Date: July 4, 1999  Time: Sunset  Shape: Diamond  Duration: 5-10 Minutes  Location: Fenton, Michigan

Standing in yard of friends on the eastern shore of Lake Fenton aproximatly10 feet above lake level waiting for full dark to take a boat ride. The sun had just set completely and in the grey/blue of the sunset the height 3 fists at arms length above the tree line of the western horizon just below the dark sky line in the twilight was a Black Diamond (NOT a TRIANGLE) point up just slightly smaller in height than my little finger nail & not as wide at arms length it did not appear to be moving. finally lost it in the darkening sky. Distance from object unknown.

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Date: July 27, 2004  Time: 3:30 AM Pacific Time Shape: Oval Duration: 5-10 Minutes  Location: Peoria, AZ USA

Date: May 2004 Time: 3:30 AM EST Shape: Seed Like  Duration: 20 Seconds  Location: Maryland, USA

Color: Gold - White  Sound: None

Sighting Detail:

Witness was driving back from work between 3:00 and 4:00 am EST.  Noticed a light over the road about 300 yards away from his car.  The object was gold and then it would turn to white.  The motion is described as a back and forth pattern and reminded the witness of a motion a bird would display.  As the object moved across the road the light source extinguished and was not seen again.  The size is compared to that of a pill held at arms length.  The shape was teardrop like an orange seed. 

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Skyquake Over Chapell Hill, North Carolina  USA 

Report Type: Skyquake  Date: 1/1/2005  Time: 7:42 PM EST  City: Chapell Hill  State: North Carolina  Country: USA     Duration of Event: 2 seconds

Event Description:  Witness reports that a very loud "boom", preceded by smaller "booms" shook the house.  Reports came in the house 3 miles away were also shaking

from the unknown explosions.  One person stated that it sounded and felt "like someone crashed a vehicle into the house".  The witness to this event stated that it sounded like a "giant" was jumping on the roof.

Thank you to the witness who sent in this report.

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Skyquake Over Saukville, Wisconsin  USA

Report Type: Skyquake Report        Date: 12/24/2004     Time: 6:20 PM Central     City: Saukville    State: Wisconsin   Country: USA    Duration of Event:   Seconds

Event Description:  Witness reports that a loud explosion like event occurred directly over his house.  Once at 6:20 PM and again at 8:50 PM.  Another noise was hear 12/25/2004 at around 9:00 am.

Police were called on the initial occurrence.  Nothing was found in the neighborhood.  The second occurrence, police were contacted, nothing was found but police reported to me that others including a city worker had heard the noise.  No explanation could be ascertained.

The environment at the time of the explosions was very cold, quite with no wind, but the sound traveled very well at night.  It was calm.

 Witness also stated that he had never heard this type of sound before, it was not usual.

 Thank you to the witness who sent in this report.

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Skyquake Over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina  USA

Report Type: Skyquake       Date: 12/14/2004    Time:7:45 PM EST     City: Myrtle Beach   State: South Carolina         Country: USA    Duration of Event: 30 Seconds 

Event Description:  Witness reports a loud rumbling noise and three orange lights that were seen in the sky and faded out quickly.  Many people confirmed this event on scanners and calls to the police, however no confirmation of what it was has occurred yet.

 Thank you to the witness who sent in this report.

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Orange Oval Lights, Marine City, Michigan USA

Date: February 2, 1993 Time: 7:37 PM EST Shape: Oval  Duration: 2 Minutes Location:

Marine City, St. Clair County, Michigan USA

Color: Orange  Sound: None

Sighting Detail:

 Driving home from work heading North witness noticed 4 orange colored oval lights in the western sky about 25 degrees above the horizon.  The witness first noticed the lights out his driver’s side window. At first there was only one light, and that one seemed to “fade” into view.  As the witness kept watching the light he notice that three more faded into view.  The other lights were of the same color, size and shape as the first. 

The four lights would slowly fade out and then fade back into view.  This continued until all the lights were eventually blocked from view from the trees along side the road.

(*Recreation: This is not an actual photo, just a visual to go along with the report.  There would be no leaves on the trees at this time.)

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Date: May15, 1993 Time: 4:00 PM EST  Shape: Cigar / Hotdog  Duration: 20 Seconds  

Location: Stanwood, Mecosta County, Michigan USA

Color: Orange  Sound: None

Sighting Detail:

Driving on Pearce road, heading north, about 6 miles from Stanwood, the witness and his wife both saw an object hovering just above the treetops.  The witness quickly turned onto the next road with the hope of getting a closer look at the object.  As they quickly sped down the road, they both noticed a pick-up truck that was driving very quickly in the opposite direction.  As they approached the area where the object was they noticed it was no longer visible, as though it simply vanished.  The only thing that seemed “odd” was that there was a large farm tractor sitting in the farm field with the engine running and the drivers door open with no one around.

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The object was described as being over 100 feet long; sliver in color and in a shape of a hotdog.  The object appeared solid.

