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Two friends sightseeing along a lonely stretch of highway near Roswell, New Mexico, watched an orange-red object moving across the sky, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

The witnesses said the object suddenly disappeared for 5 to 6 seconds, then reappeared further away, split into two objects, then the two objects rejoined each other.

The following report and its headlines is unedited. You can read my selected cases by type of UFO report at the UFO Traffic Report index page.

NM, June 10, 2009 - Night time sphere like object disappears then reappers within seconds, splitting in two then rejoins again before vanishing near Roswell NM

While on a short sightseeing vacation trip to NM. from CA. from 9 Jun 2009 to 12 June 2009,on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 both my friend and I were traveling west leaving ROSWELL towards CHACO CANYON NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK via US 70.

We decided to follow a route via US 380 West towards SOCORRO, and see if we could find any available lodging on route. After securing a room at a local motel in the town of CAPITAN, we decided to go for a ride and check out the countryside and stars that night, since the skies had turned clear enough to do so. Somewhere around 8:00 pm(20:00 hrs)we found State 234 eastbound and headed towards ROSWELL (Lincoln County).

For those unfamiliar with, NM STATE 230 is a 2 way road which appears to be mostly used by local farmer traffic and apparently not a very busy road at night. Providing NO light pole illumination, night falls quickly after dusk(or sometime between 8:45 PM and 9:10 PM or 20:45 to 21:10 hrs this time of the year). I had to engage the vehicle’s high beam lights through out our entire ride, in order to better see the road’s contour reflectors/markers/signs and also to avoid hitting any of the local wild life. In the 2.5 hours that we’d traveled to & from on this road, no other vehicles were encountered (nor could be seen at a far distance in the mostly flat landscape)in either direction.

Sometime around 9:00 PM (21:00 hrs)we’d reached marker 41 on STATE 230 and after passing this marker, but before reaching 42, we decided that rather than continuing further in that direction, it was best to go trail back westbound for a spot to stop. So we turned the car around and parked just on the shoulder of the road by marker 41, before heading back west to CAPITAN. We turned off our vehicle’s engine & lights, and sat there inside the vehicle talking in total darkness, checking out the view and commenting on how dark it was for this chilly, clear and moonless starry night(up to that point…a full moon rose up later on round 10:00 or so PM (22:00 hrs).

At about 9:10 PM (21:10 hrs) and with the western skies providing just a bit more of lighter dusk shades on the horizon than the darker eastern skies, my friend and I both noticed an object, and although we couldn’t make out the outline of it’s fuselage, it had a very bright and steady glowing orange to reddish light. At first I thought it to be an aircraft traveling typically fast in a straight line, in a nor-east to east bound direction and at what seemed to me to be at a 30 degree angle above both the barely visible horizon, and the western mountain range.

Having served in both the USMC & the USCG, I am well familiar with many types of military aircraft, so it seemed somewhat odd to me that a craft traveling that fast at night, did not have any other type of fuselage lights “ON”, nor did it produce the familiar distant sounds of jet engines, or sound barrier blasts we’re all familiar with.

I was just about to say something to my friend when at that very same moment he burst out saying: “What is that?”…”do you see it?”

No sooner does he asks… when this the object suddenly disappears, vanishing for what we’d estimated to be 5-6 seconds, when it suddenly re-appears again further along on what seemed to me to be 2-3 clicks to the east (still traveling on a straight course)when suddenly IT SPLITS INTO TWO(2)lights(of same orangish-reddish color), which traveled parallel to each other at first, then separating/widening apart in an arc fashion, until just as quickly both lights seemed to REJOIN or “MELT” back into ONE single light- VANISHING immediately thereafter. There was absolutely no sound or echo whatsoever of a collision, nor was there any visibly “hot” falling debris falling into the desert landscape, nor did we see any smoke or “trails” in the sky or fire coming out of the desert landscape thereafter.

