This is a collection of nearly two hundred sightings of triangular, diamond or boomerang-shaped objects that I put together in 1990 in cooperation with the Belgian UFO research group SOBEPS. Patrick Ferryn, one of the founders of SOBEPS, had sent me information about a well documented series of sightings of large triangular objects in Belgium that began in October 1989 and continued for at least eight months. Using that information, I wrote a story about the Belgian cases that the MUFON UFO Journal published in 1990.

For some years I had believed that huge triangular UFOs were being seen rather often in the United States and other countries, but it was only when the Belgian flap occurred that I decided to see how many other cases I could find. The result was the list below.

The majority of the reports are from newspaper stories, most of them printed in the UFO Newsclipping Service (still being published monthly by Lou Farish, #2 Caney Valley Drive, Plummerville, Arkansas 72127-8725). I also found a number of triangular reports in newspaper stories published in South America that were translated and passed on to me by Jane Thomas Guma. Jane, then living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now living in Glendale, Arizona, shared this information with a number of other researchers in the United States as well.

Other sources for the reports below include the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and my own investigations (Pratt).

In this list, if the country is not given, the incident occurred in the United States. In American sightings, references to “football field" size means roughly 140 yards in length and about 70 in width (the playing field is actually 100 yards long and 53 wide, but end zones and sidelines are included in this description.)

This compilation is not meant to be a record of all triangular sightings during these years. No one knows how many there have been. This list is offered only as an indication of what has been happening. It is very possible that many more such sightings were made that were not reported to the publications and organizations that were available to me.

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May 22, 1960. Palma, Majorca, Spain (MUFON). Astronomers at an observatory in Palma sighted a triangular-shaped object. The object spun on its axis without deviating from its path and appeared to be about the size of a quarter-moon. It was seen for two minutes. Its velocity, altitude and lack of noise or tail ruled out its being a jet aircraft of a balloon, an observatory spokesman said.

January 3, 1965, dusk. Near Washington, D.C. (MUFON). A four-engine Electra airliner nearly collided with a delta-shaped object several miles from the airport. The flight crew of the Electra saw what they thought was an ordinary aircraft. Abruptly it turned and moved swiftly toward the airliner. It was a huge craft with a black silhouette. Just as suddenly the object turned away and disappeared at a tremendous speed.

February 11, 1965, 7:35 p.m. Boulder, Colorado. A junior walking across the University of Colorado campus reported seeing six objects of football shape with inverted "V" wings that came to a point at the ends, with no tail sections and stark white against the dark winter sky. They were flying in formation at what seemed like an extremely high altitude. There was no jet sound, only a loud roar. The last two objects suddenly moved out of the formation, almost at right angles in a jerky movement, and just as quickly returned to their flight positions. The objects were moving from the southeast to the southwest apparently at a tremendous speed.

March 18, 1965, 7:06 p.m. Takamatsu, Japan (MUFON). Pilots of two airliners flying from Osaka to Hiroshima reported being chased by a strange object over the Seto Inland Sea. The first aircraft, a Toa Air Lines Convair 240 with 28 passengers aboard, was over the Deshima Islands when the pilot suddenly noticed an oblong, luminescent object approaching his plane. It came close to the airliner, causing the pilot to make a 60-degree turn to avoid a collision. The object then stopped, made an abrupt turn and flew along with the aircraft for about three minutes. It finally disappeared toward Takamatsu. About 30 seconds later the pilot of a Tokyo Air Lines Piper Apache made an emergency radio call to the Takamatsu tower, saying a UFO was pursuing his plane over the city. The Convair pilot said the craft was about 15 meters in diameter and radiated a greenish light, which prevented him from determining the shape of the object. However, the chief engineer and two other workers of an electric company saw the object from the ground and reported it was "shaped like a triangle whose top radiated brilliant light. It was in sight for about 10 seconds."

June 1970. Near Ponce, Puerto Rico (MUFON). A pilot holding a high federal government position reported that at dawn pilots of two airliners sighted a large balloon-like object. It was drifting slowly southwestward at 5,000 to 7,000 feet and was subsequently detected on radar and tracked. Its movement was four to eight knots. The pilot was flying with the Puerto Rico National Guard and was a member of a flight of F-104s and a T-33 aircraft that went to the site. On becoming airborne from San Juan, the pilots could see the object. It was approximately 40 miles southwest of Ponce and above 60,000 feet. The pilot flying the T-33 and the pilots of the four F-104s all noted that the object was (1) a manufactured item, (2) at least 125 feet in both width and length, (3) shaped like the forward third of a speedboat hull with a flat rear section and a pointed nose section, (4) the object was drifting slowly against the wind at eight knots, and (5) there were no apparent signs of propulsion. Extensive gun-camera film was collected and a B-52 from Ramey Air Force Base locked onto the target with its radar. As soon as it did, the B-52 received electronic jamming. The object was kept under surveillance throughout the day and was lost after dark. According to the San Juan Star, most of the people of Puerto Rico saw the object that day.

1973, night. Flatwoods, Kentucky. The dispatcher for the Flatwoods police department heard a "strange buzzing sound" outside the station and went outside to investigate. "I looked up and saw a triangular-shaped object hovering over a city parking lot and standing about a foot above the roof of the station. It threw out a real bright silverish-gold glow. I walked up under this thing. I was not afraid. It shot out in a 90-degree angle." He went back inside the station and as he thought about what he had seen, a woman came into the station, crying and screaming. After she calmed down she said she had been driving on a nearby country road when her engine and lights suddenly shut off. She said a triangular-shaped object had passed over her car making buzzing noises and then disappeared up into the sky.

April 3, 1975, 1:45 a.m. until sunrise. Southeast North Carolina (MUFON). Law enforcement officers in five counties pursued a V-shaped craft with two spotlights. First seen by Lumberton police, the object was traveling 200 to 300 feet above the ground, heading north along Interstate 95. At 1:50 a.m., two St. Pauls officers saw it take off from open ground 10 miles north of Lumberton. The object darted around, making right-angle turns and accelerating rapidly. It was brilliant and silent. During the night at least 100 sightings were reported, with at least nine police officers seeing eight craft similar to the V-shaped object reported earlier. One officer said it was 40 to 50 feet long and bathed in a blue tint. Residents of one town said the object's searchlights lit up the entire town. The police chief of White Lake reported that as he was driving, the object came down and lit up the whole area like daylight. He went on about 300 yards, then stopped and got out. The light from the object was so bright he had to look away. It was V-shaped, silent and lit up an area about 500 feet on either side of the road. The chief then got a powerful light of his own from his cruiser and shined it at the object. He blinked the light and the object blinked back. Then it suddenly went straight up in the air at about 200 miles an hour and disappeared.

October 27, 1975, about 3 a.m. Rural area between Oxford and Poland, Maine (Pratt). Two young men, 22 and 18, were driving on country road when they saw what they thought were two huge truck lights in a field. Then an enormous object rose up out of the field and went down the road just above and ahead of them. Half a mile away, a blinding light hit them and both passed out. When they came to the UFO was still above them. They drove back toward Oxford and lost sight of the UFO. About a mile away, the car turned into a side road on its own accord and halted on a hillside overlooking a lake. They could see the UFO again, above them. As they sat there, they saw two small UFOs come up off the lake and then descend in a falling-leaf pattern and then go back up as if they were climbing stair steps. Then all three objects vanished. Both men were ill for three days and reported having strange experiences, such as seeing small cubes floating in the air. Both became paranoid and believed the UFOs were following them. The older one said a man in a blue suit came to the door of his trailer home one day and warned him not to talk about his experiences. The younger man soon moved to Oklahoma. The other stayed and eventually was persuaded to undergo hypnosis. During six sessions conducted by a physician, the man told of finding himself aboard the UFO and looking out a window and seeing his friend still sitting in the driver's seat of the car below. He was then led by a short, grayish creature into another part of the UFO, where he saw four similar creatures and was given some kind of medical examination. For more details, click here.

