
The UFO Traffic Report for Wednesday, May 13, 2009, includes 13 selected sightings over 11 states, according to witness statements filed in the past 48 hours with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
Today's stories include a wingless cigar-shaped UFO hovering over New York, more UFOs near Murrysville, PA, with the sighting of this V-shaped craft, a Minnesota driver who pulls over to get a better view of an odd red light and discovers a disc-shaped object, a bright orange disc 200 feet over Georgia, three small spheres spotted just over a neighbor's home in Michigan, a round UFO with lights that seemed to move counter clockwise over Ohio, several New Hampshire lights that lead to the witness seeing a disc-shaped craft, two Illinois brothers who witness silent bright lights wobbling in short bursts, a bright ball of light that stops and hovers over New York skies, a bullet-shaped object over Florida with an odd trajectory, a slow moving orange ball over New Jersey, a bright orange object over Idaho, and a low flying and silent fireball over Pennsylvania.
In other news, Two triangle UFOs low flying over Ohio, and a witness asks, Is Sedona, AZ photograph a UFO? Anyone out there from Highland, IL? You may also want to check out a short mention by Fox News, St. Louis, that strange lights were being reported over your area Sunday night. On the paranormal page, please check out two guest columns running today - MUFON's Pennsylvania and West Virginia director steps up to talk about - John Ventre: 2012 End Times Prophecy; and psychic Edward Shanahan has Theory on spirits of the paranormal.
And if you're in the region, Minnesota MUFON is presenting two great speakers at their Saturday, June 13 meeting: Tom Tulien, UFO researcher and historian; and Michael Schratt, military aerospace historian, expert in military aircraft and black budget programs; 1:30 - 5 p.m., New Brighton Family Service Center, Room 224, 400 10th St., New Brighton, MN. Visit MN MUFON or call 320.297.0205 for more information.
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 index page.
The following reports and their headlines are unedited.
First up is a short report from a New York witness who observed something many others have reported from around the country - low flying cigar or cyclinder-shaped metallic objects. This one was between 300 and 800 feet in the air and traveling, as usual, very slowly across the sky, near Watervilet.
NY, May 11, 2009 - Long (no wings) Cylinder like. Metallic.
Image: Witness illustration. MUFON image. |
Again from Murrysville, PA, this V-shaped object was reported "tumbling slowly" across the sky on April 4.
PA, April 4, 2009 - PA-Reflective daytime V-Shape (Chevron) 1/2 inch at arm's length, tumbled slowly
Image: Witness photo, with enlargement. MUFON image. |
A bright, blinking red light with two white lights nearby caught a Minnesota motorist's attention. The man got out of his car to get a better look and saw a single object - round with white, rotating and blinking lights all around it.
MN, May 10, 2009 - red blinking light - became a round objet with blinking white lights all around it Driving north on Hiway 81 after crossing Bass Lake Road noticed a bright blinking red light to the west, also saw to the left and upper and lower of object there were blinking white lights. Pulled over on HiWay 81 got out of car and watched for about 2 minutes, now only seeing one object and it was round and had white rotating blinking lights all around it. Went home and got the camera and it was gone. My wife driving, my son in the back seat and we all saw the same thing. |
A group of Georgia witnesses near Fort Oglethorpe saw a bright "orangey-red light" just 200 feet off of the ground, and then noticed that something was spinning "end-over-end" around it - like a "ball of light trapped in a glass dome." They also described it as disc-shaped and silent.
GA, May 8, 2009 - A round bright orange object with something spinning around it. Flying at about 200 feet at 25 to 35 mph making no noise at all. ME, my fiancée and our two children were walking in a public park when she said to our oldest "Look at the light" I looked up and saw a bright orangery red light flying at about 200 feet off the ground. It had something spinning end over end around it seemed separate from the light itself. It looked like a ball of fire trapped in a glass dome. It was at night so i couldn't see what was spinning around it but it looked like a disk of some sort. The object made no noise at all and to be as low as it was i thought i would at least hear something. The object flew in a straight path till it was out of our sight. I was almost scared but could not seem to take my eyes off of it, even to take a picture with my cell phone. It was way to low to be a plane and it was surely not a hot air balloon. there was nothing i could think of to come up with a reasonable explanation of the object. About 4 others aside from my party witnessed the event. All of them didn't know what it was. I never really considered myself to be a UFO believer but now i don't know. |
Three spheres of white light were floating in a "circular, counter clockwise motion," above the neighbor's house next door to this Waterford, Michigan witness.
MI, May 10, 2009 - 3 small spheres rotating counter clockwise then rising up to form an intertwined design then resuming counter clockwise motion Shortly after midnight on May 10, 2009 I awoke to use the bathroom and as I was washing my hands I happened to look out the bathroom window which faces almost straight west. There were three orbs or spheres of white light moving/floating in a circular type counter clockwise motion above my neighbours house which is only about 20 feet from my home. They would then move upward and move around each other making an intricate design and then drop down and resume the circular motion again repeating this every few seconds (in a playful type manner). These spheres were not high up in the sky. I don't know for sure at what elevation they were but my bathroom window is probably about 30 feet off the ground and I had to look up slightly to watch this light show. |
A round UFO seen over Ohio had lights that seemed to be "moving around the object in a counter-clockwise direction."
OH, May 11, 2009 - black, round, with two visible lights on opposite ends of the solid round object the ufo appeared to be between 1500 and 5000 feet in the air. it was round with a black main body with one white light at one point of the disk and another of the same color at the opposite side. the object was moving quietly from southeast to northwest and the lights were moving around the object in a counter-clockwise direction as observed from below. |
This New Hampshire story involves a series of lights in the sky - one of them that looked like it was circular with one large middle white light over Littleton.
