NUFORC Reports for Month 199808

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media
Open	08/17/1998 14:10	North Plains	OR	USA	Oval	color silver,oblong shape,distance about a mile away,it wobbled and that was how i saw it had no wings,moving west to east	09/24/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/16/1998 23:15	Gridley (10 miles N of, and 20 miles SE Chico)	CA	USA	Flash	Brief period of light flashed in my car window about 1/4 mile to right and problably no further than 2 to 3 miles in front.	09/24/1998	02/24/2001
Open	08/19/1998 21:45	Reno	NV	USA	Light	SOMETHING WHICH LOOKED LIKE A HUGE WING IN THE DARKNES, BUT NO BRIGHT LIGHTS	09/24/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/22/1998 23:05	Xenia (app.10 Mi. E of Dayton)	OH	USA	Unknown	Standing in backyard with girlfriend. Saw yellow-orange dull glowing light traveling SE to NW at fantastic speed. Blinked out of view!!	09/24/1998	02/22/2002
Open	08/26/1998 22:00	Mariposa	CA	USA	Fireball	Observed a light behind a tree that was bright white, then it took off and as it did, it turned brillaint green	09/23/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/21/1998 21:00	Mt Sterling	IL	USA	Light	8/21-8/27 Approx. 50 lights in south sky moving up & down, & side to side.	09/23/1998	01/28/1999
Open	08/22/1998 08:50	Osceola	IN	USA	Light	5 bright orange lights in a line going up the western horizon, slowly moving up the sky, quite spaced apart. 2 of them seem to have ex	09/24/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/31/1998 08:20	Toronto (North York) (Canada)	ON	Canada	Disk	The two ufo's were spinnng sluggish circles around each other - rotating between being on the outside circle and the inside.	09/01/1998	12/02/2000
Open	08/21/1998 03:00	Woodbridge	VA	USA	Triangle	Went out to see the ring around the moon,when I saw strange light in the sky. As it got closer noticed it was a triangular craft with a	09/06/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/29/1998 17:00	San Francisco	CA	USA	Diamond	3 diamond shaped craft with 4 bright lights hovered on the eastern sky.	08/29/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/29/1998 21:30	West Salem	OH	USA	Changing	It had approx. 4 large lights, in a diamond shape that would blink, and immediately following it, a large burst of fire from the rear..	08/30/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/28/1998 22:25	Mt. Vernon	OR	USA	Fireball	Bright Blue (as that of an arc welder) light, that lit up entire landscape. It was 1/4 dia of moon (in arc seconds)	08/30/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/22/1998 23:15	Sparta (12 mi.north of, countryside)	NC	USA	Unknown	A 69-yr-old male sighted small lights below the planet Jupiter. Looking through binoculars, another male 65 years old, sighted small li	08/31/1998	09/19/2002
Open	08/14/1998 00:00	Blewett Pass-top of mountain pass	WA	USA	Light	Approx. 4 a.m.traveling to seattle I saw a oval shaped object with a line of light on the side it had a jet stream effect around it .	09/02/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/10/1998 22:00	Trabuco	CA	USA	Light	It was approx. 10:30 PM when my mother did her usual routine of walking the dogs before going to bed. She lives in a rural area within	09/08/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/28/1998 05:45	Minneapolis	MN	USA	Sphere	Object just sat in the air glowing brightly, then dimmed. There seemed to be no pattern to it.	09/08/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/27/1998 01:30	Oregon	OH	USA	Fireball	Bright Orange Fireball appeared in SW sky. Traveled slowly at about 30degrees across the southern sky toward the east. No sound, long t	09/26/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/11/1998 00:00	Canby	OR	USA	Unknown	About 4 weeks apart, my husband and I discovered round marks on our bodies after waking. No known cause is discernable. His has disappe	09/14/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/31/1998 22:00	Tucson	AZ	USA	Unknown	Pair of objects flying