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Meteor Over Bellingham, WA USA Possible Impact

Date: February 23, 2005 Time:  8:09 PM  Shape: Meteor/Fireball  Duration: 20 Seconds  

Location: Bellingham, WA USA

Color: White  Sound: None

Sighting Detail:

A fast moving extremely white object with a very short “sparkly” tail was witnessed on February 23, 2005.  The object was first sighted at 40 degrees above the horizon and only took 2 seconds to go out of site heading towards the ground, with a possible impact.  The object was seen with the naked eye on a very clear night and could have landed in the cascade mountain area.  The witness said it was very close and the color was the whitest she has ever seen before.

 The object first appeared in the north and was traveling in a southern position.  The duration of the sighting lasted 1.5 seconds. 

Note:  If anyone has had sightings of this object on or around the date mentioned above please contact Shadow Research, Inc. with your information.

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Report Type: Skyquake       Date: 3/11/2005    Time: 7:50 PM EST   City: Tampa  State: Florida      Country: USA   

Duration of Event: 30 Seconds 

         
Event Description:

There were three large rattles in my house, lasting about 2 seconds each, about 5 seconds apart. All the neighbors came out of there houses looking around. I called my cousin who lives 20 miles away and he heard the same thing and said the curtains in his house were shaking. Nothing reported on radio. No sound of aircraft of any sort. Space Shuttle still grounded. No explanations on the news.


 

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Report Type: Skyquake       Date: 3/11/2005    Time: 7:30 PM EST   City: Clearwater  State: Florida      Country: USA   

Duration of Event: 8-10  Seconds 

         
Event Description:

From Crystal River all the way down to Manatee county, FL, there was a loud rumbling in the sky. It rumbled several times.. like several sonic booms...but deeper - and different. Our windows shook. It sounded like an explosion. We ran outside. My father started smoking a cigarette and we walked down the street to the neighbors who had also come out of their houses. We asked them if they knew what that was. One of the neighbors was an old man. He said he'd heard many sonic booms in the 1990's during the first Gulf war and stated he thought this sounded VERY different from a sonic boom. We walked back to our house - my Dad had finished his cigarette - this was about 7 - 10 minutes later - we saw 2 jets fly in formation above us. We turned on the local news (BayNews9) and at approx. 8 p.m., the reporter came on the air reporting that they had received "hundreds of calls from around the area" inquiring as to what the sound was. The anchor told the audience they had no idea what caused this. Then, mid-sentence, the channel turned to advertising... for about 3 or 4 spots! Then, the anchor returned and said: "Oh, no need to worry...it was only 2 fighter jets flying over the area- coming in to land at MacDill AFB too fast." Sounded super SCRIPTED!! Did NOT sound like a sonic boom.

 

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Report Type: Meteor / Fireball      Date: 3/12/2005    Time: Around 7:30 PM   City: Coos Bay State: Oregon  Country: USA   

Duration of Event: 5 - 8 Seconds

        
Event Description:

Witnesses report a solid flaming ball with an enormous tail, white in color with the brightness "like the sun".  The object moved slower than a falling star and look to be the size of a small car in comparison.  The object was first viewed in the South West and was last viewed in the South West.  Just before seeing the meteor was viewed, the witness states that there were several "lightning-like" flashes in the sky.

Impact is unknown, but it may have gone into the ocean as it was over water and very large when the witnesses saw it.

The weather was clear and the moon was a crescent shape.

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Report Type: Skyquake / UFO (Lights)     Date: 3/18/2005    Time: 8:45 PM EST   City: Jackson State: Ohio  Country: USA   

Duration of Event: 30 Minutes

        
Event Description:

Sound of a massive rumbling with the ground shaking.  Each tremor lasted 45 seconds with there being estimated 7 intervals.  Upon the lasted tremor, we saw lights in the sky in a horizontal row.  Lights amounting to probably seven (7).  The lights were visible hovering for approximately 30 seconds.

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Unusual Dog and Cat Deaths in Idaho

Special Thanks to James Draper for all information relating to the following news and reports.

Police Seek Information About Dog Boneyard

June 17, 2004

By Renee Wells

South Idaho Press

Cassia Sheriff’s officials are asking for the public’s help in solving a bunch of dog murders.

Officers were summoned to BLM ground east of Rupert and north of Interstate 84, where a dog boneyard that appeared to contain carcasses of more than 100 canines.

The dogs had been skinned and slaughtered with the meat removed from the skeletons.  Officers initially believed that the dogs had all been dumped at one time, but varying degrees of decay indicate there may be dog skeletons which were slaughtered only recently.

Most of the dogs appear to be medium to be medium size dogs, Patrol Sgt. Robert Nay said.

“They are too big to be lap dogs but not big enough to be working dogs,” he said.

“There really aren’t any clues to where they came, but we often get reports of dogs just turning up missing, so it makes us wonder.”

Offices suggest dog owners who lose their animals contact the sheriff’s office so the area can be watched to see if any new carcasses turn up.

Anyone having information about the boneyard can contact Crimestoppers and remain anonymous by calling: 878-2900.

Friday, February 25, 2005

Minidoka County Sheriff Kevin Halverson is asking the communities to help him fin Copper, his K-9 partner.  The nine-year black Labrador drug dog was taken from Halverson’s yard Thursday afternoon.  Copper is black with some graying around his muzzle and on his front feet.  He walks with a limp.  If anyone has information or knows the whereabouts of Copper, call the Minidoka County Sheriff’s office at 434-2320.

