NUFORC Report Index for Month 199705

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Image
Open	05/10/1997 05:30	Lawton (vicinity)	MI	USA		Two turkey hunters are illuminated by a bright "beacon" from above. Illuminated woods around them. See bright blue light above them.	05/10/1997	02/08/2005
Open !	05/27/1997 11:33			Australia	Rectangle	a black metallic mass that looked similar to an aircraft carrier on its side (approx length 1500ft long-200-400ft across)	03/03/1997	03/07/1998
Open	05/27/1997 23:00	Huntington	UT	USA	Light	I'm 15 years old and this happened about a year ago but I just foundthis place to submit it. Me and my friend were sleeping in my backy	03/17/1997	03/07/1998
Open	05/02/1997 22:00	Oceanside	CA	USA	Other	What appeared to be a slow-burning, orange-colored object was slowly "floating" in a northernly direction directly over the beach just	05/03/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/02/1997 22:45	Lincoln City (North of)	OR	USA	light	Obj. travelling n/nw at satelite altitude. intermittent (irregular) brilliant white bursts, faded to pale yellow. 2nd obj w/same m/o	05/05/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/05/1997 12:15	West Chester (outside, on Rte. 202)	PA	USA	egg	Driving north alogn Rt 202 I noticed egg shaped metallic objectmoving through the sky. It was highly reflective and shone brightly.It	05/05/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/03/1997 21:03	Stafford	TX	USA	Other	Through telescope,observed amoeba or translucent object containing lights of blue red and white.Seemed distorted though could not see t	05/06/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/05/1997 19:45	Turlock	CA	USA	light	I saw a line of bright lights like star, it lasted about 3 seconds and disappeared.	05/06/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/08/1997 05:15	Citrus Heights (a suburb of Sacramento)	CA	USA	Other	Object of an unknown type cruising at a low rate of speed over the area of Citrus Heights	05/08/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/08/1997 22:00	Auburn	WA	USA	triangle	we saw a "V" shaped object from beneath. It had at least 15 lights . no sound, it was traveling north bound right in the air traffic	05/08/1997	10/12/2001
Open	05/08/1997 01:30	Sylmar	CA	USA	Other	Object looking like a shooting star but going upward. Going higher, a beam of light shone from the object until it disappeared.	05/10/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/02/1997 22:05	Oceanside	CA	USA	Other	AN ILLUMINATED OBJECT WAS FIRST SIGHTED IN THE SOUTHEAST,ILUMINATED WITH AN ORANGE LIGHT OF MEDIUM INTENCITY.THE OBJECT WAS FLYING AT A	05/10/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/10/1997 04:10	Neoga (6 mi. west)	IL	USA	triangle	A 300 TRIANGULAR SHAPED CRAFT, WITH HUNDREDSOF RED DOT LIGHTS, FLEW DIRECTLY OVER HEAD,MAKING NO NOISE, 200 HUNDRED FEET OVER TREE LINE	05/11/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/11/1997 12:00	Porter	TX	USA	Other	We saw "rocks" floating in the air, they drifted over the trees. They appeared to be floating. Atleast 10 cars were pulled over on th	05/11/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/10/1997 00:25	Provo/Orem/Salt Lake City	UT	USA	light	Saw a white yellowish light performing vertical and horizontial maneouvers in the northern sky. At one point it elongated itself and m	05/12/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/11/1997 23:43	Wright City	MO	USA	Fireball	Was blinking on and off.Very hard to look at,was VERY bright.	05/12/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/09/1997 21:50	Phoenix	AZ	USA	light	6-8 lights were seen flying in formation s.of phoenix. They would cluster, form V shapes, inverted Vs, cluster in a stationary loation.	05/13/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/10/1997 22:45	Los Padres National Forest (Ventura Co.)	CA	USA	Other	Observed two objects. One with flashing multi-colored lights, the second, somewhat bell-shaped with two white-yellow lights. They hover	05/13/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/11/1997 04:27	Ottawa (Canada)	ON	Canada	Circle	Got up to go to washroom at 4:27am looked out my window and saw a shining objet hovering outside for about 2 minutes then speed off.	05/13/1997	12/02/2000