side by side.	09/15/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/28/1998 02:15	San Diego	CA	USA	Sphere	From the south a somewhat dim yellow/green/orange sphere floated up and to the north from behind some trees. It then almost stopped and	09/15/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/01/1998 14:30	Howell	MI	USA	Unknown	I was working on the roof of the house and looking up when I saw something at what looked like an average passenger jet altitude moving	08/01/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/01/1998 22:30	Olean	NY	USA	Light	Round, bright , orange lights, moving in patterns around each other moving very slowly and it appeared there were smaller light formati	08/01/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/03/1998 00:00	Salem	MA	USA	Changing	Bright light hovered over Marblhead Bay for several hours. Oval to disk shape but seemed to also change shape as well as color. Bright	08/02/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/02/1998 15:00	Huntington Beach	CA	USA	Disk	Daylight UFO sighting over Huntington Beach, California	08/03/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/02/1998 20:45	Perth (Western Australia)		Australia	Light	blue light from se to nw at high speed	08/03/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/03/1998 17:30	El Paso	TX	USA	Light	BIG BALL OF LIGHT, SHOT OUT OF THE CLOUDS AND DOWN TOWARDS THE GROUND. ONLY LASTED FOR A FEW SECONDS, MAYBE A BALL LIGHTNING OTHER PEO	08/03/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/01/1998 22:30	Minocqua	WI	USA	Sphere	An orange object moved across the sky.	08/04/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/03/1998 21:29	Portland	OR	USA	Orb	Very bright steady blue-white light in sky over 3-5 deg. arc, steady movement over ene to wsw path, abruptly vanishing at "apex". No s	08/05/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/05/1998 21:00	East Machias	ME	USA	Light	Light in sky got brighter and truck almost stalled out light flickered out.	08/07/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/06/1998 21:45	Albany	OR	USA	Cone	we saw 2 objects in the sky over albany or that stood still then took off in the sky we were driving north on I5 just inside city limit	08/08/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/01/1998 20:45	St. Louis	MO	USA	Light	Object appeared below the moon. Travelled from Southeast to Northwest. Changed color and direction erratically.	08/08/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/07/1998 19:00	Lenoir City	TN	USA	Other	I was riding in a boat and noticed a very bright pair of lights at about 30 degrees above the horizon I turned to ask my wife if she sa	08/09/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/09/1998 23:20	Lompoc	CA	USA	Circle	We saw a circular flashing object in the eastern sky slowly descending.	08/10/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/10/1998 23:30	Georgetown	TX	USA	Changing	Appeared to be space-plane re-entering atmosphere. Eventually flew directly overhead without ever making a sound. First appeared to b	08/11/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/11/1998 00:15	Mandan	ND	USA	Disk	I viewed an object that looked like a star initially but when viewed standing still it moved slightly. It looked like lights were flash	08/11/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/12/1998 22:24	Bothell	WA	USA	Disk	It looked like the saucer on the USS Enterprise from Star Trek. It had two disks, one on top of the other. Also, it had a flashing wh	08/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/13/1998 04:13	Belvidere (5 miles north of)	IL	USA	Flash	Large blue flash and con trail similar to meteor, however with a evenly split blue tail. And a con trail that sustained for approximate	08/13/1998	08/05/2001
