A Malta witness at Cospicua reported watching “a huge, oval-shaped object with central dome hiding above clouds,” according to testimony in Case 96784.

The incident occurred at 9:40 p.m. on August 18, 2018.

“Huge oval-shaped object with central spherical dome hiding above clouds at east-northeast caught my eye from rooftop,” the witness stated. “Observed for around seven minutes at 30-degrees elevation, around three kms away from witness and at around 300 meters above ground. Estimated size of oval is about 250 meters in length and around 150 meters in width. Central spherical dome with a diameter of around 30 meters. Object’s thickness from dome to tip was tapered, starting from around 10 meters to a slim edge. It made a whitish glow on the clouds beneath it, which reflected its shape. Then the glow went off and the object disappeared. Three bright point sources followed later on in the night sky the same night in a south to north direction.”

MUFON International CAG Investigator Steve Hudgeons closed this case as an Unknown-Other.

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A Texas witness at Flint reported a “highly reflective” cylinder-shaped object flying at high speed and followed by two other objects, according to testimony in Case 94292.

The witness and his wife were outside at a swimming pool with a clear sky and no clouds at 6:35 p.m. on August 18, 2018.

“I noticed a bright, cylindrical object directly overhead at a very high altitude,” the witness stated. “Which is normal for commercial flights in our area, which we see occasionally. However, this object had no wings and was travelling at a high rate of speed. My wife and I watched the object as it passed and moved away. The sun was lower on the horizon and was reflecting extremely brightly off the side of the object. As we watched the object move away, we saw it change from a smooth, cylindrical shape to look more like four interconnected spheres appearing like a caterpillar or pearl necklace. The object disappeared from sight moments later. Scanning the sky, we saw one and then another object of similar shape, but smaller, travelling in the same direction, at a similar speed and altitude as the first object. At that point I started thinking something really strange was happening.

“We observed the two smaller objects until they appeared like bright stars seen during daylight, then they faded from view.

“Moments later we saw two aircraft at what appeared to be the same altitude flying in the same direction as the objects. The aircraft were travelling much slower than we would expect from the normal flights we see. The aircraft were unusual. One was a large, four-engine, all white bomber-looking type aircraft. The other was orange or red and looked more like a commercial aircraft-type plane. As they passed overhead they followed the same flight path as the objects, as if they were in pursuit. They had no chance of catching them.

“I stayed watching the sky for a time (15 to 20 minutes) when I suddenly saw the two aircraft return.  They performed a circle and then split up. One on the same flight path as the objects, the other on a more westerly heading. This action in and of itself is very unusual for our skies as we've never seen aircraft of that type turn around. I had my phone camera ready, but only managed to get a telephoto shot of the white bomber-looking plane.

“My wife and I are convinced we saw something very unusual. The objects we saw were not normal aircraft and most certainly did not have any wings. I actually felt a sense of fear when I saw the objects. I checked the local news for any reports but found nothing. The entire incident happened fairly quickly.

“The incident was such that I feel compelled to share my experience here in the hope that perhaps someone else might do the same to corroborate our sighting.”

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

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A New Jersey witness at Jersey City reported a black, saucer-shaped object flying around a large skyscraper, according to testimony in Case 94231.

The witness was standing near a busy train station in Jersey City at 5:15 p.m. on August 18, 2018.

“I noticed what appeared to be a black, saucer-shaped disc flying slowly around the Goldman Sachs building on the Hudson River,” the witness stated. “At first, the two people I was with saw the object also. They believed it was just a drone. I decided to walk a little closer to observe the object more, and left my friends behind. The plaza I was standing in was packed with people. It’s a Saturday afternoon and we are standing across the river from the World Trade Center. Lots of helicopters and commercial aircraft flying into nearby Newark Airport. A storm was also blowing in at the time with dark clouds and gusty winds. Anyway, after some time, I watched the object slowly ascend up into the clouds and disappear. Please note that this object was flying around a large area. I observed it fly over the Hudson and back over Jersey City. It just appeared to be too high in the sky to be a drone, but also, it wasn’t affected by the wind either.”

New Jersey MUFON Assistant State Director Ken Pfeifer closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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An Indiana witness at Portage reported watching “two bright lights that were connected to a triangle shape,” according to testimony in Case 94217.

The witness was driving eastbound along Route 20 towards Chesterton at 10:30 p.m. on August 17, 2018.

“I noticed the object was far too low to be a plane and too big to be a drone,” the witness stated. “I thought it was a plane first until I got closer. The object was a bright, white light with a triangle body. It hovered for about two minutes above a local park, then effortlessly glided west to the next town of Lake Station. I was feeling very nervous and curious along with my girlfriend and mother. I started to drive slowly to keep an eye on it and see what it did. Then it started moving slowly and then vanished. Never saw anything like that.”