My friend and I sat there for about 5-10 minutes both perplexed and excited at what we’d seen. We asked ourselves a number of questions (i.e.: was it fireworks?…was it a satellite?…could it have been spotlights? but none of these questions seemed to have a rational answer as to what we’d witnessed on that night. The entire episode lasted approximately 30 seconds and although I had a digital camera with me, unfortunately I could not retrieve it and power it up quick enough to take pics of the event given how quickly it all happened.

[via examiner.com, Roger Marsh]

A number of people claim to have seen UFOs in Cambridgeshire after dazzling orange lights flashed across the night sky…

Witnesses claimed to have seen up to 50 of the mystery bright beams at around 11.30pm in Huntingdon.

Scott Boswell, 37, a former pilot and soldier from nearby Hinchingbrooke, captured some of the lights on his camera.

Mr Boswell, a banker in the City of London, said: “I noticed three lights floating past our house, probably a couple of kilometres away, and thought nothing of it.

“But then I noticed a big long string of lights coming from the direction of Brampton and heading over the Stukeley Meadows direction. This was about 11.30pm and I got a couple of blurred shots. I’m pretty sure these weren’t aircraft.

“There was no noise, no navigation lights and their heading and height was relatively constant until they disappeared out of sight.”

The former solider said he did not think they were flares or weather balloons, the standard explanation for unusual objects in the sky.

Auberon and Suzi Hedgecoe, who run the Braywood Guest House in Huntingdon, saw around 50 orange lights in the sky.

Mr Hedgecoe said: “It was like an armada. There was no sound. They were travelling 15 at a time and every six minutes more seemed to be coming over the horizon.

“They were not planes. These were not balloons. Each one was the size of a building. If they had been balloons, then they would have had to have been huge and they looked weighty.”

He said the lights were no higher than 3,000ft.

Mr Hedgecoe said it was so extraordinary that the couple woke up their 10-year-old son Barney and his friend Zac, who was staying over, to see the spectacle.

Another witness said she had counted 35 lights in the sky.

[via telegraph.co.uk]

Sometime after 10 pm on May 21, Mr. Zhang, a Shanghai tourist inadvertently noticed two purple spaceship-like objects in night view photos that he took from the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Mr. Zhang suspects that the objects are “UFOs.”

On the morning of May 22, Mr. Zhang came to the editorial department with his own camera, and claimed he had photos of “aliens.” In the three photos of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda taken by Mr. Zhang, the appearance of the “UFOs” was revealed by two small points of light side by side on two of the photos and a much clearer appearance of the two points of light on the third photo. These two disk-shaped “UFOs” emitted purple lights, leaving two green balloon-like trails as well.

From the photos, the two “UFOs” are moving continuously towards the Big Wild Goose Pagoda from a distance. According to Zhang, all these photos were taken with a Canon 400D camera at around 10:30 pm of May 21. Zhang set the camera at five-second exposure, aperture at 13 and fixed it on a tripod when taking the pictures.

Zhang himself felt quite astonished when talking about the photo shooting experience. Working in Shanghai, Zhang went to Xi’an on a business trip. He intended to visit some of the famous attractions in the area. After dinner on May 21, he and his friend came to the Clock Tower to take some night view shots. They took a taxi and asked the taxi driver to recommend some other attractions in Xi’an as they still had some time after they finished taking pictures of the Bell Tower. Under the taxi driver’s recommendation, the two friends went to the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to take some more night shots. This was when they unexpectedly took the photos of “UFOs.”

[via CCTV.com]

A Texas couple and their son were driving along Highway 285 heading home from Carlsbad Caverns when they noticed four lights about 50 feet off of the ground, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

The object first appeared to be in a V-formation as it rose to about 1,000 feet.

As they watched, the object “flashed out” in front of them.

The following is an extract from MUFON:

Texas, March 20, 2009 - Triangle lights less than mile from road.

“My wife, son and I were travelling home from Carlsbad Caverns on Friday, March 20, 2009 and around sunset my wife and son saw what appeared to be 4 lights hovering around 50 feet off of the ground, within a mile or so of the car (over some houses).

“My wife initially thought they were towers, but they all moved simultaneously vertically. These lights were pulsating (not at the same time).