Open	08/12/1998 21:30	Fair Lawn	NJ	USA	Oval	I spotted 2 Unidentified Flying Objects that night. It all started when my siter, my dad, and I went out to watch the meteor shower. My	08/14/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/14/1998 03:15	The Dalles	OR	USA	Fireball	I was laying in my bed looking through the window which faces to the west. When suddenly a bright orange ball of fire appeared. I watch	08/14/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/15/1998 22:15	Simi Valley	CA	USA	Light	The object in the sky at first appeared to be an unknown type aircraft with it's landing light on. The light went out and no red or gr	08/16/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/17/1998 08:00	El Dorado	KS	USA	Circle	I was standing in my driveway getting into my car when it happened. My back started to get extremly hot, it felt like I was getting a	08/17/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/17/1998 21:50	Friendswoods	TX	USA	Diamond	Video of 2 events: Very bright beam of light in sky, going up and down. Light was orange in color, it pulsed and would fade in and out	08/17/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/01/1998 22:30	Big Sur (Monterey Co.)	CA	USA	Cigar	Dark cigar shaped no lights streek though sky, airplane following.	08/17/1998	11/21/1998
Open	08/09/1998 19:20	Singapore		Singapore	Other	I were on the express way when i saw an object in the sky about 200meter far looks like the Stealth floating in the sky. Many people ha	08/10/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/19/1998 10:00	Dania	FL	USA	Disk	I observed craft cruising over ocean.	08/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/13/1998 19:45	Plainview	NY	USA	Light	we saw a sphere of light move steadily across the sky. Then it zig-zagged. It changed from whit to faint blue and flashed. It then ping	08/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/19/1998 23:40	Des Moines	WA	USA	Sphere	Multi-colored sphere shaped object observed in western sky for approx. 30 minutes, the first 15 minutes or so in a stationary position.	08/20/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/13/1998 01:00	Tuskegee National Forest @ HWY 85	AL	USA	Disk	Large white glowing disk. Transparent. Smaller craft coming from it	08/20/1998	01/28/1999
Open	08/10/1998 06:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Fireball	Object seen streaking across sky, leaveing huge contrail, it was across the horizon over head, and heading east to west, along hwy40(ro	08/20/1998	08/05/2001
Open	08/16/1998 01:30	San Juan Islands	WA	USA	Cigar	A cigar shaped object was less than a quarter of a mile from our a/c clear visability and stationay then vanished.	08/20/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/19/1998 21:28	Flagstaff	AZ	USA	Fireball	A meteor-like object, trailing burning debris, changed into a blinking point of light. It then made a gentle turn to the north and gra	08/21/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/21/1998 15:00	Torrance	CA	USA	Egg	egg shaped, reflected the sun.	08/22/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/21/1998 22:55	Salem	OR	USA	Chevron	object was travelling below cloud level,from north to south. boomerang shaped pinkish silver color manuevered without changing speed th	08/22/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/09/1998 00:00	Grayling	MI	USA	Sphere	Brownish orange, large lights. a smaller , same colored light came out from under one of the lights. Lights would blink out then reappe	08/22/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/24/1998 22:00	Landover (Raljon)	MD	USA	Diamond	Sitting in the end zone at Jack Kent Cooke stadium, over my right shoulder noticed dark diamond with rounded corners come up over the	08/23/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/18/1998 20:30	Dayton (Sutro hills area, NE)	NV	USA	Egg	In the evening playing with my daughter, back door blinds were open. My daughter SCREAMED 'LOOK DADDY LOOK, ALIENS'(She's only 3 1/2.)	08/25/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/24/1998 06:15	Houston (5 miles south of)	TX	USA	Light	Red Light traveling N/E along the Hardy Tollway. While the light was red, a blue light, then green was visible next to the red light	08/25/1998	08/05/2001
