NUFORC Reports for Month 199812

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media
Open	12/02/1998 17:00	Columbus	OH	USA	Disk	It was a round/disk shaped object that reflected the sunlight. It was hovering at an angle. I say hovering cause it moved like that, no	12/02/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/01/1998 06:09	Lehigh Acres	FL	USA	Flash	wHITE STREAK AS IF A METEOR EXCEPT WENT FROM GROUND ELEVATION TO A 45 DEGREE ELEVATION CROSSED IN FRONT OF A AIRLINER WHICH HAD JUST TA	12/01/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/01/1998 07:10	Glenhaven	CA	USA	Cross	4 objects flying in close formation in a southwest direction at high speed, low altitude, making no sound accept the wind passing by th	12/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 08:30	Rome	GA	USA	Fireball	NE to NW Very fast and low flying, White light changing to Bright blue, then blueish red glow, turning to red, then turning solid yello	12/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/01/1998 18:00	Westfield (5 Miles North of)	IN	USA	Fireball	This was observed while driviing north on US 31. Object flying WNW from ESE app. 500 ft. alt., at 4-500 mph. Medium brightness yellowi	12/03/1998	08/05/2001
Open	12/01/1998 17:50	Culpeper	VA	USA	Oval	While on patrol. Noticed an eye ball shaped object. that was very bright in the sky.	12/04/1998	09/19/2002
Open	12/03/1998 23:30	Kirkland	WA	USA	Triangle	On Thursday night, December 3, 1998, I was driving alone toward my home. At approximately 11:30 pm, I turned right onto Slater Street,	12/05/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/03/1998 23:30	Kirkland	WA	USA	Triangle	I saw a wedged shaped craft with very bright lights, approx. 150 feet above the street near my home on December 3,1998 at 11:30 pm.	12/05/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/04/1998 22:25	Stanford	CA	USA	Light	I am a senior in college, and was walking northwest in a campus parking lot. I looked up and noticed a very distinct formation of light	12/05/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/05/1998 19:00	Ajijic (Mexico)		Mexico	Light	very bright pinpoint light w/ cone shape vapor trail. Observed for 5 min, looked to be at 3 to 5 k ft. pinpoint started to move and dis	12/06/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 19:00	Tjorn (Sweden)		Sweden	Sphere	A blue/greenish sphere suddenly appeared above the horizon, and then fell right down and faded.	12/06/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/01/1998 23:15	Miami	FL	USA	Light	AN ANOUNCEMENT WAS MADE ON LOCAL NEWS OF REPORTS OF STRANGE LIGHT. WTVJ,CHANNEL 6,THEY HAVE VIDEO.ODD HOVERING LIGHT,NOT A STAR.WTVJ ST	12/06/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/05/1998 17:02	Marina del Rey/Los Angeles	CA	USA	Unknown	While walking with three other witnesses at about dusk, I viewed a contrail headed toward me from a direct West compass heading. The o	12/06/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 00:30	Columbus	TX	USA	Fireball	Was heading back to Houston Tx, when I saw a green fireball streak across the sky from west to east. Only it sorta dashed across like s	12/06/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/03/1998 18:00	San Saba County	TX	USA	Formation	Glowing amber lights hovering in formation and morphing from 1 to 5	12/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 21:30	Philipsburg	PA	USA	Disk	Last evening my wife first saw 3 craft with red and white strobe lights flying horizontal and vertical in the clear sky outside my son'	12/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/05/1998 19:00	Valle de Bravo (Mexico)		Mexico	Light	White bright light like a headlight with a cloudy proyection though heaven was clear. It suddenly disspareared leaving just the bright	12/06/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 20:30	Culpeper County (location unspecified)	VA	USA	Circle	See Full description ((Police officer reports sighting of a "bright ball of light."))	12/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/07/1998 22:15	Soddy Daisy	TN	USA	Sphere	We saw a round object hover about 200 feet above the cooling towers of the Sequoia Nuclear facility. The object emitted a soft white gl	12/07/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 18:45	Phoenix	AZ	USA	Cylinder	While working security I seen a object enter earths atmosphere, then glide over mountains east of Phoenix.	12/08/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/07/1998 00:00	Plano	TX	USA	Circle	On tape, I have cicular objects moving across screen to fast to be an airplane. Defenatly not a weather ballon.	12/08/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 19:40	Santa Rosa	CA	USA	Light	Pale red light, approx. 1000 foot altitude, very slowly elevated to 1500 feet,then proceded towards our direction, so we continued driv	12/08/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/08/1998 06:30	Fort Smith	AR	USA	Triangle	I own a Telescope as of a few days ago, tonight was the first night it was clear since I bought it, anyway I as I looked off to the no	12/08/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/05/1998 03:00	Atlanta	GA	USA	Fireball	Atlanta "meteor" fireball, December 5th 1998, approx. 