NUFORC UFO Sighting 183339

Occurred: 1980-12-25 04:00 Local
Reported: 2024-10-06 07:49 Pacific
Duration: approx. 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Echo Bay, ON, Canada
Location details: At a house located next to Hwy. 17 and approx. 1 mile south of Echo Bay

Shape: Disk
Color: Silver/Grey
Estimated Size: Mid-size car length
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: N/E
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 30 feet
Estimated Speed: 5 MPH but increased to 20 MPH
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects

Ground-level saucer observed outside the bedroom window.

I will relate a sighting I had on Christmas day in 1980.

My first wife and I were visiting friends near Echo Bay, Ontario, south of Sault Ste Marie for a few days. We were planning on returning to Sudbury the following morning, a 2.5 hour drive. I was reading a book all night sitting on the living room lazy-boy chair in the mid-recline position. Everyone in the household was sound asleep, except me. The time was 4 AM. Suddenly, a powerful laser-beam type of light (approx. 1/2 foot diameter) shone from outdoors and inward through the bay window thick curtains located on my right side, the beam hitting the opposite living room wall, tracking from right to left as though searching for something.

Then, the chair I was sitting on began to levitate 3 or 4 inches and shake; the hair on my neck and arms stood erect, but not out of fear; the air smelled like burnt electricity; there was no sound heard; the Christmas tree at the opposite far left corner of the living room, whose branches began to slowly move up and down like the flapping wings of a bird, so to speak, seemed to react to some unknown force.

Being somewhat spooked by the experience which lasted approx. 15 seconds, I decided to jump off the chair while still in its reclined and levitated position and walked toward the entrance of the living room where the tree was also situated at the left side. Passing next to the tree, its trunk bent toward me with several branches extended like arms to grab me, so it seemed, as though alive…but I attribute that phenomenon to perhaps magnetism, because as I backed away a few feet, the tree reverted to its normal position, and the closer I returned, it again bent toward me.

Therefore, I quickly exited the living room and proceeded toward the back of the house into the only ground-floor bedroom where my wife and girlfriend were asleep in separate beds. Looking out the window, I observed a small silver/grey saucer-shaped craft with a glass-type dome on top with a vapour/plasma-type trail behind it, the craft floating approx. 3 feet above the snowy ground at a distance of 30 feet from the window, heading east toward a distant ravine 1/4 mile away where I lost sight as it dipped to a lower elevation. The craft was no larger than a Volkswagen vehicle and completely silent. It must have been traveling approx. 20 mph on its way to the ravine. My emotions were mixed at that point…feeling in danger and yet amazed.

I related my observation to our friends that same morning at breakfast, and they were not sure what to make of my story. I am not a drinker or drug user, and have a serious demeanor. My wife and I hopped into the car after breakfast, but it would not start, even though the battery was strong; after some distributor adjustments, the engine started roughly and then normalized somewhat. Halfway en route to Sudbury, the car engine seized, being red hot in color like a tomato, although all the fluids were at their normal levels, including 50/50 mix radiator fluid. We abandoned the vehicle at the nearest gas station and waited for the next Greyhound bus a few hours later. I ended up selling the vehicle (gold-colored Chevelle SS with swivel bucket seats, my 3rd vehicle after my 1st black GTO Judge; today, I drive a black Impala…good ol' American cars) as junk to that same gas station owner, even though the vehicle was in decent shape otherwise. I kind of attribute that mishap to the UFO passing so close to my vehicle the night before, not knowing what effects it may have had on it.

Another sighting I had in the mid-1970s north of Sudbury was of a large fiery yellow/orange globe the size of the sun traveling below the cloud ceiling from east to west at speeds in excess of 300 mph; it was tracked by NORAD in Falconbridge and at other stations further west until intercepted by Michigan Air Force jets near Manitoba, when its trajectory changed from horizontal to vertical flight in a 90-degree turn toward outer space as it evaded the fighter planes' approach, shooting straight out of radar sight at speeds in excess of 15,000 mph. Thousands of Sudburians had seen that same globe in broad daylight as reported by the Sudbury Star newspaper on its front headline page. Decades later here in Ottawa, I checked the National Archives' microfiche reel on that particular news story from Sudbury, but the article was no longer there, even though the Archive kept all copies of the Sudbury Star.

Back in my childhood years in Sudbury (mid-70s era), I would often observe star-like objects moving about amongst the stars, stopping in mid-flight, zig-zagging, reversing, and so on, without any sound, and almost occurring nightly as my friends and I would lay on the grass looking straight up during warm summer months, just enjoying the heavenly show. We definitely knew they were not satellites.

Posted 2024-10-07