NUFORC UFO Sighting 189473
Occurred: 2025-05-08 01:00 Local
Reported: 2025-05-08 16:04 Pacific
Duration: 90 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, CA, USA
Location details: North of Independence, South of Bishop CA. Used compass and activity was around 15° NorthEast

Shape: Light
Color: White
Estimated Size: No idea, probably very big, couldn’t tell
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: 15° NE
Angle of Elevation: 21
Closest Distance: It appeared to be in Space so, really far
Estimated Speed: FAST. Covered 100s, maybe 1000s miles in seconds
Characteristics: Lights on object

Saw “star” object appear and disappear, pulled over to watch for 30min and there were multiple crafts.

I initially saw one while driving, looked like a bright star appeared and then slowly faded. Happened again clearly, & I thought it looked like it was also moving.

I pulled over off the 395 in the dark and started watching. It appeared over and over again, generally the same starting area and moved from left to right as it glowed bright and then faded.

Then there were 2, doing similar motions, but clearly moving independently from each other. Then there were up to 5 visible at times.

They appeared to be scanning an area of the sky, maybe mapping, so strange.
I tried to debunk as I watched! Satellites? No, not orbiting. Repeating area but at different heights, speeds, independent motions from one another. *Main one seemed brightest each time.

Starlink? No, Ive seen multiple starlinks, this was not that.

At one point they created a formation that looked somewhat like an upwards pointing arrow/symbol.

This just kept happening over and over, every 20-30 seconds they would reappear in same area and moved left to right.

My only possible explanation was some secret “space-drone” tech that we were using to do some type of scanning, communication, flight exercise, but i don't know.

Eventually the bright one appeared and made a quick short burst a short distance and stopped, then again, then again, three quick little bursts of movement before fading out again.

Almost looked like they may have been reflecting the moonlight, which was pretty full and at my back! Could be reflective light.

The activity I saw lasted for about 90min and I observed from a stationary spot for about 30-40 minutes.

I took long exposure photos with my phone and made a little timelapse too which helps see them!!!

I don’t know what it was but it was new to me, and exciting to watch!










Posted 2025-05-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182812
Occurred: 2024-08-03 22:30 Local
Reported: 2024-08-28 12:56 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA
Location details: approximately E 36th St, Kansas City, MO 64128, USA

Shape: Light
Color: white/orange
Estimated Size: light source larger than standard aircraft lights
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: WSW
Angle of Elevation: 15
Closest Distance: 4 miles
Estimated Speed: slower than average helicopter


Light source larger than airplane light that blinked out

My significant other and I had just finished utilizing the CE5 protocol around 10:45 PM (per the Aug 3rd global event organized by Dr Greer) and I spotted a light source similar to an airplane light in the sky approximately WSW at 10-15 degrees height. But unlike most airplane lights this source was NOT blinking and moving rather slowly, much like a helicopter. No red or green lights were apparent and light source was more yellow than most airplane lights. I called attention to this object to my lady because of its anomalous appearance and we watched it continue to come towards the Independence area in a line somewhat parallel to I70 as if it was going towards the stadium or Lee's Summit. We observed the object staying on a straight path for about 4 minutes, slightly dimming, and then blinking totally out. I checked out the sky to see if maybe there was cloud cover to the west of us, but other astronomical objects were visible at the same angle in the sky with the naked eye. My background in visual observations is from being an amateur astronomer since around 1970, running a college planetarium in college, watching SkyLab crossings in the 70's, and watching obvious satellite transits. I haven't ever seen anything prior to this I would describe as a UFO/UAP.




Posted 2024-08-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 177947
Occurred: 2023-08-31 03:00 Local
Reported: 2023-08-31 13:50 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA
Location details: North northeast, close to horizon. unknown altitude

Shape: Light


Pinkish light, singular or pair. Would appear for ~10 seconds, vary luminosity then disappear.

Noticed glowing pink luminous object appear, disappear, then re-appear. Checked starlink schedule online, did not find any visible starlink matching the time and date. These were mostly stationary, sometimes a single point, sometimes two close points. Most stars visible, no discernable cloud cover or lightning. Trained weather spotter and drone operator. Spotted from ground while at work on night shift, completely sober. Minimal luminosity to intense luminosity over a span of 1 second, maintaining medium luminosity for 5-15 seconds, then returning to barely perceptible luminosity for ~15-30 seconds. Have spent many hours outdoor at this location and time over the past 5+ months and have not observed similar phenomena.

Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176032
Occurred: 2023-06-03 21:37 Local
Reported: 2023-06-04 19:38 Pacific
Duration: 30 secs - 45 secs
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA
Location details: south west heading north, ended under the north star

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Light travels north in a straight line, disappears twice in it's path and shoots straight down to the ground in a bright light

9:37 pm, sun has set, clear sky. A light travels into my view, my chair is facing north I'm looking to the left, (west) I see Venus and more south a light travels into my view heading north. I thought it was a satellite but it was slightly faster or lower then what I normally see from satellites. It was a light blue color or white. The intensity of the light changed as it moved north. I saw it go completely dark or invisible before it lit back up further along in the sky. I stood up to follow it's path and tried finding it with binoculars but it went dark for the 2nd time. I'm facing straight north, standing and looking for movement in the dark sky and I see a very bright streak of light shoot straight down to the ground. It looked like 2 parallel white lights beaming straight down and a red light that was more dim than the two parallel white lights, the red light was on the right side of the 2 white lights.

I honestly gasped and thought a plane had gone down at a very fast speed and for a moment expected to see or hear an explosion. No sound other than normal chirps and birds. If I was forced to give a prosaic explanation it was an odd satellite that was lower and faster than others plus a meteor falling from the sky. I can't get a prosaic explanation to fit into what I saw. I think it was one object moving north, changing in visibility, then got to it's location and shot straight down. I felt frozen for 5 mins looking at the sky trying to figure out what I saw and what I should do. I felt compelled to report the sighting, it was not a trick of the light or something I think I saw. I know I saw it, I was amazed and shocked.


Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176006
Occurred: 2023-03-16 18:20 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-06-01 07:47 Pacific
Duration: ?
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KY, USA
Location details: In southern sky. Lasted less than a minute or so. Clear sky

Shape: Circle


Three "objects at a time, with three sets of pure white globes at a time total of 9. Came from nowhere and disappeared to the left.

9 very crisp shape and no depth or colors just pure bright white. Seemed like they were traveling in a "formation"

1-2-3 slight break 1-2-3 break 1-2-3 gone!


Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173161
Occurred: 2022-11-23 11:27 Local
Reported: 2022-11-23 11:37 Pacific
Duration: 40 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, OH, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

UFO displaying advanced camouflage, it showed an outline of itself when it went over power lines, it seemed to reflect light around

1 - 4 ufos spotted,one ufo can be seen displaying advanced camouflage, the object was behind power lines yet it was distorting cables that were in front of it. For how close the object appeared, there was no sound, noticeable, wings, or exhaust trails. It gave away it’s shape when it flew in front of a solid black line (powerlines). It distorted the light emitted from this, which gave an outline of the craft. It looked like it was pushing the light above and below the craft.
















Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 168503
Occurred: 2022-05-16 21:35 Local
Reported: 2022-06-06 02:49 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

bar of lights, round orangeish disc "talking" to each other

driving backroads, saw a "bank of lights" moving, and an orangeish disc in the distance, both too low for stars and no blinking aircraft lights. bar moved quickly, until almost over us, it had colored lights and then closer to us turned all white, we sped up to move away because it appeared to moving directly at to fly over us. We turned onto bridge to go to south River Road and were between the two, and noticed the orange disc was flashing/blinking a pattern, and then looked at the bar of lights, and noticed it would remain steady, then blink back the same pattern as if communicating. We witnessed this exchange at least 5 times before turning onto mountain road where we could no longer see.