Open	05/13/1997 22:30	Cottonwood	AZ	USA	light	My wife alerted me to a strange light in the sky. "A ufo" I was indoors - I replied " Oh yea...hmm"She insisted I com and take a look.L	05/14/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/14/1997 11:40	San Jose (on the West side)	CA	USA	circle	I saw a round object in the sky slowingmoving to the SE. It was below the cloudsand left no vapor tail.	05/15/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/16/1997 23:00	Oklahoma City	OK	USA	Triangle	3 TRIANULAR OBJECTS HOVERING APPROX. ONE MINUTE, OBJECTS QUICKLY DARTED UP THEN MOVED FROM EAST TO SOUTHWEST, AT MODERATE PACE.	05/16/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/10/1997 21:50	Sedona	AZ	USA	light	A very bright palsing light with smaller bright object flying around larger object.	05/17/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/17/1997 14:00	Portland	OR	USA	Oval	I sighted a rather large silver object,Oblong but not rounded it was visible for 5 sec.then gone in a blink.	05/18/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/20/1997 21:15	Caldwell (far west of, towards Oregon)	ID	USA	other	My neigbor viewed what looked like a verticalcontrail,orange, for 10mins. at his work,then drovehome,viewed it for 10mins., I then ca	05/20/1997	11/20/2002
Open	05/18/1997 19:00	Grantville (Rte. 443 and Appleby Road)	PA	USA	triangle	in church parking lot, my son and aunt, see triangle fly over head.at the intersection of RT 443 AND APPLEBY RD. very fast	05/20/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/21/1997 06:00	Phoenix	AZ	USA	Other	Bright object in SSE over Phoenix, May 21, 1997 in the morning sky.	05/21/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/07/1997 01:00	Santa Monica	CA	USA	Disk	On May 7, 1997 I was looking north to the Santa Monica mountains and saw what I believed to be a helicopter shining its lights down on	05/22/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/22/1997 21:25	Simi Valley	CA	USA	Formation	"Delta" shaped group of motionless bright red lights sighted over Simi Valley, Calif.	05/23/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/22/1997 22:21	Chatham	NJ	USA	Disk	5/22/97 22:21 large object over morris/union county new jersey. ten degrees above horizon.	05/24/1997	01/11/2002
Open	05/27/1997 00:00	Winnsboro	LA	USA	Other	well the object sort of came out from the north as i was riding my bike home.	05/27/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/27/1997 00:35	Laguna Park	TX	USA	cigar	At about 24:35 my friends and I were traveling to Laguna Park on Highway 56, when we saw an odd looking aircraft hovering above at abou	05/29/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/30/1997 20:00	Pooler	GA	USA	Fireball	I was in the car at the gas station when a huge green fireball or light fly across the sky. It must have been going VERY fast. It flew	05/30/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/29/1997 19:00	Hinckley	NY	USA	light	A light of great magnitude was hovering overa barn.It did not make fast moves.IT lastedfor about five or six minutes.The disk wasorange	05/31/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/28/1997 23:12	Canastota	NY	USA	light	MULTIPLE LIGHTS SIGHTING AND VIDEO MAY 28, 19973 to 12 IN DIFFERENT FORMATIONS- 4 HOURS/2 NIGHTS10 WITNESSED- ONEIDA LAKE, NY.