by Roger Marsh

A Maryland witness at Boonsboro reported watching a low flying, blimp-shaped object, according to testimony in Case 86700 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness had just dropped off his son's girlfriend and was leaving her house at 8:35 p.m. on September 13, 2017.

“I got to the stop sign and was looking left,” the witness stated. “No cars. Looked right. No cars. I looked back to the left and noticed a dark object floating at my 11 o’clock position. I sat at the stop sign a minute, kind of dazed and wondering what the heck was I looking at. The object was dark, and I could only make out the outline of its shape when I saw the red lights on either side (left and right) blink. It looked like a football field size and was really low to the ground.”

The witness also described the object’s lighting configuration.

“I also noticed a white light blinking on the top and bottom of what I was seeing. I was thinking that whatever it was would surely crash so I turned onto the route and continued to watch it. I turned off the radio in the car and rolled down the windows, I couldn't hear any engines. Nothing. I was on a ‘country’ road, so there were no other cars at the time to interfere sound or sight wise.”
The witness pulled over and watched the object slowly float towards the southwest.

“I still could not hear any noise coming from it. I had to get home, so I started to drive again but I kept looking over at it (it was to my left side). I was totally mesmerized. I could not figure out what I was looking at. I thought maybe a glider? But at night and so incredibly large? I thought it was bigger than a small plane (like a six-passenger craft) but I thought it was smaller than the size of a 747. I was completely captivated by this object and I continued to look over at the craft as I was driving. I was so ‘drawn’ to look at it. I cannot explain how strange I felt looking at it, but I didn't want to look away. I did not even think to try and record a video or take a picture with my cell phone, but I am not sure anything would have shown up except the blinking red lights or white lights. I thought this might be a military aircraft of some sort.”

CAG Investigator Fred Kohler for Maryland MUFON closed this case as an Unknown – Other. 

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by Roger Marsh

A Texas witness at DeKalb reported watching a brightly lit craft with no lights that ejected smaller orbs before moving away, according to testimony in Case 86357 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving along a farm market road heading to work at 8:30 p.m. on August 24, 2017.

“I noticed that there was a strange looking flying craft with two bright lights that really stood out but the whole craft was very lit up,” the witness stated. “It was coming from my south side from across a pasture.”

The witness quickly grabbed a cell phone and started recording video.

“The craft came across the pasture and then got in front of me and was flying directly above the road in front of me as I'm recording it. I am driving and taping at the same time. We go like this for a while when I then notice there are two star-size lights or orbs that are falling from the craft. A few seconds after this, I actually go under the craft and I look up through my sun roof and can see the bottom of it. It appeared to be square and lit underneath. It's hard to recall but seemed to have maybe pink and blue lighting.”

The witness did not get that event on video due to driving.

“Very shortly after that I found a driveway to pull into so that I could get out and see this thing. After I pulled into the driveway, which was now in front of the craft, I grabbed my cell and tried to get more video. I could see the craft. It was hovering in a clearing in the direction I just came from it was lit up and unusual looking. You can at this point hear the sound of it on my video, but you can't see it. It then goes straight back in the direction we had just came from.”

The witness heard people talking across the street talking and walked over to ask if they saw it.

“It was a way back behind their house, but they were under their carport at the time and didn't see it, but one of the men said that they heard something.”

Texas MUFON State Director Gary Neitzel closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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by Roger Marsh

An Iowa witness at Exira reported watching a low-flying triangle-shaped object that began following him, according to testimony in Case 85523.

The witness was on his way to work at 4:30 a.m. on July 31, 2017.

“I was heading west out of Exira, on F58,” the witness stated. “Roughly four miles west I saw some bright lights coming from the southwest. I pulled over because at first, I thought it was an airplane but there is no airport for 10 miles. It was so low to the ground I thought it was going to land. There were no blue or red blinking lights. It did have a big white orb on the bottom that did blink.”

The object flew over the witness and continued on a northeast path.

“I kept going down the highway for another mile and realized it was now following me. I pulled over, but it would not come closer and just hovered about a quarter-mile away. I proceeded to drive to work five miles north of Kimballton, Iowa. It didn't matter what direction I drove. I could tell it was following me. Once I got to work, it was now a long ways away and it just hovered the entire time. I tried taking a couple of pictures but two did not turn out. Only one did and that was from a far distance and it only looks like a very bright star or planet.”

Iowa MUFON State Director Gregory Andersen closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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by Roger Marsh

​A Missouri witness at Springfield reported watching a “dark, triangle craft with one orange light in the center,” according to testimony in Case 88133 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness heard sounds like very low flying helicopters and looked out an apartment window at 8:30 p.m. on November 18, 2017.

“I then could see one of the helicopters was so low I saw inside the cockpit,” the witness stated. “There were three helicopters and the object was to the left side as if the helicopters were guiding or trying to ground this object. They were flying in a slightly straight path. They were black, military helicopters.”

The witness ran outside to see what they were doing.

“I noticed that they were flying with something and screamed to my nephew and he saw it too. I wish I had my phone on me at the time. I would have captured video.”
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Missouri MUFON State Section Director Britt Faaborg and Field Investigator William Chapman closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A Montana witness at Dillon reported watching a red and silver object with “patterned lights” slow moving above the tree tops, according to testimony in Case 88655 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving home at 8 p.m. on December 9, 2017.