Posted 2022-06-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167661
Occurred: 2022-04-20 11:38 Local
Reported: 2022-04-29 07:48 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape:


MADAR Node 45



Posted 2022-05-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166773
Occurred: 2022-01-05 14:56 Local
Reported: 2022-02-17 07:37 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape:


MADAR Node 45



Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165989
Occurred: 2021-10-28 09:46 Local
Reported: 2022-01-13 07:21 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape:


MADAR Node 45



Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163897
Occurred: 2021-07-04 16:23 Local
Reported: 2021-07-05 00:02 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

I was driving, it was daylight and the sky was blue and clear, my passenger and I were discussing time as we were late for our event, I looked at the car clock and said we were 23 minutes late (meant to be there at 4:00, hence 4:23 pm) as we were driving, there is a straight stretch of road where 2 fruit fields are, immediately before driving up onto bridge going into Independence. I looked up and saw on small cloud that seemed very odd shaped, domed top, slighted lesser domed bottom and the sides sloped down/up into 'points' - very "classic" flying saucer shaped, only it was white and looked slightly "cloud-like". I jokingly said to my passenger "um - is that a cloaked ufo cloud?" and looked their way, noticing my passenger was leaning forward in their seat, looking up to the left of the "cloud and remarked overlapping me "hey there's something like glinting up there, but nothing's THERE..." and then we looked a! t the cloud again and it was gone, nothing but blue sky, we looked for the shiny glinting spot and it too had disappeared - both in a matter of under about 3-5 seconds. I didn't even have time to ask if they would take a picture with my phone - it was EXTEMELY fast. The cloud shape was directly over south Independence looked to be around the areas of Talmadge Road, Stapleton Road vicinity of south Independence in farm/country, but could be clearly seen as we approached the bridge.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163898
Occurred: 2021-05-23 15:30 Local
Reported: 2021-07-04 23:59 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Cigar


My passenger and I were driving to Independence, and were in the straight stretch of road right before the base of the bridge, about a mile prior. From this distance you can see through the tree that flank the river. I commented to my passenger that there was something between the trees "glimmering", assumed out loud it was a plane then joked "it must be a ufo!" Passenger looked and kind of gasped at the same time I realized it could not be a plane at the low of level unless crashing - it was cylinder shaped and silver, almost like a small blimp shape, 'milky' or brushed silver looking metal (not like a stainless steel look) and the sun was making it 'glisten'. We could see it between the trees, and only caught sight of it for a few seconds before we started up the bridge and thicker trees blocked our view. One we cleared the trees on the bridge where we could see I slowed to a near stop and looked, and there was nothing there - we looke! d on both sides and it was too large to fit under the bridge and not stick out. We kept watching as we descended the bridge, and then as we turned onto another country road where we could see the skyline, sky and area, and saw nothing, and no planes were in the air that we might have mistaken it with - the sky was entirely void of aircraft.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 162767
Occurred: 2021-04-18 04:20 Local
Reported: 2021-04-19 13:24 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KS, USA

Shape: Light


Driving home early morning 3 bright orange lights were witnessed on the south side of the city on highway 75

Posted 2021-04-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163899
Occurred: 2021-04-05 21:04 Local
Reported: 2021-07-04 23:57 Pacific
Duration: 15 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Electrical or magnetic effects

My passenger and I were driving backroads in the country heading to Independence, and had noticed a light which was not moving. I noticed it because it was lower than planes typically fly. I hadn't said anything for about 3 miles, but I was watching to see if it was a plane. I finally asked my passenger if that was a plane, and they said with conviction "NO." I slowed down to be able to watch it better, and then it began moving to the left and right, seeming to 'return' to where it had been hovering. I finally pulled over, realized it was over the river and fields on the other side of the river. We watched it "bend" into a slight "V" or boomerang-ish shape, with 4 lights then appearing. It then broke into 2 sets of 2 lights, one disappeared, and the other then melded into one light again, and began "zipping"/"darting", but remaining in/over the same area. after a few seconds, they came back together, formed one light again and then began to move NW. i began driving and about a mile and a half up the road we saw it again, it was moving south and much slower, but had the 4 lights on, I pulled over and we watched it, it came over right in front of us, but was about as high as a hanglider would be - the light were a pale blue and there were 4 lights - I reached into my bag and pulled out my Ca! non but the photos when uploaded were unexpectedly blurry and they looked as if I didn't have a telephoto lens attached (which I did). I cannot explain this, it's almost as if a force I didn't notice caused my camera to malfunction. As it passed over, while I was attempting to take pictures my passenger was recording on their cell phone, but that recording too was exceptionally blurry and did not turn out with anything that could be seen.

The thing was absolutely silent - we rolled down the windows to listen because we were in the country, remote, and no sound was around. It "floated" away heading south over farm land between Corvallis Road and Bunea Vista Road and then in about 5 seconds it was gone, had entirely disappeared.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163940
Occurred: 2021-01-17 02:39 Local
Reported: 2021-07-07 13:25 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 0

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape:


MADAR Node 45 NAE

Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 159860
Occurred: 2020-10-10 06:15 Local
Reported: 2020-10-11 15:16 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Landed

Observed 2 white lights moving in tandem forward and back, up and down just before dawn.

On October 10, 2020 at about 6:15am Central time (still completely dark outside) I observed from inside my kitchen looking out through my sliding glass door, toward the east, two white lights separated by approximately 50 yards. These lights, one brighter than the other, moved in tandem together forward and backwards, and up and down a number of times. I was located about a block and a half away from the lights looking across an open field. The incident lasted for approximately 30 minutes. The activity was occurring above a paved road.

After the 30 minutes these lights settled down behind a tree line but I could still see the lights through the limbs and leaves while it was still dark. As the sky began to brighten a fog appeared to form on the field toward the east side near the lights. I don't know if this was a natural fog or if it was generated by something having to do with the lights. I continued to observe the area where the lights went down, without taking my eyes off the area, for about another hour. By now, the sun had risen above the horizon and the lights had not reappeared from below the tree line. At this point, there was no sign of the lights. I never saw them leave the area. I don't know what happened to them and could no longer continue my observation.



Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 160266
Occurred: 2020-10-04 22:00 Local
Reported: 2020-10-28 13:20 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Traiangular silent craft with three white lights flew very low over our heads

I was outside with my wife when she pointed out three white lights moving from east to west. The lights were in a triangular shape and did not project beams. There was a black or grey dark craft outline between and above the lights. This object was flying very low - we would guess under 1,000 feet. It moved very slowly across the sky over our house directly towards downtown Kansas City. There was no sound at all as you would expect if it were a plane or helicopter. It just flew silently overhead and slowly disappeared into the distance. We did not think to get a photo. I would think that other people had to have seen this.

Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 159604
Occurred: 2020-09-27 22:36 Local
Reported: 2020-09-28 00:34 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Reddish orange fire flame dancing in night sky

I saw what looked like olympic burning flame dancing in dark sky I watched it for around thirty minutes and thought at first there had bern Explosion but no strange fire dancing in sky. I took video and it looked Circular but my eyes saw flame and still picture looked Like flame. I pulled over on side of highway to look at it

Posted 2020-11-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 159962
Occurred: 2020-09-27 20:31 Local
Reported: 2020-10-15 09:15 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 0

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape:


MADAR Node 45

Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 159660
Occurred: 2020-09-15 23:33 Local
Reported: 2020-09-30 07:56 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 0

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape:


MADAR Node 45

Posted 2020-11-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157882
Occurred: 2020-07-24 04:30 Local
Reported: 2020-07-24 07:04 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Equilateral triangle witnessed at night

**This is an AMENDED report with correct date** At approximately 04:30 this morning, an apparently triangle shaped aircraft with lights on three corners and an additional light on the center of the bottom of the aircraft. The three equally spaced lights on the apparent corners were white or very light orange. The center light appeared to be made up of a white and red light; it appeared as if the bottom light was a red light "engulfed" by white light.

I viewed the aircraft as it approached toward my line of sight from the direct south at a relatively low altitude, probably less than 1000 feet. The craft was traveling slowly, slower than I have seen an airplane fly, and as it continued away from me towards the north, the appearance of what would be the lights on the rear corners changed appearance, and began to resemble the center light, as a red light surrounded by white lights. The red portion of the rear lights (which appeared as being on the left and right) were blinking in a synchronized fashion, ie, there was still a white light on the front and corners, but the two "rear" lights also appeared to contain smaller red lights which blinked at the same time.

The "aircraft" also made a very low-frequency pulsing sound, more like an earthquake or distant rolling thunder than any aircraft I have heard. My house is located approximately 67 miles from Whiteman AFB, and I have witnessed stealth aircraft over my house before, however this unknown object made a completely different sound than the stealth Air Force craft I have heard/seen.

I have also subsequently watches videos of stealth aircraft flying at night, and it's important to note that no lights extended beyond the three equally spaced white lights, like the red and green lights seen on the wingtips of known aircraft.

I was unable to discern any shape beyond what was conveyed by the three equally spaced white lights.

I think it is also important to note that I do not live near an airport approach, and have never witnessed an aircraft flying along this path at any altitude or time of day. This was witnessed in my back yard, so I am quite familiar with what is normal over this piece of land.

Posted 2020-07-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157098
Occurred: 2020-06-17 04:45 Local
Reported: 2020-06-17 03:26 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Sphere


My girlfriend and I witnessed 30 or more star-like/satellite-like objects traveling in a straight line from west to east at about the speed of a typical satellite. They traveled from west to east at 4:45 a.m. No noise or aviation lights.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156727
Occurred: 2020-05-28 23:53 Local
Reported: 2020-05-28 22:06 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KS, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

Color-changing fireball craft slowly popped in-and-out of existence.

The craft popped up out of nowhere, it looked close to the ground but that could have been because of my perspective. It was at first a white circle, and then it fell, kind of like a shooting star. It then changed to purple, white, and then eventually black, with a green aura. It then disappeared.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156358
Occurred: 2020-05-07 02:00 Local
Reported: 2020-05-09 11:28 Pacific
Duration: 9 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, OH, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

A bright craft was in the sky for a few seconds before taking off.

I was looking outside of my window as I had woken up around that time. I noticed a bright object in the sky that had taken off into the night after a few seconds.

Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154113
Occurred: 2020-03-05 20:25 Local
Reported: 2020-03-06 02:08 Pacific
Duration: ~5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Light


We saw 15 to 20 lights flying in a perfect line they all had the same space between them looked like they were coming out of the moon there was no sound at all I have never seen anything fly that way they never started to fall and never stopped flying in a perfect straight line

Posted 2020-05-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156696
Occurred: 2020-02-06 19:45 Local
Reported: 2020-05-27 08:40 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

Three MUFON investigators and other witnesses see a huge UFO independently from different locations

I went out for a few minutes last night at 7:45 pm and noticed a huge craft west of my position at 23rd Sreet and Noland Road in Independence. This location is on top of a big hill. It looked like it was only a mile away and larger than a 747. There were brilliant white lights all over it and one red light on the left side. The lights were reflecting off of shiny metal. The object had no wings or tail and made no sound. At first, I thought it was a plane landing at the Downtown Kansas City airport, and it would have needed to turn in order to do so, but soon realized that it was flying very low - at approximately 2,000 feet or lower and slow-moving from North to South. It did not turn in the direction (west) it would have needed to land. The object then either disappeared or turned all of its lights out. I immediately called another Field Investigator I often work with and she had just seen the same object in the western skies from her position, which is two! miles south and two miles closer to where the object was. So that means it had to have been approximately three miles away, making it absolutely huge - perhaps five times the size of a commercial airliner. The skies were clear and I am hoping that someone else saw this object and got a video of it. A few days later we had a MUFON meeting and yet a third field investigator reported seeing the same object at the same time. He happened to be outside doing an investigation when he noticed it, although he was several miles further to the southeast at the time. After publishing this incident on Facebook, several other people responded, saying they saw it as well. Each person described seeing the same type of craft with the lights in the same positions. The location of the object was likely in an industrial area just west of 435 Hwy and 23rd Street where there are no houses.

My daughter said that she saw the exact same object on February 9 at approximately 7:30 pm, from 40 Hwy and Sterling in Independence, MO which is south of the original sighting location. She was looking in a NW direction, and we determined that it was likely in the same location where I saw it on February 6. Also on Monday, February 9 several witnesses in Sugar Creek, MO reported hearing a horrible mechanical sound coming from the skies just two miles north of where the object was sighted, and that many neighbors went outside to find the source of the loud sound. They were all looking up, but no one could see anything. This was reported by another witness, who has made a number of UFO reports which are credible. Unfortunately, no one has video but I'm hoping that through Facebook and other sites someone will come forward as this was a spectacular sighting. No one else has filed a report. I can come to no other conclusion than that this was a real unidentified flying object.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153113
Occurred: 2020-02-06 19:45 Local
Reported: 2020-02-07 11:02 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object

Huge UFO with brilliant lights flying low over Kansas City, Missouri

Did anyone else see this? I went out for a few minutes last night at 7:45 pm and noticed a huge craft west of my position at 23rd Sreet and Noland Road in Independence. This location is on top of a big hill. It looked like it was only a mile away and larger than a 747. There were brilliant white lights all over it and one red light on the left side. The lights were reflecting off of shiny metal. At first, I thought it was a plane landing at the Downtown Kansas City airport, and it would have needed to turn in order to do so, but soon realized that it was flying very low - at approximately 2,000 feet or lower and slow-moving from North to South. It did not turn in the direction (west) it would have needed to land. The object then either disappeared or turned all of its lights out. I immediately called another investigator and she had just seen the same object in the western skies from her position, which is two miles closer to where the object was. So that m! eans it had to have been approximately three miles away, making it absolutely huge - perhaps five times the size of a commercial airliner. The skies were clear last night. I am hoping that someone else saw this object and got video of it.



Posted 2020-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153218
Occurred: 2020-01-11 23:18 Local
Reported: 2020-02-11 21:45 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 lights, 1 craft flying slowly, covered by clouds.

My friend and I were outside when I noticed 2 lights go across the sky at the same time/speed/distance apart, leading us to believe it was coming from one huge craft. It appeared to be right above the clouds so the shape was hard to see, but the lights were visible.

The lights were a yellow/white. The object was moving pretty slowly going from north to south. The closest sound I can compare it to, would be a distorted helicopter. It definitely was not a helicopter tho. It was low enough to hear but high enough that it was concealed by clouds.

