by Roger Marsh

​A Washington witness at Lacey reported watching an object that hovered momentarily before shooting away, according to testimony in Case 96229 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving home from work at 6:03 p.m. “in pitch black” on November 7, 2018.

“I was pulling out of the school driveway,” the witness stated, “and I stopped to check for cars. And while stopped at the exit to the school, a green light shot past above my car hovering for maybe a couple of seconds. It had a green unwavering light.”

The witness at first thought it was fireworks.

“But then it was too big and stayed way too long for it to be a firework. It’s also November. The object was long and almost clear but black and then I don’t know where it went. The light vanished and after that I had this feeling one gets after passing out where your whole body feels like it was hit by a truck. And I forgot what I was doing and my whole body felt like Jell-O for the rest of the night. And on my way from dropping my boyfriend off at home I was too scared to drive back home at night.”

Washington MUFON State Section Director Aleta DeBee closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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​An Illinois witness at Saint Charles reported watching a cigar-shaped object moving overhead with lights at both ends, according to testimony in Case 89610 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness and her husband were looking out a front kitchen window about 9:30 p.m. on January 3, 2018, when the incident began.

“Our window overlooks the covered deck, but we like to watch the planes coming and going into and out of the airports in Chicago,” the witness stated. “From the side of the window that I was standing I noticed a bright light and saw a cigar-shaped object with bright lights on the front and back of the object.”

The witness then alerted her husband.

“It moved so fast that by the time I told my husband to move over to my side and up look it had moved out of sight. It appeared to come from the northwest and headed southeast out of sight. It made no sound and was a dark metal color with no light between the front and back lights.”
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Illinois MUFON State Section Director James Wolford closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A New York witness at Mechanicville reported watching a silent, hovering light that shined a light onto the street below, according to testimony in Case 89364 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

“I was up all night with sick kids, so when this happened, I thought my ‘tired’ mind was playing tricks on me,” the witness stated. “I saw a glow of light, light-up my window sill in front of my computer desk. I then looked out of the window to see if someone had pulled into my driveway.”

The witness then noticed a “decent size light” in the sky not too far above the power lines along the street.

“The light was not moving and was very bright white. It only took about a minute or two from the time I started watching it for it to shine a beam of light down on the side of the road. The light beam only lasted a few seconds but afterwards it all went away. No more light and no more beam. I never saw it again. Completely silent. Not a noise at all was heard.”

The next morning the witness went outside to look around.

“I noticed that the snow had fallen everywhere but one spot. A perfect circle of bare grass with snow all around it. It is the weirdest thing.”
New York MUFON Field Investigator Dale Reeck closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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An unarmed Minuteman III missile is scheduled for launch late Tuesday evening (February 5, 2019) to early Wednesday morning (February 6) from Vandenberg AFB during an 11:01 p.m. to 5:01 a.m. launch window.

If the sky is clear, the event could be visible for hundreds of miles.



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​A Massachusetts witness at Lowell reported watching multiple hovering lights that formed a semi-circle, according to testimony in Case 89276 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The reporting witness stated that her husband went outside onto a deck to use a barbeque grill at 5:30 p.m. on January 1, 2018.

“He pointed out a bright light, which appeared to be hovering in the distance, on the left side of our property,” the witness stated. “He then pointed to the opposite side of our property and there were between five-to-seven very bright lights, which also appeared to hovering.”

The witness said that when looking from the right side of their home to the left, the objects were clearly forming a semi-circle.

“Since there were some trees obstructing our view outside, we ran inside to a large window in the dining room on the side of the house. From there, we were able to get a very clear view of the lights to the right of our house. None were moving. All appeared to be hovering. We questioned if they were perhaps planes, but again, they were not moving and there were no additional lights on them. Also, I'm sure planes would not even be allowed that close in proximity to each other. I assume being that close they would be considered in each other’s air space.”

The two sat and watching for about 20 minutes and then the objects abruptly disappeared.

“They did not fly away or dim. They literally just disappeared. My husband took video from inside the house which did not come out good, likely due to the window glare. Shortly after they disappeared (about 10 minutes), another appeared by itself. I took video of this one from our deck. It is not good quality. You can only tell that it is a bright light, but you can plainly see that it is not moving, just hovering. We're not totally sure what we saw, but these were definitely not planes. Very curious to know if anyone else in the area saw this as well. We live in Lowell, MA. The Concord River is directly to the left of our house.”

Massachusetts MUFON State Director Eric Hartwig closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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​“It was one of the easiest sells I ever had to make”, explained Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in a recent interview with Nevada’s KNFR radio station. He was referring to his approach to then Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) in 2007, to try to convince him to fund a Pentagon program investigating the UFO phenomenon.

Amidst only a temporary reprieve from the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, there isn’t much that is agreed upon in Congress today. But in this case, just a few years ago, from opposite sides of the political aisle, these two members controlling the military budget instantly found common ground. A third member in charge of military spending was the late Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Medal of Honor recipient and World War II veteran, who also supported the plan.

