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 NAVIGATION MENU     Report 1407 of 7974
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  Date
March, 1968
Location
Brookings, South Dakota, United States
 
 

Summary:  I was leaving my home on 6th St. in Brookings....to head to the radio station...I was signing on the station at 6 a.m. So, this would have beena bout 5:15 a.m. I had just backed out of my driveway and was heading west, when I looked up and thought I was seeing an airplane with the fuselage on fire....Thus the "cigar shape"....I followed the "object to the West end of Brookinga...a distance of about 1 1/2 miles. Keerping the object in sight most of the time...some tree blockage.

Date Posted: 8/28/2006 8:14:17 AM

Sighting Time: 5:15 a.m.
Day/Night: Nighttime
Duration: 10 to 15 minutes

No. of Witnesses: 2


Size of Object(s): Maybe the size of a DC 3 plane .... A smaller plane....not like one of the big ones.... Maybe 40 ft. long....by 12 ft. tall....
Distance to Object(s): I would say 500 ft. in the air.....and about 1 mile away....


Appearance / Description of Object(s)
see above

Description of Area / Surroundings
Brookings is a smaller, community, with a University.....A rural community. As is South Dakota....a smaller population....

Full Description & Details
When I looked up.....I really thought I was seeing an airplane "on fire".... a bright orange-red glow like a fire. I drove West keeping the object in my sight much of the time. When I got to the West edge of town....I stopped and watched the object....almost hover....then turn on it's side....thus a saucer shape.....then becoming almost circular....and just seemed to "slide" out of sight. The object was going West....then almost hovered...then , from a "cigar shape".or.."fuslage shape" to an oval then a circle....and as I say....from a Westerly direction to Southerly direction....and just seemed to slide out of site.

I was stopped in my car....a guy in a Pickup was next to me, as we had pulled into a parking lot of a business..... I walked over to his pickup....we both said.... "we couldn't believe what we saw..".

I never got his name....I wish we'd have exchanged more information.

But, this happend so fast, so unexpectdly,... that one doesn't have time to think.

I have mentioned this incident "on the air" various times....always with some repercussions wondering if I had been "on the Martini's ? "

I guess the most vivid thing I remember....when I first saw it....I really thought it was an airplane on fire..... I heard no sounds....but, as I say, it all happens sooooo fast....



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

Personal Background
I'm a radio announcer /salesman

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting
I would believe this to be a UFO.

Reported Sighting? No
Reported To: I did talk about the experience on my radio show.
Name: Grant Peterson
Location: Brookings, SD, USA


 
       

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