Posted 2020-02-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 151487
Occurred: 2019-12-11 17:45 Local
Reported: 2019-12-11 23:18 Pacific
Duration: 90 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, KS, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

There were four lightsin the sky that appeared to be chasing each other

It was about 5:45 pm on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, in Independence, Kansas. I was driving to the Independence High School at 10th and Oak st for an event. As I approached the school via Oak Street, I noticed lights in the sky to the west. At first I thought they were meteors. My husband and 14 year old son also saw them. My husband remarked that it looked like something was falling through the atmosphere, but as we watched, it appeared as though the lihts were chasing each other. There were four of them, but only three were lit at a time. They lit from south to north in the sky and as one dimmed another took its place.

We watched them as we pulled into 10th street and then into the school parking lot. By this time, the lights had moved a great distance across the sky and were then northwest of the city instead of due west. It occurred to me that I could take a picture of them, but by the time I got my phone out of my pocket, they were gone.

My husband said he thought they looked like military flares but that they disappeared too soon, as in they were gone in a matter of seconds. The entire display took perhaps ninety seconds from when we first noticed them until they disappeared.

Posted 2019-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 151300
Occurred: 2019-12-04 07:30 Local
Reported: 2019-12-05 09:57 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Electrical or magnetic effects

Circular object with multiple warm colored lights, hovering above a field, near 210 and 291, for a few seconds and then flying south and disappearing.

Object, while moving, resembled a shooting star. My cellphone lost signal during the event.



NUFORC Note:

Anonymous source. Time above may be wrong, but we have no means of contacting the witness. PD


Posted 2019-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149914
Occurred: 2019-10-17 00:00 Local
Reported: 2019-10-17 23:01 Pacific
Duration: 18:35


Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Single round light size of a dime traveled from se to sw at a high rate of speed for 3 to 4 seconds. Red light flashed also.

White orb lights travel from se to sw at high speed. 3 to 4 seconds of visibility. Red light flash

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 147521
Occurred: 2019-06-20 22:00 Local
Reported: 2019-07-12 13:19 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Left a trail

Brilliant blue light or object blinded me, then flew away very quickly

I was closing a shade in my kitchen at 10:00 pm, when I noticed a brilliant blue object, or light, apparently sitting right on top of a streetlight located approximately 75 feet from my house. It was a little smaller than a basketball and was a bright medium blue color that cast light around it, and it had a white aura around it.

I watched this object for approximately 30 seconds while trying to figure out what it was, when it suddenly shot backward (NE) at extremely high speed, leaving a trail behind it, and was out of sight in a second.

Then I walked into the living room and noticed that the TV and all the lights seemed extremely bright. I had to lower the brightness on the TV just to watch it. Ever since then all lights seem very bright to me and I have to keep my office lights off and can't look at a computer screen for very long. I have an appointment with an eye doctor because I'm afraid that my eyesight has been permanently affected. I find it very odd that there were so many reports of unexplained objects earlier on the same day in Kansas City.

I am a UFO investigator and have received reports of small bright red objects, small transparent objects, and multiple witnesses to the two or three objects that hovered over KC for over six hours on the 20th and on other days that week. Additionally, I received two reports of giant birds the size of an airplane in Independence and Sugar Creek that were seen on the 20th.

Posted 2019-07-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 145762
Occurred: 2019-04-20 18:30 Local
Reported: 2019-04-20 18:55 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Animals reacted

Bright red and orange solid light over Independence, Missouri.

Red and orange solid light (like an afterburner), with no sound.

Was out of sight in 20 seconds.

Posted 2019-04-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 145227
Occurred: 2019-03-16 16:40 Local
Reported: 2019-03-17 01:31 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Fleet of 30-50 extremely high altitude flying Y-wing aircraft/spacecraft reflecting in the sun as pinpoint blue flashes of light.

Today, March 16, 2019, at approximately 4:40pm cst, a fleet of between 30 and 50 extremely high altitude Y wing aircraft/spacecraft, was spotted heading east above Independence, MO.

Was looking right up where they were flying over, but would have never even seen them had the sun not gleaned off of them at the perfect angle, reflecting mostly blue flashes of light. They had no trails, were shaped like a skinny Y and seemed to be able to maneuver sideways and even stop in place. I honestly thought we were being invaded. I ((one word deleted)) u not.

Either I just saw us moving a LARGE fleet of secret space force vehicles or the alien ship armada has arrived.

Posted 2019-03-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 145310
Occurred: 2019-03-13 15:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2019-03-26 15:36 Pacific
Duration: Few minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Went outside to take out some trash. Look up and I see a odd crescent shaped object in the sky. I kept looking for a few seconds and it changed its shape into a triangle.

I've always believed in UFOs and always wanted to see one. I can't be quite sure because it was really far and high in the sky, but I do believe it was something of sorts.






NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2019-03-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142928
Occurred: 2018-08-30 20:48 Local
Reported: 2018-08-30 19:05 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, KS, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

A blinking light of variable speed & intensity

Saw a bright light, blinking at a rate of approximately one blink per second for about 5 blinks, when I went out my front door.

I was facing East. The light was slightly above just to the East of Mars.

It then moved up and to the East, blinking at a slower and slower rate as the light faded, then it suddenly disappeared.

Because of the brightness of the light, and the changing of the speed and duration of the blinks, I am sure this was not an aircraft.

The sky was clear with stars all around.

Posted 2018-08-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142855
Occurred: 2018-08-27 22:30 Local
Reported: 2018-08-29 07:45 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Fireball


Volkswagen sized object. Couldn't make out the shape. On fire. Entering earth's atmosphere. No bright light coming from it

I was pulling out of my driveway and noticed a large, what I thought at the time, weird Volkswagen sized meteor out of the corner of my eye. It looked like it was entering the earth's atmosphere. It wasn't going across the sky, because there was no trail. Almost like it was coming at me. I could see fire around it but there was like a white blue color under the fire. Almost like a shield of some sort. I looked over to tap the person next to me to look at what I was seeing and when I looked back up it was gone. Disappeared. Like as soon as it made it through earth's atmosphere it became invisible.

It wasn't moving fast like in a meteor/meteorite shower. And it wasn't bright either. Also there was no sound coming from it at all.

Posted 2018-08-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 137930
Occurred: 2017-12-08 17:34 Local
Reported: 2017-12-21 14:59 Pacific
Duration: 15
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby, Electrical or magnetic effects

Multiple Lights Seen Over Independence, Oregon.

On December 13, 2017, at 4:58pm, this investigator was contacted by a relative through Facebook messaging on a sighting in the Independence/Buena Vista area of Oregon. My cousin, 25 years in law enforcement sent a link from one of his contacts on Facebook for me to look at.

December 14, 2017 @ 4:32pm This investigator called the Independence Police in Independence, Or. I spoke with the officer on duty and asked if anyone had called in about lights in the skies over that area for the last week on the early evening of Dec. 8th, and had mentioned to her several cars were stopped looking at the lights in the sky, she checked her log and nothing was called in for that period.

The following is both the post from main witness and our conversation through messaging on Facebook on the encounter.

FRI. December 8, 2017, at 6:36pm · "There were several in the sky as we drove into Independence this evening but this one was HUGE and people were pulled over watching it.