Open	08/26/1998 21:30	Amherstview (outside Kingston) (Canada)	ON	Canada	Diamond	multiple ufo sighting	08/27/1998	12/02/2000
Open	08/28/1998 22:30	Frances	WA	USA	Fireball	green fireball seen falling in an arc toward Longview,WA and appear to hit the ground with 3 flashes	08/28/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/20/1998 22:00	Rushville	IL	USA	Unknown	TWO BRIGHT ORANGE LIGHTS SIDE BY SIDE AND TWO BRIGHT YELLOW LIGHTS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THEM	10/08/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/22/1998 20:00	Telluride	CO	USA	Light	Similar to report from Longmont CO on 9/7/98.Very fast moving light	10/06/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/20/1998 22:30	Gobles	MI	USA	Disk	4 disks looked as if they were playing a game of "chicken" in the sky above a lake.	10/14/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/26/1998 23:00	Waterford	MI	USA	Fireball	Stargazing on my deck and sighted what I thought at the time was a large green meteor (Largest I ever seen)	10/13/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/12/1998 21:09	San Marcos	CA	USA	Oval	Friend and I were driving down the highway...moderate traffic. I noticed the aircraft first, it was hoovering over the freeway about 30	10/13/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/08/1998 20:00	San Leandro	CA	USA	Chevron	I first saw two bright yellowish beams in the sky, higher than clouds, and as I got closer, a black disc over the beams, tilted, and th	10/15/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/07/1998 23:30	Bonmahon (County Waterford (Republic of Ireland)		Ireland	Fireball	we stood on a cliff and watched the skies when a blue fireball crossed the skies at a very high speed. This was seen again 3 days late	10/18/1998	11/01/1998
Open	08/12/1998 22:24	New Brunswick (Canada)	NB	Canada	Circle	bright orange light in the sky moving in zigzag, side by side and up and down.	11/02/1998	12/02/2000
Open	08/12/1998 03:15	Cleveland (above cei plant. public power.)	OH	USA	Diamond	hovering craft small yellow/white orb decends from middle bottom of craft 20/25 feet slowly rising back up to main craft.craft glows a	11/12/1998	11/19/1998
Open	08/15/1998 23:30	New York City (JFK International Airport)	NY	USA	Light	Green fireball, which dropped a smaller one going west to east...	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	08/09/1998 11:00	Birkshire County	MA	USA	Changing	Bright object 10000-20000 + feet in eastearn sky at first statoinary then appearing in different location in general area of sky withou	12/20/1998	01/28/1999
Open	08/15/1998 01:30	Janesville	WI	USA	Light	we saw about 4 strange lights about 200-300 feet above the ground near a section of woods in our city we see this all the time. i can g	12/26/1998	09/13/2002
Open	08/01/1998 22:30	Lincoln	NE	USA	Light	We saw streaks like tracers shoot out from a light in the sky.	01/08/1999	02/16/1999
Open	08/13/1998 21:43	New Riegel	OH	USA	Other	The craft was black with a stealth like figure.	01/26/1999	02/16/1999
Open	08/25/1998 13:00	Sandpoint	ID	USA	Disk	While traveling north on rapid lightning, my husband, myself and a family friend observed a bright silver disc hovering motionless in t	02/17/1999	04/02/1999
Open	08/22/1998 22:20	Northglenn	CO	USA	Fireball	Slow moving for the most part but had quick acceleration,absolutely no noise,bright light's (blue & orange)	02/22/1999	04/02/1999
Open	08/03/1998 17:53	El Paso	TX	USA	Fireball	IN REFERENCE TO THE BALL OF LIGHT SEEN BY THE OTHER INDIVIDUAL ON THIS DATE. I WAS DRIVING HOME FROM WORK WHEN I SAW TWO BIG FIREBALLS	02/26/1999	04/02/1999
Open	08/01/1998 00:30	Excelsior Springs/Kearney (between)	MO	USA	Sphere	I saw a blueish-pink glowing sphere maybe a hundred feet off the ground...	02/27/1999	04/02/1999
Open	08/17/1998 21:00	Beacon Falls	CT	USA	Light	My friend and I had just got out of my car in my driveway, looked up to the night sky which was the western sky, and saw a small light,	03/11/1999	04/02/1999
