11/06/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/29/1997 19:00	Childress (North of)	TX	USA	Sphere	I submitted this report last week, but haven't seen it posted, so I thought it may have been lost in the shuffle. Incidentally, as a c	11/09/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/24/1997 20:42	Fairfield	CA	USA	Sphere	Round blue-green object seen hurling to earth. It disappeared before reaching the ground. It was only visible in the night sky for ap	11/20/1997	01/28/1999
Open	10/15/1997 18:40	Abingdon	VA	USA	Light	Bristol Herald Courier run on Thursday (10-16-97) the following day "Unusual lights in sky over Mountain Empire generate speculation".	12/02/1997	08/05/2001
Open	10/12/1997 21:51	Kenner (34th St.)	LA	USA	Disk	two disk like objects passed over me and my mother objevts seemed to be a couple of thousand feet overhead	12/03/1997	06/02/1998
Open	10/07/1997 03:26	MM82/MM83 (between, on I-80)	PA	USA	Circle	Driving west on i-80 ufo was hovering about 100 ft off ground less than 50 ft from interstate.It was about 200yds in diameter and the u	12/15/1997	03/07/1998
Open	10/05/1997 19:00	Cheyenne	WY	USA	Other	Seen a object in clear sky.looked like commet coming from south to north.lost tail half way across sky	12/28/1997	01/11/2002
Open	10/15/1997 03:00	Atlanta (north of)	GA	USA	Light	A blue grayish kind of light.	01/13/1998	03/07/1998
Open	10/25/1997 22:00	St. Thomas, (U. S. Virgin Islands)	VI	USA	Orb	Was staring at a very clear night sky over the Caribbean when overhead I saw what appeared to be a satellite (I see them very often).	02/01/1998	03/07/1998
Open	10/15/1997 02:15	Duncan	OK	USA	Unknown	This is what I can remember about my abduction.	03/15/1998	01/28/1999
Open	10/01/1997 09:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Cigar	Cigar shaped, silvery-white object @ 500-1,00' up, in a clear blue, cloudless sky. Object was silent, immobile, and when I glanced dow	04/27/1998	01/28/1999
Open	10/12/1997 22:30	Chicago	IL	USA	Light	Me and my friend were driving back from a Cubs game and we saw a red light in the sky it was moving very fast, then stopped, went back	07/03/1998	09/19/2002
Open	10/01/1997 21:30	Oakland	OR	USA	Light	High altitude light turned, dropped several Thousand feet, turned and disappeared!	11/02/1998	11/19/1998
Open	10/15/1997 20:00	Westfeild	WI	USA	Light	We were driving down the road. We saw it out of the window. we lost track of it and then saw it again whan we reached our destination.	12/27/1998	02/16/1999
Open	10/20/1997 19:30	South of Kalamath Falls,	OR	USA	Formation	Five lights appeared in the sky all the same distance apart, in a straight line.	02/18/1999	04/02/1999
Open	10/15/1997 03:00	Brigham City (west of)	UT	USA	Other	VERY LARGE GLOWING OBJECT HOVERED TO THE WEST OF THE SALT LAKE DISAPERING AFTER ABOUT 3 MIN	02/24/1999	09/06/2002
Open	10/03/1997 02:00	Pleasanton	TX	USA	Unknown	Object moved with uncertainty and vanished.	01/04/1999	05/24/1999
Open	10/01/1997 21:00	Hyannis	MA	USA	Triangle	WIFE AND I DROVE ONTO START OF OUR STREET, NOTICED TWO LIGHTS NOT USUALLY THERE. STOPPED CAR, GOT OUT, SAW TWO CRAFTS. NO NOISE AND H	05/27/1999	06/23/1999
Open	10/16/1997 05:34	Hickory	NC	USA	Fireball	I was outside when I saw a red "fireball" moving in an oval pattern.	06/03/1999	06/23/1999
