Size of Object(s)

Moon-size, expanding to miles across

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

300 feet

Shape of Object(s)

disk

Color of Object(s):

multicolored

Full Description & Details

On my way home from playing at a friends house, I came across two other school friends and their mothers sitting outside their house on a summer night. I was around age 11 - I estimate the year as 1968 plus or minus a year - and the other two children were my classmates. We were looking up at the sky and I pointed to the moon, which looked oval shaped a a little fuzzy. One of the other children said "that's not the moon," and pointed to another object that looked exactly like the first. Altogether, there were three of these "moons" and we children and the two moms were looking up trying to figure out what was going on. All of a sudden, one of the "moons" began expanding rapidly with bands of technicolor light in just about every color of the spectrum. As the disk expanded, I had the sense that the object was descending, and it seemed like it came within a few hundred feet, nearly filling the view of the sky. Instantaneously, the colors all a bit shaken, and continued to watch the moon. After a few seconds, nother one of the "moons" did the exact same thing as the first. The next day I asked my neighbor, a police officer, what the lights were. He told me it was a Russian weather ballon.

Witness Background

Employed in a medical center as a clincial research coordinator. Bachelors and Masters in biology.

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