NUFORC Sighting 48482

Occurred: 1967-08-15 21:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-12-26 16:32 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Sag Harbor, NY, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

Silent green globe sighted within 200 feet!

During the middle of August, 1967, I am not sure of the exact date, I was out in my back yard playing, in Sag Harbor, located on eastern Long Island. I was 13 years old at the time, and it was about 9:30 at night.

Out of the corner of my eye I noticed a round illuminated globe through the trees in the direction of south/south east. It was about the size of a full moon and I assumed it was till I realized the moon itself was out also more to the southest. It was clear, no clouds and average summer night temperture. As I stood in my back yard, facing in a generally south direction the object came over the trees towards me into view. It was travelling north west about a lazy 5-10 MPH straight and level course was silent and with no trail. It was about 200 feet from me. probably about 75-100 above the ground.

I will now describe what I saw, even though its 38 years later I have a razor sharp memory of it.

The object was a globe, approx 25-30 feet in diamenter. The globe glowed light green. It was not necessary a solid object, although it could be. It had a haze around it, sort of like looking at a car headlight in fog. Note however, that the haze only surrounded the object a foot or so, as it was a clear night.

The haze was without question caused by the object. The haze was unusual in that it resembled fog, but was not fog. The were NO other lights on the object of windows or the like.

The object was completely silent. As it continued to approach in my direction and was not to far from being directly overhead, bright flashes began coming out of the bottom of the object. These were not lights or beams of light, but very closely resembled the bright white flashes one sees when you use an electric arc welder. Almost identical. So much so, I am sure it was some type of electrical device causing it. The flashes were so bright it lit up the top of a 30 foot tree under the object.

At no time was there any noise. At this point I had an intense feeling of fear and ran in the back door to my house. I did not say anything to my mother, but she must have noticed something was wrong as she said, "you look like you've seen a ghost."

Later I advised her what I saw, and when I gathered the nerve to look outside again, the object was long gone.

My guess is that it was one of the following. 1. an alien spacecraft. 2. Some sort of life form, or 3. some still unknown electical phenomenon. I lean either toward an unknown life form or electrical phenomenon, as I don't feel there was a crew inside, but I also do not feel it was a natural occuring event, but was under some kind of intelligent control or the object itself had intelligence and I had the feeling it knew I was standing in my yard looking at it!

Bottom line, my mind doesn't know what to make of what my eyes saw, and probably I will never find the answer.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD

Posted 2006-02-14