03:00am Image computer recreation of event mailed to 'images site'.	12/08/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/08/1998 23:02	Belton (5mi south on SR Y)	MO	USA	Fireball	Green fire ball with orange sparkles trailing behind	12/08/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/08/1998 00:00	outer space		Unspecified	Circle	During the space walk on Monday, I was watching CSPAN and saw something strange. At one point during the space walk the robotic arm or	12/09/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/09/1998 07:15	Eureka (sighted from)	CA	USA	Teardrop	Looking out window of house and saw a massive object descending in a straight path to earth near the horizon in the far distance.	12/09/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/09/1998 20:43	Chagrin Falls	OH	USA	Light	I was outside looking up at the western night sky at 8:43:30pm est, at about 2 o'clock high. I saw a small point of light move from the	12/09/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/10/1998 03:05	Fort Mill	NC	USA	Disk	The object was a dull orange glow, shaped like a flattened image of Saturn. It crossed in front of Orion and I caught it in my binocula	12/10/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/09/1998 06:25	Jerseyville (north of)	IL	USA	Light	A moving, brightly lit object was about the cross the highway in front of my but vanished.	12/09/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/10/1998 03:19	Manchester	NY	USA	Fireball	green fire ball seen in the sky 3/4 the size of the moon.	12/10/1998	09/28/2002
Open	12/09/1998 08:05	Phoenix	AZ	USA	Circle	strange light moving at high speed	12/11/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/07/1998 18:00	Anchorage/Girdwood	AK	USA	Light	Bright white light moving swiftly over Anchorage & Elmenforf AFB, followed by red flashing lights (helicopters?), also radio call in re	12/10/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/05/1998 18:15	Glendale	AZ	USA	Other	Object appeared from behind mesa, ascended at about a 70 degree angle, taking maybe a minute to ascend 8-10,000 ft, passing into cloud.	12/10/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/10/1998 18:27	Santa Rosa	CA	USA	Light	Strange, projectile-firing light over northern california.	12/11/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/05/1998 20:30	Las Vegas	NV	USA	Unknown	Bright light shining directionally out of a cloudy shape or object, got bright and smoky and then disappered.	12/11/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/10/1998 21:11	Plymouth	MA	USA	Diamond	i am 14 and was coming back from my football banquet in a car with my father going north when i noticed a very bright diamond shaped ob	12/11/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/11/1998 19:00	Culver City	CA	USA	Light	While driving home I saw a light high in the sky, moving from east to west in a straight line, except at one point it acted like it wen	12/12/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/09/1998 01:30	Alamosa	CO	USA	Oval	I am a police officer in alamosa colorado. on the date and time above, i was on routine patrol, i was traveling northbound along a coun	12/12/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/10/1998 01:00	I-81 (northbound between mile marker 34 to 38 aprox.)	TN	USA	Triangle	UFO hovered over my vehicle while traveling on I-81 , late at night.	12/12/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/09/1998 00:00	Kalamazoo	MI	USA	Light	a little ball of light making little circles in the sky	12/12/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/12/1998 23:30	Bradenton/Palmetto	FL	USA	Light	Green light moved extremely fast over the sky in the north. seemed to move downward to the horizon. no meteor. not a plane. Duration ab	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 07:30	Washington C.H.	OH	USA	Fireball	We spotted a green fireball flying over the city as we were coming home from a near by resturant. It looked similiar to a fire work of	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/06/1998 18:25	Las Vegas	NV	USA	Triangle	Came over Mountain to East which has Antenni and banked to South and flew just below broken cloud cover. It had no running lights but	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 23:00	Baton Rouge	LA	USA	Light	It was a long light, blue with a purpleish tint. Resembled a shooting star, but appeared and disappeared but ended before the horizon.	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 23:20	Sikeston/Morley (between)	MO	USA	Sphere	object seen traveling from south to notrh	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/14/1998 00:00	Wharton	TX	USA	Light	Driving in the country roads	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 23:20	Sikeston/Morley (between)	MO	USA	Sphere	earth bound from south to north.	