December 31, 1975, late evening. St. George, Ontario, Canada. A triangular object estimated to be about 60 feet in diameter hovered over barn and 300 to 400 feet above the witness, a 14-year-old boy on snowmobile. The encounter lasted about one minute, the sighting about five minutes.

January 20, 1976, 7:30 p.m. Near Port Norris, New Jersey. Two women saw two bright lights stationary above trees 300 yards from a house. They called a neighbor couple, who watched with their two children. Two minutes later, the lights dimmed, then brightened and seemed to go off. A whirring noise was heard as a boomerang-shaped object passed over the heads of witnesses. There was a circle of red lights underneath. One woman said she saw a figure from the waist up in small, dark window.

August 28, 1976, 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. Venice, Florida. A woman saw a single light and then a V-shaped formation three times. During the first and second sightings she saw a single oval-shaped white light moving up and down above trees, then five lights in V-formation moving across the sky and zigzagging. A second woman saw a V-shaped formation just before dawn.

September 5, 1976, 11 p.m. Helena, Montana. A man told police he saw a wedge-shaped object hovering above an abandoned hotel. It then zoomed off. It had two red lights on one side and two blue lights on other.

January 10, 1977, evening. Massena, New York. A woman reported seeing a diamond-shaped object with green, yellow and white lights going around in a circle at the base of the object. It hovered over an elementary school for about an hour and then disappeared. On January 18 at 8 p.m., she and another woman saw the same or a similar object hover over the school and then move in a westerly direction.

February 15, 1977, 7 to 7:30 p.m. Eustis, Florida. Two Cub Scouts at a scout meeting saw a diamond-shaped object with red, green and blue lights around it over Lake Eustis. It left a trail behind it like a falling star. The object settled down behind trees, then shot up at an incredible speed and disappeared. There was no sound.

March 22, 1977, 12:40 a.m. Beach near San Clemente, California. A security guard saw two diamond-shaped objects, bright white and traveling at a high rate of speed, pass overhead from west to east, one behind the other. The estimated size: One inch at arm's length. At about 3:15 a.m. other witnesses saw two UFOs travel over Laguna Beach, eight miles north of San Clemente, heading for Catalina Island.

March 22, 1977, 3:28 a.m. Near Fontana, California (approximately 50 miles northeast of San Clemente). Seven security guards at March Air Force Base saw two gold and silver-colored diamond-shaped objects traveling at about 3,000 feet altitude south to north at high speed, leaving a blue stream behind. At 3:30 a.m., two Riverside County sheriff's deputies sitting in a parked patrol car in Edgemont, 10 miles to the south, saw a "cigar with a light on each end" pass overhead. Two California Highway Patrol officers reported seeing a UFO in the area the previous morning.

May 17, 1977, 3:30 a.m. Memphis, Tennessee (Pratt). Two Tactical Squad police officers in a van were driving south on an interstate highway through city when one spotted a triangular-shaped series of lights 35 to 50 feet above high tension towers just east of the expressway. Uncertain as to what it was, they turned around in the median and returned to the area but saw nothing. They drove a short distance farther north, then turned around and again headed south and this time saw the object hovering about 500 feet above a golf course on the west side of the interstate. They drove off an exit road, stopped, got out of their van and watched the object. It was triangular-shaped with white, red and green lights with a white glow around the silhouette itself. It was stationary over the golf course. The red and green lights were flashing alternately and the men could see what looked like portholes or very dim lights along the side of the object, which appeared to be metallic. One of the officers got a rifle with a telescopic sight out of the van to get a better look at the object. As soon as he shouldered the rifle, the object began moving away from them silently at a slow speed. The white and green lights went off but the glow was still visible. Then two red lights came on on the rear and the object simply disappeared across the horizon in one to two seconds. The sky was clear and visibility was good. Earlier in the evening, about 11 p.m., three other Memphis officers at a substation 15 miles northeast of the golf course saw a triangular series of lights passing over the city at a fast speed. One officer said it looked like a "flying Christmas tree." Air traffic controllers at Memphis International Airport had nothing unusual on radar during these sightings. For further details, click here.

November 18, 1977, 5:40 a.m. New Britain, Connecticut. Two women reported a triangular object with fins "swooped out of nowhere" and hovered over their car. It made no noise. It was cigar-shaped on the bottom with red glowing lights in the center. The triangular part was outlined in white lights that went on and off in sequence. The women watched the object dipping and zigzagging over the city for about 15 minutes. The driver immediately reported it to the police but was told no one else had reported seeing it.

November 22, 1977, 11:45 p.m. Plymouth, New York (midway between Utica and Binghamton) (Pratt). A farm couple had just gone to bed when they heard a loud roaring noise "like a jet plane coming right in on top of the house." The noise continued and suddenly the house started vibrating and the whole yard lit up. The farmer jumped out of bed, looked out a window and saw a huge triangular-shaped object hovering over the house and driveway, 100 to 150 feet above the ground. The noise was like that of a rocket. "You could hear the atmosphere around it cracking from the tremendous noise of this contraption," the farmer said. "It looked like a big triangular-shaped deal and the back end of it wasn't flat from point to point. It was more concave, like an arrowhead, and it looked like it had four engines in the back because you could see the orange fire that was in them." It appeared to be 75 to 80 feet wide and at least as long. There were four to six oscillating red lights. The couple's seven-year-old female German shepherd dog "just about went through conniptions when all this went on." The light from the object was so bright that the security lights in the barnyard, operated by photoelectric cells, went off. All this time the object was moving slowly, perhaps 10 to 15 miles an hour, and took 15 to 20 seconds to pass over the house and barns. It then quickly vanished over the hills at treetop level. Just a few minutes later another couple with a teenage son who live three miles away heard a loud noise that kept getting louder and louder. Then they saw "a huge object in the shape of a stingray fish, like a triangle but rounded in the front." The object lit up their front yard and the family could see "a bunch of square windows on it." It was about 50 feet off the ground. The family watched it for about five minutes before it passed out of sight. For further details, click here.

December 15, 1977, 7 to 10 p.m. Area from just southwest of Eureka Springs, Arkansas eastward through much of Carroll County (Pratt). Dozens of people, including two retired scientists and a police officer, saw a giant triangular or kite-shaped UFO move slowly eastward 25 to 30 miles across the county. About 7 p.m. a woman in Eureka Springs watched it for about 15 minutes as it approached and passed over her home. She described it as diamond-shaped with a bottom that looked like "raw wood." It had a red signal-like light in the middle and three or four smaller red lights elsewhere. The two scientists, a 73-year-old biologist and her husband, a 69-year-old nuclear chemist, saw the object about 9:25 p.m. near Beaver Lake, about five miles southwest of Eureka Springs. They were traveling home in separate vehicles about a mile apart when each saw two big bright lights passing slowly overhead toward Eureka Springs. Each stopped, got out and looked and neither heard any sound. Between 9:30 and 10, dozens of other people watched it pass over Berryville (ten miles east of Eureka Springs), going east. Most said it was diamond or kite-shaped, had three or four lights on it, sometimes pointed downward like spotlights, and was moving at a speed of 5 to 10 miles an hour. A policeman said it was triangular-shaped. He watched it with binoculars for 30 to 45 minutes from atop the highest hill in Berryville. Some people said they heard a humming sound. It was seen in Green Forest, a community seven miles southeast of Berryville, and was last seen passing over Oak Grove, nine miles northeast of Berryville, heading toward the Missouri border, about three miles beyond. For further details, click here.

