Light over Klamath Falls, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Sister-in-law was heading home from picking up niece when she saw a bright light that’s not typically in the sky. It was north west of Klamath Falls. Very bright, moving very slow. My father’s been in the Air Force for 20 years. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m a military brat. I’ve lived on multiple Air Force bases. I was told never to report anything like this, so I’m kind of nervous.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174111). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-01-21 → 2023-02-07
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May 14, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
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March 1, 2021 · 7:25 PM · TRIANGLE
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On 1 March 2021, that evening this investigator was on Facebook... looking at the Klamath Falls Scanner and News site, I noticed allot of chatter concerning a strange object seen over the city. After reading several statements made, I remembered that earlier in the day while in Klamath Falls I did see a very large military cargo aircraft in a holding pattern looking to land at Kingley Field. That was about between 1 and 2 pm. While going through the Facebook page, I reached out to a couple of individuals to contact me on what they saw. Within minutes I was contacted by MB, her initial statement is below. Emailed statement from witness; Hi, As requested, here's the info in the UFO I saw tonight. Date 3/1/2021 Time: 19:25 Description: a solid triangular shaped craft, with lights on each corner. Completely silent. Direction, SW. I live on Altamont and it was near Washburn. 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Not uncommon for it to fly through here occasionally." (Investigator note... It's obvious here there is a confusion between a B-1 bomber and a U-2 Recon aircraft.) H H "B G I did! I was on the south end of Homedale heading out to pick Alex up from Henley." M B T S definitely not that. But that's a cool bit of info. M B "H H im wondering if there was more than one. The one we saw was heading toward Stuart Lennox." C B "M B it deff wasn't that. This literally made no noise and was way to low to be a U2." H H M B possibly, this was between 8 and 8:15 M B "C B I'm not going to be surprised if we start seeing more!" C J "M B I saw it too!" B G "H H tell me EVERYTHING what did it look like!" H H "B G it was super low and seemed super smooth, I saw some red lights, at first I thought it was a jet taking off but there was no noise, then I thought maybe a drone!?! I really didn’t think much of it other than I had never seen anything like it!" M B "B G a triangle shaped craft with lights on the corners." T S "M B The B2 bomber is triangular shaped. There's only 21 of those, extremely rare to see, but there is 3 of them stationed south of China, plus they are based out of Whiteman AFB (Missouri). I remember seeing one a couple times when we lived…" S K "E K more than just C and I saw this weird thing lol." M B "T S I've seen one before. It was definitely not that. I'm a military plane aficionado." T S "M B There's plenty of 'experimental' aircraft in the Nevada desert testing grounds! We aren't that far away!" T J "M M I don't think I've ever seen any others, I mean it's completely possible this wasn't a UFO but it was so fast & shot straight up that IDK what else it would've been.!" C B "N H we were driving and when we turned around to snap a pic of it we couldn't see it anymore!" M M "It looked like a big drone to me I saw exactly what you were talking about." C B "MM at first my mind went to plane, as I looked at it, it wasn't a plane. It did'nt have the blinky lights like a drone does. The lights pulsated different." M M "C B ya but I got a good look and it looks like a really big drone so I’m not exactly sure what it was but that’s what it looked like." C B "M M could very well be. We did see it driving so it was kind of obscured. Had to be pretty big for a drone though." M M "C B that’s what I was thinking too." C B "M M I did a tour in Afghanistan and I'll tell you it didn't look like or sound like any aircraft I've ever seen before!" M B "If that was a drone, it was freaking huge!" M M "C B that’s what I said to never seen anything like it!" H L "C B ... I have a video of one we saw sounded like that.. it was like nothing I've ever seen. But had a pulsating light too. But when I saw it was in roundlake where we live." H L "RG W I got pics and vids to blow your mind... come out here where I live. They are all over out here now. 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August 7, 2020 · 3:00 AM · EGG
Klamath Falls, OR
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July 15, 2020 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
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I was looking in the sky for the comet Neowise, and before I went into the house I looked to the southern sky and saw a "V" shaped translucent or "cloaked" craft approximately 40ft wide 50ft long with 5 round very dim lights (1 light at the front or nose and 3 on each side underneath the craft) moving about 100mph,500 feet above the ground and totally silent. It came from the southeast and kept heading northwest. It was almost unnoticeable but the distortion of the sky and stars as it passed over gave it away. It was thrilling to see but gave me a spooky feeling as well. This is my first UFO sighting and I felt I needed to report a craft with this capability flying through our airspace undetected.