- WITH FU	06/01/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/31/1997 11:28	Glendale	AZ	USA		White, long object travelling east to west, high altitude, extremely fast, no trail, no sound	06/05/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/06/1997 17:25	Seattle	WA	USA	Disk	Disc shaped object 8000' in SW Quadranttravelling N-S observed in Seattle from cornerof Aurora and Thomas.Object shimmered insunlight a	06/11/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/10/1997 21:00	Southside (Gadsden)	AL	USA	Other	Two bright objects hovering one moment then taking off at high speeds, beyond aircraft speeds. These two objects seemed to stop and go	06/18/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/15/1997 16:53	Palm Beach Gardens	FL	USA	Formation	Red flare like lights in formation. Tv footage was very good. Airline piolt reported alt as 10,000 This story did not make it out of Pa	06/19/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/15/1997 21:00	Asheville	NC	USA	Other	an object was sited around the asheville area that was travelling westward. it was brilliantly lit and appeared to be moving very fast.	06/20/1997	01/29/2002
Open	05/05/1997 19:00	Austin	TX	USA	light	Several lights appeared in the Northwestern sky.	06/21/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/24/1997 20:00	Lake Tahoe (near)	CA	USA	Formation	A "formation" of very bright lights passing very slowly and silently overhead. Must have been enormous. Biggest and most unusual thin	06/27/1997	01/28/1999
Open	05/28/1997 21:00	Urubamba (outside Cusco, Peruvian Andes) (Peru)		Peru	Light	A fast moving "body of Light" sweeps over us as we star watch in the Sacred Valley of the Incas outside Cusco Peru at an elevation of l	07/20/1997	09/26/1998
Open	05/01/1997 21:00	Marion	OH	USA	Light	My 13 year old & I were out looking at Hale-Bopp one night & saw 3 or 4 fast-moving lights flying erratically & very close together, &	07/20/1997	09/26/1998
Open	05/23/1997 04:00	Arcadia (outskirts of)	FL	USA	Light	Me and my friend were traveling down I-75 towards Arcadia, Fl. when we saw a very bright pulsating white light hovering in a clearing,	07/30/1997	09/26/1998
Open	05/03/1997 02:45	Montreal (Canada)	QC	Canada		I was in my bed smoking a cigarette, and just when I finished it,I close my light.15 second after, I hurd a voice saing " come with me	10/29/1997	12/02/2000
Open	05/11/1997 13:56	College	UT	USA	Cigar	FLASHING LIGHTS AND STRANGE CIGAR SHAPED OBJECTS FALLING FROM SKY	11/05/1997	09/19/2002
Open	05/25/1997 19:30	Austin	TX	USA	Disk	Saw a fast movin UFO on the way back from getting a pizza.	02/04/1998	01/28/1999
Open	05/13/1997 03:00	Edinboro	PA	USA	Oval	A friend and I had just dropped off another friend in a suburban neighborhood. My friend was driving, and I was in the passenger seat.	02/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	05/15/1997 21:00	Great River	NY	USA	Oval	As I was leaving in my car from a building I happened to look up into the sky and noticed 6 hovering things. I stopped my car and got	04/05/1998	01/28/1999
Open	05/26/1997 16:50	Pompton Lakes	NJ	USA	Disk	I was driving in a car. I saw a saucer metal shaped object, a metal I've never seen before, hovering in the sky, above the falls. It se	05/26/1998	01/28/1999
Open	05/28/1997 22:00	Central New York	NY	USA	Light	Saw 3 to 12 lights appear and then disappear one by one, this went on for about 2 days.	07/06/1998	01/28/1999
Open	05/27/1997 15:30	Arlington	VA	USA	Disk	As I was on my way home, I glanced to the right and saw 2 disk-shaped objects high in the sky. They seemed to be moving VERY fast. Afte	12/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	05/07/1997 19:30	Adelaide (South Australia)		Australia	Triangle	first a dimond shape full of lights then travel right a v type object	02/23/1999	04/02/1999