January 12, 1978, 8:10 to 8:20 a.m. Cotheridge, Worcester, England. A woman reported seeing a brilliant crescent-shaped object with both ends pointed toward the earth. She said it was clearly visible in the cloudless sky. After hovering for some minutes, it flew off.

January 24, 1978, 7 to 8 p.m. Leicester and Hinckley, England. At least 17 people reported seeing a delta-shaped object that flew low overhead and made no noise. It was lit by steady red, blue and yellow lights as it headed south from Leicester toward Hinckley, where 12 residents saw it.

February 2, 1978, 7:30 p.m. Verona, Kentucky (near Cincinnati, Ohio). A middle-aged couple and their grown son saw a triangular-shaped object flying slowly and low over their farmhouse and disappear across a meadow. It had three big red lights and made a humming sound. The lights were so bright it was hard to look at them.

February 2, 1978, 11 p.m. Vineland, New Jersey. A woman saw a triangular object with a point at the back and "a lot of red and white lights." It made no sound. That same night, time unknown, six teenagers told police they saw a triangular object with lights in each corner when their car stopped at an intersection. They followed it for six or seven miles, wound up on narrow dirt road, then stopped and turned their lights off. The UFO also turned its lights off. When the car lights were turned back on, the UFO lights also went on. By then it appeared to be about a mile away and 500 to 600 feet in air.

February 9, 1978, 7:45 p.m. Island Lake, near South Lyon, Michigan. Several residents reported seeing a huge oval object hovering near their homes. One resident, a former Air Force aircraft mechanic, reported seeing a boomerang-shaped object the size of three 747s with a "great intensity of light coming from the center fuselage area." It was going west, flying at a low rate of speed. At least three adults and a number of children also saw the object, which made a humming noise. The slight noise confounded the ex-mechanic, who said a craft that size with conventional engines should have made enough noise to "blow out every window in the area." Police received about two dozen calls about sightings.

Mid February, 1978, evening. Nelagoney, Oklahoma. A woman driving on a back road saw what she thought was a star until it moved. Then it flew backwards and passed silently over her car. It was boomerang-shaped and emitted bluish-white sparks. It had four small lights on the front, flashing in sequence. Then it sped away.

February 22, 1978, 10 p.m. Loomis, California (near Sacramento). Several residents and a woman driving on an interstate highway reported seeing lights in the sky. One resident said the object was triangular in shape "with one point taller and a cone attached." It moved slowly and quietly, making a humming noise. Another resident and her son saw a triangular object with two large bright lights hovering about 75 feet over her house. Still another resident saw a stationary object in the sky with six to ten "real bright" lights in a horizontal row. A woman driving home saw two large, bright lights, but with no beam like a headlight. After a newspaper publicized these sightings, several more people called to report also seeing a delta-shaped object.

March 1, 1978, 9:30 to 11 p.m. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Pratt). Several hundred people saw an enormous object estimated by some to have been at least 600 feet across. None of the witnesses said the object was triangular in shape, but other characteristics of the object are remarkably similar to those associated with triangle reports. Most people saw two very bright front lights. One young couple saw the object twice. The first time, about 10 p.m., they were driving in the central part of the city when they saw a bright light in the southern sky. It kept getting bigger and brighter and they soon made out two lights slowly sweeping back and forth from left to right. It appeared to be very large. As they watched, a smaller object came from the north very fast, flashing red, white and blue lights. It passed right over their car, made a 180-degree turn in a second and headed toward the large object. Both disappeared over a hill. Intrigued, the couple drove to a reservoir in a park that is the highest point in the city, to see if they could locate the object. A minute later they saw the big one again, coming from the downtown area. It stopped almost above them, perhaps 2,000 feet in the air. They could hear a low humming noise. It appeared to be a dull gray color and had several steady white lights. The underbody seemed to consist of a steel grating and in the middle was a cylinder or cone protruding from the base. Recessed inside this cylinder were three triangular lights with their ends butted together to form a fourth triangle. The triangular lights lit up in sequence, one after the other. After a few minutes the object started to drift away and suddenly just disappeared. The witnesses estimated the object was as big as Three Rivers Stadium (home of professional football and basball teams and since torn down), which was 200 yards in diameter. Another witness, a woman who lived about five miles to the west, also said the object was as big as the stadium. In an interesting experiment in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Center for UFO Research, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a brief report about the sightings without giving any details and said the UFO group was seeking additional information. Within 24 hours the center received more than 150 phone calls from people who had seen the object. For further details, click here.

March 3, 1978, 10:20 p.m. Union, New Jersey. Two boys, 10 and 14, told police they saw a diamond-shaped object the size of a house. The object changed in color from orange to green to white and moved around in the sky before disappearing.

March 20, 1978, evening. Salamanca, New York. Five police officers saw a triangular or boomerang-shaped object with green, red, blue and white flashing lights on the side. Two of the officers, responding to calls from residents reporting sightings, saw one or more objects that appeared to be rotating and moving very slowly.

March 20‑24, 1978, exact date not given; a workday morning, about 4 a.m. Malibu, California. The general manager of a corporation in Venice left his house on his way to work and saw a bright circle of lights above him which seemed to be moving upwards and then disappeared. He was astounded. As he got into his car he heard a low rumbling, muffled sound. Then maybe 3,000 to 4,000 feet above him he could make out a triangular object the size of two 747s. It was moving very slowly and as he watched, it climbed toward a layer of clouds and then veered out over the ocean. He tried to follow it in his car but lost sight of it.

March 22, 1978, 9:15 p.m. New Scandia, Minnesota. More than 50 people reported seeing a V-shaped formation of red lights variously described as being as big as a battleship or a 747 aircraft flying at an altitude of 100 to 300 feet in a northwesterly direction at a speed of five to ten miles an hour. Critics and debunkers claimed the people saw a flight of five military helicopters, which flew through the area about the same time. However, the pilot of the lead helicopter was later quoted as denying the "UFO" could have been his flight because they were at an altitude of 2,500 feet, never hovered and flew at a speed of 90 miles an hour.

March 27, 1978, 9 p.m. Ratby (near Hinckley), Leicester, England. A 19-year-old student nurse was riding a motorcycle on a lane when she saw an object about two fields away and 200 feet in the sky. She described it as a long red object with white hot flames coming from the rear end. It hovered for four minutes, during which it made a loud droning noise. It then tilted and she could see lights at each point of a triangular shape.

Late March, 1978, 2:30 a.m. Yeovil, Dorset, England. Two young men, 17 and 19, reported seeing a bright orange, inverted cone-shaped object hovering just above the ground while they were driving home. They stopped and watched for five to ten minutes, after which it appeared to fade away. They estimated it was two to three miles away. They heard no sound.

April 6, 1978, 7 p.m. Baldwinsville, New York (just northwest of Syracuse). Two men driving saw a bright ball of white light traveling west at high rate of speed suddenly stop and remain motionless. After several minutes, the light went out and a series of red, green and blue flashing lights came on. Just as suddenly as it appeared, the lights went out and the object disappeared. An hour later, eight teenagers, six boys and two girls, riding bicycles saw three lights appear near a water tower in the southern sky. It hovered over the hill, lit up the area and then quickly disappeared. The previous evening a police officer and his family saw an object hovering near their home. The sheriff's department also received call from a helicopter pilot who said he and a friend were driving when they saw a diamond-shaped object hovering about 50 feet above the ground. The only sound it made was a "whooshing" noise as it suddenly took off at a high rate of speed.

