Light over Brookings, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The first object came from straight down and was chased by second object and followed first object into the ocean around point st. George Light house. Second object came from different angle as if to intercept first object after first object went into water second object ascended back up then followed first object into water. All actions where visible through the clouds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172819). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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September 2, 2022 · 8:57 PM · LIGHT
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I actually thought it was a plane at first. Two white lights in the sky, looked like a plane coming right at me. From the intensity of the lights, I thought it was fairly low for a passenger jet. I used to live on an approach path in CT about 15 miles from the airport, so I’m used to seeing those lights. We rarely get planes overhead at Crissey Field, and I love watching planes, so when I hear one I notice it. I watched it for several seconds, and it didn’t seem to get any closer. I took out my phone and filmed it for a few seconds, then stopped and adjusted my phone and filmed again for a few seconds, then stopped, turned the camera and filmed again for over a minute. I swear, that “plane” never got any closer. And I couldn’t hear a plane. And the lights never changed to green and red. I came inside, turned out the lights, moved something on the floor by the front windows so I could stand there. That took maybe a minute at the most. I opened the window, and the lights were gone. Could it have been obliterated by the fog rolling in? I suppose so, but I never heard a plane. Opened windows so I could hear better. I honestly have no idea what I just saw.
October 2, 2021 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
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December 16, 2017 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Brookings, OR
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April 7, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Brookings, OR
I am a male, 63 years old, with 20/20 vision (corrected) and in reasonably good health. I live in a small town on the Southern Oregon coast, and I was in front of my house last night, viewing the night sky, and thinking about nothing in particular. The sky was crystal clear, with lots of stars and star formations visible to the naked eye, and I observed Orion’s Belt, the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, to mention just a few star formations. As a reference, my house is roughly 90 feet above sea level and the front of my house faces exactly northwest (plus or minus 1 degree). At around 10:30 PM, I was staring at the night sky and saw a flash of light, directly in front of me (facing northwest) at an angle of elevation of approximately 45 degrees. The diameter and brightness of the flash was close to the same diameter and level of brightness as one of the brighter stars I was viewing at the time, and I assumed that a passing cloud had blocked it out of my vision. That said, there were NO clouds in the sky last night. The flash appeared, stayed illuminated for roughly two or three tenths of a second, and then disappeared. About one second later, another flash of light appeared, roughly four or five degrees below where the first flash appeared. It was the same diameter and the same level of brightness and duration as the first flash. About five seconds later, the same pattern appeared again and in the same location and same angle of elevation. The distance between the flashes stayed constant; roughly four or five degrees of elevation. This pattern of flashes continued, repeating every five seconds or so, staying in the same location in the sky. The third time I saw the two flashes of light, I pointed my index finger where they appeared in the sky, and held my arm as steady as I could, just so I would have a point of reference. After about three minutes, the flashes started moving south very slowly along the same angle of elevation (approximately 45 degrees). When they moved to the SSW position in the sky, from my northwest facing position, they then started slowing moving higher in elevation. When they reached approximately a 60 degree angle of elevation, which took approximately three minutes, they stopped and stayed in the same relative position (still pointing my index finger at them) and stayed in that position for another three or four minutes. The flashes of light then started moving very slowly further south. There is a large pine tree blocking my view, just beyond the SW corner of my property, and when the tree started to block my view of the flashing lights, I got up from the chair I was sitting in and walked further northwest so I could see the lights better. They continued in a southerly direction and when they got directly south of me and over the Pacific Ocean, they disappeared. I continue standing there for a few more minutes, but they didn’t reappeared. At no time during this ‘event’ did I hear ANY sound; no near or far off jet engines from either a high or low altitude commercial or military plane. We have a very small airport north of our town, but rarely do planes land there at night. They are all small, privately owned planes as well, primarily prop-driven, although there is at least one small Learjet that we see occasionally. There is no noise or air pollution here (no industries) and with a population of only 6000, the noise level at night is VERY low. It’s a small and very quiet town, especially at night. On nights when the weather is good, I sit in front of my house and stare at the sky, mostly because we can see SO many stars at night here. It is a star gazer’s paradise and I know several people who have telescopes, although I do not. I’ve never seen anything before like what I saw last night. If it was ONE object, it must have been HUGE. That said and given the relative distance between the flashing lights, it appeared that it MUST have been two objects, whatever they were. Whatever it was, it was flying, it wasn’t making a sound and I could not identify it, which I guess technically makes it a UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 31, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Brookings, OR
Fast moving light orb above clouds, Brookings, Oregon at sunset.