Open	05/04/1997 22:20	Newport Beach	CA	USA	Triangle	It was a clear night on Sunday,May 4 '97 at 10.20pm. The craft approached from the sea, the west, and made a slight change on course to	02/24/1999	04/02/1999
Open	05/01/1997 14:00	Maysville	KY	USA	Disk	Golf tournament. "Scramble" Ball hit off tee. Looked up observed object.Other wittnesses said,do you see that.YES!Object disapeared.	04/11/1999	04/26/1999
Open	05/27/1997 23:05	Welland (Canada)	ON	Canada	Diamond	I have had an interest in the skies since childhood. Over the years I have observed northern lights, meteors, satellites and all kinds	05/16/1999	12/02/2000
Open	05/15/1997 22:45	Bouse	AZ	USA	Triangle	5/15/97 at 22:45pm, son and I saw a 150ft pie wedged shaped craft fly down our valley East to West at 30-40mph at 30ft altitude. At eac	07/05/1999	07/14/1999
Open	05/13/1997 21:00	Petaluma	CA	USA	Triangle	A triangular formation of about 10 glowing,reddish lights suddenly appear and fly silently overhead.	09/17/1999	10/02/1999
Open	05/30/1997 11:45	Dallas	GA	USA	Sphere	yellow 'perfect' sphere crossed entire viewable sky in about 4 sec., flashing off/on intermittently	09/20/1999	10/02/1999
Open	05/10/1997 23:00	Azle	TX	USA	Circle	Saw circle of flames that then reduced size to single light,travelled quickly across the sky and was followed by military fighter plane	10/16/1999	10/19/1999
Open	05/24/1997 22:15	North Tonawanda	NY	USA	Triangle	Low slow silent over houses,hand glider shaped, 1.5 x as big, 5' thick, round edges,dirty yellow,lit from inside like candle thru wax p	10/25/1999	11/02/1999
Open	05/17/1997 03:30	Las Vegas (about 60 miles outside of)	NV	USA	Triangle	I seen something at night outside of Las Vegas. In short, this whatever it was, was silent, in what seemed to be in the shape of a tria	11/27/1999	11/30/1999
Open	05/15/1997 10:00	Mesquite	TX	USA	Circle	hoverd overhead about 30 seconds then took of north at very high speed	01/17/2000	01/22/2000
Open	05/09/1997 20:00	Hull (UK/England)		United Kingdom		Triangle shape, grey, flashed blue, glowing yellow circle	06/07/2000	06/21/2000
Open	05/25/1997 22:00	Saxton	PA	USA	Formation	we were amazed by all of this	06/28/2000	07/11/2000
Open	05/07/1997 20:00	Corapeake	NC	USA	Flash	There were three fire balls, one over top of each other, which had three smaller dots around each in a triangular shape.	07/01/2000	07/11/2000
Open	05/05/1997 01:00	Norton	KS	USA	Triangle	Triangular craft and other strange sightings	06/26/2001	08/05/2001
Open	05/10/1997 23:59	Winthrop	WA	USA	Other	Objects observed in mountain sky	07/26/2001	08/05/2001
Open	05/05/1997 20:30	Round Rock/Georgetown	TX	USA	Rectangle	Large black Rectangle hovering over radio towers just south of Georgetown and north of Round Rock	08/16/2001	08/20/2001
Open	05/12/1997 23:30	Death Valley Gas Station	CA	USA	Oval	Midnight, Gas station, Death Valley, we saw an awesome feat of extra-terrestrial life in the sky.	03/11/2002	03/19/2002
Open	05/15/1997 13:00	Bedford (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Triangle	Triangular object over field in England on sunny day, 1997	05/03/2002	05/14/2002
Open	05/01/1997 22:00	State College	PA	USA	Flash	Bright flash, long and slow disipation of a thick white trail	06/03/2002	06/12/2002
Open	05/01/1997 23:00	Kitchener (Canada)	ON	Canada	Triangle	approx 100m long x 30m at back, pointed at front. it was soundless and moving approx 10kph. the only way that i can explain it is to sa	07/11/2002	07/26/2002
Open	05/18/1997 21:00	Jackson	MI	USA	Light	There was a light that was folling us. Then it started flashing differnt colors. It flew away as fast as lighting.	11/24/2002	12/23/2002