Cat Deaths a Mystery

James Draper

In mini-Cassia Idaho (Burley, Rupert, Paul and Heyburn) cats are dieing and the cause is unknown.  James Draper, who has been keeping track of the strange deaths report that as many as 26 cats have ended up dying, with not signs of wounds or bleeding.  The first eleven (11) cats died 11 years ago.  James had reported that his outdoor cats were very tame, and then he notices that they seemed very fearful of something.  When they died there were no marks on the cats bodies.

The deaths stop until 2003, when 15 of his cats disappeared and only 4 of those 15 came back.  One of the 4 cats seemed to have its life “drained” out of it.  James checked for a stab wound or other penetration, but he could find none.  He tried to take pictures of the cats to turn into the police, but the film never turned out properly.

During the winter of 2004, 5 outdoors cats had died the same way.

James has seen dead cats in the alleyways and does not know who, or why this is happening.

Special thanks to all the above articles and reports to Mr. James Draper, Special Investigator, Shadow Research, Inc.

Note: People with information concerning the above mentioned events or other mysterious animal deaths, please contact Shadow Research, Inc. reports@shadowresearch.com

Randy Baker, Director of Operations, Shadow Research, Inc.

March 16, 2005

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Date: November 1994 - February 1995 ( Not sure)  Time: Around 1:00 AM  Shape: Triangle Duration: 3 to 6 Minutes  

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Barra da Tijuca, Brazil

Color: Black  Sound: None

Sighting Detail:

It was 10 years ago, so I don't remember what day it was, but is was in the end of 1994 or beginning of 1995 and at night.

I live in a house in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Me and my 5 friends were talking in the swimming poll at my house (we were not drinking or using other stuffs). I saw a strange light far southeast, it was changing colors, faint, red, green and blue, just one spot. And it was dancing near the top of a distant building. I thought it was someone that taped a small flashing light in a kite, and was playing with it over the building. Then the light made a fast movement down behind the building. I thought: - well, they collected the kite. (Just I saw this light).
But when the light disappeared, one of my friends pointed to the sky (west +/- 45 degree), and asked: "What is that?”. Just above us one black triangle, with NO lights and NO sound, was floating, west to east, it seams to be very slow and calm. It seams to be gliding, floating, not flying. But it appears to be going in a straight line.
It was a PERFECT triangle with sharp corners, it was not a glider, or a stealth plane (both of them are not a perfect triangle). And it was black, but stealth planes black. And smooth, with nothing visible on if surface.
It was a very clear night, without clouds and no wind. We were seeing it because of the reflections on it from the lights of the city. So it was relatively low. Kind the same altitude of the clouds (we can see clouds everyday illuminated from the city light too). As it pass, we could see the rear-end of it and there was no lights or fire from engines. It did appear to be a thin object.
It passed over us until disappearing behind another building (not landing over or behind it, it just passed over it). We where amazed and wondering what was that, then we looked west and other TWO black triangles were floating the same direction of the other. They did disappear behind the same building the same way and speed (slow). We were even more amazed and clueless and we looked again to west and the last 2 were coming and did the same trajectory without light or sound.
We were very excited at the end, but frustrated for not having a photo or video camera.
I don’t know how to describe the size of them. They were very big to see, but not huge like others descriptions that I heard of black triangles. The were probably huge, but due to the distant, they seamed to be just very big to us. Maybe it could cover 8 to 10 full moons lined up.
There is a small not-military and not very busy airport 10km north from here, so I know how to identify planes and I know that they are noisy. And the city’s Goodyear Blimp, lands in the same airport almost everyday (sometimes passing south to north over my house), so I know blimps too. Gliders, well I can see all kind of them when I go to the beach here. Theses black triangles we saw are not like anything I ever saw.
I don’t know if there were others in Rio that saw, but nothing were reported on the local or national TV or newspaper.
 


Object Information:

Six Perfect Black Triangles, SHARP corners, Not round corner, No lights, No sound, No Fire from Engine. Gliding west to east, very slowly.


 

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Date: May 22, 2004 Time: 1:00 PM  Shape: Teardrop   Duration: 1 Minute 

Location: Leusden Utrecht, Netherlands     Color: Grey / White  Sound: Firework Type

 Sighting Detail:

 Witness reported seeing a teardrop shaped object floating in the sky.  The object seemed to move in random directions, but after a few seconds the object stopped and it flashed a pure white light, which blinded the witness for a second.  Before I could think of warning someone the object started to move very fast to the East.  It disappeared behind clouds after a few seconds.

 Object Details:

 The object was a grey colored teardrop, but when it stopped and stood still it was white and looked like a golfball.  The flashes of light that it shot out were pure white.  I could not estimate the size or altitude.  The only sound it made was when it shot out the light and that sound was like fireworks in a far distance. 

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Date: December 1978 Time: Between 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST  Shape: Round    Duration: 5 Minutes

Location: Algonac, MI USA     Color: White   Sound: None

Sighting Detail: 

Two bright white lights came from the west heading towards the east.  As they passed over head the lights turned and started to circle over head.  A smaller light came on and all three circled for about as hour.  Slight noise was heard. 

*Note: This may have been an aircraft.