Also, at that time, Congress was divided on many fronts. Stevens and Reid routinely debated issues on the Senate floor, often with opposing viewpoints. But this was one issue they immediately agreed upon.

 According to Reid, Stevens exclaimed to him, “Sign me up.”, and he recounted a mysterious incident he personally had as a pilot with the Flying Tigers of the then U.S. Army Air Force. Reid said Stevens told him he had an “occasion” during World War II where he had a craft that was next to him that he couldn’t “get rid of,” despite “doing everything he could.” He recognized the need to properly address what has continued to be an unknown threat to national security, and an opportunity to further study the science behind it. 

The three senior members went on to establish what Reid refers to as an “extremely important study,” also the topic of a December 2017 New York Times article about the Pentagon program. Based on publicized details about the program, it seems to have lasted a few years, but it did not succeed in establishing any formal paths for government reporting, particularly from active duty military personnel witnessing these unusual phenomena. 

​A Pennsylvania witness at Philadelphia reported watching a hovering orb that eventually flew away, according to testimony in Case 95886 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was in South Philadelphia at 11 p.m. on October 26, 2018.

“I was holding my three-month-old son and looking out my north facing third floor windows,” the witness stated. “There is an airport nearby and I see loads of helicopters and drones, but this was different than anything I have seen in the seven years that I have lived here.”

The witness said he sees many objects from the master bedroom window on the third floor.

“I have five windows that face north, south, and west and I have no curtains since I like to see the city views. What I saw was a large, bright red, glowing orb about 11-30 feet in diameter that hovered erratically and changed colors every 30 to 60 seconds. It changed from completely red to completely green then completely blue. It was red most of the time and I don't think it was a sequential pattern I believe it was random because I saw more red and green than blue.”

The witness said the orb was flying east, and then it would hover and stay completely still.

“It then changed direction and flew west very quickly and disappeared. The total viewing was about five minutes. I've scoured the news and have seen no other accounts of this which is perplexing because there should be multiple witnesses. South Philly is a busy area on a Friday night because of the cheesesteak places that tourists line up at. I'm hoping someone else out there saw this as well.”

MUFON Pennsylvania Field Investigator William Morse closed this case as an Unknown-Other. 

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An Oregon witness at Keizer reported a 1962 encounter he had as a 13-year-old when a triangle-shaped object hovered just 40 feet overhead, according to testimony in Case 96936 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was outside “hoeing strawberries” across from his home along Windsor Island Road when the incident began.

“It was on a Saturday afternoon around 2 p.m. and towards the last part of May or early June,” the witness stated. “School was not out for the summer yet. I was alone in the field when I heard a buzzing, humming noise that gradually grew louder. And the first thing I thought of was that a swarm of bees was heading my way. My father always told me to hit the ground and lay flat if we heard a buzzing noise because it could be a swarm of bees, and that was just what I did.”

The witness assumed the sound was the result of bees.

“I didn't think to look for them until I was laying on the ground, with my hands covering my head, and when I finally did get brave enough to look towards the sound coming from the west, I didn't see any bees, but the noise kept up and was now coming from above me.”
The witness finally looked up.

“I saw a huge, huge, huge black triangle-shaped object hovering just above me, around a hundred feet or so. It wasn't moving, but the buzzing, humming sound was still there. Then the object started to come down towards me. I was so scared, I didn't think to get up and run. I just figured I was a goner, so I just covered my head again, waiting. When I looked up again it had stopped about 40 feet above me. It stayed there for short while and then it turned to my right, tilted up some and moved towards the sky. While it was moving upwards and away from me, it swiveled again towards the east and then it went so fast, that it was gone out of sight, just like that.”
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The witness watched the object move away.

​A British witness at Hemel Hempstead reported watching a triangular-shaped object under 500 feet with an invested, lit-up dome, according to testimony in Case 89653 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The event occurred beginning at 3:35 a.m. on January 17,2018.

“A bright light came through bedroom curtain,” the witness stated. “A triangular vehicle was spotted gliding in a straight line. Underneath the vehicle was an inverted, lit dome virtually touching the three sides. The inverted dome had arched ribs from bottom to top with a center pillar projecting a bright light.”

The witness said he had a perfect view of the object until it disappeared over nearby buildings.

“My first reaction was it was a strange plane out of Luton Airport, then immediately realized it was not a normal aircraft.”

United Kingdom Assistant National Director Michael Price closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

​​An Arizona witness at Buckeye reported watching a circle-shaped object moving under 1,000 feet at high velocity that made no noise, according to testimony in Case 93454 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The incident occurred when the reporting witness and his wife were setting up a telescope in a local park on a full moon at 11:15 p.m. on June 28, 2018.

“Before the telescope was fully set up, a vertically-aligned, donut-ringed object with yellow-orange light/surface appeared below the moon traveling from southeast to northwest at extremely high velocity and low altitude, roughly 500-1000 feet AGL,” the witness stated. “The object made absolutely no sound but at closest approach was within one mile of our vantage point/location.”
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The witness is a United States Air Force veteran and Special Operations intelligence analyst who previously held a top-secret with caveats clearance.