Open	08/01/1998 00:00	Provincetown (Cape Cod)	MA	USA	Light	Looking west I saw a "green shooting star", that, while falling, produced four jet engines, changed color to orange and shot straight u	03/12/1999	04/02/1999
Open	08/20/1998 23:30	Centreville	VA	USA	Sphere	It was short and brief..it was a sphere I saw and what got me the most was the color...it was like an electric blue colored sphere. The	01/06/1999	05/24/1999
Open	08/15/1998 20:00	Lefroy (Canada)	ON	Canada	Sphere	white dot zigzaging across the dawn sky blinkering on and off	05/13/1999	12/02/2000
Open	08/19/1998 21:45	Reno	NV	USA	Light	WE ATTENDED THE RENO AIR RACES FROM THURSDAY SEPT. 17 TO 20TH. RENO ALSO WAS HOSTING THE NORTHERN CALIF. HARLEY DAVIDSON DEALER SPONSOR	09/24/1998	05/24/1999
Open	08/05/1998 23:45	Grand Junction (west of)	CO	USA	Light	Saw three objects which flashed red, blue and white lights. Lights appeared to be stationary. Binoculars revealed three distinct lights	08/07/1998	09/06/2002
Open	08/27/1998 23:00	Villa Nueva State Park	NM	USA	Cigar	steadily moved across the sky & then hovered, 2x, creating a triangle formation & then dissapearing.	07/03/1999	07/05/1999
Open	08/08/1998 09:30	Tacoma	WA	USA	Other	On the morning of approximately August 08, 1998 I along with a friend were fishing at the mouth of the Puyallup River where it empties	07/14/1999	07/14/1999
Open	08/10/1998 22:00	Halifax Regonal Municipality (Canada)	NS	Canada	Light	3 craft 2 moveing in figure 8 motion other just doing it's own thing	07/15/1999	12/02/2000
Open	08/10/1998 15:00	Otis	OR	USA	Sphere	Silver basketball size sphere chases eagle.	08/14/1999	08/30/1999
Open	08/28/1998 22:30	Gulf Islands (Canada)	BC	Canada	Triangle	while camping a we paid little attention to a very high flying object with no flashing lights or motor sound, flew above us, pulled 90	09/30/1999	12/02/2000
Open	08/21/1998 22:30	Bishop (remote, High Sierras, above)	CA	USA	Rectangle	Witnessed a craft cross the sky above the Sierra Nevada mountians.	11/16/1999	11/17/1999
Open	08/08/1998 21:30	Chatsworth (Fort Mountain)	GA	USA	Orb	MUFON/GEORGIA FOLLOW-UP REPORT: Hovering dark mass surrounded by yellow glow	12/05/1999	12/16/1999
Open	08/20/1998 19:00	Marysville	WA	USA	Triangle	I TOOK ABOUT 30 SECONDS OF WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE EXCELLENT FOOTAGE OF A UFO.	12/19/1999	01/07/2000
Open	08/01/1998 21:00	Litchfield	IL	USA	Other	It happen in my backyard	01/31/2000	02/16/2000
Open	08/24/1998 13:00	Albuquerque (Outside of)	NM	USA	Triangle	My family and I were driving through the United States, and my father took a back road...and we stopped the car to take pictures of the	02/02/2000	12/02/2000
Open	08/15/1998 00:00	Deshler	OH	USA	Rectangle	A brief flash of sight(like a cloaking device failed for a second) showed a building size craft with "windows". Beings were seen.	02/11/2000	11/20/2002
Open	08/10/1998 21:30	Center Harbor	NH	USA	Light	As I was looking up at the night sky in a North to North east direction, at approx.9:30 pm, I noticed what appeared to be a satellite m	03/25/2000	04/01/2000
Open	08/20/1998 23:30	High Ridge	MO	USA	Flash	I got out of my car and went to unlock the door. I was still facing the door and there was a flash of light. The flashing only lasted	05/15/2000	06/06/2000
Open	08/10/1998 21:40	Seattle	WA	USA	Circle	I was taking my wife to the airport heading south on I-5 and we were going by downtown Seattle when looking directly to our west we saw	06/25/2000	07/11/2000
Open	08/18/1998 21:15	Silverhill	AL	USA	Disk	disk shaped craft with sequential lights at approx, 100' altitude crossing fields then hiway I was traveling.	07/14/2000	07/23/2000
Open	08/15/1998 17:30	San Fernando	CA	USA	Triangle	watch many ligth's in the sky day's before the sighting telling a frend about the ligth's at the same location a ligth came by at great	12/28/2000	01/03/2001
Open	08/28/1998 22:45	Alberta (Canada)	AB	Canada	Other	UFO encounter x2	02/06/2001	02/18/2001
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media