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Unknown Sound Reported

Date: March 20, 1979   Time: 9:30 PM

Location: Algonac, MI USA  Report Type: Unknown Acoustic

Event Detail:

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Date: April 6, 1979 Time: 8:40 PM EST  Shape: Oval    Duration: 5 Minutes

Location: Algonac, MI USA     Color: White   Sound: None

Event Detail: 

(Recreation)

Four witnesses were attending drive-in movie and saw an oval shaped.

Object traveling South in the night sky.  The color was white.  No other flashing lights or colors were reported.  The object traveled the sky in a straight line and steady speed.  The speed was estimated at 500 mph.

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Date: March 27, 2005  Time: 6:40 AM PST  Shape:     Duration: Over 20 Minutes

Location: Los Alamitos, California USA  Color: Amber   Sound: None

Event Detail: 

On the way back from children's grandparents for Easter dinner...we saw the event on the 10 minute trek home...We meaning myself, wife and two children ages 6 & 16.  It was "identical" to the "Phoenix Lights" phenomena  in that it was a Semi-Circle formation of Amber lights all the same height/altitude...mostly equal distance side by side but not perfectly...all 8 UFOs in formation "hovered" in place a couple zigzagged within a small area around itself...after standing in the middle of street watching as dusk went dark...it dawned on us to get a camera.. 40 seconds after this decision they all simply "disappeared".

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Report Type: Skyquake   Date: March 29, 2005    Time: 4:00 AM EST   City: Clay Township  State: Michigan  Country: USA   

Duration of Event: 8-10  Seconds 

         
Event Description:

I has just finished helping my child get back to sleep, and I was laying back down when I heard a very deep, long rumble from outside.  I know what jets and thunder sounds like, and it was not one of those noises.  You could feel things vibrate.

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Report Type: Skyquake       Date: April 27, 2005     Time:  3:00 a.m. EST City: Hamilton   Province:  Ontario  

Country: Canada    Duration of Event:  3 Seconds    

    
Event Description:
 

New Report with addition witness comments at the bottom of this page.

Mysterious loud booms wake sleepers around 3 a.m.
Hamilton Spectator article:

Not from jet, quake or steel mill
By John Burman
The Hamilton Spectator
BURLINGTON (Apr 28, 2005)
Whatever jolted folks from their beds just after 3 a.m. yesterday is a mystery.

It wasn't an earthquake or a sonic boom. And the bang did not originate with Hamilton's steel mills.

But it did wake people from their sleep and send them out into the streets.

Heidi Lemaire jerked awake in her Beach Boulevard home and thought "some big truck had fallen off the Skyway."

At her sister's place nearby, "people were out on the street wondering what it was."

Lemaire said it was raining at the time but there did not seem to be any thunder.

Another woman who has lived on the Beach Strip for 50 years does not believe the noise came from Stelco.

"I hear bumps and banging all the time over there. This was different."

Ruth Fuller, who also lives on Beach Boulevard, agrees. "When (Stelco) dumps slag it is a rolling boom, sort of like thunder. This was two sharp booms close together."

Earthquakes Canada, part of the federal Department of Natural Resources, says there was no seismic activity affecting the Hamilton-Burlington area yesterday.

But the sensitive equipment did pick up what is believed to be a loud noise at that time.

Seismologist Janet Drysdale said monitoring stations in Stoney Creek and Toronto noted "a couple of little bursts, acoustic bursts or noises of something that showed up on our equipment."

The noise originated above ground, not below it.

The most recent earthquake in our area -- of 23 "events" felt in southern Ontario since the beginning of the year -- was at 2:27 a.m. March 31, centred below Lake Ontario about 45 kilometres east of Niagara-on-the-Lake.

That mild tremor -- a magnitude 2.0 on the Richter scale -- was the fourth in a series of mild quakes that began on March 28.

The Geological Survey of Canada says magnitude 1 to 3 tremors are recorded on local seismographs, but generally not felt. Magnitude 3 to 4 tremors are often felt, but there's no damage, while 5s are felt widely, with slight damage near the epicentre. Major quakes begin at 7.

The scale continues to grow in magnitude to 9, which is considered a rare great earthquake with major damage over a large region. A 9 hit Indonesia last December, causing a tsunami that claimed more than 170,000 lives in southern Asia, most of them in Indonesia.

Dofasco spokesman Bill Gair said the steelmaker's operations and environmental staff reported nothing unusual at 3 a.m.

Stelco spokesperson Helen Reeves also reported nothing out of the ordinary.

The two loud booms shook the Halton police station in downtown Burlington and lit up the switchboard.

Acting Halton police Inspector Joe Barker said there were no reports of explosions in the area, just a burst of calls from sleepy citizens wanting information.

Hamilton police had no reported incidents to explain the noises either.

The two booms came within seconds of each other. Those who heard them, from Ancaster to the Guelph Line and Lakeshore Road area of Burlington, say each sounded like a bomb.

Some people who called The Spectator said they felt what they thought was a vibration. Others, like Donna Fritz of Burlington, could recall only the sound.

Transport Canada does not track reports of sonic booms, caused by aircraft breaking the sound barrier, and has no reports of transportation-related incidents that would have made that kind of noise.

Nav Canada, which provides weather and navigation information for aircraft and receives reports of flight activity which causes sonic booms, reported nothing of note.


