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A man and his son backyard camping noticed "an incredibly bright red light of considerable size moving slowly over the treeline" and shot video of it, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
As they watched the object, "a much smaller white light emerged from the top and went upward at a fairly rapid pace."
The following report is unedited.
SC, July 3, 2009 - Saw a large bright red UFO launch a small white UFO in Greer, SC, July 3, 2009.
I was camping out behind my house with my 4 year old. We live in Spartanburg county about 3 miles from the Greenville/Spartanburg Airport. We were hanging out playing video games until about 10:30pm when we decided to turn in for the night.
As I was getting our blankets ready I looked up and through the mesh door of the tent which was facing to the west. Through the mesh I saw an incredibly bright red light of considerable size moving slowly over the treeline. My first thought was that it might be an airplane, but I have lived in this area my entire life and I literally see planes come and go every night. This was like nothing I had ever seen and I immediately knew that it was not a plane. I fumbled around in the dark for my video camera, unzipped the door of the tent and was able to start filming the object about 20-30 seconds after it originally caught my eye.
At first the bright red object continued slowly moving South, but then unexpectedly a much smaller white light emerged from the top and went upward at a fairly rapid pace. When the light was a good 2x higher from the ground than the red light, the red light quickly disappeared. The white light continued to stay in view and continued to move southward at a speed of perhaps 3x faster than the red light was traveling. After a bit it flickered and disappeared. When the red one disappeared, it just blinked off like a switch was flipped, but the white one flickered and faded more subtly.
I got the entire thing on tape, and the footage of the small object emerging from the larger object is quite good. My only regret is that I zoomed in to try to get a closer look, and some of the footage is rather jerky... serves me right for always making fun of people who don't seem to be able to hold a camera still while filming a UFO. Still though, it's pretty exciting video. Here's the link to the video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II9G-kvdzh0
I was very excited to see this. I've kept my eyes open for stuff before when I'm looking at the stars, but this was completely out of the blue and entirely unexpected. Plus, I NEVER carry my video camera with me, so the fact that my camera on hand is still amazing to me.
Skeptics may point out that:
1. this sighting took place very close to an airport
2. the sighting took place on July 3rd (fireworks)
Had I not seen the object myself for the duration that it was visible, and especially the emergence of the smaller white light, I too would have argued these as possibilities. However, the footage easily dismisses these arguments. It made no sound, and it moved unlike any fireworks I have ever seen. Especially the way the white light sped up after separating from the red light. My 4 year old can be heard in the background trying to figure out what it was that we were seeing. He obviously didn't think it was fireworks, but he did say "maybe it's a rocket ship", which I found interesting.
Whatever it was, it was a blast being able to see it and film it.
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Very good capture, most likely not a fake. The only problem I have is with the quick transition forom the face of the boy to the sky and object. I don't even see the tent's mesh.
Whatever it was that people, including myself and my kids, were seeing around the 4th, the gov't knows what they were. Haven't read any reports of jets being sent out to intercept.
Why all the UFO sightings on the 4th of July? I know why, I watch the skies almost every night, at lease for a few minutes to hours. Except on bad weather days. I'm humored by all the reports that are coming in. I figured this would happen. Fire works helped bring everyone's eyes to the sky. UFOs are more common than we are lead to believe. So People just need to look at the skies as often and they will see UFOs. I live in Salt Lake City. After a few months of observation, I pretty much know the time of night they are usually around. Star like ones are common(Orange colored). If they stop and disappear, keep watching that area. Later they will light up as they take off again! Get you a good pair of 10 x 50 binoculars with 376 or better field of (vision) view. A few hours every night and MUFON will ask you to stop reporting, even with or without pictures.
It's a flare.
Relative motion suggests that the smaller "object" went up; but I believe what we saw here was a red flare descending under parachute until it burned through the paracord and free-fell to earth, leaving the parachute (most likely nylon) burning briefly white and appearing to rush upwards.
Sorry, no longer a UFO.
It does seem flare-like.
But are flares capable of remaining stationary in the air for 11 seconds?
They descend very slowly. And if it was descending directly away from you in a stiff breeze, the descent would appear even slower.
I saw that this site picked up my video... nice!
@Thegoodskeptic I would agree with your point had I not seen this with the naked eye. While I haven't completely ruled out that it could be a flare, but I simply cannot explain the speed increase of the white light to the south. Plus there was no wind that night... it was completely still and the white light was moving very fast. Again, it could have been a flare, but if it was it was doing some crazy stuff. :)
@Nidia I thought about not putting the part that showed my son in there, but to me it added credibility by showing that we really were camping out just as I said. Also I started filming after I opened the tent, so that is why you don't see the mesh door. I unzipped the door, grabbed and powered up my camera, then started filming through the open door of the tent.
year 1994 or 1995 i saw 2 red orbs in my dad's garden. he lives in the countryside in sweden, westsweden. my cousine saw them too. they hovered 1 meter above ground solid red ones and when i rose up from the ground and kept staring my cousine walked closer to them, then they moved towards us and i started to run to my dad's house and my cousine too. dont know what the heck it was. it was not ligts from a car from behind. it was dead silent in the air. these orbs were very close 7-8 meters from us...!!! :S
my dads garden is runemarked, vikings or something did do bloot on some rectangular stones he has a couple in his garden some half buried some not. stones are offtopic btw.
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