April 26, 1978, 11 p.m. Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Two people in separate cars saw a triangular object passing over an interstate highway at a height of about 200 feet. It had a row of 12 red lights going down the center and two bright beams of light coming down from the sides. Both stopped and got out of their cars, as did five males in a third car. They watched as the object bobbed up and down about 100 feet above a golf course before continuing west.

Spring 1978, 10 p.m. Glenview, Illinois (CUFOS). A house painter, 20, riding in a car saw bright orange and white lights on a triangular object moving north at about 1,000 feet. It was moving slowly and passed out of sight beyond some buildings. At arm's length, the object was about the size of two hands.

May 20, 1978, 9:30 p.m. Norwich, Connecticut. At least four people reported to state police that they had seen six triangular objects in a row flying southeast over the Thames River. The objects had red lights at the rear and white or yellow lights on the front.

May 27, 1978, night. Chula Vista, California. A manufacturing engineer who had been investigating UFOs for 15 years got a call about a triangular craft near the Chula Vista Harbor Drive-in. The Chula Vista police department and the sheriff's station at Imperial Beach were getting calls from UFO witnesses. The engineer and another field investigator went to the Imperial Beach Pier. When they arrived, fishermen were walking toward the shore, leaving their gear behind. "They wouldn't talk to us," said the engineer. "They just stared at us blankly, like zombies." One couple who ran a concession stand and their baby were frightened, as was their dog, which had squeezed under a bed and wouldn't come out. Three police officers and a dispatcher had seen the UFO from the roof of the station, but a superior officer said they were not available for comment. The engineer talked briefly with two of the officers, and later in the day he went to their homes. However, the homes were vacant. When the investigators went back to the police station to check on the addresses, they were told the officers were no longer with the department. Three years later, the engineer tracked down one of the former officers in Montana, but he refused to be interviewed.

May 28, 1978, 8:44 to 9:30 p.m. Chula Vista, California. Police received seven calls about a diamond-shaped object with two sets of lights at each point that hovered for five to ten minutes behind a dairy near the harbor. One woman said: "It seemed to move and as it moved it seemed to be turning, but it didn't seem to be turning all the way around." Others saw a triangular object that made no noise.

June 13, 1978, 2:30 p.m. King Standing at Ashdown Forest, West Sussex, England. A geology surveyor for the water authority was working high up on a drilling rig when he saw a wedge-shaped object silhouetted against a high bank of fir trees 500 to 600 yards away. The object was about 100 feet above the ground but 50 to 60 feet below the surveyor. He tapped a fellow worker on shoulder to draw his attention to it. It flew down the valley, crossed a highway and vanished over the horizon. Neither man could see any wings on the object. They estimated it covered a distance of four miles in three to four seconds. The surveyor is colorblind but his mate said it was light colored underneath and red on top. No noise could be heard.

August 5, 1978, 11:15 p.m. Laurie, Missouri. A 40-year-old TV director was driving through a wooded area with his daughter and son when they saw two red lights about 25 feet to the left of the road. It rose about 30 feet above the ground. The son, 11, saw a triangular object fly over car to their right, cut back at the top of the hill they were driving down, turn around and approach them again, only to descend behind trees. The father heard faint whirling noise and saw only the two lights rise off ground. The son estimated the object was 10 to 12 feet across.

August 17, 1978, 10 p.m. Rural area between Marblehead and Port Clinton, Ohio. A woman, her three children and her mother were riding in a car when they saw three lights "the size of a silver dollar" and patterned "like an upside down triangle" flashing on and off in the sky. When first seen, the lights were near the moon at the 7 o'clock position. They blinked out and came back on a second later at the 3 o'clock position. The lights were approaching the car from the northwest at a rapid speed and the woman stopped. Her mother looked out and saw "two huge lights at least two-and-a-half-feet in diameter right over the car." The lights flashed and were pentagonal shaped. From her perspective, they were about eight inches apart. Within a few seconds the object passed on overhead and went out of sight.

August 24, 1978, 9 to 10 p.m. Sedan and Peru, Kansas. Several residents reported seeing a kite-shaped object as big as a 747 flying northwest-southeast at a slow speed, making a low humming noise. One woman said it was diamond-shaped and had three steady white lights on the front, back and right side and a red blinking light on the left side. Some said it was flying high; others said it was just above the trees.

September 1978. Western Michigan. Dan Wright, then director of investigations for MUFON, was driving on Interstate 94 when he and a companion saw a boomerang-shaped object with two mammoth spotlights whoosh silently over all four lanes of I-94 and then right over their heads. Wright and his companion stopped and watched the object through binoculars as it hovered for a while over a nearby grove of trees.

September 14‑16, 1978. Italy. During a series of sightings throughout the entire country, numerous cigar, disc and triangular-shaped objects were seen. In the Alps near Bolzano, rail workers saw a triangular object with two powerful lights, which disappeared at great speed after a few minutes. At 5:50 a.m. on September 14, people in Rome saw a triangular object for five minutes. At about the same time, people near Florence reported seeing a cigar-shaped object. Early on the morning of the 16th, highway police near Rome received calls about a "luminous triangle" and "a beam of greenish light."

December 6, 1978, 11 p.m. Antioch, California. A music teacher and another man saw a single light branch out into several others, with one bright light in front and a red light at the tail end. The diamond-shaped object flew over them and made a low rumble or humming sound. The two men jumped into a car and chased the object, once catching up with it and crossing its path. It flew off in northwesterly direction, lost altitude and disappeared from sight. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. The object was about size of "two houses" and about 1,000 feet high. On the way back to the teacher's house, they saw an identical object coming from the east. They watched it for ten minutes as it moved west and south. About 11:45 p.m., the other man saw a third object shaped "like a stingray," possibly the same object that two women reported seeing pass over their house the same evening. About two weeks earlier, another woman in the adjoining city of Pittsburg saw a similar object.

December 23, 1978, 9:30 p.m. Near Punta del Este, Uruguay. A newspaper sports reporter driving to Punta del Este on assignment saw a giant V formation of lights 300 to 400 meters away along the slope of the Pan de Azucar (Sugar Loaf) hill. They were stationary and he stopped to get a better look. It was an imposing sight but since there was nothing he could do, he decided to continue his trip. Just a few minutes later he saw a pair of bright lights in his rearview mirror and thought it was a truck. He pulled over to let it pass, but nothing happened. He again stopped and got out. The lights had disappeared and there was no truck. Somewhat alarmed, he got in his car again and started up only to see a bright white light cross the road 500 meters ahead of him and perhaps 300 meters high, heading out to sea.

December 28, 1978, 4:30 a.m. Arroyito, Cordoba, Argentina. Three workers of the electrical company of Cordoba were driving in a company truck near Arroyito and were about to cross a bridge over the Rio Segundo when they suddenly found themselves in the town of Transito, 15 kilometers farther on. They were amazed and didn't understand how they had gotten there. The cigarettes they had been smoking were still burning. They discussed what had happened as they continued on their way. But shortly after, as they approached the locality of Santiago Temple, they saw a very intense light coming from a nearby hill, 150 meters from the road. It was coming from a flattened rhomboid-shaped object about 25 meters across which revolved on a vertical axis while emitting intense rays of light from the upper part. At times it oscillated as if it were a top on a wave. The men said another truck had stopped and as they watched, the object suddenly focused a strong beam of light on their truck before moving away.