My personal experience:
Although it sounded like it came from above, every wall in our house shook.  I was having a tough night getting any sleep, so I was in a semi-conscious state when the event occurred.  But it almost sounded like something hit our rooftop ridiculously hard.  And shook the whole house.  In fact, my daughter’s very heavy bunk bed shook and rattled on the wooden floor.  We both heard three booms in rapid succession.  I went out at daylight to check out our roof; I thought perhaps an airplane dropped some cargo, but with no sign of physical damage to the roof, I then thought maybe an airplane could have dropped a load of liquid (yuck) of some sort. But no sign of pretty much anything.  Just a big, rather creepy, question mark.
 

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Report Type: UFO    Date: July 29 / August 26, 1995    Time:  11:45 PM City: Glasgow  State:  Bellshill North Lanarkshire

Country: Scotland UK    Duration of Event: 7 Seconds   

    
Event Description:

In the summer of July 1995, myself (witness) and a colleague decided to form a UFO group in Bellshire, Northlanarkshire. It all started on the 29th of July when XXXX asked if I wanted to view the stars in my back garden as we were both interested in Astrology. As we were looking for the constellation of stars known as the Pleiades we witnessed a sphere in the sky, (same size as the North Start) with a high intensity bright whiteness, moving along horizontally high above my garden. It disappeared for a short while and reappeared at the other side of my garden's view. Both XXXX and myself were bemused as to what it was, there was no explanation we could give to its identity. It moved in an unusual way.

Then on the 26th of August, we both witnessed what seemed to be the same object again when in the back garden, at first we thought it was an aircraft or alternately a high orbiting satellite that was briefly touching the atmosphere. A little late in the evening, I will never forget it, at 11:45 PM we again watched in awe as the strange object came into view before disappearing. Then I looked away to view another part of the sky (Orion's Belt) xxxx shouted "Look a shooting star," I don't know what made me look straight up, but vertically above me was this half moon shaped object, some parts were obscured from my view but probably the speed it was traveling, it also seemed to be transparent. The object wavered, more like a left to right oscillation, then it disappeared over my neighbors house. XXXX became unnerved, but I stayed out staring at the sky transfixed, it seemed as though time itself stood still for a while.

After the incident I asked xxx what he had seen, he described an object starting from a dot to a half moon shaped red/brown in color. Although I only noticed it as being red, we gave different logical explanations as to what the object might have been but later, still confused, we had no doubt that it was something we have never seen before.

Although I am good at the identification of military aircraft, I looked through conventional aircraft books trying to try and identify what we had seen, not one aircraft had the same similarity. It was not an optical illusion or a hallucination because both xxx and myself saw exactly the same thing. Certainly whatever it was, it was intelligently controlled made no noise which was puzzling. Days after the incident I started to draw the object and every time I shut my eyes I could see it in my imagination. There have been sacs when red corpuscles of blood pass in front of the iris of the eyes to give off theses strange red shapes in front of you. But we both could not have experienced this at the same time during our sighting. Anyway, my conclusion is that it was a UFO, XXXX agrees also.

Thank you for reporting this event!

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Shadow Research, Inc. is currently helping an individual find some answers regarding an unusual metallic silver globe that he discovered back in 1973.  Anyone who might want to venture a guess or have an idea of what this might be are encouraged to contact Shadow Research, Inc with information.  I have included some background information as well as four photographs of this object.

Background Information:

The person who has custody of this object found it while working on a gas line in the panhandle of Texas, USA.  While digging the trenches for a gas line back in 1973, he noticed a metallic ball protruding out of the dirt.  He dug the ball up and took it home with him, which he has to this day. 

Description of Object:

Color: Silver       Measurements: 4 1/2 Inches       Weight:  About 5 pounds.

The object sounds hallow and when it shaken or rolled it makes noise.

The object is cold when touched.

It never rusts or becomes dull.  It was shiny when it was dug up from the ground.

A magnet will stick to it. It is not magnetic.

It looks like stainless steel.

If you would like to help us identify what the above object might be please contact Shadow Research, Inc.  Thank you.

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June 30, 2005

KATU News

PORTLAND, Ore. - People who are used to seeing a variety of boats moving up and down the calm waters of the Columbia River have recently reported seeing a UFO- of sorts.
But it is not a visitor from beyond our planet, although the shape of this particular Unidentified Floating Object has a definite other-worldly look to it. Some people are calling it a 'stealth boat'.

The sleek, silvery craft is definitely not designed for pleasure cruises or towing water skiers. It rides very low on the water, so low it looks like even a not-so-large wave could swamp it.

It has twin cockpits reminiscent of a those seen on F-117 stealth fighter planes. And the nose of the craft culminates in a sharp point, again more like a fighter plane than your typical ChrisCraft.

Even though the testing of the mysterious ship takes place in broad daylight, questions about who owns it, any technical information about it and its real purpose remain unanswered. Speculation abounds.

The ship's builder, Oregon Ironworks, is both vague and tight-lipped when it comes to the boat, saying only that it is for a "private customer" who wants to remain anonymous.

Gregg Herrington, a reporter for The Columbian in Vancouver, Washington, has been following the evolution of the boat for several years. He claims the original test boat, of which he has a photo, was designed for the Isreali Navy.

