NUFORC Sighting 49050

Occurred: 1973-09-01 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-02-08 06:09 Pacific
Duration: 10-20 min
No of observers: 5

Location: Robbins AFB, GA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

old UFO report circa 1973: large blue stationary object

Hi Peter, I contacted Tom Sheets with the GUFUG concerning an old sighting that I was trying to research for curiosity's sake. He recommended that I forward this to you and spoke highly of your efforts.

Here, then, is my e-mail to him in part. I removed an introductory paragraph as well as my name from the body of the text.

Best regards and good luck "The year was either 1972 or '73 to the best of my recollection.

I was in the back yard of our house on Robbins AFB one evening with my Father, an active duty major at the time, and would have been around 9 years old. I saw some strangely colored stray clouds (which in hindsight were probably very slightly colored by the sun that was no longer above the horizon) and had asked Dad to explain what I was seeing when a bright blue circular image suddenly formed in the sky as if someone had removed the cover from a spotlight and had projected an image onto a screen in the sky. The disk was slightly larger in appearance than the actual moon, which was on the opposite horizon. I called for my younger brother, sister and mom and we watched this disk as it remained stationary for several minutes then slowly dissipated over a period of time as if air movement was breaking up the "screen." We were all very familiar with the local aircraft, beacon lights, etc. as Dad was a pilot and he couldn’t explain the phenomenon.

The object was stationary while it held together and did not appear to have an active source such as beam of light. There was no sound coming from the object. Its relative brightness was somewhat more intense that a full moon on a clear night. It was a balmy night with widely scattered clouds. To the best of my memory it was halfway up in the south western sky from my vantage point. My impression was that someone projected an image in the sky that left a glowing blue stain on fog or cloud particles.

Our next door neighbor, another USAF officer, saw us looking skyward and came out. He was also fascinated and at a loss to explain the phenomenon."

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. We express our gratitude to the witness, and to Tom Sheets, Founder of GUFOG, for sharing the report. PD

Posted 2006-02-14