End of December 1978, 8 p.m. Antofagasta, Chile. Three Chilean Air Force F5-Es were sent aloft to intercept a giant UFO that had been detected by radar. The object was reported to be at an altitude of about 10,000 feet over Calama in the northern part of the country. There were no clouds and the sky was semi-dark. The flight commander spotted the object and a lieutenant in another plane ten miles away confirmed the sighting. The object, which was "between round and triangular and was very bright," according to the commander, was about 50 times bigger than the F5-Es. The incident was not revealed to the public until May 29, 1979, the day a similar incident occurred (see below). The Air Force could not explain what the object was.

January 4, 1979, daytime. Israel. Israelis reported seeing a "sparkling diamond in the sun" hovering, zigzagging and streaking through the sky from Jerusalem to Haifa.

May 6, 1979, 10:45 p.m. Kalama Valley, about 12 miles east of Honolulu, Hawaii. An airline flight attendant and her husband were driving back to Honolulu when they saw a triangular object coming slowly toward them from the west. It was huge, about the size of "two or three hands" at arm's length. "It should have fallen out of the sky it was so big," the woman said. It had two big headlights and underneath about two dozen glowing red, green and white lights blinking on and off. The couple stopped to watch it. As the object moved faster, "it would move funny, sort of up and down." It headed out to sea and went out of sight.

May 29, 1979. Antofagasta, Chile. A Chilean Air Force captain who was instructing another pilot in an F5-E on a routine training flight reported that they saw an unidentified object. Radar operators had alerted them to its presence. "I first saw a nebulous spot, but on approaching noticed it was a kind of black triangle with two little tails," said the captain. "At that moment, with a maneuver that was also seen from the ground, the UFO made a turn and left at a speed surpassing that of sound."

May 29, 1979, evening. The Meadows, Nottingham, England. A woman saw a triangular-shaped object with a reddish-orange glow. It was moving up and down but after two or three minutes it got up speed, climbed rapidly and disappeared. One or two nights earlier a group of boys playing soccer said they saw a fleet of triangular objects in the Ashby area.

August 2, 1979, between 11 p.m. and midnight. Oberlin, Kansas. At least 30 residents of Decatur County reported seeing a pair of large unidentified objects with a series of lights flying extremely slowly at low altitudes, with little or no noise. One woman and her three children said they saw what looked like car headlights in the sky for about eight minutes as it passed northwest of their rural residence. It had one light in front and a diamond pattern of four lights in back with nothing in between. Another woman riding home from the county fair with her son and daughter saw "two car headlights" in the sky moving east as they headed west. The son was driving and he turned the vehicle south one mile to get a better view but they could see little more and went on home. From their yard they watched the object as it came slowly eastward right over their house. It passed about "double tree-top height" over their cattle feedlot yard lights. They could see a cone-shaped light in front with three lights in back, one on top and two on the bottom. It was as big as a football field and made a humming sound like a blimp. All the lights were steady.

September 11, 1979, Between 8 and 11:30 p.m. Spalding, Leicester, England. At 8 o'clock, a woman and her mother were standing at the back door of their house when they saw a bright light shining down. It disappeared. The woman then went into the field to check her lambs and heard a "horrible noise, like a deep humming" above her. She looked up and saw three lights in a triangle, one red and two white, not very high. About three hours later a couple in bed realized there was a light in the sky. The wife looked out a window and saw what looked like "a car with its headlights on." The object was stationary and had two large lights and one small light shaped like a triangle. It later moved away. The woman heard a noise like an engine revving up and was frightened because she thought it was a plane in trouble. Still another couple saying goodbye to a relative saw it or a similar object with two red lights at the front and a white light some distance to the rear. It was moving slowly as if scanning the ground with two very large and powerful searchlights. After about five minutes, it switched off the searchlights, increased its speed and moved over the couple's house, making a droning sound. "It must have been a massive piece of machinery," said the wife. "We feel sure it was of a triangular shape from the position of the lights."

October 20, 1979, 8:45 p.m. Millsboro, Delaware. Two women saw strange lights that seemed to be flying in formation close to the ground just west of Millsboro. They saw three lights that were flying apart at first. Then the lights "seemed to come into a triangle shape and it looked like there was a plane with red and blue lights following it." The first three lights were gold colored and were accompanied by a low humming noise.

December 20, 1979, 9:45 p.m. Des Moines, Iowa. A 26-year-old woman and her 18-year-old sister saw a diamond-shaped object "two or three times larger than an airplane," with four white lights in the corners flying near Interstate 235 in the city. It was dark and shadowy with no clear definition on a flat bottom surface. Sometimes it barely moved and sometimes it hovered. The two women actually saw it three times from different locations, with the longest sighting lasting about two minutes. It made a low rumbling sound. The older sister said it was about size of an orange held at end of an arm.

January 13, 1980, 9 p.m. Red Wing, Minnesota. Two women saw a flashing triangle of lights above a nursing home. Although it appeared to be moving slowly, it was overhead for only about two minutes. When directly above them, they could see two "egg-shaped lights similar to spotlights on either side of the front white light." They became frightened and hid in a car when the object hovered 15 to 30 seconds above a nearby 50-foot oak tree. Three other women who worked at the nursing home each separately saw the triangle of lights.

February 11, 1980, 10 p.m. to midnight. Argentina and Chile. Hundreds of people in more than a dozen communities in an area of Chile and western Argentina 600 miles long and 300 miles wide reported seeing a large, usually triangular object. Many sightings occurred between 10:50 and 11:10 in areas far apart, which makes one wonder if this weren't a meteor or falling space debris. However, details of individual sightings with numerous witnesses indicate otherwise. Examples: Shortly before 11 p.m., the mayor and 31 other people in Ahilinco, a small community in Neuquen Province 635 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, saw a brilliant object with a triangle of very strong light in the center. It was about 45 degrees high in the sky to the west over the Andes. The object remained motionless for three minutes, then the triangle disappeared, the lights began to gyrate, then went out and the object slowly disappeared toward the west. Residents in the nearby larger town of Chos Malal saw much the same thing. In the town of Ingeneiro Luis Huergo in Rio Negro Province (200 miles east-southeast), a 22-year-old man returning home about 10 p.m. saw a bright light about 200 meters away and 30 meters in the air. The next thing he knew it was 11 p.m., an hour later, and he was in his car 18 kilometers farther away near the town of Cervantes. The light was still in front of and above his car, which wouldn't start. He walked into town but when he returned with a policeman the object had gone. He described it as "a kind of big L. Where the two 'legs' of the L join was a kind of star. Inside the 'L' was a square and within the square a smaller one, a kind of TV screen." A mailman who lives two kilometers southeast of Cervantes said that at 10:55 p.m. he and four or five neighbors saw a large ball of light with a beam of light shining down. After three or four minutes it flew off at great speed to the north. Between 10:45 and 11 p.m., numerous people in Chepes, Barrealito, Tamberies and Chamical in San Juan Province, 600 miles to the north-northwest, saw a large triangular object with a "blue luminosity with a reddish hue" moving at great speed. Around 11 p.m. in Santiago, Chile (about 130 miles south), many people including military and police personnel saw an immense ball of light with two beams of light shining out. After ten minutes, it began to wobble and then disappeared at "an incredible speed." Around 11:30 p.m. near El Medano in Catamarca Province, Argentina (400 miles northeast of Santiago), a doctor, his wife and three children saw an enormous ball of intense orange light with three beams of light, one to the left, one to the right and one down to the ground. They saw five other people also watching it. After several minutes, it shot off across the horizon at great speed. At 11:45 p.m. in San Vicente in neighboring Santiago del Estero Province (about 100 miles northeast of El Medano), witnesses saw a triangular object that gave off intermittent green, red and yellow lights that shined down to the ground. It remained motionless for five minutes and then disappeared at great speed. Shortly before midnight, an unidentified object passed over the Pacific coast towns of Penco and Lirquen in Chile (just north of Concepcion and nearly 300 miles south of Santiago), and then landed in the waters of the bay. It floated for about ten minutes, shining searchlights that lit the whole bay, and then suddenly ascended and disappeared over the mountains to the east, leaving behind a trail of smoke that hung in the air for about two hours.

