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UFOs with Body Lights

Low-flying cigar-shaped object sighted over Los Angeles in 1981

April, 19, 1981 - Los Angeles, California, United States

A large, low-flying cigar-shaped object with white lights shining from a row of "windows" and bearing green-blue and white "running lights" was sighted by a West Los Angeles resident on the night of April 19, 1981 at about 11:30 p.m. Taff estimated the object, which made no sound, was about 65 feet in length and about 15 feet high.  View full report

Source: News World (New York, NY), Dec. 12, 1981 / APRO Bulletin, 1981   ID: 943
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch, Silent, Portholes/Windows, Body Lights

Disk-like craft hovers low, 'people' visible in windows

March, 1979 - Michigan, United States

From the witness: "The disk like craft came down directly over the church/rectory and hovered about 20 ft. above it.... It was disk-like with a very wide band of windows around the middle of the thing.... There were people/beings (?) looking down at me.... Two of them then were standing up and came up to the windows, and they just started down at me and the car.... I could see right into their craft. It was very brightly lit up inside."  View full report

Source: MUFON   ID: 1186
Case Type: RawReport

Large disc-shaped craft with dome flies low over couple's home

1979 - Santa Clarita Valley, California, United States

From the witness: "I saw a craft approaching the house... it was directly over our house and pool. It was approximately 75-100 feet above us... The craft was about 75-100 feet or less in diameter. It had small porthole and lights around it in the upper dome section, it was solid, metallic and shiny. There was a dome above it and attached to the body with no visible separation, as if it were molded as one solid craft."  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org / Brian Vike, HBCCUFO   ID: 1035
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Silent, Portholes/Windows, Body Lights

Two police officers in UK encounter UFO (researcher Tony Dodd's sighting)

December, 12, 1978 - Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

At 4:30 a.m., a lonely police patrol car was driving on a remote country road along the Cononley Moor. In the car were Sgt. Anthony Dodd and Constable Alan Dale. They saw a bright white light that seemed to be diving towards them in a glide. a big shining disc which flew over their heads at a speed of about 40 mph. At its closest, it was hardly 100 feet away from them, so that they could see a number of details. "It was a huge thing, about 100 feet in diameter, and it made no noise whatsoever."  View full report

Source: Michael Hesemann   ID: 662
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Police, Body Lights, Silent, Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo

Multiple witnesses observe large boomerang-shaped object over motorway

1975 - New York, United States

From the witness: "It was approximately the size of a high school football field, but not quite as wide. It had lights on each end and in the middle with blue square lights all across the back end of the wings.... We noticed that there was absolutely no sound at all and that it didn't fluctuate or "flutter" and that it just floated in the air. We saw structure, that is we saw the body of the vehicle. No rivets or seams, just the silver/grey color of the body."  View full report

Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (hbccufo.org)   ID: 1066
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Police, Silent, E-M Effects, Body Lights, Vehicle Encounter

Egg-shaped UFO seen from mountain lodge, reacts to firing of signal flare

December, 10, 1973 - Hochries Mountain, Germany

Mr. L., the proprietor of an Alpine lodge on Hochries mountain in Germany, along with the caretaker, noticed a red light on the top of the mountain. Mr. L. fired a red flare signal rocket in the direction of the unidentified object. Soon after, the object started to shine in a much brighter red color and rose-up slowly in the air. It moved in the direction of the Hochries-lodge, and the witnesses now recognized that the object was egg-shaped.  View full report

Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger / MUFON-CES, (1998)   ID: 652
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Interaction/Reaction, Body Lights

1971 UFO oncounter over Texas uranium mine; physical trace effects found

1971 - Karnes City , Texas, United States

From the witness: "The object was round and the bright light was coming from the center of the bottom of the UFO. Around the perimeter of the craft was hundreds of penlight size light beams that alternated in all colors of the spectrum. Now I know they were laser beams. The UFO was rising up slowly at first and then went straight up out of sight in about 10 seconds."  View full report

Source: Michael Harvey (Credit: Rense.com)   ID: 1070
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Physical Trace, Body Lights, Sound

Large object hovers over TV station tower in Florence, SC, in 1970

March, 1970 - Florence, South Carolina, United States

The witness, who was an employee at a TV station, saw a "UFO in broad daylight hovering on top of the [TV] tower, [and then] ran back inside the station to get the news director, Mr. Bill Fields." The craft was metallic, round, with a round cupola on top of the craft. It was about 100 feet across and about 25 feet tall. The encounter lasted for more than four hours, during which the object moved and stopped a couple of times before shooting off at "blinding speed."  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 922
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch, Body Lights