I need to keep a camera in the car because my phone just doesn't cut it." SAT. December 16 2017 7:46 pm "Hey, I'm afraid I can't really give you a lot of info about this sighting(s). We live in Buena Vista about 7-miles south of Independence and we see different craft with various light formations. The most common is as described in the second message you sent me. They are either clusters of red lights or actually appear to be in a square or rectangular pattern. There are others that are clusters of both red and white lights but none have green. This first pic was taken with my iPhone 5-s and I didn't even realize the image was there for several days. I didn't think it had come out. It was taken just outside of Independence, Oregon, on November 21, 2017 at 7:05 pm The next three were December 8th at 5:34 in the evening. The light at the bottom is a house. The large light in the sky state stationary for a long time while another small light (seen best in most distant pic) circled it.

This last one was one of the red cluster lights but it was so far away I didn't get a great pic. This one was taken Thursday December 14th at 6:57 pm.

I see these things pretty much every night so should you ever want to come down with a good camera I would be happy to point them out.

Sorry I can't offer more information." SUN December 17, 2017 1:35PM "Hey, the saucer shaped one (I swear I can see faces in it) was taken from Buena Vista road (they all were) I was close to the community of Buena Vista and facing north. There is a small range of hill there and consistent activity over them. They would be in far South Salem area but are north of Buena Vista. It's so hard to judge distance, not knowing the size but that night I thought it looked like, "a big one" so he stopped the car and took the picture. Now as I look at it, I'm feeling as though it was much closer than I thought and smaller than I was thinking.

This one had a combination of red and white flashing lights and I did not notice the shape until I saw the picture.

The other two were also taken from Buena Vista Road only they were moving slowly from just south of Independence, over to BV and then across the Willamette River heading towards Jefferson. Each time my partner is with me. I mean it when I say we see then almost every night.

We are both spiritualist who work with a variety of clients, primarily as spiritual counsels. I am not surprised that you know others who have seen them. Honestly, we've been shocked that more people don't because as I mentioned they seem to appear very regularly. I do find an interesting correlation in our work and their constant presence in our skies around our home. I know that sounds crazy to many but.... what can I say...lol I'm going to try and take a little better camera out this evening and see what I see I hope I answered your questions. Have a great day!" SUN December 17, 2017 9:35pm "Just returned from our nightly trip to Independence and unfortunately I wasn't able to get a pic of the one we saw tonight. It was the square light pattern in the same area, north of Buena Vista. I see this next week is supposed to be clear and cold, which should be nice viewing conditions. I'll keep you posted on what we see." WED. December 20, 2017 7:42pm Recieved a call from witness on this day. I went on to ask some specific questions about the sightings. As the witness had seen these strange lights on several occasions, the most objects at one time was 3. One large light in the sky had small lights circling it. At one point beams of lights seemed to connect the smaller ones with the larger object.

The encounters were silent, no sound was from the objects. Military helicopters were seen and heard in the areas on one occasion. There was also a surge in power outages in the area. On the December 8th sighting, besides the 2 witnesses that had pulled over to the side of the road, three other vehicles had also stopped and individuals exited their vehicles to watch the lights. The main witness did mention that he could see 'figures' in the windows of one of the craft. Witness estimated the closest craft was maybe 1/4 to 1/2 mile in distance. The longest duration of any of the sightings was estimated at about 15 minutes.

Investigator's closing notes.

I am familiar with that area in the Willamette Valley, farm land, cattle, small ranches, logging and a country community. For years I have heard stories and even myself witnessed un-explained lights in the Falls City vicinity in 1979. So, this area of the Willamette Valley has been a 'hot spot' of un-explained lights in these areas for years.

What is interesting about this witness report is the square windows and or lights seen in their encounter. When I just posted a photo on my Facebook of one of the photos, another cousin came forward and said he had seen some lights that same week in December, either the 5th or 6th hovering out over Salem as he was looking west. What is intriging about his sighting was that he mentioned 'square lights' just as the witness in this report did. (My cousins report will be filed later this week) Military bases in Oregon. Kingsley Field, Klamath Falls, Or. home of the 173rd Fighter Wing. They fly the F-15c, as does Portland Air National Guard out of the Portland International Airport. Home to the 142nd Fighter Wing.

Coast Guard Air Staion, North Bend, Or. Search and Rescue... their aircraft is the Mh-65c helicopter.

Umatilla Army Depot, Umatilla, Or. this base is projected to be completely closed by 2021 as their permit expires that year. No flying mission.

Mount Hebo Air Force Station, Hebo, Or. Home to the 689th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. This operation closed down in 1980.

The military does fly training missions all over Oregon, as in my region near Klamath Falls, the F-15's do day and night time training.

So, what did these people witness? Doing some research I came across a drawing done by a grandmother from Florence, Or. Her encounter from March 9th, 2015 witnessed by her and her grandson is uncanny in its similar appearance with the 'square windows'. This was on www.midnightinthedesert.com website.

Another article written by Tyler Rogoway twitter.com/Aviation_Intel, November 15, 2017 reads; "Airliners and F-15s Invovled in Bizarre Encounter with Mystery Aircraft over Oregon." This article stirs speculation as to what was in the skies on Oct. 25, 2017 as an object was seen between California and Oregon border and involved multiple pilot eyewitnesses. Confirmations between both FAA and NORAD that it did occur.

Another article by Jamie Seidel November 16, 2017, with the News Corp Australia Network wrote about the incident also. As did Micah Hanks on November 17, 2017.

On the National UFO Reporting Center website, a photo from Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico, Tuesday, December 12, 2017 @ 8:30 p.m is similar in the light formation also.

On November 23, 2017 I wrote the Public Affairs office at Kingsley Field on the above incidents, but never heard back from their office. Nothing was reported in the mainstream media on these UFO's over Oregon. Although a couple days ago, both CNN and FoxNews started running stories on UFO's in general.

Could these incidents over Oregon be related to the sightings in Independence and Buena Vista, Oregon? Possibly. Other factors to consider is the 'Geminid Meteor Shower 2017' which was December 4th through 16th with peak period for viewing 13th -14th of December. But this does not explain the 'structured' craft and the way these lights moved and operated in our airspace and the photographs taken by this witness. (See photos submitted with this report.) So, at this time these objects are 'unknown'... This investigator will be planning a trip in the spring to the area of Independence, Oregon, after the snow is gone from the mountain passes!




NUFORC Note:

We express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Ron Wright, a skilled and experienced UFO investigator in Sprague River, Oregon, for preparing this report, and submitting it to our Center. We encourage anyone who has information about this case, or any other case in Southern Oregon, to contact Mr. Wright, using the following contact information: P. O. Box 2 Sprague River, OR 97639; (971) 237-7828; [email protected]. PD


Posted 2018-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136557
Occurred: 2017-10-03 02:58 Local
Reported: 2017-10-04 21:48 Pacific
Duration: >60 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Left a trail, Changed Color, Possible abduction

We were driving on Highway 26, between 2:50 and 3 p.m., headed towards Salem, Oregon, and in the sky over the area that would be Independence. A large object in a circular shape the size of about an automobile there was a metallic flash and a white jet trail that appeared about three times and length of the object itself extremely thick extremely bright white and it seems like the object was moving really fast then it stopped and the vapor trail sucked up into the object and it vanished.

Posted 2017-10-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 135199
Occurred: 2017-07-16 03:30 Local
Reported: 2017-07-17 03:39 Pacific
Duration: 2.5 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Went out to smoke a cig at 3AM on back porch. Noticed off to high left in sky what appeared first to be a bright star. But realised it was rotating flashing colors orange, red, yellowish in a triangle type formation.

No sound, couldn't been a plane, but after seeing the colors, knew it was not a star.

I recorded a few 3 min, 5 min sessions. Took few pics.