Open	10/15/1997 23:30	Deer Grove	IL	USA	Triangle	2 friends and I were going for a late-night walk on my farm. We were standing on a hill and I looked up towards the trees, and saw a ve	08/21/1999	08/30/1999
Open	10/26/1997 22:00	Charlotte	NC	USA	Triangle	I spotted two triangular craft over the treetops........	08/22/1999	08/30/1999
Open	10/01/1997 03:00	Jefferson	NY	USA	Other	Rural mountain area. Tree covered hill. 1860' MSL. I awoke to see a bright white light approx 1,500' so east of my camper. The circular	09/23/1999	10/02/1999
Open	10/15/1997 19:00	Boulder	CO	USA	Triangle	Saw 3 lights moving slowly over the foothills	11/10/1999	11/17/1999
Open	10/30/1997 07:30	Pittsburgh	PA	USA	Disk	observed stationary disk object hovering in clear daylight about 100 feet driving nearly beneath it.	12/23/1999	01/07/2000
Open	10/15/1997 22:00	St. Louis	MO	USA	Unknown	inside the house, but could tell it was above us	04/23/2000	04/26/2000
Open	10/15/1997 00:00	Naalehu	HI	USA	Sphere	It looked like a natural object (for a meteor) but it didn't follow the laws of gravity	08/22/2000	08/25/2000
Open	10/15/1997 22:00	Freeport	IL	USA	Flash	Two different reports of blinking light seen by same witness within a years time.	12/04/2000	12/09/2000
Open	10/15/1997 20:45	Stephenville	TX	USA	Circle	Central Texas Sighting in Fall of 1997. Pulsing, single craft at EXTREME SPEEDS.	12/21/2000	01/03/2001
Open	10/15/1997 23:30	Fort William (UK/Scotland)		United Kingdom	Unknown	UFO exploded in the West Highlands of Scotland..	01/16/2001	02/18/2001
Open	10/21/1997 22:00	Bluff	UT	USA	Light	following a green fireball, a red light appeared on Comb Ridge.	02/03/2001	02/18/2001
Open	10/15/1997 07:00	Pasadena	CA	USA	Oval	it was a plasma craft . It looked just like the pics taken in mex of a plasma craft.	02/13/2001	02/18/2001
Open	10/15/1997 20:00	Bladen	NE	USA	Sphere	ufos on the moon????	02/18/2001	02/24/2001
Open	10/13/1997 00:00	Sandy	UT	USA	Light	A bright light spotted over the Great Salt Lake.	03/20/2001	04/01/2001
Open	10/05/1997 20:30	Utica	NY	USA	Light	I looked up at the sky, and two or three bright red dots were in the sky, and moving at right angles very fast.	03/27/2001	04/01/2001
Open	10/14/1997 16:00	Syracuse (North)	NY	USA	Unknown	4 Military planes fly past flying rod, and information blackout still ocurring.	07/03/2001	08/05/2001
Open	10/16/1997 01:30	Jacksonville	FL	USA	Sphere	Metallic Sphere Scans My Entire Body	07/05/2001	08/05/2001
Open	10/13/1997 05:00	Ogden/Clinton	UT	USA	Circle	My husband woke me up to see this. It is hard to describe because it was inside a cloud. It had an outer ring of triangular lights that	07/25/2001	08/05/2001
Open	10/15/1997 03:00	Lagrange	NC	USA	Fireball	I saw two glowing, softball sized objects fly across the road directly in front of my truck.	08/08/2001	08/12/2001
Open	10/01/1997 01:20	Garland	TX	USA	Rectangle	I had just got off of work at 1:15 a.m. I was driving down to the Hypermart USA because it was the only store open 24 hrs. I notice thi	10/30/2001	11/20/2001
Open	10/23/1997 21:00	Orlando	FL	USA	Other	Rounded rectangle of a cluster of frosted raspberry lights slowly moving north, then, swiftly gone...	03/26/2002	04/08/2002
Open	10/27/1997 21:42	Funafuti (Tuvalu)		Tuvalu	Unknown	Dawn arrives ahead of schedule [from the West] over a remote Pacific Island.	04/20/2002	05/14/2002
Open	10/12/1997 23:00	Franklin	NH	USA	Other	Round green ball-shaped object	08/06/2002	08/16/2002
