Sphere over Fredericktown, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I glanced out my kitchen window a little before 9:00 pm CST and saw an orange, glowing light moving in the sky. The window faces north. I told my husband to follow me outside there’s a light in the sky, he followed and saw the light, quickly deciding it was a helicopter. I ran and got my camera, however being the evening the two short videos I shot I don’t think are very helpful. The light moved fairly slowly, at one point seemed to hover for a few seconds, and move slightly up and then back to the original line of travel. It wasn’t moving very quickly, so it seemed feasible that it may be a helicopter. However I saw no red or green navigation lights, or strobe lights of any kind, which I have always associated with helicopters or airplanes. I have seen spotlights on helicopters and remember them being a very bright white…not this orange color. I heard no sound that seemed to originate from it. I thought I heard a helicopter but it was very faint and off to the west where there is a hospital with a helicopter pad here in town. This light was almost directly over the house and helicopters that have flown over us at that altitude in the past make a lot more noise than what I was hearing. The color was solid orangish-yellow, with no blinking. It was not perfectly round or orb like, it had a “flame like” appearance, similar to a hot air balloon flame. It was just under the cloud cover. I went to a weather website after the sighting and it said there were a few clouds at 12, 000 feet. My camera makes the light appear as an orb, but it wasn’t perfectly round. Also, camera kept trying to auto-focus…I think the video is just useful to show there was some light in the sky. I will share my videos via e-mail if interested.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #110506). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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October 22, 2022 · 11:59 PM · CIRCLE
Fredericktown, MO
UFO Articles Master Copy For Distribution, 13 May 2023 Sat 5/13/2023 12:38 PM SOME UFOs ARE NOT SOLID OBJECTS. HERE'S WHY. ISAAC NEWTON'S 2nd LAW OF MOTION. Three Articles on the UFO SWARM event observed 16 miles south of Fredericktown in Madison County, southeast Missouri, on 22 October 2022. (1) Report on UFO Swarm over Madison County, Missouri. (2) Analysis of Observed UFO activity -- Newton's 2nd Law Of Motion. (3) Link to UFO Article in 573 Magazine Updated 30 March 2023. First Article: UFO SWARM OBSERVED OVER MADISON COUNTY, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, USA William Jud, Geologist, Author 14 December 2022 I had been complaining of boredom because nothing interesting was going on. That changed on Saturday night, 22 October 2022. ⦁ Around 9:00 p.m. my neighbor started banging on my door. A forest fire was approaching and I needed to evacuate. ⦁ The Cherokee Pass Rural Fire Department had already arrived. US Forest Service and Missouri Conservation firefighters also came. Two bulldozers and several firefighters with leaf blowers started work. By the time the fire was contained, the fire was just 500 feet from my house. ⦁ We went to the neighbor's house and sat on the porch, talking, and watching the stars. Some of the stars were moving erratically. Some were flashing on and off and changing color. Stars don't move that way. They weren't stars. They were not aircraft. They were not satellites. They were a UFO swarm. Twelve of them. Yes, real UFOs. Real, legitimate UFOs. Doing what UFOs are famous for doing. Parked unmoving in the sky, then immense acceleration, then an abrupt stop. Moving across as much as 5 degrees of sky in one second and one jump. One bright red UFO zoomed across 15 degrees of sky in about 10 seconds and appeared to stop and hover in the vicinity of Marquand. That UFO resembled Mars but was larger and much brighter. Three or four airplanes crossed the sky, moving in straight lines, at a constant speed, with red and white blinking identification lights. Completely normal airplane behavior. Not UFOs. No confusion. There were islands of scattered clouds internally mixed with areas of open sky. Airplanes crossing the cloud islands disappeared behind the clouds and reappeared across the patches of open sky. Some moving UFOs dimmed but did not disappear when crossing the cloud islands, suggesting that the UFOs were flying within or under the clouds, and offering an estimate of flight altitude. One bright white UFO displayed a surrounding cluster of several smaller satellite lights, some blinking, some constant, and some with white, blue, and red changing colors. My neighbor got still photos and video motion pictures on his telephone camera. The video recording does show some detail under magnification, displaying a 4-armed cross, +, extending top - bottom - left - right from the central UFO body. No sound was noticed, but the UFOs were high up and miles