April 10, 1980, 8:25 p.m. Naples, Florida (CUFOS). A photographer working with another man doing night photography in a downtown park saw an object on the horizon. It came from the west-southwest going east and passed overhead at a height of about 500 feet. It was triangular and had three very dark green lights, one at each tip of the triangle, but they were barely visible. No sound was heard. The object passed out of sight beyond buildings on the horizon. The sighting lasted 45 to 60 seconds. The witness had a pilot's license and had flown single-engine planes.

August 20, 1980, night. Paradise, California. Two men saw a brilliant light hovering for 10 minutes about 30 miles away. Suddenly it took off at a high rate of speed, climbing in altitude, and the two could see a triangle of lights on the bottom of the object.

September 13, 1980, 2:30 a.m. Hamilton Pool, 26 miles northwest of Dripping Springs, Texas. Four young people were sleeping in a tent when one of the women awoke to find the tent lit up with a faint yellow glow. She screamed, awakening the others. One man, 19, went outside, thinking a log had rolled out of the fire, but the fire was out. A loud humming sound caused him to look up, and at about 125 feet altitude he saw a triangular object with two lights at each tip, yellow and white, red and green, blue and white. It was moving slowly north. He also saw three thrusters on the underside, like nozzles on a rocket. Nothing was coming from them. The underside was greenish-gray in color, not a reflection of the lights. The object hovered about ten seconds and the humming sound became a pulsating hum, as if the object was about to stall. It moved over the hills and went out of sight. About 30 minutes earlier they had heard a loud explosion like a cannon being fired. The girls were in the canyon and saw sparks from above the ledge.

September 27, 1980. Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Three unidentified flying objects were seen near the atmospheric rocket launching base of Barreira do Inferno, on the Atlantic coast just south of Natal. A landing had been reported between the towns of Caico and Jucurutu, 100 kilometers west of Natal, while a radio station reported that a "triangular luminous object appeared near Natal, shortly thereafter disappearing towards the sea."

October 5, 1980, early morning before dawn. Near Ridgefield, Washington. A crew member of southbound freight train reported seeing a triangular-shaped object about 300 feet across hover about 400 feet above the train tracks. It had red and white blinking lights.

October 7, 1980, 11:30 p.m. Four miles northwest of Yelm, Washington. People riding in a car saw a "huge object shaped like a triangle in front with red and green lights" about 1,000 feet from them. It passed over them. On the same night, people in Tenino, 15 miles southwest of Yelm, saw a triangular object with a white glow around it moving fairly fast and low. A third report that evening came from nearby Offutt Lake, where people riding in a car saw a gold-colored, diamond-shaped object for about three minutes.

October 19, 1980, evening. Albion, Michigan. A couple and their two young children were returning home on a country road near Albion when they saw a diamond-shaped object coming toward them. It had two steady white lights at the sides and red and blue lights forming the front and the back. The father, an Air Force veteran, estimated the object was 200 to 500 feet high. As the object flew overhead, the family's van stalled 20 feet short of a stop sign.

October 23, 1980, evening. Clifton and Morenci, Arizona (Pratt). A huge triangular or boomerang-shaped object made repeated visits to these two adjoining copper mining towns during October, November and December. The most spectacular sightings occurred on October 23. On that night it hovered above a football field where a high school band was practicing. All 110 members of the band as well as 30 to 40 parents sitting in the stands saw the object, which appeared to be as big as the field itself. It stayed throughout the entire rehearsal before drifting off. It was described as a "string of lights in a triangular shape." It would move and stop, move and stop. It disappeared about the time the practice ended. Shortly before it was seen over the high school, five maintenance workers saw the object above a large copper smelting plant one mile west of the school and on the other side of a mountain ridge. The workers said it had twelve red lights on it and a big searchlight in the front. The smelter has two 600-foot-tall smokestacks 130 feet apart that are 23 feet in diameter at the tops. The object once hovered directly over one of the smokestacks and appeared to shine its searchlight down into the smokestack. The object drifted away, then shot off to the south, but suddenly stopped, returned and passed over the smelter again and on out of sight over a huge open pit mine nearby. An investigator for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization talked to five miners who said they saw the object five miles west of Morenci about two hours later. During the last three months of the year, a number of people in Clifton and Morenci saw a diamond-shaped object. One witness was a restaurant owner who had had several sightings. He said that in April 1980 he and another man saw a V-shaped object with thee or four lights on each side pass low overhead. Then it suddenly split into two sections, with half the lights going one way and the other half the other. Another witness, a woman, saw a triangular object pass over low enough that she said the bottom looked "like little hardwood planks three to four inches wide, like a hardwood floor." It hovered for a few seconds and then shot away. For further details, click here.

October 28, 1980, nighttime. Middletown, New York. Two women driving saw a triangular black object hovering over trees just outside the city limits. They turned toward it to get a better view and the object rose in silence, dropped back down and flew off. The women searched for 15 minutes and saw it again. They tracked it for a while, and then suddenly it appeared overhead. It was about 60 feet long, had four lights shining beneath and one huge beam that shined down on the car. "It was whiter than white, like a blue light," said one woman. The women sped home and the object followed overhead. It left with a loud hum after they rushed into the house.

October 29, 1980, 7 p.m. Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom. A man reported seeing a triangular mass of white light traveling slowly above his village, Aberbargoed. He said it had two bright lights at the bottom corner and a blue green light slowly turning at the apex. It disappeared from view slowly. The witness was described as an aircraft enthusiast and said he is certain this was not a plane.

November 18, 1980, throughout the evening. About a dozen communities in northern-central Missouri, the largest of which are the small cities of Trenton and Kirksville (Pratt). Hundreds of people reported seeing a large triangular-shaped object move slowly back and forth several times over an area at least 100 miles wide for four to five hours. It was once spotted on radar and seen visually at the same time by a maintenance technician at an unmanned radar station north of Kirksville. It went through his area four or five times, he said, and he once tracked its speed at 45 miles an hour. He went outside to look at it twice. It was about six miles away and all he could see were lights. A number of people said it hovered overhead. Often two big bright lights like headlights were seen. Many said it was as big as a football field. One university student took a photo as it tipped on its side, showing a row of lights (they looked greenish, he said) like windows around a domed area on top. A teacher in Trenton said he could see white lights that looked like cockpit or cabin lights on the front of the object. A number of police officers saw it. One of them, a veteran highway patrolman, saw it hovering about six miles west of Trenton. He drove for about five minutes until he got underneath it, and saw it sitting silently 1,500 to 1,800 feet above him. After 30 seconds or so, it suddenly moved back east without turning around, making a low jet-engine sound as it moved away. It went out of sight in about 40 seconds. Near Kirksville, 60 miles east of Trenton, a sheriff's deputy who was also a pilot and another deputy saw the object suddenly go back in the opposite direction without banking or turning around. A farm woman saw a big bright light in a field on an adjoining farm, sent her son and husband to check it out and while they were gone she saw the white light suddenly turn very dark orange. She said it was "almost round but the right side was sort of cut off." Another farmer some distance away saw the object twice during the evening. The first time it went over his house at about 300 to 400 feet altitude. It had seven lights underneath and two big headlights on the front. It was triangular, moved at about 40 miles an hour and made a low rumbling sound. An aerial-refueling operation took place in this area at one point during the evening, and may account for some sightings. However, nearly all witnesses said they had seen refueling flights before and were emphatic about this not being a plane. In addition, a number of witnesses said they could see jets in the sky at the same time, although not in connection with the object. For further details, click here.