Open	10/20/1997 22:00	Grimsby (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Egg	Bright green egg shaped object hovering for some time then shot off in a nothern direction very fast	08/11/2002	08/16/2002
Open	10/02/1997 14:00	Los Angeles (Malibu Beach)	CA	USA	Sphere	oval, spheric object moving fast and straight	10/24/2002	10/28/2002
Open	10/15/1997 22:00	Alvarado	TX	USA	Chevron	"V" Shaped craft over Night Sky in Alvarado TX. Oct. 1997	10/20/2003	10/31/2003
Open	10/03/1997 21:00	Jim Thorpe	PA	USA	Oval	The turn was that of a very sharp L	11/28/2003	12/09/2003
Open	10/21/1997 18:45	Norristown	PA	USA	Circle	I viewed three UFO's in the sky, moving at high speeds and amazing shapes in the sky not possible by human planes.	12/17/2003	12/19/2003
Open	10/15/1997 21:30	Waldorf	MD	USA	Light	Three circular lights fuse into one and become an intensly bright beacon	04/10/2004	04/27/2004
Open	10/20/1997 20:00	Round Rock	TX	USA	Diamond	Major UFO event, Round Rock Texas	05/13/2004	06/04/2004
Open	10/28/1997 18:45	Willow Springs	MO	USA	Triangle	triangle shaped with 5 red lights along the edge and 1 white light in the middle traveling east and low to the ground.	09/06/2004	09/09/2004
Open	10/01/1997 00:00	Bemidji	MN	USA	Triangle	In october 1997 my dad and I seen 3 lights in the shape of a triangle tumbling over each other in Bemidji Minnesota.	11/25/2004	12/03/2004
Open	10/01/1997 21:30	Bourbonnais	IL	USA	Triangle	I was traveling home from visiting my dad in Carle Hospital on 113 heading towards Custer Park, IL. It was dark out I was in farm count	12/28/2004	01/19/2005
Open	10/27/1997 19:30	Stoke-on-Trent (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Cylinder	TRANSLUCENT (V) FORMATION OBJECTS AT CLOSE QUARTERS 1997	01/26/2005	01/27/2005
Open	10/15/1997 01:00	Paris	TN	USA	Light	blue ball of light subdues me and my girlfriend.	03/22/2005	05/24/2005
Open	10/19/1997 20:45	Abilene	TX	USA	Unknown	Saw a bright light before grocery shopping and disappeared and took off.	07/16/2005	09/02/2005
Open	10/12/1997 18:30	Huntington Beach	CA	USA	Sphere	Sphere chased by Huntington Beach Helocopter	10/18/2005	10/20/2005
Open	10/15/1997 20:15	Harrodsburg	KY	USA	Unknown	Iron-gridwork, lightless, silent UFO seen over central Kentucky.	11/29/2005	12/16/2005
Open	10/24/1997 15:00	Musquodoboit Harbour (Canada)	NS	Canada	Other	H shaped craft seen in daylilght hours 9 years ago in Musquodobit Harbour area of Nova Scotia.	01/05/2006	02/14/2006
Open	10/01/1997 08:00	Oregon (rural)	OR	USA	Rectangle	noisy rectangular object falling from the sky and crash landed	04/05/2006	05/15/2006
Open	10/01/1997 22:00	Summerville	SC	USA	Triangle	Triangular shape with lights in a V, no sound, very slow moving.	08/04/2006	10/30/2006
Open	10/10/1997 20:00	Bonaire	GA	USA	Triangle	Triangular Object Sighted at Very Close Range	01/22/2007	02/01/2007
Open	10/15/1997 19:00	Shark River Hills	NJ	USA	Triangle	I was walking my dog on a dark, clear evening. I sensed a weird feeling and looked up to the sky. Above the tree tops, I couldn't mak	01/25/2007	02/01/2007
Open	10/15/1997 17:30	Daggett	CA	USA	Rectangle	One very fast, very low flying rectangular object changes direction, stops, then seperates into three equally fast smaller objects.	09/29/2007	10/08/2007
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media