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Triangle Shaped Lights Over Malaysia

Case 111564: At a little after 10 PM in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, Etienne [last name withheld] was just outside his building looking upward.  He observed two blue lights in proximity to one orange light.  There was a second orange light at some distance. All of the lights (let’s call them orbs) were unwavering, there were no emissions and there was no sound.  The orbs remained stationary at all times.  They were at an altitude of more than 500 feet and directly overhead.  After taking a 10-minute, telephone call, the orbs had disappeared.

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White “Oval” Lands on Mountaintop in Northern Spain

Case 111613: Laura [last name withheld] was photographing the sunset near Zumarraga, Spain.  Zumarraga is 15 miles south of the Bay of Biscay and 25 miles southwest of San Sabastián, a port town in northern Spain.  Laura was more than one mile away from the mountain shown in the photos below.  She claims that a white object, at approximately 10° above the horizon, approached the mountain (apparently from the left in the photo) and then descended.  The object proceeded to land on the mountaintop and then disappeared.
 
According to her Case Management System report, she observed the object for “4 hours.”  However, this was more likely due to a misunderstanding, and one might reasonably assume that she meant “4 minutes.”  Laura took two photographs of the object: one as the object approached the mountain and a second photo after the object landed.  The object was silent throughout the event.

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Nugget-Shaped Object Over Donalsonville, Georgia

Case 111476: On his porch smoking a cigarette, Joseph [last name withheld] witnessed a hovering, glowing object that appeared to be solid and with randomly flashing lights.  Joseph first noticed the object in the direction of Lake Seminole, about 10 miles southeast of Donalsonville, Georgia.  Donalsonville is about 60 miles northwest of Tallahassee, Florida.

At first, the object's motion was described as hovering and was “stationary”, but according to his description, it apparently rotated to some degree since a light that was white, changed to red and then disappeared to the rear only to return to its previous position.  The object was about 30° above the horizon.  He estimated that the object was about 500 feet to one mile in the distance.  Joseph observed the object for approximately one-half hour and then decided to go inside.  Being 1 AM in the morning, there were, unfortunately, no other witnesses.

As this photograph was enlarged by the writer, there are two orbs on either side of the object are beyond the boundaries of the blown-up images.  Some might say that the object was shaped like a golden nugget.

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Black Triangle Sighted Over Idaho

Case 111479: Steven (a pseudo-name), who lives in a wooded, mountainous region near Athol, Idaho, spotted a black triangular craft moving at the speed of a small aircraft from east to west toward his house.  Steven estimated the craft to be between 30 feet to 100 feet in length and traveling at about 60 miles per hour.  There were no flashing lights, no red or green navigation lights (as required by the FAA).  There were lights in each corner of the triangle, though he did not specify what color(s).  When it approached his house, the triangle stopped, then hovered for a short time and then proceeded along the same path and altitude of approximately 1,000 feet, and at the “same speed” (testimony below differs from sketch).  As the craft passed over his head at an 85° elevation, it blocked out the star field above. The craft was completely silent, and there were no emissions.  See Steven’s sketch left.

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Near-simultaneous Lights Over Australia and Kansas

FIRST INCIDENT – AUSTRALIA

Case 106999: Gary and Vina [last name withheld] and their daughter sighted several, disc-shaped objects above the cloud cover over Melbourne, Victoria, Australia for about 40 minutes.  Along with the discs were three lights “darting about the sky in a pattern” and also “changing the pattern and changing course”.  The objects were at approximately 55° above the horizon and at a distance well over 500 feet above.
 
“At one point the sky lit up brightly in a bright blue colour as far as the eye could see”.  Oddly, there was also a low-pitched “metallic groaning noise” that followed the bright flash in the sky.  Gary and Vina took photographs and video of the event - first image shown left.

SECOND INCIDENT – KANSAS, USA

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Dark Grey Disc Shocks Photographer

Case 111184: Traci [last name withheld] and Lawrence were taking photographs of the Pacific ocean from Coronado Island, California.  She noticed something strange in the upper left corner of the photo, but as soon as she realized that it was an odd, it disappeared.  The disc appeared to have a gray surface and simply hovered over the ocean. She estimated the size to be between 30 feet and 100 feet in diameter.  The sighting only lasted approximately three minutes.

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Silver “Cylinder” Sighted Over British Columbia

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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Black “Chevron” Sighted Over Indonesia

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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Multi-colored “Teardrop” Sighted By Boeing 767 Pilots

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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Dark Cigar Gorges At Rural Water Pumping Station

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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Double Orbs and an Abduction in the “Show Me” State

Case 110042: In 1962, near Kansas City, Missouri, two witnesses, while driving, observed a multi-colored star. They stopped their car to observe it.  Two, solid-looking orbs, about 30 feet in diameter, seemed to come from the star and   appeared to be 100 to 500 feet in the distance. They then passed over the two witnesses about 200 feet above.  There was no noise and no emissions.  At closest approach, the orbs were 90° overhead and subsequently disappeared.  Later, the principal witness found himself in a town “going the wrong way from where I was going and when I got home, some four hours had passed.” 
 