Indiana MUFON State Director Jeremy Efroymson closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A Florida witness at Key West reported two white orbs flying in formation that descended into and ascended out of water, according to testimony in Case 97233. A second report is in Case 97678.

The witness and a friend were on a cruise heading back to Florida from the Bahamas on August 17, 2018.

“Late on the last night of the trip we stood on our balcony for a long time looking out at the sea and talking,” the witness stated. “The balcony faced north as the ship was traveling west. We passed by an island, we saw other cruise ships, a plane, a helicopter, birds, and stars. We were the only people on a balcony at that hour. Our whole side of the ship was dark except for our room. We suddenly noticed two white balls of light (orbs) flying toward the ship from the distance. At first, they were flying in perfect formation in a straight line. We thought the appearance of the two objects - spheres of white light with no wings and no sound - was unusual. How could they be flying? We commented on how perfect the formation was, and we wondered what could fly like that. The two orbs were coming closer to the ship, and they started flying separately in random directions and at impossible angles. We kept asking ourselves, ‘What were they?’ Because we had already seen other objects, we knew they were not planes, not birds, not helicopters, and not anything else we could imagine. We both do not drink or anything so that was not an issue. Then we saw the orbs enter the water easily. They went from flying in the air to directly entering the sea with no slowing down. We couldn't believe what we were seeing. After a few minutes submerged, the two orbs came up almost vertically out of the sea. They flew closer to the ship and up to about 45 degrees high and about 200 feet away. I'm estimating they were each about five feet in diameter. They both came to a complete stop and hovered there. Our eyes were locked on them. We were captivated and had a long look at them. Then they suddenly moved directly toward us, fast, as if they had seen us. We each recognized this as an act of intelligence, that we had been seen and that the orbs now knew they were being watched, so we ran screaming and terrified into the room and hid behind the couch. We both had this fight or flight response at the same time. We spent the rest of the night processing this event. I haven't been able to forget this experience so I thought documenting it with MUFON would help. FYI, I am an engineer with a PhD. I have wondered if these orbs were balls of plasma under remote control by the military, but then I cannot imagine how they would be able to see us and scare us like they did (no apparent camera). I have also not been able to reconcile the objects entering and leaving the water at full speed and at sharp angles and traveling in random directions without wings and without noise. There are just too many unbelievable facts for me to understand. I wish I'd had the initiative to take a photo.”

Florida MUFON Field Investigator David Toon closed this case as an Unknown-Other.

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A Florida witness at Key West reported “two balls of light darting in and out of the water,” according to testimony in Case 97678.

The witness was on the balcony of a cruise ship cabin at 1:30 a.m. on August 17, 2018.

“Noticed a helicopter, then birds,” the witness stated. “We then saw these white balls of light zigzagging in sky, sometimes together in unison, other times separately in different directions. They went straight from sky into water and would just reappear back in sky even though we watched for them to come out. At one point they came together less than 100 feet in front of us, together side-by-side, still not moving, facing us. We felt they were looking at us. Then together they started slowly moving in straight line toward us. They came so close, we ran into the cabin, pulled the curtain and turned the lights out. We later found the courage to peep out of the sliding glass door but saw nothing. It was so scary. We were the only people we could see who were on the balcony because it was so late. We thought they would take us, and no one would know what had happened to us, or would have thought we fell overboard as we were on floor seven, I think. I later looked into how many people went missing on cruise ships and found it has happened many times.”

Florida MUFON Field Investigator David Toon closed this case as an Unknown-Other.

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A Washington witness at Gig Harbor reported watching “three red lights configured in a triangle hovering above the neighborhood,” according to testimony in Case 95179.

The witness was driving from his home to a neighborhood convenience store on August 16, 2018.

