Unspecified over Bristow, OK
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Childhood vision of a gray.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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What would the paper say?
Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1964-02-27 → 1964-03-15
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October 12, 2019 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Bristow, OK
We have been watching a round subject hovering high in the sky over the tree line for about an hour now, , seen two airplanes fly below it. It has flashing lights towards the bottom in red, blue and green
April 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Bristow, OK
I run a local family business and am a father of three. Wednesday, April 1, 2015, it was a nice evening, the sky was clear. I was unloading my truck and noticed an airplane in the west, then another airplane. I noticed how close they were in the sky. The airplane was very distinctive with blinking red & green lights; the object above had bright white lights (not blinking). The bright object then made a quick turn (similar to a u turn) in the sky. Then it sat there and hovered. We live three blocks from local hospital, the object sounded very similar to life flight helicopter; however it was higher up in sky and never descended to life flight pad. It hovered in same location for 30 – 45 minutes, since it had caught my interest; I sat on my front porch to watch it. As it hovered, it no longer made the loud sound that first caught my attention. I went inside to get my binoculars, rifle spotting scope with tripod. My son came out with me, We located the bright object in the sky and we both thought it was peculiar and no longer believed it to be a helicopter or plane; it appeared to be three or four objects clustered together in a triangular formation. We stepped inside for a minute, when we went back outside it was gone. The sky was still clear; stars were out, no clouds just as it had been before seeing unidentified objects. Entire duration from first seeing the object until it was gone was around 45 minutes.
February 9, 2015 · 7:58 AM · FORMATION
Bristow, OK
Monday, Feb. 9, 2015, at about 7:58 am, I was driving my 12 yr. old daughter and 5 yr. old grandson to school when I noticed that you could still see the Moon very well. I glanced at the moon, and then back at the road, and immediately realized I’d seen something under the moon, so I glanced back up at the moon and saw a long line of white dots moving at a steady pace in the same direction I was travelling. I instantly assumed they were white birds and again looked away. Then it occurred to me that they were in a perfectly straight line and evenly spaced away from each other, so I looked up again and said, “What the hell is that?” At that point my kids looked at it too and the 12 yr. old said, “That’s not birds!” At that point, I pulled the car to the side of the road and watched the objects. What I saw was a perfectly straight line of 6-8 very bright white lights, all traveling north at a steady speed that wasn’t slow but wasn’t real fast either. (They were flying, not drifting, on the air currents like balloons would). Each light was evenly spaced down the line and did not appear to be attached to anything or each other. They appeared to be separate units and were traveling as though they were following each other not flying side by side. The second to the last light was slightly out of line, it was a little higher than the others in the line. Each one had the same light intensity and were brighter than the moon was. They appeared to emit light, not have lights on the outside. I also noticed that they appeared to flash at the exact same time, but it wasn’t a normal flash and is very hard to describe. It was almost like a strobe light flashing slowly but the light wasn’t going off and on, it looked like there was a grey thing that travelled down each light starting from the top and travelling down the front then appearing at the top again and traveling down the front repeatedly and the grey thing blocked out the light as it travelled down the orb. (It reminds me of a light in a lighthouse that has a sheet of metal the rotates around the light, momentarily blocking it out so that it appears to flash) It was like that, and you could tell the light itself wasn’t flashing. (I initially thought it was birds like I said, flapping their wings and that’s why it appeared to have that flashing appearance) But it became apparent that it wasn’t birds when I noticed the spacing between them was too perfect, they were in a perfectly straight line (except the second to the last one), they flashed in perfect sync with each other and they were flying so high in the sky that I don’t even think birds fly that high). I continued to watch the lights until they were no longer visible. They were actually traveling northwest, so as they continued across the sky they were no longer flying parallel to my car they were flying away from me as well and the first few lights could no longer be seen and eventually they all flew too far away to see anymore. There was no sound, they traveled at a steady speed, they flew at a pretty high altitude but were very easy to see and maintained the same altitude throughout the sighting, they appeared to be pretty large and very bright! They were very noticeable even in the daylight. I was able to see them from the side and from behind when they flew away, but they looked the same all the way around just a ball of bright white light, no structure could be seen. I was a police officer for 13 years and by nature skeptical and observant and have tried for 2 days to come up with a rational explanation for what I saw, and cannot come up with anything! They were not aircraft of any sort because they made no sound and were flying way too close together and were too perfectly spaced out to be anything I am aware of. Also, I noticed that someone reported a sighting to this site that appears to be the same thing I saw, their sighting was on 11/25/14 in Oklahoma City, OK. According to their report.
May 23, 2012 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Bristow, OK
Illuminated spheres moving through the sky at consistent speeds moving in all directions. ((NUFORC Note: Possible satellites? PD))
May 15, 1974 · 1:00 PM · CIGAR
Bristow, OK
Large, drab color, enormous, cigar shaped, no appendages on craft. Moving at moderately fast speed, (faster than any blimp could}. trav