The UFO Traffic Report for Friday, May 8, 2009, includes seven selected sightings over five states, according to witness statements filed in the past 48 hours with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
Today's stories take us first into the Nevada desert where a couple say they witnessed three boomerang-shaped objects - one of them hovered silently and slowly close to them. Both witnesses in this case filed reports. Two Texas witnesses had their own desert encounter when a bright light coming toward them moved through the cab of their SUV. Three small triangle UFOs were spotted moving slowly over Mississippi skies. Another couple in CA watched as a "part of the sky was moving" in this story of a giant cloaked UFO. A massive object the size of an "apartment building" floated over Ohio. And a black, non-reflective cube was seen over Texas.
In other news, take a look at this UFO video over Redondo Beach, CA. Illinois MUFON Director Sam Maranto reminds me that the Out of This World UFO Conference is right around the corner - May 28 - 31. Read more here.
Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If MUFON investigates and reports back on any of these cases, I will update this page. You can read my selected cases by type of UFO report at the UFO Traffic Report main page.
The following reports and their headlines are unedited.
The first two cases involve a couple who witnessed boomerang-shaped UFOs. They were driving in the desert when they noticed three objects in the sky in a formation, and one of those objects moved to ground level and disappeared while the other two continued. They gave chase and eventually parked their car and shone a spotlight on one of the crafts as it silently hovered nearby. First read the girlfriend's version, followed by the boyfriend's version. We assume one of them got the date wrong as she claims the event occurred on May 6, and he notes it as May 7.
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NV, May 6, 2009 - Boomerang shaped, black, hovering aircraft. 5 lights facing you, invisible turned away. My boyfriend and I were driving around the desert. We had been out there a while, and soon it got very dark. We were driving back on our way home, when we both saw 3 objects in the distance, with lights we had never seen before, and flying in a unusual way, in a group. We got very excited while watching, and suddenly they started breaking away from eachother. One started going down towards the ground and dissapeared like it had crashed. The other two continued to fly, almost towards us. My boyfriend and his father went back out to where we were. When they got there, there were helicopters with spotlights on the ground, several trucks with spotlights driving through the desert. A black SUV with very dark tented windows driving towards the area we seen the crafts. Men walking around with spot lights in the desert. As if they were all looking for someting. Im not sure what i saw tonight, but ive always been a believer of other life forms. And tonight was proof for me. I was scared..and excited. I hope I find out more about what i saw. |
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NV, May 7, 2009 - As I was driving home from the desert I saw a boomerang shaped aircraft with 5 lights on the front. i have lived near the top gun base in fallon all of my life |
This desert encounter in Texas took place 50 miles south of Marathon.
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TX, April 22, 2009 - Desert encounter with bright object/figure/light while in vehicle broad daylight Highway 385 around Marathon, TX. My Partner and I were driving to Big Bend National Park on vacation. We were about 50 miles south of Marathon, Tx on 385 heading south. It was a clear day, and we were both well rested and excited about our trip. I was gazing out the window at the mountains and the desert terrain. We had to be doing about 85 mph. I was in the passenger seat. I noticed out of the corner of my eye soemthing extremely bright and moving fast toward the car. I saw what looked like a teardrop shaped head for lack of better words with a thin line of what appeard to be a shiny band of silver wrapped around the center. I thought i saw what looked like a figure in a running man pose supporting the teardrop head, but I couldn't be absolute becaus the entire thing was engulfed in an undescriable white light, and was follwed by light tracers. I don't know if the figure or thing moved through the vehicle but as quickly as i saw the thing the cab of the SUV was filled with the light. The vehicle moved in an upward circular motion but never left the ground kind. The light exited the vehicle on the driver side. I saw my partner who was driving look at me. He was pale white and dioriented, and he said to me "What are we doing?". I said, "I dont know." And that was it. |
Three small and slow moving triangle-shaped UFOs over Mississippi were silent and the witnesses claim they "almost seemed to be see-through."
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MS, April 1, 2009 - 3 distinct triangular shapes with orangish white glow. Approximately at 11:40 pm I awoke from about an hours sleep. I went out on front porch to smoke a cigarette. The sky was pitch black and clear, you can see all stars clearly, not a cloud in the sky. I looked up to look at stars when I noticed what i thought was a falling star but it looked like it was going up and it was the same size as the stars with a fire like color to it. then out of nowhere before I could blink my eye there are these 3 triangle shape things just right above the tree lines kind of like gliding over the sky. They were too small to be a plane they were moving way too slow for a plane. they were flying in a diagonal formation and they didn't even make a single sound. the only thing I heard were crickets.they were in the sky for about one minute then they just disappeared. These objects were orangish white that almost seemed to be see thru. I have never in my life seen anything like it. I called the local police, they advised me to call the airport which I did, no military planes that night. I called the NWS in Jackson, MS..no weather ballons at that time of night. I was also advided to call the air nat'l guard in pearl ms. who refered me to security which I did, they advised no military planes. they also told me my conversation was being recored which was fine with me. I just got the internet today. I don't want folks to thing I'm crazy but I know what I saw and it was nothing i have ever experienced before. While I was watching them I wasn't scared it was almost peacful but the next day I was a nervous wreck. |
This object moving over California was described by witnesses as blending into the sky - or looked like "part of the sky was moving." When a witness shined a laser pointer at the object, light dispersed across its surface and he realized was was "closer than what we thought."