I'm blown away. This is real deal.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2017-07-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 135194
Occurred: 2017-07-16 03:00 Local
Reported: 2017-07-16 16:56 Pacific
Duration: 2.5-3 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KS, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Bright starshaped objects began moving at random, brightly illuminating and becoming three lights, with the other two the lesser lights

The encounter occured early Sunday morning, on July 15, while fishing on the Verdigris River, near Independence, Ks. My fishing buddy and I, while catfishing out in a boat, caught sight of a single bright star-shaped light, which began moving at will in all directions; side to side, up and down, and with either, a bouncing motion or in a straight line. Also, the object was able to brighten and dim itself at will. And after watching for about an hour, two more lights appeared, one on each side of the first. They also began moving randomly, and sometimes in sync with the first, but were the lesser of the first light.

The time line of the entire encounter was approximately 2 1/2 to 3 hours, until sun completely rose. As daylight appeared the first light, first object, shined bright and did not dissipate with the other stars. It vanished when we both looked away for brief time and as we looked back again it had vanished.

Posted 2017-07-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 134771
Occurred: 2017-06-25 04:00 Local
Reported: 2017-06-25 07:30 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Cluster formation over Independence, MO. (4th time seen) I have video this time. Beam occurred on prior event on 6/21.

I have video this time. The event occurrred one hour later this time and was only 30 mins. I have 10 mins. of video. It appears to be a cluster perhaps with smaller ships around a large ship. During my last previous sighting (6/21) there was a flash beam. During that sighting I was awakened from sleep at 3am to see this. Furthermore, I was so ill 48 hrs later (6/23) that I couldn't get out of bed. I hope the two aren't related. I did not get any sleep hardly on 6/21 or 6/22, so I was very sleep deprived.

I did hear an airplane in this video also, and it is on the tape, but it was coming from a different direction and I never saw it.

Posted 2017-07-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 134699
Occurred: 2017-06-21 03:00 Local
Reported: 2017-06-21 20:22 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object

Repeat sighting of same light a week later.

I saw this last week and reported it then on 6/10 and lo and behold it shows up again. Same time and place. I had looked for a few days after the first sighting and did not see it and then viola-- last night it shows up.

This time though, I was asleep and not looking for it at all. It was if I was jolted awake to see it again precisely at 3am.

Posted 2017-06-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 134515
Occurred: 2017-06-10 03:00 Local
Reported: 2017-06-10 21:47 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large starry light changing shape to triangle/diamond over Independence, MO

I was laying in bed and saw a light in the sky out my bedroom balcony door window. I thought it was a street lamp at first, but it was not. It was high in the sky south east of my house. It appeared to change shape from like a star to a triangle and/or diamond shape.

It must has been quite large for me to have thought is was a streetlight. It was slowly moving north west toward me and higher in the sky, as I had the frame of my door to use as a reference. It got so I had to get up out of my bed to continue watching it.

By 5 am you could not see it anymore. It also seemed to have some colored lights possibly such as orange and blue but I was too far away from it to be sure about that. Did anyone else notice this?

Posted 2017-06-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150887
Occurred: 2017-02-15 02:00 Local
Reported: 2019-11-19 23:47 Pacific
Duration: 10min
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Possible abduction

My brother law and myself were in my driveway finishing up his truck when the neighbors dog started going crazy.we both stood up to see what the dogs barking about when we seen a round green object flying thru the trees at speeds we never seen before. As we stood there we both carry pistols it shot from their back yard over to my driveway in a blur when it slowed down to almost a complete stop going by in slow motion we were both speechless. We both began to draw our guns when it took off in a literal blur. It looked almost liquidish if thats a term lol. It was not even 6 feet from us and we both got warm and it was 30 degrees. We took the truck for a test drive and we seen it again. It was running parallel in the woods beside at 50 and then shot above the tree tops and in a blur it took off at an incline and went out of sight. We were both scared. We told our family about it and others had mentioned seeing things but was afraid to talk about it.



Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 131710
Occurred: 2016-12-11 16:00 Local
Reported: 2016-12-11 18:55 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, LA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Light over sky in Louisiana and blinked red 3 times on top when a plane flew near

Looked like a star but seemed to be to low.round ball of light and a plane passed over and it blinked ted 3 times above it

Posted 2016-12-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 131127
Occurred: 2016-11-09 12:15 Local
Reported: 2016-11-09 22:35 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 4

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Diamond


To the east very high in the sky object too far up to be a helicopter, staying in one spot not a plain. Red orange amd white light going of in 3 points fashinf in different patterns almost like beams its amazing and oddly beautiful to far away for cell phone video or pictures that's a huge shame.

Posted 2016-11-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182745
Occurred: 2016-08-20 00:00 Local
Reported: 2024-08-22 22:59 Pacific
Duration: about 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, KY, USA
Location details: it was over a corn field

Shape: Triangle
Color: black
Estimated Size: looked about as big as a car
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: on the right
Angle of Elevation: 30
Closest Distance: about 300 feet
Estimated Speed: 0mph stationary
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

It was 3 white lights in a triangle with one red in the middle. shot out a blueish white beam

My memory isn't great but I remember this thing pretty well. we were driving home from Tennessee, roughly about in independence Kentucky. I was just staring out the window when i noticed some lights hovering over a field. I thought it was a helicopter at first. it shot a blueish white beam down from the red light in the middle then turned it off like a flashlight, then another beam turned on from the white front light and shot straight ahead. It seemed kind of small but it could have been far away. It wasn't moving as far as i could tell.I didn't know anything about ufos/uaps at the time. I felt really calm and okay with it like it wasn't weird to see, and I keep wishing I could see it again.




Posted 2024-08-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 127774
Occurred: 2016-06-08 04:15 Local
Reported: 2016-06-08 13:15 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, LA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Bright light in northwest night sky that changed color and locations ( and in number) rapidly before zooming away...

At about 4am, my friend and I were standing in our backyard, which is surrounded by strawberry fields. We are away from the bright lights of any city, and we often stargaze on clear nights. This morning, while looking towards the northwest sky, we both noticed a bright and shining light that seemed to (at first) be pulsating...we have an app called sky guide that shows us where objects are in the night sky, and this was not an object identified on any of our apps. As we continued to watch, the light appeared to be moving in various formations, and actually seemed to split off and away from another similar entity before returning back to the object (or beside it maybe)....it hovered and zoomed about as if it was teleporting to the side/to and fro from the central origin point and appeared to be at least 2...probably 3 in formation moving in unison. What was most amazing was the rotation of colors that presented! We are typically used to seeing the GPS aircra! ft above us (they have red, white, and blue blinking lights) that are VERY common, especially in the past few years. To a novice viewer, these GPS craft can very easily seem exotic. This was NOT any type of craft or sky object that either of us had ever seen before-in fact, I couldn't stop staring in amazement as each second seemed more and more unbelievable. Right above the distant silhouette of the tree line, this "light" actually transformed itself from a glow similar to that of a bright white star to greenish blue to red (in rapid succession) and then eventually back to white while hovering, glowing brighter (similar to watching the backside of thrusters being engaged) then fading and appearing to finally move away and quickly increase altitude until it was GONE!

Afterwards, I studied the placement of the stars, etc, Mercury was at the same height of the entity but directly southwest vs northwest where the light had been. The only bright star between Mercury ! and the strange light was Vega...this craft or crafts were brighter. Sunrise came about an hour afterwards. We will continue to search the skies for this as well!