“Watching for deer and noticed right in front of us in the sky right above the tree line were these red and white, silver, round, small lights in a row all going in a pattern around the edge and along the top and bottom all going around in a pattern,” the witness stated. “It was turning slowly at a tilt, bigger than a house, very low to the ground, turning slowly, going in an east direction. I drove fast down the lane with me and my boyfriend watching it.”

At home, the witness went inside to ask her mother to come out and look.
“She ran out with me and we watched it. No noise at all. The red and silver lights were all going in a perfect, tilted circle, top and bottom, but the object was translucent, could just see the lights circling top and bottom on this huge, slow-turning, no-sound thing. We watched it for 10 to 15 minutes, slowly changing its directed to the northeast. We watched until it was so far away in the dark we couldn't see it anymore. We never saw it take of – just slowly moving away. Mom was kind of scared because it was so close, so big, slowly moving away over our field and above the neighborhood in the dark at 8 p.m. I went inside the house never knowing if it went back up because it moved too far away to see at night above the tree line. I tried to take a picture of it on my phone or record it, but I couldn't capture it on my cell phone.”

MUFON CAG Investigators Marie Cisneros and John Gagnon closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A Pennsylvania witness at Strattanville reported watching a circle-shaped object flying over a field, according to testimony in Case 88435 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving to work at 5:30 a.m. on November 27, 2017.

“I noticed the object when I looked up to see strangely patterned lights flying over the road by the church I was passing, but it suddenly moved over a field to my left driver’s side of my car,” the witness stated. “At first, I thought the object might have been an airplane, but I realized that it was really low (just over the tree tops) and I saw a distinct outline to it that suggested it couldn't be an airplane (to describe lamely, one of the appendages looked like the protruding end of a fidget spinner). It continued to fly past me to my left over the field and I felt very confused as to what it was because I was unable to identify what it was exactly. I lost sight of it when I had to continue driving forward and lost sight of it that way.”
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Pennsylvania MUFON State Section Director James Krug closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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An Alabama witness at Gadsden reported seeing a triangle-shaped object with bright, white lights at each tip and a single, red light underneath, according to testimony in Case 85065 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness had just moved out onto a front porch and lit up a cigarette at 9:30 p.m. on July 12, 2017.

“I was just looking at the sky and saw a plane and then this big triangle with bright white lights on each point with one red blinking light flew over me going east,” the witness stated. “I'm sure it's just some kind of plane, but when I tried to find out what kind of plane, it could be just UFO.”

Alabama MUFON CAG investigator Pr. Frederick Kohler closed this case as an Unknown – Other. 

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A Florida witness at Hallandale Beach reported watching an “over-sized, dark object," silently moving overhead, according to testimony in Case 86937 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was sitting on a balcony talking to a roommate at 11:15 p.m. on September 25, 2017.

“She was smoking cigarette,” the witness stated. “The sky was dark and you could spot few clouds northwest. I saw bright clouds and the first thing that came to my mine was my roommate’s cigarette smoke did that. Then I realized that smoke from a cigarette cannot be that bright and so up in the sky. I relocated myself closer to the mosquito net so I could look up to the sky and when I did, I was completely in shocked.”

The witness was completely shocked.

“There was this huge ship. I saw only the bottom of it. Reminded me of a fish without the tail. Enormous size. No noise of any kind. Dark gray, lighter than our dark sky and lots of different colors and lights (red, yellow, orange, white). It was slowly floating above my building. I live on the seventh floor of my building. It has 12 floors. And this ship was very low to the building. It was lower than the clouds. The minute I realized what I saw, me and my roommate ran down to the other side of the building to the staircase where my roommate saw it flying towards ocean. I was looking in the opposite direction and lost the site of the ship.”

Florida MUFON Field Investigator Michael Ridout closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A California witness at Azusa reported watching two large lights descending toward ground level, according to testimony in Case 86824 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving home from a local store with a friend at 7:30 p.m. on September 20, 2017.

“I observed two large, bright lights descending slowly to the foothills in front of Azusa canyon,” the witness stated. “It had a rocking motion. At first, I thought it was a military helicopter only to realize these lights were far too large to be that of a helicopter. I felt compelled to drive toward it. So, I did. It was hard to navigate the road and keep my eye on the lights, so my friend started directing As we got closer it appeared to land on the hill, and then one light vanished. Suddenly our attention was turned to a row of lights that appeared above us and slightly to the left at tree top level. We could see the outline of the vessel, although transparent we could tell the shape, was dome-like, and the lights were near the bottom. I had driven into a residential area and found myself in a cul-de-sac and by the time I turned around it flew awa, and the remaining light that was on the hill vanished.”

California MUFON Earl Gray Anderson closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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An Indiana witness at Fishers reported watching a triangle UFO moving at the tree top level, according to testimony in Case 84301 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The event occurred at 10:25 p.m. on June 9, 2017.

“It was hovering at a distance,” the witness stated. “Flashing multi lights observed using binoculars. Then moved upward as it grew larger heading gradually westward. Stopped in the air. Changed light pattern and proceeded to fly southeast as it lost altitude. Speed picked up. Proceeded over my house and continued southeast until out of sight. Made a hushed jet sound (much diminished from a jet plane at that altitude).”

The witness described the object’s lighting.

“As it went over my house it had two whitish lights on its forward edges. A center red light. Each white light had an additional strobe. The shape was triangular. No tail. No other lights. Very dark color that was somewhat illuminated by reflected ground light.”

MUFON Indiana CAG Investigator Philip Leech closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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