NUFORC Sighting 179830

Occurred: 1984-07-04 15:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-01-01 18:59 Pacific
Duration: Approximately 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Tonawanda, NY, USA
Location details: 142 wheeler st *back yard

Shape: Disk
Color: Gun metal, dark Grey
Estimated Size: 20ft across minimum
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 90
Closest Distance: 1000 ft or less
Estimated Speed: So fast that u couldn't tell
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Missing Time, Marks found on body afterwards

Sighting lasted long enough to take 3 Polaroid pics

We were having an annual 4th of July gathering at my childhood home, it was very early in event and only a couple people had arrived (approximately 3pm), while I was outside helping with last minute stuff, everyone else( my mother, father, aunt and siblings)had gone in to start preparing food.thays when a dark Grey/blk/metallic disc shaped object appeared over the niagara River(approximately 4 blocks away) before I could wrap my head around what I was seeing,I blinked, next it was directly over me and my uncle (1000ft or less, high) my uncle ran into house and grabbed Polaroid camera,I was able to take to pics of craft directly above us, then we couldn't move briefly and next thing we knew it had disappeared and reappeared almost to same spot as 1st sighting but a couple miles further n/w! All this lasted or at least seemed to last 5 minutes or a little less.when myself and my uncle showed and told my father, he took 1 of pics and said he was reporting it, my uncle took 2nd pic and I kept 3rd...next thing I remember is a letter coming from niagara falls airforce base explaining that what we saw was a "weather balloon" IT WAS NOT A BALLOON OF ANY KIND! Back then there was a stigma involved with admitting to a "ufo sighting" and because my father worked for city and in fear of embarrassment, I was told forget it and not tell anyone. I had my Polaroid pic all these years, I moved in 2016 and pic was left behind, but I know where it is

Posted 2024-02-15