Changing over Hiwassee, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Hello, I saw a light above a wooded area near my house white light no noise I watched it turn from one light into two then back to on
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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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2005-10-12 → 2005-10-29
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February 20, 2017 · 12:45 PM · EGG
Hiwassee, VA
Hazy sky. Outside listening to radio. Heard passenger jet from North following N/S jet lane at about 30K ft. Turned around to watch it. An oblong-shaped faint white object from East, heading westbound, crosses in front of passenger jet path. Not a bird. Not shining. At first I thought it crossed at altitude lower than jet. But it passed through layers of haze at altitude above jet. Not an altitude optical illusion as would be due to blending by an averaging reflection, rather by occultation from haze. Object was never well-defined body as well as was the jet body. It "gently" changed course to SW path. I estimate its speed at about Mach 2 to Mach 5. Incredibly fast. No contrail. No shock front. No sound other than passenger jet sound. Silent object. Larger than jet body. Do not know what jet vendor was, but was like an MD-80 in general shape, two engines, leaving persistant contrail. I cannot assign the object to anything I know of.
October 13, 2016 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Hiwassee, VA
This happened about 2-1/2 years ago, so I believe it happened on Thursday night. The exact time was about 21:30 or 22:30z half past one of those hours. I was watching TV and I heard a loud continuous roar outside. At first I thought it was military craft that flies overhead, from time to time, but there was no Doppler change in the roar. I looked outside to see several bright lights approaching from the west. I am located at about a 2400 ft altitude, and my guess these craft were about 5000 or 6000 ft AGL. It was a partially cloudy night, no moon. A large jet probably C17 was in front. Behind it was the classic TR3B I had read about. Bright specular steady white lights at each or the three points on the delta. A very large circular red disk in the center of it slowly pulsating from dim red to full off at about a 1.5 second periodicity. I could barely make out it’s silhouette. The “C17 (?)” had a four-engine sound with Doppler and nav lights.The steady non-Doppler roar was from the giant triangle behind it. It’s wing span was about four times that of the 4-engine jet in front. Flanking each of the triangle’s side tips were jets with steady white lights. I could not make those out. All four craft were black. The red disk was a uniform light across its surface when it glowed. The red disk diameter was about 1/5 the breadth of the span of the triangle back tip to back tip. About 1 minute later what sounded like two F-15’s on full afterburner came from the same direction and seemed to chase after the four craft. I delayed reporting because I wanted to see if anyone else saw it or reported it, and there was no other report filed.