away, probably too far for any sound to be heard. UFO sightings records go back thousands of years, are shown in ancient petroglyphs in the southwestern States, and are mentioned (by interpretation) in the Bible, Quran, and other historical documents. Those UFOs come in two flavors: Solid Material UFOs, and Energy Projection UFOs. UFOs made of solid physical material must (as far as we know) obey Newton's 2nd Law of Motion: Force = Mass x Acceleration. UFOs made of solid material, probably Mothership types, would instantly break apart if doing the extreme start-stop changes in speed and instant, high-speed, zero-radius turns for which UFOs are famous. Living creatures onboard would go SPLAT against a hard surface. UFOs that are Energy Projections, advanced HOLOGRAMS, are not limited by Newton's 2nd Law because photons have no mass, so Newton's equation reads Force = zero x Acceleration, or Zero Force. An example is a Photon Energy Beam from a flashlight shining a spot of light onto a wall. You can move and shake the flashlight as fast as you want and the moving light spot on the wall will not influence the flashlight. Light photons are massless. Newton's 2nd Law equation equals zero. Probable Energy Projection UFOs have been seen entering the water without making a SPLASH. A solid UFO definitely would make a VERY BIG SPLASH. An Energy Projection UFO would not disturb water any more than shining a flashlight beam into the water. Now there may be a third category of UFO, and that has the US Department of Defense worried. About 500 really smart people at DoD, NASA, Harvard University, and several others, currently are studying UFOs to determine whether some modern UFOs might be homegrown, that is, built by US adversaries. Those worrisome UFOs include conventional drone aircraft and also functional reproductions of traditional (space alien?) UFOs. Solid material UFOs crash occasionally. What if a UFO crashed in China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea, and the scientists and engineers took the UFO apart, found out how it works, and built a fleet of UFOs to be loaded with thermonuclear weapons ('Hydrogen bombs') and flown into American skies when the opportunity arises? Not as far-fetched as it may seem, and our National Security people are investigating. Our adversaries could create an artificial Carrington Event like the intense, natural, Solar Coronal Mass Ejection that hit Earth on 1–2 September 1859 and caused widespread damage to the national electrical and telegraph systems in North America and Europe. Simultaneously detonate 50 evenly spaced H-bombs over North America at 50 to 100 miles above the ground and everything electronic or electrical is instantly destroyed by a giant electromagnetic pulse, including all the electrical generation and transmission equipment. Instant return to the Stone Age. Way more than 99% fatalities. Do you understand why the Department of Defense is concerned? Can you live in the modern world without electricity? No water. No food. Nothing. Maybe you will survive two to four weeks, tops. If DoD and NASA are interested, I'm interested. An exciting night. I have long wanted to see a UFO. Saturday night I saw 12 UFOs, plus the danger of a forest fire that came within the width of a gnat's eyebrow from destroying my house. Were UFO swarms seen at other locations that night along the 37-38 degrees north latitude "Paranormal Freeway"? Do UFO swarms often happen in southeast Missouri? (Recently, yes, they do.) Is there a geological connection? Does this mean anything? Look at the sky next time you are outside on a clear, very dark, Moonless night. Some of the lights in the sky may not be stars. Stay tuned. William Jud, Geologist, Author Fredericktown, Missouri ------------------------------------------------- Second Article: HOW DOES A UFO SURVIVE ITS OWN VIOLENT MOVEMENTS? William Jud, Geologist, Author 14 January 2023 Updated 30 March 2023 There is a simple answer after a change of assumption. That is, many (emphasis!!!! NOT ALL) UFOs are not solid objects. Some UFOs are ENERGY PROJECTIONS with ZERO MASS. Advanced HOLOGRAMS. Isaac Newton solved the UFO violent movements survival problem in the year 1687 with his 2nd Law Of Motion: (INERTIAL) FORCE = MASS x ACCELERATION. Let MASS = ZERO and it all makes sense. "Inertial" Force is created by a Change of Speed, not by Speed itself. Inertial Force is how a hammer drives a nail. Repeating for emphasis: Some, not all, UFOs appear to be ENERGY PROJECTIONS, not SOLID PHYSICAL OBJECTS. You get ZERO INERTIAL FORCE by replacing the MASS item in the equation with ENERGY. Yes, that is allowed. You want to keep ENERGY and make MASS equal ZERO. Observed UFO electromagnetic radiation and movement require Energy, which has Zero Mass. The Energy component can be any quantity and intensity. This does NOT mean you multiply ENERGY x ACCELERATION for an Energy Projection UFO. When you change the UFO Conceptual Model from a SOLID UFO to an ENERGY PROJECTION UFO, the MASS component automatically becomes ZERO. Newton's original equation still appl