Posted 2016-06-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 127442
Occurred: 2016-05-01 01:00 Local
Reported: 2016-05-21 09:40 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

Three times the size of a normal NGB-2 bomber.

I, as well as many of my neighbors, have seen triangle shaped planes for many years. Whiteman AFB is just South East from where we live so we know that these triangle shaped craft are F-117 fighters or NGB-2 bombers.

I could not sleep on the night of 5/1/2016 so went out to have a smoke, around 1 AM.

I saw what I though was going to be a NGB-2 bomber approaching from the northwest, heading southwest to Whiteman AFB.

As it got closer, I could tell it was gliding at tree top level, which is unusally low. It was approximately three times as large as the normal NGB-2.

No noise, 2 red lights at each end of the its wings.

So either Whitman has a new version of the NGB-2 or something is checking them out.




NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded serious-minded to us. He corrected the time to 1:00 a.m., not p.m.. PD


Posted 2016-05-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 126433
Occurred: 2016-03-18 18:00 Local
Reported: 2016-03-18 19:34 Pacific
Duration: >1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Light


Star like object moving to left and right, up and down, but stays in relatively same area. Looks like a star, twinkling. When using Google sky map, it should be the star Sirius.

Posted 2016-03-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 127576
Occurred: 2015-08-01 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-05-29 14:04 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Saw 3 red orbs in a triangular formation in the sky.

Unfortunately, I cannot remember the exact date I witnessed the UFO's, but it was July-August 2015 around 10:30-11pm in Independence, KY, close to Mount Zion Rd.

I was getting off work and proceeding to my car, when I noticed in the sky that there were 3 red lights in the shape of a triangle. They stayed still it seemed for a minute, or so, but then split up and became out my view. I don't recall hearing any noise or seeing any blinking from the orbs.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2016-06-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 120076
Occurred: 2015-07-04 17:00 Local
Reported: 2015-07-05 08:02 Pacific
Duration: 25-30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Other


Low flying and extremely loud sound over house.

Extremely Loud train like and tornado sound flying over house two times. Not able to observe a craft. Sound as if flying very low in the airspace.

Very Scary.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2015-07-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 118382
Occurred: 2015-04-11 10:00 Local
Reported: 2015-04-12 14:30 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Circle


Bright ball of light East of Independence Mo.

I live in independence and was looking west towards KC which this bright star light sphere seemed to be South of KC. It was brighter than all the stars showing and even brighter than Venus which was to the lower right. It seemed to have a beam of light shooting out of it like a rotating light house which slowly came down as it was turning. As the beam of light rotated around and slowly came down to my angle it was slowing in rotation and seemed to stop... pointing at me as if it knew i was looking at it. It was very far away so i wasn't too concerned.

I had my dogs with me and they started acting excited and it was time to go anyways. I got home and went in looking through the window and it seemed to have changed position.

I then got onto my computer and looked up an astronomy program and found that it could have been the star Aldebaran which sort of made me feel better but I've never seen a star do this. I recall something from my childhood which ! makes me feel leery of these type of strange occurrences.

Posted 2015-04-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116219
Occurred: 2014-12-03 17:00 Local
Reported: 2014-12-28 23:12 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Disk


Round disk silver nickle collar. It had black spots on its sides, as if there was air vents open with disk shape open lids above.

I have a picture of this craft. U.F.O It was just lucky I got that picture. moving at 45 mph I took this picture as it came up out of a field from my car. This picture is just perfect and you can see quite clear what it is. beautiful just beautiful. Took it as I was taking pictures of the sky as the sun set.

Posted 2015-01-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111253
Occurred: 2014-07-06 22:25 Local
Reported: 2014-07-06 22:38 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Fireball


Flashing fireball

Appeared to be about the size of a pea at first, and quickly got smaller eventually disappearing.



Posted 2014-07-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111244
Occurred: 2014-07-03 23:00 Local
Reported: 2014-07-06 18:02 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OH, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

15-20 red circular lights moving perfectly horizantal with change in vertical direction

About 1 hour after the city's fireworks display, I noticed 15-20 red circular objects in the night sky, southwest from my location in about the center of the city.

I first noticed 1 or 2 red lights moving perfectly horizontal above the tree line. At first I assumed they were fireworks, but after viewing 2-3 more red lights, still moving perfecting horizontal through the night sky, I started paying closer attention.

On two occasions during the 10 minutes or so I saw the lights, I noticed 3 or 4 lights moving in a triangular pattern, still moving perfectly horizontal.

The number of total lights I witnessed was about 15-20. All moving perfecting horizontal, never vertical, and horizontal from a long enough period of time and with no sound where it would dismiss it being fireworks.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2014-07-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106952
Occurred: 2014-02-05 20:10 Local
Reported: 2014-02-05 20:36 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Light


Independence Or Orange Light Ball UFO

I heard the sound of an airplane so I looked up but I saw an orange ball of light that I barely even noticed!

The sound from the airplane faded however this object moved slow and must have been very close. I just got the feeling it was very close. Within 2000 ft from me if I had to guess but im sure it was closer.

The object moved like a helicopter drone and made no noise. I wonder how the object can see considering thereis a freeze rite now in there are thick clouds. I took a little cell phone video for myself but the object is probably not to visible in the low light of the night.

Keep in mind this object was a very bright ball of orange light and appeared to just hover or float across the sky until it graduelly faded away into the distance of the clouds.

Posted 2014-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 103331
Occurred: 2013-10-17 19:40 Local
Reported: 2013-10-18 05:33 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, VA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Disk shaped object tracking airplane

On the evening of 10/17/2013 at approximately 7:40 PM, my wife and I saw a bright light in the sky that looked like a large star. However the light was moving North/East, it was not blinking but stayed the same blue/white color.

Because of the movement we watched the disk-shaped object for several seconds. Then we saw an airplane with flashing lights moving to the South/West a distance from the disk. The disk seemed to stop for a second or two and then started moving in a South/West direction as if following the airplane. It didn’t seem to make a turn as an airplane would but just stopped and started in the opposite direction.

It tracked the airplane behind and slightly to the right for quite a distance across the sky. Then it started climbing, getting higher and higher, until disappearing out of sight. It is hard to judge the size of the object, but from our perspective the blinking lights of the airplane would compare to the end of a pencil but the disk would compare to the eraser of a pencil, it was quite large.

We watched the object for approximately 5 minutes, heard no noise until the airplane moved overhead with the disk tracking it.

Don’t know what it was but thought it odd that it seemed to be tracking the airplane.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2013-10-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 98994
Occurred: 2013-06-27 22:15 Local
Reported: 2013-06-27 21:59 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Gigantic lantern moves rapidly across sky in KY!

Shortly after 10 pm tonight from my back porch, I witnessed a very strange object in the sky about a half mile to a mile away and about a half mile up. I screamed for my wife to bring the camera. She had to look for it and just grabbed her phone instead. She took three photos but it took her 30 seconds to get her Iphone5 and by this time the object had moved well away. Initially, the object was close enough to see the periphery, which clearly appeared to be rectangular with a giant white-orange flame inside that filled most of the rectangle shape but the flame did not extend beyond the well-defined rectangular borders. For how bright the light inside the rectangle was, I was surprised to not see much of a halo of light around it.