“The store is located on top of a hill, my house on the bottom of the hill,” the witness stated. “Going down the hill headed north I noticed three red lights forming an isosceles triangle (no light being reflected in between the lights, it was nighttime, clear weather but a dark night). The lights were hovering above my neighborhood, seemingly stationed in between my house and the neighbor’s. As I approached down the hill, I thought the lights were drones so I turned off my car’s radio and stuck my head out the window, but no unusual sounds were noticed. I parked my car and stood at the driveway observing the lights, trying to rationalize or legitimize what I was seeing. Upon closer examination on the light’s characteristics while I was in the driveway, I noticed that they did not resemble any electronic light I am familiar with. They seemed to move like a stationary flame, but while maintaining a color of red darker than fire, and it moved more slowly while in place than fire as well. I walked into the backyard of my home, and the lights were in the same place they were in the driveway. (The lights seemed unaffected by the low wind.) Upon further examination of the lights from my backyard, they seemed to move slowly to the southwest, but I noticed that while the spaces in between the lights were the same black as that night (nothing in between them), I noticed that the flame-like light of the light closest to me (being closer to it in the backyard) reflected a slight silvery surface directly behind it from my perspective. The lights then moved in the same direction past some trees and out of my view. I ran inside to a fellow occupant of the house, saying something starting with, ‘I know how this is going to sound.’ The occupant declined coming to the front yard to look at the lights. I was in the house for about 30 seconds when I came out of the house in the front yard and the lights were gone. The thoughts that went through my head were, ‘holy **** don't take a picture.’ That was a weird recurring thought that I had the whole time. In hindsight, I really should have taken one. The lights stayed in the same triangular shape the whole time. I first noticed the lights a half-mile away. I watched the lights from my house as they appeared very close, 30-40 feet away. The triangle was large. I'm not sure of distance between lights. It emitted no sound. I felt no change in anything standing under them. After, I thought they were flying lanterns like you see people make in places like Japan, but the whole experience has stayed with me, enough that I wanted to see if I could research the strange lights. The only information I can come up with research is UFO phenomena.”

“Washington MUFON Zach Royer closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A New York witness at Staten Island reported the house lights dimmed, an electrical explosion or buzzing sound was heard, and two, black, disc-shaped objects were seen hovering nearby, according to testimony in Case 94184.

The witness was sitting in his living room at 10:30 p.m. on August 15, 2018.

“My daughter was in her room right next to me,” the witness stated. “My brother lives in the apartment upstairs from me. We own the house and property. My daughter’s boyfriend was sitting outside in the car with one of his friends. I was watching TV with the lights on, when out of nowhere the lights dimmed to almost turning off. They stayed that way for about two seconds and then came back up. The TV picture only flickered. Right after the lights came up, this loud sound was heard outside. It sounded like an electrical transformer started buzzing, but extremely loud. My daughter came into my room and asked if I heard that. I told her, yeah, I think it was outside. With that my brother and his daughter and son came out into the hall and confirmed that his lights did the same thing and heard the same noise. My daughter’s boyfriend came in the house and asked if we all heard it. He said he was sitting in the car and was looking behind my house and looked up in the sky and saw a black object just sitting there. He said out loud, what the hell is that?, and his friend said, you see it, too? He said, yeah, only his friend was looking in the other direction. So, there were two. He said it was huge, bigger than a plane and round. He said as he was looking at it he heard the loud buzzing. He said it sounded like a power surge. When he heard it, the object lit up around it in a bright light and they both took off and nothing after that. Neighbors came out of their houses also.”

New York MUFON Field Investigator Jonathan Schwartz closed this case as an Unknown-Other.

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A Florida witness at Pensacola reported watching a missile-shaped object moving slowly at the rooftop level, according to testimony in Case 94170.

The witness was driving home from work through downtown Pensacola on at 3:45 p.m. on August 15, 2018.

“I stopped for a traffic light and something off to my left caught my eye,” the witness stated. “I turned my attention towards the movement and witnessed what appeared to be an 18- to 24-inch long, silver dart-shaped object moving slowly just above the rooftop of a building. I know it was just above the roof because the object was between me and the taller building behind it. As I watched, it slowly began to accelerate while gradually gaining altitude. It looked more like a rocket from an old science fiction movie than an airplane but there was no exhaust or propellers that were visible. If it had wings, they were very stubby. I really can’t say that I saw any wings. The object continued to gain altitude and accelerate off towards the north, but suddenly made a left 180-degree turn and headed south (back towards me) at a slower pace. The traffic light changed, and I had to move, but I glanced up at it twice more as I crossed the intersection, and it appeared to have slowed or perhaps to have come to a stop about 500 feet up in the air. This was not a drone. Well, not any kind of drone I have ever seen, and I do a lot of research on a lot of things and I have never seen anything this small with these characteristics.”

Florida MUFON Field Investigator David Toon closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A Norwegian witness at Elverum reported watching a gray, humanoid creature, according to testimony in Case 94117.

The witness was standing near a window and looking into the woods below at 1:07 a.m. on August 14, 2018.

“And there it was standing,” the witness stated. “A tall, humanoid creature, with long legs and arms, and a color of gray. The creature was making noise and I immediately went to the window. It was walking, or stalking me. It stared at me for some time, and after approximately 30 seconds, I was feeling a weirdness in my head, almost as if it was trying to get in my head. After 10 minutes, it went into the woods and disappeared. I hope my description is good enough. My English is a bit bad, ’cause my language is originally Norwegian.”
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Norway MUFON CAG Investigator Sue Gerberding closed this case as Information Only.

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