Herrington says he believes the original version held a crew of three, and was possibly designed to move teams of eight special forces soldiers.

The boat recently seen on the Columbia River is visibly larger but similar in design to the model in the old photo.

The U.S. Navy does have a $9 million contract with Oregon Ironworks to build two boats, but a spokesman for the company says that despite "looking similar to the naked eye", the boat being tested on the river and the boats destined for the Navy are "not similar at all."

Conspiracy theorists, boat lovers and military hardware enthusiasts will most likely be trying hard to get a glimpse of the needle-nosed craft. Meanwhile, the the questions remain as to who, and for what purpose, it is destined for.

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Report Type: Meteor / Fireball      Date: 6/30/2005    Time: Around5:11 AM Pacific Time  City: San Leandro -San Francisco

Bay Area-  State: California  Country: USA   

Color:  White / Orange        Duration of Event: 10 to 15 Seconds

        
Event Description:

A white and orange fireball about the size of the moon was observed in the San Francisco area of California.  The object was traveling South East to South West in the sky.  It was leaving sparks and smaller bright pieces separating from the front and falling behind the object.  No sound was heard at the time of the sighting and it was still to dark to see if it was leaving a smoke trail.  It was traveling very low and disappeared over the horizon, it looked like it was going to impact.

Additional Comments:

I have never seen this type of thing before and I watch the sky a lot. I am used to seeing shooting stars at night but this was at dawn and it was very slow, that is it was visible for a long time.

 

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Report Type: UFO    Date: July 15, 2005    Time:  Around Midnight City: Lagoa  State:  Rio de Janeiro

Country: Brazil    Duration of Event: 5 Minutes   

    
Event Description:

We live in Rio de Janeiro in lagoon on the south side facing the lake.  We have view 180 degree of the entire lake area.  There were 3 objects on the left side (ocean side: Panama) of our view last night around midnight. It was difficult to estimate the distance in the sky ( maybe 5000 feet?).  Each one had a dominate red light in the center and what looked to be smaller red lights below.  There was also a faded black image that surround the entire image (as if we were looking through a lenses).  The forth object was on the opposite end of our view (near the Christ statue). This object had a much stronger light, white/ orange, with what appeared to be 4 or 5 less intense lights below.  If it were moving horizontal in the sky it might have appeared to be a comet, but it see seemed to just hover and sit vertical.  Also it too appeared to be 5000 feet or so in the sky.  We get a lot of planes, helicopters, remote control objects and the like in this area daily but these objects were totally different.  We even get the occasional hot air balloon and blimp but I’ve seen both of these at night and it wasn't either.  My wife and I are really curious if anyone else has seen these objects.

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Report Type: Meteor / Fireball      Date: 7/12/2005    Time: 10:30 PM  City: Denton   State: Texas  Country: USA   

Color:  Green        Duration of Event: 3 Seconds

        
Event Description:

Very bright green colored fireball traveled across the sky over Denton Texas.  The object was first reported in the North-East and was last seen traveling South.  The fireball was very bright, like a lightning strike or firework in comparable brightness.  The fireball followed a consistent path, it did not look like it was breaking apart and a very long smoke trail followed the object and extended across the whole sky for the duration of the event.

possibly but I can't confirm this. the object left a very long trail but did not appear to be falling apart to the best of my knowledge

The speed was rated at a 5 or 7, on a scale with 10 being the fastest.

No sound could be heard since the witness was driving in a car at the time of the sighting.

Additional Comments:

I have witnessed hundreds, if not thousands, of meteorites and have never experienced any that displayed the intensity of green color and lengthy trail that this object displayed. Furthermore, it seemed to be maintaining a much lower altitude than any meteorite that I have ever witnessed before.

I'm skeptical about the majority of claims regarding so called 'alien spacecraft' and don't think that this object was related to higher intelligences, but I do have to admit that I have never seen anything quite like it before. The most similar thing I have ever seen was a confirmed satellite re-entry but the event that I witnessed on 7/12/05 was distinctly different in that it featured an incredibly intense green color and a long tail while not appearing to show any signs of fragmentation.

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Report Type: Meteor / Fireball      Date: 7/30/2005    Time: 11:10 PM  City: Leamington  State/Province: Ontario  

Country: Canada    Color:  White then Orange       Duration of Event: 1 second.        
 

Event Description:

A white fireball was witnessed traveling from the North-East towards the North and was about as bright as a full moon.  The object exploded in the sky into a orange color.  The speed was rated at 5, on a scale with 10 being the fastest.  There was also a smoke trail behind this object.

Comments:

It exploded and there was an orange color but the explosion lit up that part of the sky, enough to make my husband notice even though he didn't see the fireball itself.

I've never seen anything like this before.  It was so much bigger than a shooting star.  A shooting star is like a pinstripe through the sky and this had a huge trail on both sides (from my view point half a pencil width each trail) and then there was an orange color when it exploded.  It was magnificent.
 

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Report Type: Meteor / Fireball      Date: 8/10/2005    Time: 1:58 PM  City: Man-O-War Cay State/Province:Abaco,   

Country: Bahamas    Color:  White/Yellow/Orange       Duration of Event: 5 - 6 seconds.        
 