Chilean Navy ship encounters large UFO; tracked on radar

October, 24, 1969 - Chile

The incident involved a Chilean Naval destroyer and was witnessed by crew members and the commander of the vessel. Up to six UFOs, including one large object, were observed. The objects were verified on radar and observed visually. As the main object moved over the ship, the vessel's power went out."  View full report

Source: Bill Chalker   ID: 1016
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Military, Water-Related, Radar, Multiple UFOs, Humming, E-M Effects, Body Lights, Group Sighting

Disc with dome hovers over car along rural highway in Tennessee

1969 - Paris, Tennessee, United States

The witness was driving back to college with his roommate. Theirs was the only car on a long stretch of rural highway between Paris and McKenzie, Tennessee. Suddenly, they saw streaks of light coming from the top of their windshield; they stopped the car on the road and got out. Directly above their car was a round disc-like object with windows. It had a raised dome "cockpit" in the center of the top half. It was hovering and spinning effortlessly about 200 feet directly above them.  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 953
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Body Lights, Sound, Vehicle Encounter

Disc-shaped object with dome in Omaha, Nebraska

May, 12, 1968 - Omaha, Nebraska, United States

"Directly over the restaurant's parking lot, at an altitude I estimate at no more than one hundred feet, was a UFO. The object was circular, with a flat bottom and an opaque dome on the top. I estimate the diameter of the object at 35 to 50 feet. It held absolutely still and made absolutely no noise. On top of the dome was a single, steady white light. Around the rim were solid white lights in the shape of rectangles with rounded corners, separated from each other by unlit space. The lights flashed around the rim in a counter-clockwise direction like lights on a theater marquee."  View full report

Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center), Peter Davenport, Director   ID: 1133
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Body Lights, Silent, Group Sighting

Two-hundred people observe and hear disk-shaped object overhead (Redlands Sighting)

February, 4, 1968 - Redlands, California, United States

On February 4, 1968, about two hundred residents of Redlands, California, either saw or heard what was apparently the same huge, low-flying, disk-shaped object as it passed overhead. A minister conducting services in a church in Redlands was recording his sermon at the time and obtained a recording of the sound, which many people present described as a high-pitched, modulated whining sound.  View full report

Source: APRO / Ronald Story, 1980 / NICAP website (nicap.org)   ID: 777
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Mass Sighting, Group Sighting, Clergy, Body Lights, Rotary/Spin Motion, Sound

Close-range sighting of circular craft; missing time

September, 5, 1966 - Columbus, Nebraska, United States

From the witness: "He looked up and a round craft was directly over him at around 100 ft. in the air. It was not very large in size, completely circular, and had green lights, red lights and some yellowish lights on the bottom. There seemed to be some sort of lines in the bottom, like spokes in a wheel look. It was making a low humming sound that resonated. It was almost pitch dark so he couldn't see the color of the craft. "  View full report

Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center, Peter Davenport, Director)   ID: 1064
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Missing Time, Body Lights, Vehicle Encounter, Humming

Cigar-shaped object hovers near witness in Victoria, BC

1960 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

The witness, Miss M. I. Footner of Victoria, was walking her dog, when she saw a bright dot of light just over Little Saanich Mountain. The light grew larger and larger, until suddenly the object was "above me and became stationary." The object was cigar-shaped and about 100 feet in length. Later she learned that a friend who lived nearby, Miss Audrey Winderburn, had seen a craft of similar appearance while outside attending to her horse.  View full report

Source: Canadian UFO Report, Summer 1970 (credit: UFO*BC)   ID: 807
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Body Lights, Silent

Multiple witnesses observe saucer above road in 1955, UK

July, 17, 1955 - Bexley, United Kingdom

It was July 17, 1955 when Margaret Fry spotted the object as she was making her way to her GP's surgery in King Harold's Way from her home in Hythe Avenue. Mrs Fry described it as saucer shaped with a "blue/silver/grey/pewter texture, yet none of those colours". She said it had three spheres set into its base, one of which "flopped out", landing on the ground at the junction of nearby Ashbourne and Whitfield roads.  View full report

Source: The News Shopper, (London, UK), March 7, 2007   ID: 1054
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Witness Photo, Humming, Rotary/Spin Motion, Body Lights, Portholes/Windows, Children, Group Sighting, Landing
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