October 22, 2022 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fredericktown, MO
1) An eyewitnesses account. My neighbors and I recently saw a swarm of 12 UFOs one night in southeast Missouri. Published December and January, in St. Louis, Missouri, MENSA monthly newsletter. All rights reserved by the author. Also published in the MUFON (Mutual UFO NETWORK) UNX magazine. All rights reserved by the author. 2) Analysis. How does a UFO Survive Its Own Violent Motion? Published in MENSA and MUFON newsletters. All rights reserved by the author. QUICK SUMMARY: A UFO that is an ENERGY PROJECTION, probably a very advanced Hologram, has ZERO MASS and is not affected by Newton's 2nd Law Of Motion. A UFO that is made of solid material, likely a Mothership, HAS MASS and obeys Newton's 2nd Law Of Motion. My second article explores the differences. Here are my two articles. Hopefully, you will find them useful. ARTICLE 1: UFO SWARM SEEN OVER MADISON COUNTY, MISSOURI. I had been complaining of boredom because nothing interesting was going on. That changed on Saturday night, 22 October 2022. ⦁ Around 9:00 p.m. my neighbor started banging on my door. A forest fire was approaching, and I needed to evacuate. ⦁ The Cherokee Pass Rural Fire Department had already arrived. US Forest Service and Missouri Conservation firefighters also came. Two bulldozers and several firefighters with leaf blowers started work. By the time the fire was contained, the fire was just 500 feet from my house. ⦁ We went to the neighbor's house and sat on the porch, talking, and watching the stars. Some of the stars were moving erratically. Some were flashing on and off and changing color. Stars don't move that way. They weren't stars. They were not aircraft. They were not satellites. They were a UFO swarm. Yes, real UFOs. Real, legitimate UFOs. Doing what UFOs are famous for doing. Parked unmoving in the sky, then immense acceleration, then an abrupt stop. Moving across as much as 5 degrees of sky in one second and one jump. One bright red UFO zoomed across 15 degrees of sky in about 10 seconds and appeared to stop and hover in the vicinity of Marquand. That UFO resembled Mars but was larger and much brighter. Three or four airplanes crossed the sky, moving in straight lines, at a constant speed, with red and white blinking identification lights. Completely normal airplane behavior. Not UFOs. No confusion. There were islands of scattered clouds internally mixed with areas of open sky. Airplanes crossing the cloud islands disappeared behind the clouds and reappeared across the patches of open sky. Some moving UFOs dimmed but did not disappear when crossing the cloud islands, suggesting that the UFOs were flying within or under the clouds, and offering an estimate of flight altitude. One bright white UFO displayed a surrounding cluster of several smaller satellite lights, some blinking, some constant, and some with white, blue, and red changing colors. My neighbor got still photos and video motion pictures on his telephone camera. The video recording does show some detail under magnification, displaying a 4-armed cross, +, extending top - bottom - left - right from the central UFO body. No sound was noticed, but the UFOs were high up and miles away, probably too far for any sound to be heard. UFO sightings records go back thousands of years, are shown in ancient petroglyphs in the southwestern States, and are mentioned abundantly in the Bible and other historical documents. Those UFOs come in two flavors: Solid Material UFOs, and Energy Projection UFOs. UFOs made of solid physical material must (as far as we know) obey Newton's 2nd Law of Motion: Force = Mass x Acceleration. UFOs made of solid material, probably Mothership types, would instantly break apart if doing the extreme start-stop changes in speed and instant, high speed, zero-radius turns for which UFOs are famous. Living creatures onboard would go SPLAT against a hard surface. UFOs that are Energy Projections are not limited by Newton's 2nd Law because photons have no mass, so Newton's equation reads Force = zero x Acceleration, or zero Force. An example is a Photon Energy Beam from a flashlight shining a spot of light onto a wall. You can move and shake the flashlight as fast as you want and the moving light spot on the wall will not influence the flashlight because light photons are massless and Newton's 2nd Law equation equals zero. Probable Energy Projection UFOs have been seen entering the water without making a SPLASH. A solid UFO definitely would make a VERY BIG SPLASH. An Energy Projection UFO would not disturb water any more than shining a flashlight beam into the water. Now there may be a third category of UFO, and that has the US Department of Defense worried. DoD and NASA currently are studying UFOs to determine whether some modern UFOs are homegrown, that