“I immediately pulled to the shoulder of Hwy 285 and witnessed what was now 3 lights in a “V” formation (the 4th had disappeared). These lights rose vertically very slowly to a height of approximately 1000 feet in the air and after a brief pause began moving left (north) very slowly.”

[Roger Marsh, UFO Examiner]

A boomerang-shaped object seen from an airport control tower and a woman’s encounter with an “alien” are among the secrets revealed in official UFO files.

The woman reported seeing a glowing, spherical object rise into the air in Norwich after meeting a man who said he came from a planet similar to Earth.

In another sighting, a triangular craft hovered then “shot off at 500mph”.

The third set of UFO documents to be released by the Ministry of Defence covers the period from 1987 to 1993.

In November 1989 a “completely terrified” woman contacted RAF Wattisham in Suffolk to report her close encounter with a man claiming to be an alien.

She said she met the fair-haired man with a Scandinavian-type accent as she walked her dog on a sports field.

He told her crop circles were caused by others like him who had travelled to Earth and that the purpose of his visit was friendly.

He then said he had spoken to her because he felt it was important to have contact with humans even though he was told not to.

As the unidentified woman ran home she heard a loud buzzing noise and turned to see a large, spherical object, glowing orange-white, rise steadily until out of sight.

A letter from RAF Wattisham to the MoD and Norfolk police described it as “one of our more unusual UFO reports”.

Three years later two air traffic controllers at London’s Heathrow Airport reported seeing a black, inverted boomerang-shaped UFO from their control tower.

It was stationary then moved steadily in the morning sun, the files say.

A week earlier on a coastal road in Louth, Lincolnshire, several people had reported similar sightings of a large, triangular-shaped object with three lights.

Many witnesses reportedly stopped their cars and got out for a better look before it turned on its axis and zoomed off “at 500mph towards north west”.

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If you want to take a look at the newly released UFO files visit: www.ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk

According to news sources, the Siberian sighting of an unidentified flying object the size of a Boeing 747 on February 15 about 6pm was marked by many witnesses and photos snapped from mobile phones.

Observers noted that whatever it was, the entity in the sky had an odd blurriness about it and was gray-black in color.

The craft was of a triangular shape with smoothed-over edges, and was completely dark and silent. “Nothing on earth,” were the words used to describe it by Ms. Anna Kotchetkova, one shaken witness.

The mysterious craft appeared to be flying between 500 and 1,000 meters (about 1,750 feet) above ground level and moving at an estimated 7 meters (about 25 feet) per second.

The Russian

media has widely (and wildly) covered this unusual sighting, and teams of researchers have been dispatched to the area to conduct further inquiries. Theories about the craft abound, and are as numerous as the amount of people who saw it.

Many residents interviewed believe that a top-secret UFO base is hidden somewhere in the enormous, wide-open spaces of Siberia, while others claim that the craft is some top-secret project completely of man-made origin.

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Till Wöhler is as down-to-earth as you could expect of any German who stands almost 2 meters tall. The China.org.cn journalist is an experienced photographer who is familiar with the night skies. On Monday night he spotted something in the evening sky over Beijing that caught his interest, and for which as yet he has no satisfactory explanation. Here he tells his story in his own words…

“Clear evening skies over the Chinese capital are a relatively rare occurrence, and with the intrusive light pollution for the most part the stars can barely be distinguished. The brightest object in the night sky, the moon, is not visible at the moment.

“At around 6 pm on Monday evening, while returning home from work, I spotted a bright yellow-orange object in the clear skies over Beijing, for which I have as yet no explanation. Some authorities, and many of my own colleagues, are of the opinion that it was the planet Venus, but I’m not so sure. Venus should have been much further south and much lower in the sky at that time in the evening. And not only was the object extremely bright, but it was crossing the skies much quicker than the moon.

“A first freehand photo with my compact digital camera was somewhat blurred, in spite of the electronic stabilizer. But consumed with curiosity, as soon as I got home I grabbed hold of my digital reflex camera and returned to the pursuit of the object. What exactly was this thing in the western sky? A star? A planet? A UFO…”

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Extraterrestrial UFOs might have influenced Leonardo da Vinci as well as Michaelangelo, Christopher Columbus and other Renaissance artists. Domenico Ghirlendaio and Carlos Crivelli both painted flying saucer-like UFO images in the background of their art. Leonardo designed an armored car very similar in appearance to a flying saucer, and designed a flying machine aerial ‘screw’ as well.

