Date: August 19, 2001 22:15
Location: Soldiers Grove (Rising Sun)
County: Crawford
Source: National UFO Reporting Center
Details of Incident:
20-30 flying objects with lights of different colors all traveling to same spot, slowing down and
disappearing in same place.
It started off with a huge flash we now know was an Iridium flash (east of our place). Then my friend
saw a beam of light in the sky (which I didn't see). The first "craft" appeared right where the iridium
flash disappeared. It looked like a disc with flashing lights of blue, violet, red, green white. All
of these light colors were on each of these ships. There looked like one light of each color on each
of these, but they mostly flashed two at a time. This craft was "hovering" there, sitting in one spot
but sort of moving back and forth just a bit. Then it shot off to the west very quickly. It took
about two seconds to cross the sky and disappear. Then from the west (not from one particular spot)
more came, 1 or 2 at a time. They looked just like the first one, 20-30 total (I wasn't counting so
I am unsure of this). They traveled at the same speed to the east to the spot where the iridium flash
had been. They each started to slow down right before they got to this spot, almost to a stop. It
slowly went behind the tree (I could see it through the leaves) and right when it came out from
behind the tree they disappeared. Two airplanes did fly over right after it ended, and they weren't
anything like the crafts. I'm not sure if they were chasing them or not.
(National UFO Reporting Center Note: We spoke with
the two young witnesses to this event, and we found them to be
exceptionally credible for observers of any age. PD))
Date: 8/19/2001
Location: Soldiers Grove (Rising Sun)
Source: National UFO Reporting Center
Report from Second observer to the event, the mother of one of the other two observers.
At this time my husband had just rolled over to fall asleep. I was reading. We live in the country
with no one nearby. All of a sudden strange rapping occured on the outside front of my house. It was
random and moving around, a few here and there. My husband heard them too, and laughed and said,
"well,it's outside, so don't worry". I wasn't scared, but knew it wasn't "possible" as there is no
porch here, no trees in front, etc., and thought about the girls sleeping outback and thought to
myself, "I bet they'll see UFOs tonight". When they came in and told me their stories in the morning
(which we just sent to you, but accidentally dated 9/19 instead of 8/19) I believed them instantly
because of what had happened at the same time. We know the timing of their event because of looking
up the Iridian flash on the internet, and I looked at my clock when the "rapping" began. i know this
isn't a "ufo" sighting, but it seemed important to tell you for some reason.
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