November 29, 1980, 5 a.m. Todmorden, Yorkshire, England. A number of police officers independently reported seeing a UFO in the area. One constable said he came across what he at first thought was a bus that had slid across the road sideways. Then he realized it was a UFO. "It was about 20 feet wide and 14 feet high and was diamond-shaped," he said. "It had a bank of windows and the bottom half was rotating. It was hovering off the ground about five feet and it was very frightening – very frightening." His radio stopped working and he decided to sketch the object on his clipboard. The next minute he found himself a hundred yards down the road and there was no sign of the UFO. During hypnotic regression, he told a story of having been taken on board the craft.

December 1980, exact date not given, 5 a.m. Off the coast of South Carolina or Florida (CUFOS). A merchant seaman on a ship heading for the Panama Canal had just gone off the 12-to-4 watch and was topside eating when he saw a light following the ship. It was as large as several moons. It was a white triangle. After about ten minutes, it turned into a pale red sphere. The object kept getting larger and larger for another ten minutes. Then the object seemed to shrink and disappear. The total length of the sighting was 25 minutes. The seaman was puzzled and said he had never seen anything like it before, but did have another sighting later, on December 25, off Cristobol Island.

December 29, 1980, 9 p.m. Between New Caney and Dayton, Texas. In what is known as the "Cash-Landrum Case," two middle-aged women and the grandson of one were driving home to Dayton on a deserted country highway when they spotted a glowing red object on the horizon ahead of them. Several minutes later, it suddenly swooped down and hovered over the road a short distance head of them. It was a dazzlingly bright, enormous diamond-shaped object standing on one end. The glow was so bright they could barely stand to look at it. They stopped the car and watched. The object periodically belched flames from the bottom toward the road and would rise up a short distance and then settle back down. All three got out of the car but the grandson was so terrified that the grandmother quickly got him and herself back inside. The driver walked to the front of the car and stood there for a short while. Her companion pleaded with her to get back in the car and she finally did. After about 15 minutes, the object – which all this time had been making a loud noise accompanied by a constant beeping sound – finally rose up above the pine trees, turned over on its side and slowly drifted south toward the nearby Gulf of Mexico. As it flew away it was surrounded by more than 20 military helicopters, most of them later identified by the women from charts as CH-47 Chinooks. The women and the boy drove on home, all feeling ill. All three were nauseated and suffered from severe headaches, diarrhea, reddening of the skin, stomach pains, extreme thirst and loss of appetite. The driver, who was exposed to the object longer than the other two, was hospitalized several days later, her face blistered and badly swollen. She spent a month in the hospital. All three broke out in blisters and from then on remained highly sensitive to heat. The two women lost most of their hair, which grew back in within six months. All three suffered lingering effects for several years. The first woman was hospitalized several times in the following years and eventually died of cancer. UFO investigators talked to other people who had seen the glow of light from a distance that night and other witnesses who had seen a large group of CH-47s in the area later that evening. The helicopters appeared to be searching for something as they moved fairly low across the sky. However, all government and military agencies that might have been involved denied having any aircraft in the area that night or knowing anything about the incident. All activity involving the object and helicopters was at fairly low altitude and would not have been picked up on radar at Houston International Airport, 30 miles to the south. (For details of this extraordinary encounter, read John F. Schuessler’s book, The Cash Landrum UFO Incident. Schuessler is international director of the Mutual UFO Network).

November 26, 1980, evening. West Norfolk, England. A couple driving in the country saw a triangular-shaped object hovering over the road. Earlier in the evening, at 5:30 p.m., an eight-year-old girl reported seeing flashing orange and red lights hovering over a field behind her house. On same evening, a retired 75-year-old man said he saw mysterious object flying over the docks.

January 16, 1981, early hours, before dawn. Welling (southeast London area), England. Two men driving in a lorry noticed a bright light in sky near Eltham. It was about half a mile above them and a beam came from two powerful lights on the front of the object. Then, when the men were stopped at a traffic light in Welling, they saw an enormous black triangular object emitting a V-shaped beam of light from the front. It had other colored lights underneath it. "It was massive," said one man, comparing it with a 400-passenger DC-10 in which he had once been a passenger. British UFO Research Association investigator Maureen Hall said the shape was rare but she had had a phone call from someone in Cheshire (the Liverpool-Manchester area) who had seen a similar delta-shaped object earlier in the day.

January 22, 1981, 6 p.m. Jesup, Georgia. A chemical engineer and his wife and a second man, the owner of a furniture store, saw a triangular or horseshoe-shaped object, about the size of an airplane, descending from a northwesterly direction. They described it as brilliant red or orange with individual lights on it. The sighting lasted only a few seconds. The three braced themselves for an explosion as it disappeared behind trees but there was only silence. They searched for it but found nothing. Another man about five miles away also saw the object descend and said it looked like a "big ball of fire."

February 15, 1981, evening. Offerton, Ontario, Canada. Three students saw a round object moving through sky with lights around the side and three lights in a triangle shape underneath. It moved, hovered and then disappeared upwards into the sky. The sighting lasted four to five minutes.

February 22, 1981, 10 to 10:30 p.m. La Vernia, Texas (20 miles east of San Antonio). At least 30 residents reported seeing a triangular object hovering in the area at the same time that TV sets and telephones were disrupted and a false fire alarm was set off. The object had two white lights at the front and a red light at the rear. The lights went up "real high" and came back down again. A "low whooshing" sound could be heard. A smell of burning tar or insulation wiring hung in the area but no fire could be found. One witness saw what appeared to be "the body of a large aircraft" with two bright lights and a red light. It was barely moving. Three men hunting raccoons had just released their dogs when they saw the object moving toward them. They saw two lights like streetlights, bright but not blinding, just glowing. When the object passed overhead, it appeared to be the size of "an eight-room house" and made a humming sound. One of the men flashed an SOS signal with his flashlight but the object did not respond. Earlier, an Air Force mechanic reported seeing two "saucers" following a plane toward San Antonio and thought the plane was towing them. Then suddenly the objects passed the plane.

March 12, 1981, 9 p.m. Attica, Michigan. Nine members of a family playing cards saw "floodlights" out a window and thought it was a plane or helicopter, but the lights suddenly went off. The family went outside and in the light of the full moon saw a flat, triangular object with rounded corners. It had red, green, white and amber vertical lights. It was about 100 feet off the ground and it passed over the house at about five miles per hour. It made very little noise, "sort of like a small plane at idle."