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/14/1998 19:30	Albany (Western Australia)		Australia	Flash	Looking up at the sky for Meteors and Come across a real Bright Star but was moving and had red flashing light on it then disserperd to	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/11/1998 22:30	New Boston	NH	USA	Light	Hovering light with flashing blue and red; movement was irratic and non-airplane like. Appeared as large (moving) star. Another small	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 06:45	St. Peters	MO	USA	Light	Observed extremely bright object in the sky.	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/03/1998 18:30	Albany	NY	USA	Light	Search lights??with no apparent origin from ground.	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 23:10	Indianapolis	IN	USA	Fireball	I saw a green-white fire ball moving west southwest. It looked like(size and shape) the HailBop comet but, moving much faster.	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 05:00	Clayton/Chesterfield/Ladue	MO	USA	Oval	I first spotted two objects west of my position. They were 1000 feet above ground level in the night sky. One was greenish blue and a	12/13/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/10/1998 04:55	Lincolnshire	IL	USA	Fireball	Red fireball travelling south to north with tail 4 or 5 times size of object. Lasted 7 seconds then winked out.	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/14/1998 00:50	Mukilteo	WA	USA	Formation	Saw formation of 5 translucent lights coming out of the south	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/14/1998 04:00	Spokane	WA	USA	Fireball	I saw a greenball of light fall from the sky.	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/01/1998 21:20	Fort Wayne	IN	USA	Other	It hovered slowly and silently over us just above the trees on a NE - SW course. It was covered in bright white lights that did not pr	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 23:25	Cottontown	TN	USA	Other	Many shooting stars spotted	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/05/1998 21:21	Pahrump	NV	USA	Orb	enroute to las vegas I observed a green orb from my rearview mirrior and the in my windsheild. It made a slight change of directions	12/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/14/1998 20:15	St. Charles	MO	USA	Fireball	Myself and my wife while sitting at a traffic light saw what looked like a green fire ball, slightly smaller than my pinky finger if he	12/15/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/14/1998 04:10	Redding	CA	USA	Fireball	MY BROTHER AND I WERE DRIVING SOUTH BOUND ON I5 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF ANDERSON, CALIFORNIA. A HUGE WHITE/BLUEISH FIREBALL WAS SEE	12/15/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 02:00	Lafayette	CO	USA	Other	Event was a meteor shower. 5 meteors spotted in one hour plus 6 regular shooting stars.	12/15/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 20:45	Fort Smith	AR	USA	Light	First off I just want to say I have no idea what is going on in Ft smith Ark Also I just want to say I was not going to report this at	12/15/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/15/1998 07:10	Atlanta	GA	USA	Egg	On approach to downtown atlanta via automobile (traveling east on I-20) I noticed what I thought was a military helicopter or transport	12/15/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/14/1998 15:25	Redmond (Due east of, beyond Issaquah, near mtns.)	WA	USA	Disk	Work at Microsoft Redwest, was crossing to Cafe for coffee break, and looked to east at Cascades, suddenly saw 2 objects coming north t	12/15/1998	11/20/2002
Open	12/10/1998 19:50	Hesston	KS	USA	Triangle	Triangle shaped with a very bright light on each corner with a flashing red beacon in the middle.	12/16/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/16/1998 23:30	Long Key	FL	USA	Fireball	We saw approx. 12 comet-like objects moving from the SW to the NE. They were in a ununiformed formation, & all had massive comet-like t	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 19:00	Hauser	OR	USA	Light	noticed a flash of light while driving looked up and saw nothing then a few seconds later a saw the a bright ball of light travelling a	12/16/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/16/1998 20:53	Conroe	TX	USA	Light	Fast point of light (no tail) decending rapidly towards the earth at a down angle of ~45 degrees of 45 degrees	12/16/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/16/1998 23:18	Bakersfield	CA	USA	Fireball	Orange glowing fireball with structures radiating from the light source	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/16/1998 21:38	Demotte (viewed from)	IN	USA	Teardrop	Green round glowing fireball with short glowing tail, fell slowly from below cloud cover to very near ground level, viewed at distance.	