NUFORC Sighting 49058

Occurred: 2000-09-15 14:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-02-08 15:57 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Eugene, OR, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects

Late Fall, 2000: Eugene OR Bowl / Cone Two-Part UFO Sighted in Broad Daylight

I was outside smoking a cigarette on the back patio in my apartment complex. It was a cool autumn day, with clear blue skies and no clouds, and lots of sunshine. There was a bit of wind, as I recall. I looked up and saw a white puff of cloud appear, like a firework...but there was no sound.

Then, a white hemispherical shape came out of the smoke, with a white/metallic cone underneath it, pointing down, and seemingly separate.

I thought to myself, "This looks like a model rocket nose-cone with a parachute, I remember making those." However, I saw no indication that a model rocket had been launched (they leave smoke trails.) I slowly realized that this object was actually much larger and further away.

My estimates are that the bowl shape was 100ft across, at a height of 750ft to 1000ft above ground. I puzzled over why it was hovering in the air.

Then, to my surprize, the cone began to rotate around underneath the bowl shape, clockwise if you were looking up at it from the ground. It acted as if it were connected to the rim and remained pointing down. There was a hazy dark cloudy spot between the cone and the bowl shape, like a field of some kind. The cone spun around at a rate of 3 to 4 times per second.

Then, the whole unit turned on its side at right angles to the ground, and proceeded due south at an estimated acceleration of 1000km/s (100 Gs!!!). The cone continued to rotate around the rim as if attached to the bottom of the bowl the whole time it did this. It was on the horizon and out of sight in less than 4 seconds. Then, mysteriously, there was a second puff of smoke where the first had been, as if something closed behind it.

This happened in broad daylight!




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. He provides an illustration of what the object first looked like. PD


Posted 2006-02-14

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