NUFORC UFO Sighting 67950
Occurred: 2009-01-09 19:40 Local
Reported: 2009-01-10 04:45 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 secs
No of observers: 4

Location: Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), , Tanzania

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Changed Colo

As usual I was standing in my balcony on 4th floor from where I see huge area of sky till Indian ocean and suddenly my eyes caught attention on an unusual flying object in the sky, which was so bright and was flying rapidly at an usual speed compared to normal planes which leaves long trails behind.

The lights were not blinking like normal airplanes, so I shouted to my whole family to witness the same, for few seconds no one understood what it is, and I shouted my wife to get my Sony handy cam, DCRSR62 which is very powerful with 2000x zoom. I managed to record about 3-4 seconds of that rapid flying bright object on video and then it just disappeared behind the clouds.

On 10th Jan 09, I checked on the UFO sighting website, and to my surprise I found that the similar object was caught on video in Scotland too on the very same day.

I am not a UFO geek and what I saw was a mystery and I don’t go our looking for flying saucers or aliens, but for now, I will live with it and feel good about something I caught on my camera in my life in Tanzania.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report has sent several still photos, taken from the video. They are very blurry, and show a "squiggly" smear of light against a dark, night sky. PD


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 23133
Occurred: 1966-08-01 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-06-04 08:02 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 mins
No of observers: 4

Location: Moshi (Tanzania), , Tanzania

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

We still do not have the technology to acieve what these objects did judging from the capabilities of our current space and aircraft

I have not bothered about reporting this officially to anyone , but the event was witnesed in 1966 from the roof top terrace of our house in Moshi, Tanzania, at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. The area is often cloudless giving a very clear sky My parents were on the terrace, and called me to see something strange. By the time I got to see the group of three star like objects( three lights) moving North very slowly, my parents had been watching the objects for about 10 mins, moving slowly and then stopping. When I saw the object(s), it stopped and remained that way for approximately 10 mins or so. In those days there were no aircraft in those parts, and the only things we were used to seeing were shooting stars or the Gemini or Russian spacecraft occasionally orbiting the earth at a pedesrian pace One of the lights then detached itself from the group, seemed to hover for a few seconds and then accelerated upwards at a phenominal rate. After a few minutes, a second light detached itself and shot upwards in a different direction at a phenominal rate. Finally the third remaining light did the same after a few minutes. They all disappeared, and were not seen again. There was no sound.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. We agree with the witness that if the objects were, in fact, observed for 10 minutes, or longer, they could not have been man-made, artificial satellites. PD


Posted 2002-06-12