Case 112109: As I live near Sacramento, California, I have realized that during the past few months there seems to been an “uptick” in the number of sightings reported to MUFON from the region around Sacramento.  In addition to this sighting, other recent sightings near Sacramento have been Cases 112504, 112116 and 111974.
 
On the above date in Carmichael (a suburb of Sacramento), California, John [last name withheld] was preparing to go to his gym class and decided to warm up in a local park.  After a short run, he felt too much pain and decided to lie down for a while.  Directly overhead (i. e., 90° above the horizon), John could see a “star-like” object traveling west to east at an extreme altitude (what he referred to as the “maximum height” of a commercial aircraft).  John’s statement indicates that he “attempted to talk to it” apparently in hopes that it would respond in some way.  Shortly thereafter, the object suddenly descended, falling like a leaf, thousands of feet to treetop level.  John claims that it then fluttered, vibrated, pulsated and wobbled while hovering.  It was the color and size of a silver/chrome basketball, sometimes appearing to be solid, other times transparent.  It made no sound and left no emissions. 
 
After observing the orb for between five to eight minutes, the object ascended thousands of feet to its original altitude and continued on its original path eastward.

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Case 112504: Sevdie, a high school student, and her two friends were outdoors in Elk Grove, approximately 12 miles southeast of Sacramento, California.  At first, the object seemed to be a ”big, bright light”, but too big to be a star.  It appeared to be a small sphere inside a larger sphere.  The whole object pulsated, glowed, vibrated and seemed to be transparent.  In her report, Sevdie described it as being white, but in her description, it was also “with vivid hints of red and maybe blue or green”.  The three witnesses watched the object for approximately one hour at about 2° above the horizon.  As can be seen from Sevdie’s photograph below, the object had “fuzzy edges”.  In her report, Sevdie stated that the object was stationary; however, the video reveals that the object had a random movement but stayed within the camera’s field of view.  There was an aircraft in the vicinity both before and after the sighting.

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Case 112465: I know, I know; who cares about lights in the night sky over the Las Vegas Strip, anyway?  Particularly, when there is only one “witness”.  Generally, I’m dubious about most “lights in the night sky”, but this case may be different.
 
Juliette [last name withheld] was with a friend(s) on Las Vegas Blvd. at 7:30 PM.  She took seven snapshots beginning with the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino and ending with Bally’s Hotel & Casino (photo # 7).  She didn’t bother to record the camera settings.  Why would she?  She and her friends didn’t actually see the blue lights in the sky; they in fact were not real “witnesses”.  She was photographing the casinos and not the blue orbs.  Juliette realized what she had captured only after she viewed them later (a frequent event in such cases).
 
Her first photo showed two, pale blue points of light above the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.  As she panned toward the Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino (see below), she caught what appear, at least, for this writer, a string of several, faint, blue lights and one, blue “smudge” over Paris Las Vegas and a blue “smudge” over Planet Hollywood.

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Case 112248: Dustin [last name withheld]  initially saw the “star-like” object as a “blurry line” and as it approached, he could see a bright red orb and preceded by what Dustin called its “bow-shock (a semi-circle of misty air around the front, but not connected to the object)”.  He then called his wife Heather to then watch the orb turn toward the north of Middlesex, North Carolina.  There was no sound or apparent emissions.  The object was 50° above the horizon and heading toward an airplane in the distance.  The observation lasted 2 minutes.
 
Dustin’s drawing of what he called a “star-like” object and its shock wave appear left.

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