NUFORC Sighting 42583

Occurred: 1988-10-31 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-02-28 16:04 Pacific
Duration: 5-7 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Tryon (north of), OK, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Large, silent, triangular object with huge beam of orange light coming from the underside of the craft viewed by several witnesses.

Not a day in my life hasn't gone by that I haven't thought of this UFO sighting because it was so frightening at the time. I remember for sure that it was Halloween Night and I am almost positive it happened on Oct. 31, 1988. It might have been a year earlier or a year later, but I really don't think so.

Me and about 10 of my friends were really bored one Halloween night because we had nothing to do. One of my friends remembered an old house North of Tryon, Oklahoma, where he had grown up, that was supposed to be haunted. Just for fun we decided to drive out there, and it was in the middle of nowhere.

It was a clear starry night and we were standing in the road when we noticed an old satellite tumbling across the sky, and we hadn't seen one of those in years. Looking at the satellite, something far off in the distance caught our eye, and it was about as far away as our eyes could see at the moment.

It flew closer and closer, and then it flew almost directly over us. It was flying slowly so we were able to watch it for what seemed like at least 5 minutes or more. We had enough time to observe it with a little scrutiny.

It was a giant, heavy looking, dark colored object that was triangular in shape with a huge orange ball of light eminating from the underside of the craft. It made no sound whatsoever so it was hard for us to determine how large it was or what altitude it was flying at, but it seemed to be pretty massive in size. The orange, circular shaped ball of light coming from the underside of the craft reminded me of a setting sun. The object had no other lights on it.

When it flew almost directly over us I was terrified to death. I had been watching too many movies, I guess, and I was afraid it was going to harm us. But it just kept going, looking as if it was flying kind of in a Northwesterly direction. We watched it go until we couldn't see it anymore. It never did change speed, and it appeared to be floating or sailing through the air with no visible means of propulsion. My friends and I were just in shock. We couldn't even speak.

About 5 minutes later, a group of 5 helicopters flying in a "W" formation came out of the east. I could not tell if they were trying to follow the craft. The next day, we scoured all of the newspapers to see if anyone else had reported seeing the craft, but we saw nothing. We did not report it at the time, because we were afraid that people would say we had been drinking but we had not been drinking.

I often wondered if this craft had been sighted by anyone else in the U.S. that night, or if anyone else has ever seen a craft matching this description. Just for the record, it was not triangular like a stealth plane, it had more of a short back and two very long sides.

It seemed like the orange circle of light beaming from the bottom of the craft took up a whole lot of space on the underside of the craft.

Thanks for giving me an outlet to speak out after all of these years. I am currently trying to get back in touch with some of the people that also witnessed this craft in order to see if they remember any other details that I might have forgotten.

Some personal information about myself---I am a female, 46 years old, with aprox. 2 years of college education, currently employed by a university, and at the time of the sighting I was working for ((telephone company)).

This is the only time I have ever witnessed a UFO.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD

Posted 2005-05-24