Several years later, he woke up and had a severe pain in my chest.  So, he lied down and “the next thing I know I was having an out-of-body experience.  I could see myself on the bed with these human-like beings working on me.”

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“Broken Hearts” Sighted Over Both Chile and UK

FIRST INCIDENT – CHILE
Case 107094:
This case is a real mystery: a self-illuminated object apparently hovering over the city of Punta Arenas, Chile, while the city’s town folks were passing time during the COVID-19 curfew.  The object, said by the witness to be structured like a “dome” shape, was showing bright yellow and orange lights.  No sounds or emissions were observed.

The witness described the event as follows:
 
“At about 02:30 AM in the morning of today, March 23, 2020, some citizens from the patio of their houses, under a curfew regime by COVID-19, sighted in the night sky over the city of Punta [Arenas], multiple sands [sic] Unidentified Flying Objects . . .”

SECOND INCIDENT -  UNITED KINGDOM
Case 107194:
Oddly, three days later, a very similar object was video-recorded in Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.  The witness was at some considerable distance, but the image is sharp and clear.  The witness described it as a hovering object with a very bright yellow light.  When asked about “structural features,” the witness used the word “dome”-shape as a descriptor.

The following is the account of the witness recorded on the audio track:
 
“There is a rather unusual light in the sky.  Yesterday as well.  Bright light; it’s not moving.  If it was moving . . . I am miles away . . . Like a single spot in the air projecting a hell-of-a-lot of light.  I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
 
The following is the account of the witness as recorded on the written report:
 
“Bright light in sky hasn't moved for 40 minutes.  [It] could be a drone, but I don't think so.  Not a star either. [It’s] now 22:45 [10:45 PM, and I] can see it from my house so if it's there at, say, 1:00 am still, that isn't no [drone] for sure.  I'm convinced it’s something else.”
 
Case Disposition: Unknown

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Flashing, “Hide-and-Seek” UFO Over Korea

Case 110083: Near the South Korean Army’s 56th Homeland Defense Infantry Division’s camp in the suburbs of Seoul, a certain UFO seemingly plays “Hide and Seek” with a certain Korean soldier identified only as “M.Y.”  In the suburb of Goyang City, a randomly-flashing, white light is occasionally observed in complete silence and with an aura about it.  See LEFT.  It has appeared at an estimated distance of 500 feet to one mile and at an elevation of 50° above the horizon.  On July 10 it appeared once again for about one minute.

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Double Sighting in Northeast Tennessee

Case 110133;  Witness #1, July 13, 2020: Apparently two (or more) witnesses on a camping trip in northeast Tennessee observed a near-circular object for one hour at 3 p.m. in full daylight and with a partially-cloudy sky.  “We were camping in Unicoi County [Tennessee] and saw a round light in the sky. It seemed to be hovering in place as clouds moved below the object. [I] took pictures with [my cell] phone and then with [my] 300mm digital camera. When zooming in there appears to be a chevron in the middle of a circle with a glowing edge.”
 
The craft was characterized as a “circle” (as viewed by Witness #1).  Her/his photo is shown left.

Case 110135; Witness #2, July 14, 2020:  On the next day, also in northeast Tennessee, witness #2 claims to have photographed a craft, characterized by the witness as a “Tic Tac”.

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Triangle Near the Whakaari Island Volcano?

Case 106419: While on a day trip in the Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, a local resident took the photograph pictured below of what he called the White Island volcano.  On my atlas it is called Whakaari Island and is about 30 miles north of the nearest coastal town of Opotiki.  Reading the witness’ description of the event, he was unaware of the “airplane” in the same scene while the volcano was apparently venting at the time.  The witness submitted the photo to MUFON asking, “Could it be an airplane?”  The witness did not describe it as a disc, triangle or even a Boeing 737.

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Multi-Colored Orbs Sighted Over Taos

Case 107953: In the early morning of September 1, Jenny Meadowcroft’s sleep was disturbed by her cat.  Awakened, though it was still dark, she saw three, large orbs the size of basketballs just above the tree line, move from right to left at high speed.  Her description was, “They were white in the front, turning to blue and then red.”  They were absolutely silent and, to Meadowcroft, “beautiful” but left her “a little scared.”  As it turned out, three other local witnesses saw similar objects in the region during the previous 30 days.
 