Event Description:

We were in a boat traveling between Marsh Harbour, Abaco and Man-O-War Cay.  The sun was shing although there were clouds.  The object was traveling East to West, no noise was heard a smoke trail was observed , but quickly faded.  The speed was very fast and rated a 6 with 10 being the fastest.

The size and brightness are the things my wife and I commented about the most.   I am 48 years old.  I have never seen anything in the sky that bright.

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Report Type: Meteor / Fireball      Date: 10/01/2005    Time: Midnight - 1:00 am  City: Shelton

State/Province: Washington  Country: USA   Color:  White       Duration of Event: 2 seconds.        
 

Event Description:

While laying in bed I was noticing flashes of light in the North and South-Westerly direction yet no thunder at all. Looking through a sheer curtain that covered a window I noticed a light, I compared it to a flashlight about ten feet away, crossing the window.  It fell from the left (S) corner of window to almost the right (N) corner before going out

Additional Comments:

What was also unusual for our neighborhood was that not one dog was barking, not even from a distance.  The object did not change direction.

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Report Type: Skyquake       Date: October 28, 2005     Time:  3:00 a.m. EST City: Tel Aviv 

Country: Israel   Duration of Event:  Each time a few seconds.   

    
Event Description:

Person who made this report left Shadow Research, Inc. with links of the story.  The story can be found below.

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Report Type: UFO    Date: November 4, 2005    Time:  4:30 am EST City: Surveyor / Drycreek  State:  West Virginia

Country: USA   Duration of Event: 5 Minutes   

I was sitting in my computer room smoking a cigarette when my friend calls me at about 4:30 am and says something has been shining in her face as she was about to go to sleep and woke her up. She told me to look out my window and see if I seen anything weird.  I thought she was crazy and didn't think much of it but I looked and she explained to me where it would be if I was at her house. So I looked for it and I finally seen something that looked like a red and white dot that
was kind of changing between red and white out my window, moving really weird, moving left and right super fast like if you dragged your computer mouse back and forth as fast as you could. 

I got some clothes on and grabbed a pair of binoculars and went outside for a better look. It took me awhile to find it this time because it had moved a huge distance. Like from way up to my left to right in front of me and way down. Its worth noting it was allot closer to her than it was to me.  When I looked at it through the binoculars it looked like a big white orb that was kind of dancing. You know those things in the model of an atom that spin around it? It was kind of like that but there was only one and it was going diagonally around it like an atom, and just kind of circling around it like a hula-hoop.  It was really strange.  Then it started bouncing up and down like if u had a child's ball and paddle toy and with beating it really hard. I thought it was from holding my binoculars unsteady but I looked without them and still seen it doing that. I asked my friend "did you see that?" she said "yea, that thing is going crazy!". And we watched it do all sorts of weird stuff.  It changed colors from white, to red, to green to gold. Finally I remembered she had a digital camera and told her to snap pics, she was freaked out about the ones with the streaks because she couldn't see the streaks when she took the pics. We just stared and watched it in amazement.

She got off the phone with me to wake her husband and one of her kids up to show them, I went to wake my mom up. Got my mom up out of bed at like 15 after 5,it had gotten so small u had to squint to see it and she didn't get a good look and got pissed at me for waking her up. I was like crap, its gone.  So I was just looking around to see if it went anywhere, and I seen another big white orb straight up in the sky, just zigzagging at a high speed across the sky and it disappeared.

I called my friend back to tell her and this is the point where she took the video I think, she was still seeing the first one and as I was telling her about the second one I seen the biggest white orb of them all appear seemingly out of nowhere, it flew down diagonally towards the ground and disappeared as quickly as it appeared, it was completely white and didn't have any kind of twinkle to it like the other 2,no tail behind it, it acted just like a comet but no tail behind it and it was white. None of the objects made any sound. That's the last I seen of any of them.

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Report Type: UFO    Date: September 1, 2005    Time:  2:30 Europe; Greek  State:  Hirvensalmi

Country: Finland  Duration of Event: 30 Seconds

EVENT:   

This is my second UFO sighting and it took place on September 1, 2005 at 2:30 o'clock by night.  I was up at night and smoking a cigarette on my balcony in Hirvensalmi, a village.  I admired the stars, but the  moon was not visible.  Then I saw an ellipse shaped UFO shining yellow light and flying faster than an airplane or a satellite.  It was unusual to see and I knew I was watching an UFO.  it went behind the tree tops: there are pines, times, birches and alders.  The UFO disappeared from view, it was flying over lake Ryoka.  I have glasses so my vision is sharp.  It was quite warm and only the stars were bright.  The UFO must have been an undercover of the night.

I saw my first UFO in Kuitula, Hirvensalmi on December 1st, 2003.  These two sightings are different and the UFO is not definitely the same in both these sightings.  I can assure you that I have truly explained this sighting and I have not made up my story.

Keijo Tanttu

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Freelance Photographer, Investigator.

Sketch of UFO.     Photograph taken towards the area UFO was spotted.

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Report Type: Meteor / Fireball      Date: 12/04/2005    Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM  City: Radlett

State/Province: Hertfordshire  Country: England   Color:  Bright White       Duration of Event: 1 Hour.       
 