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/14/1998 05:50	Bloomington	IL	USA	Formation	walking my dog early in the a.m. just happened to look up and saw what looked like two stars at about that distance folllowing each ot	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/17/1998 02:15	La Habra	CA	USA	Fireball	First appeared as a huge meteor, but instead of burning out it exploded out; left a "dark hole" where it dissapeared followed by a stre	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/15/1998 22:50	Senftenberg (Germany)		Germany	Other	lightsoder shades, that´s turning around a center	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/17/1998 20:38	Severn	MD	USA	Fireball	Observed green fireball in South sky falling straight down	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/17/1998 07:10	Decatur	AL	USA	Changing	Driving east just before dawn the sky was cloudless. Suddenly a cloud appeared very dence about the size of a football field. it was at	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/16/1998 19:40	Lubbock	TX	USA	Chevron	Object southbound, displaying three white lights, slowed, hovered, quickly accelerated and made a low, banking turn to the east and the	12/16/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/15/1998 17:10	Oroville	CA	USA	Light	A pair of lights joined by another light. They separate back into pair and single.	12/16/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/17/1998 14:12	Bossier City	LA	USA	Circle	I was looking into the bright blue sky wathing a trail from a high speed us aircaft. When I was looking I saw a bright circular item s	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/13/1998 14:00	Denver	CO	USA	Formation	A formation of a constant group of 1 dozen metallic/lights near DIA	12/17/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/17/1998 22:00	Seattle	WA	USA	Light	Definitely a meteor, IMHO. steady white light, falling roughly parabolically ~ENE of me. Lasted about 3-4 seconds.	12/18/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/17/1998 19:00	West Plains	MO	USA	Unknown	bright orange lights in perfect horizontal formation 5-8 sec & went out 1 by 1. Also object traveling very fast, then bright light and	12/18/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/16/1998 23:33	Plantation Key	FL	USA		It was 11:33 PM on Wednesday 12/16/98 on our way home from Miami to Marathon Florida. \|At about 89 mile marker,my wife said : Do you se	12/18/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/15/1998 23:30	Orlando (Disney World Resort)	FL	USA	Unknown	Three or four red lights int he shape of a squre or triangle way up in the sky moving at a rapid pace.	12/20/1998	01/28/1999
Open	12/15/1998 03:30	Petaluma	CA	USA	Circle	Bright white disk, traveling rapidly in a straight line from Northwest to North toward the horizon.	12/20/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/19/1998 18:20	Fleetwood/Dryville	PA	USA	Light	Saw a red dot in the sky, which then appeared to change shape and streak away.	12/20/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/08/1998 20:00	Vilonia (Just south of)	AR	USA	Circle	I was talking to some friends outside. I saw an arch of light shaped object moving south slowly, I had to use binoculars to see the arc	12/20/1998	09/28/2002
Open	12/21/1998 02:10	Myrtle Beach	SC	USA	Disk	Spotted Medium Speed moving object heading NNW, below the clouds.	12/21/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/15/1998 23:30	Fort Myers	FL	USA	Light	3 lights with a very large flame trail traveling west to east	12/18/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/13/1998 23:10	Leavenworth	KS	USA	Fireball	The ufo appeared as a falling star except that it was falling more straight down instead of arching across the sky. It was blue W/Blue	12/18/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/19/1998 00:57	Magnolia	TX	USA	Light	I am located about 35 miles slightly northwest of downtown Houston, TX and about 12 miles directly east of Magnolia, TX. I observed tw	12/19/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/19/1998 03:57	Phoenix	AZ	USA	Fireball	I saw a green fireball in the sky and there was definitely an aircraft behind the ball of light.	12/19/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/18/1998 19:27	Utica	NY	USA	Light	two very bright lights in southern sky descended slowlyand dimmed to gray then back to bright and disappeared.	12/19/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/15/1998 00:45	Montreal (Canada)	QC	Canada	Unknown	Meteor with a green tail shooting straight down towards eastern canada or north-eastern us.	12/19/1998	12/02/2000
Open	12/18/1998 22:00	West Richland	WA	USA	Unknown	I saw 2 lights settled in a constellation, which appeared to be stars, but had a sudden abnormal movement. One below the belt of orion	12/19/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/18/1998 21:00	Mechanicsburg	PA	USA	Unknown	Craft of undetermined shape with a single strobe light hovered in the area. One had a white strobe, which turned red, then white again.	12/21/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/07/1998 04:30	Medina	OH	USA	Fireball	Red/Orange fire ball, Baseball size with sparks, smoke, and trail.	12/21/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/22/1998 21:00	Rome (GA)/Cedar Bluff (AL)	GA	USA	Changing	At 9PM, in Cherokee, AL while leaving my lakehouse, I saw the first one hovering, then moving. I used perspective to ensure movement.	12/22/1998	02/16/1999
Open	12/22/1998 20:05	Indianapolis	IN	USA	Circle	Appx. 1/4 mile east of SR135 8 miles South of Indianapolis a green ball appx. the size of 1/16 of a thumbnail at arms' distance traveli	12/22/1998	02/16/1999
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media