Appearance / Description of Object(s)

brightness would change on some of them - seemed very much like bioluminescence and like we were getting signaled, but in some kind of idle way. two of them actually meandered into each others' paths at one point and there seemed to be some kind of antagonistic interaction - no actual touching, but a kind of irritated flight path change on both parts. it seemed like a whole ecosystem, with trophic distinctions - lots of small guys, fewer large guys.

Description of Area / Surroundings

we were on the NW side of the lake, with lawrence to our NE, and IMMEDIATELY south of us down the beach is a weird shed that has a power pole next to it, with all this equipment on it and cables running into the building - but not FROM anywhere else. the building is sitting on a hill above the beach, and immediately above a jetty into the lake, upon which there is a weird concrete plug. it's an unmarked shed about 12 feet across, maybe. my friends and i have been fascinated with it for years, and disturbed as well. get kind of a bad vibe from it. my friends and i first saw these flying things only an hour after i joked that the artificial lake was mediating some kind of generator, that the shack was a power station, and that it was beaming energy to a secret government ship in orbit.

Full Description & Details

Different types of flying objects noticed:

-White stationary light (at least two independent sightings), hovering over grassy areas at the edge of the forest.

-Large craft (seen at least four times), always on a direct NE (toward Lawrence) vector, coming over the hill behind us and across the lake, making some kind of mechanical thrumming noise - large red light in front and smaller yellow lights (2 or 3) behind.

-Fish-shaped craft, with yellow lights arranged, from front to back, in a 1-2-1-2-1 pattern, moving like a fish over the lake, executing slow turns towards and away from the beach.

-White lights, arranged with two larger lights in front and several smaller lights behind (whitish) - would float, kind of sinking, through the sky, with occassional and seemingly propulsive spurts of spinning. Seemed kind of like some creature on a microscope slide.

There were several other types that were less numerous and memorable. We sat and watched these for hours, from right after sundown to 9 or 10 pm. I talked with other people who've been out to the lake and saw them as well, and who also claim to have seen the dreaded black triangles. The ones I talked to have no knowledge of the UFO literature.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

absolutely not.

Witness Background

scientific illustrator at the university of kansas natural history museum.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

i had just seen the disclosure project press conference from 2001 the previous week. i was agnostic but disturbed - i wasn't about to believe it until i had had a direct experience that confirmed anything, but i was definitely eyeing the skies. after: i am entirely convinced that there is an entire ecosystem of subtle-energy life that may or may not be extraterrestrial - and i don't know if that term even means anything anymore, because it seems to me that if there WERE aliens that were billions of years more advanced than us (and they probably would be, considering how quickly life emerged on earth and how old the universe is, etc.), that they may have been checking earth out since its formation and wedded themselves with this planet long before humanity ever even came into the play.

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