is, built by US enemies. These worrisome UFOs include the more conventional drone aircraft and also functional reproductions of traditional (space alien?) UFOs. Solid material UFOs crash occasionally. What if a UFO crashed in China, Russia, or North Korea, and the scientists and engineers took the UFO apart, found out how it works, and built a fleet of UFOs to be loaded with nuclear weapons and flown into American skies when the opportunity arises? Not as far-fetched as it may seem, and our National Security people are investigating. If DoD and NASA are interested, I'm interested. An exciting night. I have long wanted to see a UFO and Saturday night I saw a dozen, plus the danger of a forest fire that came within the width of a gnat's eyebrow from destroying my house. Were UFO swarms seen at other locations that night along the 37-38 degrees north latitude "Paranormal Freeway"? Do UFO swarms often happen in southeast Missouri? Is there a Geological connection? Does this mean anything? Look at the sky next time you are outside on a clear, very dark, moonless night. Some of the lights in the sky may not be stars. ------------------------------------------------- Article 2: HOW DOES A UFO SURVIVE ITS OWN VIOLENT MOVEMENTS? William Jud 14 January 2023 There is a simple answer after a change of assumption. That is, many (emphasis!!!! NOT ALL) UFOs are not solid objects. Some UFOs are ENERGY PROJECTIONS with ZERO MASS. Isaac Newton solved the UFO violent movements survival problem in the year 1687 with his 2nd Law Of Motion: FORCE = MASS x ACCELERATION. Let MASS = ZERO and it all makes sense. Repeating for emphasis: Some, not all, UFOs appear to be ENERGY PROJECTIONS, not SOLID PHYSICAL OBJECTS. Energy Projections allow the MASS term in Newton's 2nd Law to be ZERO because ENERGY has no MASS. If Mass = Zero, then Force = Zero, and Acceleration can have any value WHATEVER without creating the INERTIAL FORCE that would tear apart a solid UFO. Newton's 2nd Law of Motion also implies that some, not all, UFOs do not contain solid matter internally. An airplane could fly through a UFO and not collide with anything solid. But beware! Energy density could be, and probably is, INTENSE inside an ENERGY PROJECTION UFO. The airplane might not crash into anything solid during UFO transit but may exit the UFO in a MOLTEN state or even as PLASMA. I'll let someone else be the hero who tries this experiment. The invading human aircraft very likely will blow a fuse in the MOTHERSHIP UFO (or another source) projecting the Energy Beam, and who knows what that might cause? At least the short circuit will alert the Mothership crew (whatever that may be) of an unusual event that requires attention. Could be a really bad outcome for humans, or maybe the operator (living or AI) will just put a new fuse in the control panel and continue operating as usual. UFOs have been around on Earth for at least tens of thousands of years. UFO images appear in ancient Petroglyphs in our southwestern States. UFOs are mentioned abundantly in the Bible, in the Quran, and in early writing from the age of Egyptian Pharaohs. Humans are hardwired to worship phenomena they do not understand. Here is a
May 2, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Fredericktown, MO
Observed a white, blinking light while looking towards the western horizon about 9:30 in the evening. I was out in the yard enjoying a small bonfire with my husband. I saw a single blink and then there was a two or three second delay followed by another blink of this light. The second blink occurred a distance away from where I saw the first, as if it were travelling in an eastern direction coming towards my location. One more blink followed a few seconds later and in a spot slightly further away than the last, again, as though it were travelling towards us. Then the blinking stopped all together. This lasted about 10 seconds total. I kept my eye in this area of the sky for at about three minutes and even looked in the approximate line of travel and didn’t see the light again. It was like the light was turned off or whatever was creating the light disappeared completely. Approximately five minutes after that sighting, I kept looking in a western direction but scanned over towards the north, then saw one blink while looking in that direction. Again I kept looking for several minutes in this area of the sky, but didn’t see any more blinking like that there…however an obvious jet did fly over coming from the east with red and white blinking lights that were more “strobe like” with no long pauses between, like the blinking I’d seen earlier. Additionally there was jet sound with the plane while there was no sound when I saw the mysterious blinking. I tried to point out the first set of lights to my husband, but he didn’t spot the final blink despite looking in that direction.
June 1, 1973 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Fredericktown, MO
One of my most unusual encounters