March 15, 1981, evening. Bethesda, Maryland. A middle-aged author and his wife were driving when they saw a triangular object about the size of a Boeing 747 flying about 1,000 feet high, at about 100 miles an hour. It made no noise. It had a row of square windows (filled with bright light, like fluorescent lighting) in front and two "cherry red" exhaust lights at the rear. Going north to south, it flew diagonally across the path of the car and went out of sight beyond some trees after 25 to 30 seconds. The man said he received phone calls later from others who had seen it, including one man in Gaithersburg, a nearby community in the direction the object was flying.

April 15, 1981, 7:35 p.m. Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire. A man driving in the area of Mount Sunapee saw a huge triangular object with red lights. It first appeared as "two huge, bright stars" to the east and was stationary. Then "one of the stars seemed to fall several miles straight down" and began moving westward. As it approached, the object took on the appearance of a huge metal triangle with several red lights on the side and a very bright, high-intensity white light on the leading edge. The object looked similar to "five B-52s in a low-altitude flight, flying in a staggered V formation." The object flew "very low, lower than the hills," and passed over the man’s car going west.

April 15, 1981, about 7:45 p.m. Windsor, Vermont (about 27 miles west-northwest of Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire). Two employees of public radio station, outside on a coffee break, saw an object described as "V-shaped with a big white light in front." The object was said to have "definite dimensions and red side lights." Lights illuminated grid work underneath. It was moving very slowly. A heavy hum was heard.

April 15, 1981, 10:30 to 11 p.m. Fairchance, Pennsylvania. A police officer and several other witnesses reported seeing a series of lights in a diamond-shaped configuration. The witnesses differed as to the color of the lights, blue, green, red or white.

April 27, 1981, 12:30 a.m. Stretton (Liverpool area), England. A couple driving in car saw a brilliant light, stopped at a hotel and got out to watch. It hovered over nearby homes for about two minutes. It was triangular in shape and about the size of "two-seater plane, but certainly was not a plane," said the wife. It was about 60 feet above the ground and they could see lights inside object. They heard a constant "machine sound" which did not resemble that of a helicopter. The object suddenly shot off at a fast speed, coming even closer to the ground. The wife said people in other cars also stopped to watch.

May 20, 1981, 12:45 a.m. Melones, California. Six employees working the graveyard shift at an asbestos plant saw two diamond-shaped objects in the northern sky. The "bright clear lights" remained stationary for about five minutes, and then began moving southward. As they moved, the men could see two other lights on the back of object. They saw it again at 3 a.m. Both times it appeared to be about 1,000 feet overhead. The six men were working in three separate areas.

September 28, 1981, 8 p.m. Rural area near Bancroft, Michigan (MUFON). A widow saw lights in a field near her home and thought they were National Guard helicopters. She phoned her son, who lives nearby, and asked him to take a look. Shortly thereafter he, his wife and her nephew went outside and saw three or four lights moving erratically with both horizontal and vertical darting motions. The lights then moved into a formation of sorts about 150 yards from their driveway. One light descended vertically and rose to its original position in the span of a second. Then out of the east came two more objects, and from the southwest one or two more. Soon after their arrival, one light moved considerably closer to the witnesses. Its surface was a dull gray and it hovered about 75 yards away, and then dipped its forward section toward them. It was sort of bat-like in shape with drooped wings. On each wingtip was a steady red light, while a piercing white flashing strobe light was on the underside. At the same time, the husband was watching another object that slowly glided into what he described as a "45-degree angle of attack." It then veered off to the southwest revealing its underside as a round-edged triangle or arrowhead shape. He then went inside to rest a leg he had injured some weeks earlier. The nephew had walked to the end of the driveway 60 feet away, and the wife walked out to join him. From there they watched a "room‑sized" irregular ball of brilliant light about 500 yards away. The nephew went inside to get rifle telescopes. The light was too bright and hurt their eyes. They soon spotted eight or ten more lights in a grouping in the sky. As the two of them looked up, they saw a triangular object pass over the house at a height of a few hundred feet. Through the telescopes they could see a gray undersurface. At each of its rounded corners was a depression or hole, surrounded by a ring or groove. Outside of these at the edge were blue flashing lights in the right and left rear and a red light on the front. Centered on its underside was a flashing white strobe light. Extending from the central light toward each ring was a bar-like attachment. The three outer lights were flashing in this sequence: Front, right rear, left rear, center. As the object passed over, they could hear a "swooshing" sound. They estimated its size as perhaps 25 to 35 feet long and 15 to 25 feet across. In the meantime, the husband had called some friends and four other adults soon joined them. Between 8 and 10:30 p.m. the group watched similar activity. The lights gradually dispersed by 10:30. On October 2, the wife saw a V-shaped object, and on October 12 saw a reddish-orange circular object, which was soon joined by a second object that appeared as a triangular pattern of lights.

October 31, 1981, night. El Cajon Mountain, 40 kilometers west of Mendoza, Argentina. A bright light that rose rapidly and soundlessly surprised seven veteran mountain climbers camped in the Andes, leaving a glow of light that reflected on the mountain. "It was as if someone had projected light from a powerful reflector and in that light one could see a kind of clouds which danced, as though you were looking at exhaust from automobiles reflecting in your headlights," said one climber. Another said: "The thing changed quickly into a brilliant sphere, and then you could see in the middle of it a kind of darkened hat-like shape." Later, he said, the object disappeared and transformed itself into "white contrails that in a matter of seconds took on a triangular shape, and in one of its extremes the ship could be seen."

1982. Pleasanton, California. Darrell Evans, first baseman for the Detroit Tigers professional baseball team, reported that he and his wife saw a triangular craft with brilliant white lights from the patio of their former home in Pleasanton. "It was as if they singled us out," he said. However, he waited two years before telling anyone about it.

Mid-February 1982, 9 p.m. Near Bakersfield, Vermont. A woman driving home from St. Albans saw a large white light moving slowly through the sky when she was about a mile and a half from Bakersfield. It was quite low in the sky. "At first I thought it was a plane about to land, so I flashed my headlights to warn it off the road. And then it started coming towards me." As the object got closer she could see it was triangular in shape. Before losing sight of it, she convinced herself it was a hang-glider or a hot air balloon. She turned into her driveway and was startled to see the glowing triangle in her own backyard. "It was just hovering there, about 25 feet from me," she said. She got out of the car, picked up her two bags of groceries and started toward the house. "Then I stopped for a moment to look at the thing and I began to feel very frightened. It was obviously watching me." She called out for her upstairs neighbors but no one responded. Feeling panicky, she began running toward her house, dropping her groceries. "I looked down at the bags, then up at the sky. The thing was then moving right over my head, making absolutely no sound. Now I could see that it wasn't just one light. It had many lights all across the bottom. And it was much bigger than I'd thought, maybe as big as a football field." The object moved away noiselessly. She ran inside and woke up her neighbor, who stayed with her the rest of the night. Neither woman would go outside to get the groceries. The next morning the object was nowhere to be seen and the groceries had frozen to the snow.

July 22, 1982, 9:30 p.m. Katy, Texas (suburban area west of Houston). A woman, her daughter and a neighbor were walking when they saw what they first thought were lights of an airplane. Then they realized the lights were stationary and making no noise. In addition, no insects or birds were making any sounds. The lights were large, round and orange. The three continued walking to the woman's home, where she sent her daughter in to get her husband. As the girl approached the front door, the object began to move, so the girl returned to her mother's side to watch. They could hear a "heavy humming sound." When the object was parallel to their position it was about 300 feet away and about 400 feet in altitude. It was then that they could see it was boomerang-shaped and apparently a solid body. A small area in the aft portion was covered with small round white lights that became visible as the object passed by. They could see no protrusions. The object, about four to five times the size of a full moon, eventually passed on out of sight.