Event Description:

An object about the size of a tennis ball with a very small tail to the left lower side of the object appeared in the sky.  The object was traveling very slow and was always about the moon.   The object traveled from the North west toward the North East, and could be viewed for an hour.  No sound was associated with this object.  The object appeared to remain intact.

Additional Comments:

My concern is that after seen the meteor the other day just today at 23.40 i saw a falling star, has it got any thing in common with that meteor?

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Report Type: UFO    Date:  December 12, 2005    Time:  6:15 PM EST  City: Livonia State:  Michigan

Country: USA  Duration of Event: 1 minute  Color / Shape:  Green / Round.

EVENT:

A green light was observed traveling east.  The object did not have any blinking or strobe lights and was flying low.  Witness to this event noticed a "spark" of fire ejected from the green light and rapidly moved towards the earth disappearing from sight.  No crash or report from local police that a plane may have crash landed in the area.  Witness also called 911 and there was no report of a crash.

Object was in the air over 7 or 8 mile road near Newburgh heading East.

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Report Type: Skyquake       Date: February 16, 2006     Time:  2:00 PM PST  City: Escondido  State: CA

Country: USA   Duration of Event: 8 to 12 seconds   

    
Event Description:

I thought it was an earthquake. There were two main "shakes", about 6 seconds apart, with very minimal rumbling in between. I was on my PC and have a bookmark to the "Recent Earthquakes" web site. There was no report of an earthquake, even hours later when I re-checked. The two shocks were easily felt, and rattled my windows. There was no audible "boom", just the shocks and light rumbling. I have to believe other people heard this as well. I am near Camp Pendleton, but am very well versed with sounds from artillery fire; this did not sound like that. Another interesting thought, the first shock seemed to rattle the south side of the house more, and the second shock rattled the north side of the house more. That doesn't make sense, but it did sound that way. An echo perhaps?


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UFO Over O'Hare Airport, Chicago Il.  Cover-Up

Report Type: UFO       Date: November 7, 2006     Time:  6:30 PM CNT  City: Chicago  State: IL

Country: USA   Duration of Event: 20 Minutes  

    
Event Description: 

Part One:

The National UFO Reporting Center Received a report concerning a UFO sighting over O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois on November 7, 2006.  Many of the repair, maintenance workforce at the airport witness the event and reported it to their supervisor's who in return called the radar controller's to see if anything unusual is going on in the vicinity.

The FAA denied anything happened until a reporter from the Chicago Tribune filed a FOIA request, which turned up information suggesting something unusual was indeed going on.

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In the sky! A bird? A plane? A ... UFO?

Published January 1, 2007

 

Some joke, others research

The databases of various UFO-watching groups are full of accounts filed by pilots about sightings of unknown aircraft and anomalies that affected navigational equipment onboard planes.

Whether any of the UFO incidents are real or merely the result of individual perceptions, some experts say the events pose a potential safety risk to pilots and their passengers.

"There have been documented cases where safety appears to have been implicated, and more and more we are coming to the point of view that we are dealing with an intelligent phenomenon," said Richard Haines, science director at the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, a private agency.

"We must be proactive before an aircraft goes down," said Haines, a former chief of the Space Human Factors Office at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Haines is investigating the O'Hare incident. He said he has determined that no weather balloons were launched in the vicinity of O'Hare on Nov. 7.

"It's absurd that the military would be conducting aerial test flights" near the airport, Haines said.

All the witnesses to the O'Hare event, who included at least several pilots, said they are certain based on the disc's appearance and flight characteristics that it was not an airplane, helicopter, weather balloon or any other craft known to man.

United denies UFO report

They're not sure what was hanging out for several minutes in the restricted airspace, but they are upset that no one in power has taken the matter seriously.

A United spokeswoman said there is no record of the UFO report. She said United officials do not recall discussion of any such incident.

"There's nothing in the duty manager log, which is used to report unusual incidents," said United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy. "I checked around. There's no record of anything."

The pilots of the United plane being directed back from Gate C17 also were notified by United personnel of the sighting, and one of the pilots reportedly opened a windscreen in the cockpit to get a better view of the object estimated to be hovering 1,500 feet above the ground.

The object was seen to suddenly accelerate straight up through the solid overcast skies, which the FAA reported had 1,900-foot cloud ceilings at the time.

"It was like somebody punched a hole in the sky," said one United employee.

Witnesses said they had a hard time visually tracking the object as it streaked through the dense clouds.

It left behind an open hole of clear air in the cloud layer, the witnesses said, adding that the hole disappeared within a few minutes.

The United employees interviewed by the Tribune spoke on condition of anonymity.

Some said they were interviewed by United officials and instructed to write reports and draw pictures of what they observed, and that they were advised by United officials to refrain from speaking about what they saw.

Federal agency backtracks

Like United, the FAA originally told the Tribune that it had no information on the alleged UFO sighting. But the federal agency quickly reversed its position after the newspaper filed a Freedom of Information Act request.

An internal FAA review of air-traffic communications tapes, a step toward complying with the Tribune request, turned up the call by the United supervisor to an FAA manager in the airport tower, Cory said.

Cory said the weather might have factored into what the witnesses thought they saw.

"Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," she said. "That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low [cloud] ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things. That's our take on it."

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