Open	05/15/1997 08:30	Mesquite (near Dallas)	TX	USA	Teardrop	Small quiet very non dramatic teardrop shaped flying object appeared to be taking off.	12/28/2002	02/25/2003
Open	05/27/1997 23:30	Wichita	KS	USA	Light	Before you read this you should think. Do you beleive?	02/15/2003	03/21/2003
Open	05/20/1997 01:00	Louisville	KY	USA	Circle	glow over louisville kentucky	05/24/2003	05/27/2003
Open	05/25/1997 01:10	Skies over Sierra Nevada	CA	USA	Light	several very fast greenish/blue pulses of light along the Eastern side of California or possibly in Nevada	05/31/2003	06/03/2003
Open	05/15/1997 22:30	South Bend	IN	USA	Triangle	object seen in real life is seen on tv too!	07/02/2003	07/16/2003
Open	05/01/1997 16:00	Torquay (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Circle	UFO in Torquay in the UK.	08/08/2003	08/28/2003
Open	05/15/1997 22:00	Tehuacan (Mexico)		Mexico	Oval	Oval object with half globe on the top and white-shiny haze around it	09/05/2003	09/09/2003
Open	05/15/1997 02:00	Londonderry	NH	USA	Light	Flying neon lights	09/19/2003	09/24/2003
Open	05/01/1997 22:00	St. Petersburg	FL	USA	Triangle	I was hypnotized upon a star and a triangle shaped craft moved before my eyes about 50 FT away.	10/28/2003	10/31/2003
Open	05/15/1997 10:00	College Station	TX	USA	Light	following light	12/13/2003	12/19/2003
Open	05/19/1997 00:20	Kalamazoo	MI	USA	Changing	Bright ball of light, split into two balls of lights, then rejoined itself, changed color and shape repeatedly	12/22/2003	01/17/2004
Open	05/25/1997 22:00	Syracuse	NY	USA	Triangle	Black triangles in the sky with Hale Bopp.	04/09/2004	04/27/2004
Open	05/05/1997 20:00	Kiriat-Yam (Israel)		Israel	Disk	spind around the house about 10 feet above it. went up and disappired.	04/12/2004	04/27/2004
Open	05/20/1997 00:00	Los Angeles	CA	USA	Oval	One of the items was shaped like an eclipse. I was so impressed that I retained notes of these occurences. Both occured on the same e	09/04/2004	09/09/2004
Open	05/10/1997 00:00	Austin	TX	USA	Flash	it flashed very bright and then took off at the speed of light with a blue trail following it.	11/22/2004	12/03/2004
Open	05/03/1997 23:30	Freeport	IL	USA	Triangle	Huge, black,silent, triangular craft seen moving low over house with 2 witnesses present. What was this thing?	02/24/2005	05/24/2005
Open	05/20/1997 04:01	Jupiter	FL	USA	Other	Flame object giving off colored rings in the sky then exploding. ((NUFORC Note: Possible missile launch?? PD))	05/01/2005	05/24/2005
Open	05/20/1997 15:00	North Pole	AK	USA	Unknown	Strange noisy craft in North Pole	05/16/2005	05/24/2005
Open	05/13/1997 19:30	Valley Springs	CA	USA	Teardrop	My father convinced me to report my abduction. So here it is.	07/18/2005	09/02/2005
Open	05/15/1997 20:00	Waco	TX	USA	Light	mama ship drops off baby ship	01/28/2006	02/14/2006
Open	05/01/1997 23:00	Syracuse	NY	USA	Unknown	lights over central NY	03/10/2006	03/11/2006
Open	05/15/1997 16:00	Hove, Aldrington, Portslade-by-sea (UK/England)		United Kingdom	Sphere	Driving west along sea road (A259) going back to Worthing from Brighton in late May 1997. Looking out to sea witnessed a metalic sphere	07/02/2006	07/16/2006
Open	05/15/1997 05:30	Thika (Kenya)		Kenya (East Africa)	Teardrop	I was studying early morning for my private pilots license in my living room with my curtains open.The window faces a valley.It was sti	08/09/2006	10/30/2006
Open	05/29/1997 11:59	Aston	PA	USA	Oval	Very large oval UFO video taped for over 15 min in Aston,PA Video and stills available!	01/09/2007	02/01/2007
Open	05/05/1997 19:00	Bee Caves	TX	USA	Other	bright lights in formation in sky near Austin, TX	03/23/2007	04/27/2007
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Image