NH, May 6, 2009 - Three bright lights just above the tree line and smaller object with lights and green halo I live on the third floor of my apartment building. It has 4 windows facing the mountains to the south and west, and also the river behind main st. I had just put my children to bed around 9:15pm, and went out side to sneak a smoke, when I heard what sounded like a very low rumble, maybe a jet ( not uncommon for jets to make a once over around here) I looked up and saw a small twinkling light moving very quickly (south across the sky directly over main st. but as i was watching it, the light would go out completely and (still flying in the same direction) would show up again about 5 seconds later. I thought that was weird but didn't think much of it. Was probably a plane, though I had never seen one act like that before. I went back inside and put on a movie. About 10 minutes later, I heard the low rumble again, and noticed that the same twinkling light was coming back again from the east but this time it was very low, about 100ft? above tree line. The light did not blink out as it had before but moved in a very straight line from east to west and was going much much slower than before. It went out of sight so I sat back down to watch my movie. Then I guess 3-4 minutes later I got up to used the bathroom and happened to look out the window. What I saw caught me off guard. I saw three very large lights like spotlights or headlights straight ahead of my window. They were lined up horizontally and just hovered. It looked, from my perspective, that they were right over a nunnery that overlooks the river. I thought for sure that twinkling light I had seen earlier was now headed on a collision course with my apartment! |
Two brothers who had just finished watching another exciting episode of UFO Hunters (History Channel, Wednesday nights), stepped outside and noticed a bright, yellow light coming at them from the northwest and traveling southeast in a straight line. They watched this silent object move - with short wobbling bursts. Three minutes later it disappeared over the rooftops.
IL, May 11, 2009 - Yellow/White light heading Northwest to Southeast My brother and I had just finished watching UFO Hunters, ironically, and we decided to step outside to have a smoke. The sky was perfectly clear and you could see alot of stars. |
Another bright, round ball of light - this time over Rochester, New York - stopped dead in the sky, turned sharply at a right angle, and then blinked out.
NY, May 11, 2009 - large, bright ball, appeared at high speed from sm. cloud, shot off and blinked out. I was driving a client home at 7:48PM tonight. (Monday, May 11, 2009.)We were about to stop for a red light when I looked at my dashboard clock. IT was 7:48PM.I was early getting this client home. I'm always checking out the skies whenever I stop the car. We had beautiful skies all day long and I took notice of it. At the time of this event, the sky had several flat, wispy clouds in the south western sky. |
A bullet-shaped object emerged out of a cloud in Florida, changed direction and moved very, very fast.
FL, May 12, 2009 - Sighted at 10:30 a.m. from beach. impossible speed and course change. My wife and I were sitting on the Boca Raton Beach at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday May 12, 2009. The sky was clear blue with a few scattered cumulus clouds. Suddenly my wife sat bolt upright staring at the sky and stated she had just seen a UFO. She said she was watching what she (at first)thought was an airplane emerging from a cloud flying horizontally from North to South at conventional aircraft speed. The object suddenly changed direction and speed travelling upward at an almost vertical angle at a velocity so fast that it was literally gone in one to two seconds. |
An orange ball hovered over New Jersey for more than 15 minutes before slowly moving south as this father and son watched.
NJ, May 3, 2009 - fire Orange To the north west . Stationary 100 feet off tground My name is Joshua . My case worker is ken pfeifer . My dads name is john i live (in) pittsgrove nj . . 10 :45 pm to the north west of my house . As me and my dad John walked up to the street , in front of my house we looked to the west . About 1/2 of a mile down my rode . Was a orange ball . It was fire orange . Like almost red as of your break lights on your car . It sat still to the north west . For about 15 minutes and 45 seconds at the least . Then after that it moved slightly back words and forward . very slowly then moved to the south . Then it started to twinkle like a diamond color . All over it . |
A bright orange object moved across Idaho skies near Lemhi, an unincorporated community in Lemhi County in north central Idaho. County population, 7717.
ID, May 11, 2009 - Steady, constant orange light, traveled fast, switched direction smoothly, no-sound
Image: Google Street Map near Lemhi, Idaho. As soon as I looked up I saw a bright orange object traveling across the sky. As soon as I noticed it....I mean as soon as I ran back into the house to get a camera, it switched coarse. But it switched coarse quite smoothly. Not abrupt or 90 degrees or anything. More like 35 degrees. It almost seemed to notice that I noticed it and it and it changed its coarse imediately and then disapeared behind some clouds that were above the Bitteroot Range. I don't know enough about light vs. distance, and trying to equate speed accordingly. But I spen a lot of time looking up at the sky and I have no clue what on earth this was that I saw. |
And finally today, a silent fireball just 200 feet off of the ground was reported near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Northampton County. It then gained altitude and disappeared.
PA, May 8, 2009 - Low Flying Fireball sited I was traveling with my Wife on RT 378 South from Bethlehem in to Lower Saucon, When we got to the top of 378 & Mountain Drive, We observed a very bright Low Flying Fireball. It crossed 378S & Mountain Drive, flying above some houses, maybe about 200 Ft off the ground. We continued down 378 and made a left on to Seidersville Rd. Seidersville road runs parallel to mountain drive. We observed the Fireball still flying over the housed to the left. It gained altitude and disappeared in to the sky by the time we got to Hickory Hill Rd - Bridge. It made no noise and was a red/orange pulsing color. |