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CA, May 7, 2009 - Cloaked flying object I really don't know how to think about this let alone write about it... My girl friend and I went out to the garden for a smoke, looking up i saw what i thought was a satellite passing over head, i ran inside and got my laser pointer to point it out to my girlfriend. We followed it as it traversed the sky south north it then seemed to fade away, only to reappear but this time it would pulse (maybe 20 times brighter) then disappear, reappear again, pulse and disappear again. This continued maybe 8 or 9 times. As strange as this was it is not why i felt the need tell someone. Just as it disappeared i looked up and saw something moving across the sky east/west, i still can't comprehend what i saw or what it was I think my brain is finding it hard to process it. The best way to describe it is to say that a part of the sky was moving, or at the very least something that blended in to the sky was, i know that doesn't make sense but my girlfriend was also was there and we are still trying to accept and comprehend what we saw. I then pointed the laser pointer so that i could keep track/focus on it as it was hard to follow, I was completely shocked when right off the bat the Laser hit it or i should say it dispersed across its surface spreading out and very bright. The next shock was the realization that it was a lot closer than i had originally thought and absolutely dead silent. The only way for me to describe it would be to say i could not see a definitive shape because it was, to use a Sci-Fi term, cloaked! Do we have this type of technology? I'm still trying to grasp what happened and still feel the shock from the laser hitting it and how bright it became. It was like sensing something in a dark corner you shine a light to find there is nothing there only this time there is. |
Ohio witnesses watched a "massive" object the "size of an apartment building" moving across the sky.
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OH, May 5, 2009 - Very large flashing object. A couple friends and I were at another friend's house watching a basketball game on tv. We left at 10:50 p.m. and one friend drove three of us home. As we were driving on the freeway, I jokingly pointed to an object in the sky and said that it was a UFO. This was at about 11 p.m. That got everyone's attention and we had no idea what it actually was. One friend dismissed it as a radio tower because of how low it seemed. It also seemed to be hovering over a certain area. He then realized there were no radio towers in the town we live in. Once I saw that it was moving, my heart began to race. We were all in shock at what we were seeing. It had three visible flashing lights, all three of them different colors. It resembled a jet, but was moving to slow and completely silent. We quickly pulled into a parking lot to get a better look but it vanished behind some trees. Thinking we had seen all there was to see, we dropped off two of the friends. Minutes later, as I was being taken home, we saw it again. This time it was moving toward us. We quickly drove down a sparse yet usually busy road for a place to park. We parked the car and turned the lights off. At this time, we could see the bottom of the object. It was massive; about the size of an apartment building. It seemed to be so close to us yet it didn't make even the slightest noise. We watched it fly slowly into the distance until we lost site of it. I know all the flight patterns of commercial airlines around here and this object was on a course of its own. It was also ten times bigger than any jet I've ever seen. I was stunned by this experience and also very happy that I got to witness something so rare. After I got home, I did a bit of research and found a video on youtube of the same thing that I saw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N99DMRmRc-8&feature=channel_page. I had a much better view than what is seen in this person's video. I am kicking myself for not recording it on my phone but I was way too caught up in the moment to even think about it. |
Here is the video mentioned in the report.
And finally today, a Texas witness describes this UFO as a large, black cube.
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TX, May 7, 2009 - Black Cube moving NW by SAT airport I was in my backyard with my dogs just about sundown. The sun had just gone below the horizon but the sky was still very bright with some high level haze or thin cloud cover. As usual I was watching the sky just looking for birds, airplanes, etc. We live under one of the approach paths for SAT airport and we have a lot of civilian and military traffic.I saw what at first I thought was a buzzard but then I noticed I couldn't see any wings and it was not circling as they usually do. The object was totally black with no reflection from the sun and was moving in a straight line to the Northwest at a steady pace. It was moving at about the speed of a normal civilian airliner as viewed at normal flight altitude. It did not deviate at all in altitude or direction. All of a sudden it occurred to me that this thing was not normal. I thought about grabbing my camera, but i realized that by the time it powered up the object would be gone over the horizon so I grabbed my binoculars instead. I got them focused on the object just before it disappeared over the horizon.The object was solid black with no light reflection and did not appear to be below the haze or cloud cover. It looked like a cube made up of large black balls. I would have thought it might be some kind of balloon except that it was a perfect cube and the surface looked more like just half of balls arranged to form a cube. I really can't judge the sized due nothing else being close to it in the sky. I've never seen anything like this before. Maybe it was some type of balloon but due to it's constant speed, direction, and altitude I doubt it. Right now I consider it to be a true Unidentified Flying Object. The attached JPG file is a simulation of what I saw. The object is not at correct scale. |


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Comments
Thanks for removing the word menaces from the title of the story of the Nevada couple's UFO encounter.
Those were very good and credoble reports. The
video of the triangle shapes was interesting with good steady handling of the camera.
I am so glad that the editorial/administrators have responded positively to the inappropriate use of the title subject of the Nevada encounter by replacing with an appropriate title that reflects the truth of the benevolent encounters. Thank you for your quick action!
How squishy! Menaces is so much more interesting and just as likely. When those things get hold of a woman they don't usually like it . . . Come on, girls show a little militant spirit like your grandmother's generation did!
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