Michaeangelo became an apprentice to Ghirlandaio at age thirteen in Florence. That started a six-year period between 1488-1494, when all of these men either lived in Florence or would have had reasons to go there. Florence was the capital and cultural center of Italy at the time. About the time Crivelli and Ghirlandaio died in the mid-1490’s, Nicolaus Copernicus also arrived in Italy for further study of medicine, law and even astrology. So he might have visited Florence too and interacted with the others.

Christopher Columbus saw a ‘UFO’ according to the book Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs in reference to ‘The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus’ (1850). Columbus saw ‘a light glimmering at a great distance’ that …vanished, only to reappear several times during the night, each time dancing up and down ‘in sudden and passing gleams’.

Michaelangelo (1475-1564) became an apprentice in 1488 to Ghirlandaio just two years after Carlos Crivelli (c. 1435-c. 1495) painted “The Annunciation of St. Emidius” in 1486. Crivelli’s painting clearly shows a flying saucer-like UFO shining a light downward.

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) painted “The Madonna with Saint Giovaninno” that shows another UFO-like image in the background. It is known only to be from the 15th century, but given that Ghirlandaio died in 1494, it is likely that Michaelangelo was with Ghirlandaio during or after the painting was completed.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is considered a great visionary for designing his armored car around 1485 AD and for trying to design and build a flying machine around 1500 AD. He drew much inspiration from the natural environment. Seeing a UFO in the sky or even in the paintings of other great artists of his time might have given him two ideas. One was the flying saucer-like armored car and the other separate flying machine.

Imagine what it might have been like to overhear these Renaissance men gathered at an Italian bistro on a warm Tuscan afternoon. What would they have said about UFOs and the possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations? Collectively, they had vast knowledge from multiple areas of art, science, medicine, philosophy, religion, commerce, and more.  Such a conversation could have happened 100 years before Galileo arrived to expand on the astronomy work of Copernicus. Coincidentally, Galileo Galilei was born Feb. 15, 1564, just three days before Michaelangelo died.

We will never know how much these men were influenced by ‘UFOs’. We’ll never know what they might have discussed about extraterrestrial civilizations. But there’s a common theme in stories of extraterrestrial visitors — they often make their presence known to those with lasting influence.

Was that the case with these great men of the Renaissance? If so, then the extraterrestrial intelligent beings could not have picked a better group. Even as a fictional dialogue, such a gathering of great minds to ponder our place among other galactic civilizations would make an intriguing novel or feature film.

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EXTRA terrestrial activity has been ruled out as the cause of bizarre damage to a Lincolnshire wind turbine.

Forensic tests have proved a failed bolt is the reason behind the broken blade at the wind turbine at Conisholme, near Louth.

At the time, the damage was linked to the sighting of strange lights over Alkborough.

Fatigue in the material around the bolts is thought to be what caused the strange damage.

The story caused a national storm after the story of the wind turbine and the mysterious unexplained lights was broken in the Scunthorpe Telegraph and made the front page of The Sun.

On the BBC’s website, it was one of the most read stories and it was a hot topic on Radio Four’s Today programme.

The story was also taken up by Sky News and discussed on ITV’s Loose Women.

As the Scunthorpe Telegraph reported Lesley Whittingham (71), from Jerusalem Cottages, Alkborourgh, described seeing bright orange and yellow tints in the air.

Mrs Whittingham, along with her husband Frank (78) had watched the stationary object for five minutes before it mysteriously disappeared. Louth resident Dorothy Willows, who lives just half a mile from the windfarm, was in her car when she saw ’strange lights’ in the sky.

She was among dozens who spotted the mysterious flashing orangey-yellow spheres.

Hours later there was an almighty smash.

Afterwards one blade had been ripped off and had totally vanished, while another was left twisted and useless.

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