National UFO Reporting Center - January 96 Reports

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1/1/96 7:10 Phoenix, AZ 4 adults see 4 lights move erratically for 35 min. Then 5 silent boomerang ships w/ glowing silver underbellies fly by in V formation!
1/2/96 1:30 Scottsdale, WA Mother of UFO investigator repts. witnessing 2 very bright, yellowish balls of light over McDowell Mtns to N of city. 20 deg. up.
1/3/96 15:30 Kelso, WA Man, daughter witness peculiar bright white, round light hovering in N sky. Obj. rises, turns, and becomes elongate, disappears.
1/3/96 18:15 Ft. Smith, AR Man taking out trash, sees 3 greenish-yellow balls of light dip down out of clouds, hover, go back up. Many other obervers, reports.
1/5/96 1:30 Round Lake, IL Woman sees 2 solid red lights move across sky, maneuvering, "mimicking one another." Stop, become green; 1 disappears, then 2nd.
1/5/96 22:00 E. Greenville, PA Woman, and 2 neighbors, witness a large, white light, which approaches them. Becomes gold, w/ windows, each a different color.
1/7/96 7:00 Portland, OR Couple witness 2-3 dozen points of light overhead moving SE to NW. 5 min. later, they are seen going SE. Moved sporadically.
1/8/96 21:20 Wenatchee, WA Radio personality goes out to car, sees 3 "golden globes of light" moving NNW to SSW. Each ascends vert. Other witnesses.
1/9/96 4:45 Rockville, MD Woman awakened by a bizarre sound, "like a broken lawn mower." Sees a bizarre, elongate obj. w/ bright lights on both ends, middle.
1/11/96 Woodinville, WA UFO investigator observes brilliantly bright, yellow, round ball of light traveling very fast to the north. Faded, or winked out.
1/12/96 21:40 Latour, MO Woman and daughter witness a very bright obj. in sky, then a 2nd bizarre, oval-shaped red light. Red light "explodes" into fragments.
1/13/96 Springfield, MO MO Hwy. Patrol relays repts.: Over 60 reports of UFO's made to law enforcement agencies on evenings of 13JA96 and 14JA96.
1/13/96 20:22 Osage Beach, MO MO Hwy. Patrol relays repts.: Citizen reptd. a very bright light, size of coin at arm's length, streaks overhead. Very bright,silent.
1/14/96 6:05 Charleston, SC Two men witnessed a large, white plume in the morning sky. (May have been Delta rocket launched from Cape Kennedy at 0600 hrs.)
1/16/96 7:40 Seattle, WA Woman opens curtains on 2nd floor of home, sees multiple bizarre designs, or "letters" pressed precisely into layer of snow on deck.
1/16/96 22:32 Monitor, WA Husband & wife, other observers, see 3 gold spheres, 3' in diam., fly slowly W to E above Wenatchee R., then 3 more! Fly over E horiz..
1/16/96 22:32 Monitor, WA Chelan Co. Sheriff's Office calls to relay a report of several bright, orange lights moving east above the Wenatchee River.
1/18/96 6:30 Fayetteville, AR Woman & husband witness double, parallel columns of light going straight up into the sky. The source of light was in rural area.
1/20/96 22:00 Madison, WI Anonymous caller reports seeing a cigar-shaped craft, with "8 dim blue and red lights" along its length. (No other details provided.)
1/25/96 15:04 Bartlett, TN Woman observes two "aircraft," then realizes that one is a cluster of "slivers of metal in the sky." Objs. hover, maneuver, disappear.
1/25/96 21:15 Redding, CA Young boy reports being witness to the strange obj. reported by others over Redding. Obj. was circular, w/ no lights, not an aircraft.
1/26/96 23:59 Sedgewick, ME Woman w/ husband witness a white orb, larger than (apparent) size of moon, w/ "orange dots imbedded in it." Obj. streaks off.
1/28/96 Chandler, AZ Serious-minded woman calls to report vivid vision of "aliens" during prior night. Awakes in a.m. w/ several bizarre phy. anomalies.
1/30/96 Oregon City, OR UFO investigator relays sighting report: 2 women witness 2 very bright lights 25 deg. above horizon, 3rd similar obj. approaches both.