The next day she reported her experience to The Taos News, of Taos, New Mexico.  A reporter, Phaedra Greenwood, picked up on the story and related it to the reports of three other local residents, two from Arroyo Hondo and one from Arroyo Seco “who claim to have seen red, white and blue lights hovering over Gallina Canyon in the past month.”  See partial page from the Tuesday, September 5, 1996 issue of The Taos News.
 
From the news article below, Greenwood reported that, “UFO sightings commonly coincide with reports of cattle mutilations.  Since July 8, two mutilated cows, both belonging to Jesse Gonzales, have been found in Arroyo Hondo.”  She went on to state that, “A third cow that showed signs of mutilation was found in a pasture in El Prado Saturday.”  The Saturday mutilation event would have taken place on September 2 — the day after Meadowcroft’s sighting.
 
Meadowcroft reported the incident belatedly on April 19, 2020 to MUFON.  Her drawing of the event is shown below along with her testimony.

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“Humming” Triangle Sighted Over Michigan

Case 108024: In the early morning in Rives Junction, Michigan, the single witness heard a “weird sound like a pulsating hum.”  Assuming it was an electrical substation across the street, he went to investigate.  As soon as he was outside his house, he heard the even louder hum coming from above and looking up he saw a triangular craft that was, according to the report, only 20 feet above his head (!).  The report states that the craft was between 100 feet and 300 feet long and had multiple exterior lights.  See drawing left.

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Cosmologists Claim 36 “Intelligent” ET Civilizations

And that’s just in our Milky Way galaxy alone.

How many stars are there in the Milky Way galaxy anyway?  Answer: 250 - 500 billion (well, ± 150 billion or so).  That’s a lot of stars and the Sun is just one of them.  Among many astronomers, it is generally accepted that there is, on average, at least one planet per star.  What astronomers are really looking for is a habitable planet, with abundant water, about the size of the Earth orbiting a star about the size of our Sun.  When you’re dealing with 250 billion, well, there just must be more than just one.  Right?  What if 18% of Sun-like stars had an Earth-like planet?  That would mean there are up to six billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone.  That’s the latest estimate from astronomers at the University of British Columbia where they made an extrapolation based on NASA’s Kepler space telescope.  Just think about that. . .
 
So, What Are “Intelligent” Civilizations, Exactly?
 
Any intelligent civilization is generally one with the ability to use a written language and possess advances in the arts and sciences.  Bear in mind that these scientists are not just referring to spacefaring civilizations with a fleet of starships at hand.  They are referring to any carbon-based (perhaps even silicon-based) beings with the ability to reason, understand, perceive relationships and to communicate in a technical manner.  The cosmologists are describing what are called “technologically-advanced” civilizations that have invented radio technology and have been broadcasting via radio, TV or by any other means into space.   
 
Thirty-six Intelligent Civilizations
 
Published on June 15 in The Astronomical Journal, a paper titled “The Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong Limits for Intelligent Life2 estimated that there are roughly “36 civilizations within our Galaxy.”  The paper was written by Tom Westby, Assistant Professor of Engineering, and Christopher Conselice, Professor of Astrophysics, at the University of Nottingham (UK).  But let’s be clear, the paper’s authors  claim that that number could be as high as 210 and as few as four civilizations, depending on their assumptions (that’s where the “strong” scenario and the “weak” scenario come into action).  Their paper is limited only to Earth/Sun-like star systems, and that’s why the word “Copernican” is used in the title.

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Three Witnesses Observe Glowing Fireball

Case 106099:  Three witnesses were siting on the deck of an ocean front condominium in Litchfield, South Carolina.  It was 9 PM at night under partially-cloudy skies. A large, round sphere appeared from the right and moved left and then hovered.  According to the witnesses, it was greater than 300 feet in diameter and at various times pulsating red, red-orange and yellow-orange.  See illustration as it moved left to right.  As it cast light on the ground, it appeared to be a round, solid, hovering sphere about 10° above the horizon.  The sphere appeared for three minutes and then vanished.

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Lost in Space Becomes a Reality

Case 106026: At around 9 PM in Collinsville, Illinois, during the summer of 1965, a 12-year old girl found herself under a large, oval-shaped craft with white exterior lights.  The craft was at no more than tree top level.  She says that she didn’t know what a spaceship was, and then it was revealed to her while watching and episode of the Lost in Space TV show.  She claims to have heard no sound whatsoever, but soon there were two “clunking” noises.  She was “frozen” for some period of time, later she ran out from under the craft, stopped and turned around to view it.
 
Once out from under the craft, she could see a “long square door” that was “in the middle of this oval.”  The craft also had one or two large windows, one with a blue light illuminating the interior and one with a red light.  Behind each window was a “hairy creature . . . with very long arms.”  She then ran to her home, went inside to a window and the craft had disappeared.  Years later, she had a second sighting, and possibly more than she is able to acknowledge.

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