Case 110700:  It was 4:45 PM on August 3.  John McNeill, the primary witness (Witness A) and three other witnesses were in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, when Witness D’s three-year old grandson, Eli, said, “Is that Venus?”  Looking up, the four observers could see something at about 60° above the horizon at an estimated 1500 feet altitude and which seemed to be flashing randomly.  The apparently solid object hovered, but made no sound and left no emissions.  The primary witness, John, used his 50 X 100 binoculars as it continued to hover for about 15 minutes.  After that point, the object “drifted” northwest from the Grouse Mountain area toward the town of Squamish, about 25 miles north of Vancouver.
 
John described the object as being a highly-reflective, silver “cylinder” with an antenna-like mast protruding from the bottom.  The upper half of the cylindrical body of the object was smooth and literally cylindrical.  The lower half was hexagonal. Each of the square panels of the hexagonal sections was bright white, either due to the reflection of the Sun or external lighting.  On August 3, the object appeared again at approximately 5: 15 PM.
 
After the sighting, John skillfully drew an isometric representation of the object.  See below.  The primary witness stated that he took two photographs of the object, but it was only visible using photo-editing filters.

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Case 110687:  Two witnesses, Jerry and Ratna, were in Jakarta, Indonesia, at 7:00 AM when they saw what looked like a, “Dark Chevron hovering and moving slowly”.  It was black on the main surface of the craft, had no sound, left no emissions and had no apparent external lighting.  The object was at approximately 60° above the horizon and at a distance of 500 feet to one mile.  It was apparently moving slowly from the west or southwest.  Jerry, the primary witness, using his camera set on maximum zoom, recorded the image below.  As it was moving slowly toward the northwest, “It just disappeared.”

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Case 107281: It’s not particularly unusual to view videos of white or multi-colored lights dancing in the night skies.  As videos go, they’re quite common for MUFON Case Management System (CMS) reports, so I don’t pay a lot of attention to them even when there are videos and still photographs.  But, to me, the best observers are either airline or military pilots who quite often don’t want to report their sightings for fear of a job loss or a poor performance report.  Case 107281 is different, and that’s why I’m reporting it here.  It’s different because the pilot had been with FedEx for 19 years, and before that, he had spent an additional 10 years in the US Air Force flying Boeing KC-135 “Stratotankers”, which required a great deal of depth perception when it came to refueling jet fighters.  His co-pilot, in fact, had been a USAF McDonnell-Douglas F-15 “Strike Eagle” jet interceptor pilot, so both had extensive day and night flying experience.
On FedEx Flight FX82 flying over a mountainous region in Mexico in clear skies, pilot Erik Delgado and his co-pilot (name withheld) saw something that they had never experienced before.  The co-pilot was the first to see the object about 150 miles south of Monterrey, Mexico.  According to him, “It was a brilliant yellow-white plasma object — teardrop-shaped!”  The MUFON field investigators, Robert Spearing (CAG International) and Ruben Uriarte (MUFON Northern California State Director) report the co-pilot as saying,
“He exclaimed, ‘Look at that shooting sta . . .’ but he didn’t finish his thought.  The object had come straight down from above and suddenly a bright spotlight, white in color, seemed to turn towards them on a collision course.  Both pilots realized this was a possible aircraft turning into their path with bright landing lights on.  They prepared to take emergency avoidance procedure, but the object became static and paced them perfectly with the light reducing in brightness but remaining plasma-like.
“Erik, being bi-lingual, immediately realized what he was witnessing and began to shout, ‘!Platillo, Platillo!’, which is the Spanish word for flying saucer!
“The most remarkable part of the sighting was that the crew had the wherewithal to shut off the cockpit lights and pull out a camera and begin taking video as well as still photographs while the plane flew on auto-pilot.  As a result, besides 5 minutes of video and nine photos, we have the voices of the cabin crew and radio transmissions from Monterrey Ground Control.  So, what we have here is what is considered an exceptional sighting by Ufology standards.  First the episode was filmed so what have a physical evidence.  Secondly, you have multiple witnesses which greatly enhances the validity of a case and lastly, they were highly experienced professional pilots with military backgrounds!  Truly a sighting beyond reproach!”

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Case 108695: After football practice, Gerald [last name withheld] and his son were returning from football practice near Rocky Mount, North Carolina.  It was about 8:30 PM.  They had just passed a local farmhouse when they both observed a dark, cigar-shaped object, inclined at an angle and moored to a water pumping station.  Confused, they pulled off the rural road a few hundred feet from the pumping station and simply watched for about 10 minutes to see what would happen.  Gerald described it as, “It was a dark cigar shaped object with flashing lights of red, green, orange and white going around it in the oblong direction.”  There were no pumping station attendants (human or non-human) to be seen [!], only the oddest of scenes that was otherwise incomprehensible.
 
At the end of the 10 minute observation period, the hovering cigar released itself from the pumping station and gradually rose and followed a local highway westward.  The father and son, quite bemused, followed the cigar as it gradually gained altitude, and at one point, according to Gerald, “in a flash of light it was gone”.

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