Form
97-AR
Date: Saturday, 18 March 2006
Animal Reaction Feature:
The witness was sitting on the back porch at 3:30 AM when
horses at the far end of a pasture behind his house where heard to startle
(squealing, kicking, hoofs hitting something).
Dogs were barking in the distance. The animals became silent and the
witness looked toward the pasture and horse shelter. After a few seconds of quiet, a very low and deep whirring sound
was heard. The sound was not loud. Then a light flashed on the ground, and the
witness saw an object hovering about 100 feet over the pasture.
The sighting:
The witness first saw a light flash on the ground in the middle of the pasture. Then he saw a 50-foot long, oval black craft hovering and shooting flashes of light at the ground from a pod on the right end of the craft. There was a multicolored mist (or hot gas) on the bottom of the oval, a rectangular red window on the left side (some movement inside the “window”), and a dull blue light on top.
After about 5 minutes, the sound faded. Silently hovering for a couple of seconds, the craft went straight up with no sound, within a second it appeared to be a star, and then disappeared as it curved to the north.
The witness did not notice that power had gone off in the neighborhood until it came back on after the unknown was gone.
The witness describes himself as working in the security field. He requested no contact when he gave to report to NUFORC. He wrote clearly, and the animal reactions he describes are consistent with those in other reports.
[There was not much presented in the report that could be verified. I checked the weather to see if it was reasonable that the witness would be sitting on his porch at 3:30 AM. At Fort Worth, ~10 miles to the south, the air temperature was 62° F, humidity was 100%, wind was calm. Sky conditions were clear and visibility was reduced to 5 miles. In spite of the 100% humidity, no fog or mist conditions are indicated. (NOAA and wunderground.com archived weather). In all, conditions to make porch sitting pleasant and reasonable. Denton weather records, ~30 miles to the NNE, were similar (64°, 100% humidity, wind 4-5 mph from NNE, and clear skies with 8 miles visibility, no fog or mist indicated). The crescent moon (4% of disk illuminated) would not rise until 7:57 AM (USNO).—jw]
Sound, possible EM effects, possible physiological effect (hairs on back of neck tingled just before hearing the sound—which may or may not have been directly related to the unknown object) were associated with this event as was terrestrial lighting, a factor associated with fear reactions in horses and cattle.
Source: NUFORC at following link:
http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/028/S28668.html