LOOKING BACK: Witness photo from Dec. 15, 2007, case. See story below.
A northwest, Illinois, man says he came out of his home March 6 after hearing a rumble and feeling his home shake - and witnessed a mile-wide UFO moving across the sky, according to testimony filed with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
"This thing just 'floated' across the sky," he stated. "The body was a shiny black, which at times looked like it was blending into the sky."
He describes the object as he and a girlfriend watched it move.
"As we both watched the lights go over our road, the back light of cloud cover began to reveal a solid object from one light to the other. I could see that it was one enormous craft shaped exactly like a boomerang. We both were in awe."
The following is the unedited report filed with MUFON.
Please remember that many UFO reports can be resolved as something natural or manmade. Illinois MUFON Director Sam Maranto is investigating this case and we will report back with his results.
March 6, 2009 - AT LEAST ONE MILE WIDE!!! MINIMUM!!!
On March 6th 2009, My girlfriend and I were watching TV in our bedroom when both our dogs started to bark, I assumed they just had to go out so I put both their leashes on, took two steps out my front door, and heard a huge rumble.
I asked my girlfriend if she heard that, and in a panic she stated "yes, what was that". We both felt the house shake, and thought it was an earthquake, after about 1-2 min. I continued to take the dogs out because they were barking more than before.
As I went back down the front pourch I heard, and felt it again.
I looked around outside to see if anybody else was outside. We live out in the country, in a higher end subdivision, so somebody is usally in sight, but nobody else came outside their homes. I continued to walk down the driveway, when I looked up and saw two blinking white lights that were at least 1.5-2.0 miles away from eachother, then I heard the noise again, this time it sounded like 2 F-14 flying at 1000ft directly overhead, and for a second I thought that it was 2 Fighter jets in 1 mile formation from each other.
It was very dark and extremely overcast so I had a great background that was lit up cloud cover. I yelled at my girlfriend to come outside quickly. The dogs were going nuts.
As we watched these lights, they were both directly across from one another, and moving very very slow. I knew then it wasnt jets/airplanes/helicopters.
As we both watched the lights go over our road, the back light of cloud cover began to reveal a solid object from one light to the other. I could see that it was one ENORMOUS craft shaped exactly like a boomerang. we both were in awe!!
This thing was HUGE, to big to fly, I couldnt believe what I was seeing. It was breathtaking.
As we watched it fly, I could faintly hear the sound of several jet engines. This thing just "FLOATED" across the sky. The body was a shiney black, which at times looked like it was blending into the sky.
I ran the dogs back into the house, and to get my video camera. The camera was completely dead, and I was in a panic. I ran back outside, and we both watched as this thing cruised straight North towards Wisconsin.
This experience has changed my thought on our skies. While I have no doubt that this was one of our own creations, probably military, It makes me wonder, How in this world could something that HUGE float so smoothly across the sky? I am unsure why it was flying so low(probably around 5000ft), and why did it make so much noise.
I have alot of details, and could write about our experience for a long time, but that is the major parts. I know our military has secrect aircraft likes this, but if you ask me, they werent being very secretive. It was amazing to see, and I feel privileged. Sorry about all the spelling errors. Thanks for listening, Im curious if anyone else saw this craft that night.
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LOOKING BACK - Alaska, December 15, 2007 - FAA webcam image
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Photo: This is a cropped and enlarged version of the witness image. MUFON database. The two small objects caught my attention immediately for some reason. After saving the image to my pictures and zooming up on the images, (especially the lower, closer one), I was flabbergasted to realize what I was seeing did not appear to be birds, choppers, planes or anything I usually observe. I thought even though it looked like a disc I would take some pictures of birds to compare. I was lucky to have an eagle circling right in front of the house about 1/8 to 1/4 mile away so I took several shots of it and compared them to the disc objects. There was no similarity at all. The objects flying over the Wrangell Airport are not birds. The lower closer one even appears to be metallic in that on the lower right hand side it appears to be reflecting light. I know you guys can enhance an image way better than me. Even when I zoom way up on the images where they blur out, they retain their disc shape. So please enhance these images and e-mail me the results.
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I frequently browse the FAA weather cams for Southeast Alaska. I also like to check out the loops and will look at every picture in the loops just to see what I can see.
Comments
Nice article. I think there has be to other life out there and this is completely possible and more than likely probably. It's silly to think out of all the possibilities we are the only living life forms.
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Sounds just like the Phoenix Lights sighting in 1997. I seriously doubt it was alien because you heard noises that sounded like "several jet engines". Alien craft would be nearly silent (based on many thousands of credible sightings) and would not be so disruptive as to shake your house. My guess is this is the Stealth Blimp, believed to be an exotic propulsion type airship operated by the government of the United States, perhaps the one designed by Lockheed. The Stealth Blimp is supposed to be nearly silent but it could have had military jets escorting it such as the Stephensville sighting.
To Hamster.
I am inclined to think that this is extraterrestrial.
I cannot imagine why the military would need a MILE LONG blimp, or where such a thing could be assembled or stored.
With thousands of miles of test grounds, I also can't imagine why the gov would flu these things over Phoenix or Illinois.
If the sound could be jets flying around the craft, then it could be silent, as was the Phoenix craft.
The Stephensville craft was also gigantic, and tool off at fantastic speed with no air displacement, I don;t think we have that technology.
I think ninny is probably right here. One extra fact that I would add is that blimps/airships are designed to be as light in construction as possible. Even with modern materials, I doubt if the structure of a blimp (particularly a mile long, boomerang shaped one generating tons of air resistance) could stand the stress of being accelerated by jet engines. And what about the booms heard? Is it not more likely that these were created by pursuing USAF jets that the witnesses just happened not to see?
A craft using combinations of negative and neutral buoyancy cells can be built that large and still be flyable. The question is how maneuverable it can be given any method of propulsion and what maneuvers can be shown to have made. The flyoffs at high speeds and non-lift angles seem doubtful.
As for utility? Sometimes knowing how to build something first is more important than knowing what it's application will be. At the very least, it's great shock and awe.
Here is an artist's rendering of Lockheed's Stealth Blimp from 1982. The design has probably been modernized since it's inception so this may not precisely resemble the craft flying today.
www.space.com/images/h_stealth_blimp_03.jpg
Why would you need a stealth blimp? You could carry a large number of tanks, troops and supplies into a region overnight. You wouldn't need a huge runway that currently limits where today's massive cargo ships can land. In fact, you wouldn't need a runway at all.
Additionally, low altitude flights, at night, would be critical. This would render enemy radar useless. Lockheed also designed this craft and it is Lockheed Skunkworks that is the worldwide leader in stealth technologies.
I still believe the March 6th sighting sounds more like a manmade craft than extraterrestrial. The jet engine noise that was heard with the sighting seals the deal for me -- extraterrestrial craft would be nearly silent.
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