My first impression was that it was just a large hot air balloon because I heard what I thought was the sound of propane fuel burning. I absolutely did not hear a intermittent propeller type sound. It was definitely more of ! a low steady dull rumble sound. I had a clear view of most of the horizon. The object moved from left to right across it, at first very slowly then amazingly as fast as a jet airplane or faster. It moved all the way across the sky easily in less than one minute. The object also without question was ascending rapidly. It was moving east to southeast in direction in mostly clear skies at the time. The long axis of the rectangle seemed perpendicular to the ground at all times even though the pictures seem otherwise (my wife must have slanted the camera in her rapid response). The pictures revealed almost a figure eight light source. However, in person, the object looked very bright to the naked eye with a giant, uniform flame burning upwards, much like a gigantic lantern in the sky. Any insight into what this object was would be appreciated. I thought hot air balloons just moved at the same speed as the wind.

Posted 2013-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 98981
Occurred: 2013-06-27 21:45 Local
Reported: 2013-06-27 19:01 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 luminous shapes moving slowly across the sky, one after the other.

Saw a red/yellow luminous shape trailing slowly across the sky, fading to a dot after about 2 minutes. No sound was heard.

Followed by an exact duplicate about 1 minute after the first one.

Posted 2013-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 98933
Occurred: 2013-06-24 21:00 Local
Reported: 2013-06-26 07:05 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, VA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Blue colored disc shaped object moving quickly from west to east.

Seen from New River in Grayson County, Virginia

Disc shaped object moved from west and disappeared in clouds in the east. Looked like a large star, was not blinking and was visible for approximately 1 min.

There was a jet at a distance behind but was not moving as fast.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We suspect a nighttime sighting, and have amended the time above. PD


Posted 2013-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 98831
Occurred: 2013-06-22 22:20 Local
Reported: 2013-06-22 20:06 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, OH, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

at approx. 10:20 p.m. on 6/22/13 we observed a single fireball move from horizon to horizon from southwest to northeast.

It moved in a straight line covering our field of view in about 1.5 minutes.

Object made no sound and did not change in intensity, as one would expect if it were reflecting sunlight.

Wondering if anyone else saw this also.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2013-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173664
Occurred: 2013-06-09 20:30 Local
Reported: 2023-01-01 06:14 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 min intervals


Location: Independence, MO, USA
Location details: My house 610 N McCoy

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Missing Time, Animals reacted

Multiple entities on power lines outside and in my home

I began having problems with my equilibrium. I quickly noticed if u lean over to the right or left, my vision would come back clear. I decided to turn my video camera on my phone on and begin recording. I learned the lens can capture what the naked eye cannot see. In my front porch view I record neon green light traveling across the city power lines on my street. The entity had a Casper the ghost type shape. It floats over to the street light. This entity seems to be getting, "feed." In my video, I captured it putting it's hands on the light and, gripping it. The entity began to grow brighter as it holds tight to the street light& it's legs/ feet shot out the bottom as it seemed to be getting, "Recharged." I also realized the electricity bill has gone up, almost tripled, over the past 9 year's.
The other video I am submitting is another, Entity Related. This took place in my house. I captured it standing feet away from me in my living room. It depicted an image of my kids dad, who was actually asleep in the bedroom with our daughter. The Entity is see through and it jitters/ shakes vigorously.
I have TONS of videos relating to the subject and even more stories about different experiences in dimensional life."
Over the years, I've become a magnet to any and all forms of the extraordinary.
Along the subject, I have had at least 3 experiences that I was directly touched/ felt the electrifying effect of it's presence. The euphoria is unexplainable! It's a mental and physical high I will never be able to explain. The high is so awesome!! The very thought of it gives me chills.
I've also developed a gift. I have the ability to heal people & animal's from their pain, release the air/ toxins in their bodies with my hands. I have healed hundreds of people. People of all races, occupations& walks of life.
These are my videos I posted on YouTube
9& 8 years ago:

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Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 97028
Occurred: 2013-03-08 02:20 Local
Reported: 2013-04-06 23:36 Pacific
Duration: ~2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Strange circular light sern over norther kentucky

My girlfriend and I were sitting on my porch when I noticed a light in in the sky that caught my attention. It pulsated a red and orange light pattern. It began to move in irregular patterns. It would hover in one position, then move to the left or right then hover again for a few seconds before moving again. After doing that a few times the orange light completely stopped and the object was only emitting thr red light. A few seconds later the red light disappeared and the craft completely vanished.

Posted 2013-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95596
Occurred: 2012-12-29 19:00 Local
Reported: 2012-12-29 21:35 Pacific
Duration: ~5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two bright red/orange lights moving straight up, they were not in line but moving at the same speed and distance from each other.

Okay me and my little brother were playing soccer in Independence, Oregon and towards the south about 2 miles away we saw 2 red/orange lights pulsating the lights did not turn off and on, they just got brighter and dimmed, I really don't know exactly how far apart they were but the one that was higher looked about a mile high from the ground and the one below it was about half way and they were rising from the horizon, at first I thought they were to planes but they were not moving towards us they were moving straight up we looked at them for about 5 minutes until they faded out of sight I've never seen anything like this and I didn't believe in UFO's unless somebody knows what this was or seen anything like it feel free to email me if you've seen this, also they didn't appear to be straight up and down one was more off to the side but they were moving at the same speed and place but moving straight up. Also I looked to see if there was any stars in the direc! tion of the thing but I did not see any so the thing must have been really bright; I don't know if that means anything but that's what I observed. And sorry I did not have a camera on me to take pictures but I wish I did to show exactly what me and my brother saw.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2013-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95140
Occurred: 2012-12-06 19:30 Local
Reported: 2012-12-10 23:34 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects

Bright light over house and yard.

500 Lights On Object0: Yes

I was sitting on my back porch and a "very" bright light lit up my entire house and yard. The lights in the house flickered. The light was solid and no buzzing noises as a transformer would have done.

I did put into consideration a transformer acting up and looked at Pacific powers website for outage. Their was an outage that night somewhere in the city, (I live 5 miles out in the country) and didn't thing anything of it until now... Days later.

A month ago I saw two UFO's, two different days back to back. And both days I smelled something extremely inviting. Like am amazing perfume smell which nothing in this area can produce. What got my attention was what this smell opened me up to. It made me feel like I could except anything to come into my life.. without fear.

Anyways, this light I didn't really think about until now. For some reason I know it was a test. A test to see if I'm ready to meet these aliens. It made me jump when it lit up the yard. It was solid and non-flickering. It was white and not green or yellow like transformers are known to do.

But the most interesting thing now is what's happening to my time, my life, right now. Something has changed drastically and I can't put my finger on it.

I don't jump to conclusions, but something is wanting o connect with me, and they want to make that connection as soon as possible. But wont be effective until I become use to it.

Posted 2012-12-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 90997
Occurred: 2012-07-19 16:20 Local
Reported: 2012-07-19 15:15 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Rectangle


I was leaving the court house. There was storm clouds to my left as I headed south on 17.

I saw a large triangle shaped object far off in the distance. Just as I was passing the cemetary. It was a lighter color than the storm clouds. It was light gray in color.

The triangle shape was like a billboard very high in the sky. Way to high to be a sign. I was moving about 20 miles a hour. It did not appear to move but was hard to tell because I was moving. Whatever it was, it was huge.

It looked like it was fairly far away. No lights. No other objects near it. I observed this for about 2 minutes while driving very slow. I lost sight of it when I stopped at a stop light in front of krogers.

Posted 2012-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 89746
Occurred: 2012-06-16 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-06-20 21:49 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Strange light above rural Independence.

Wife and I were at a drive in movie. She looked up to the west and elbowed me to do the same. We saw a very bright white light projecting perpendicular to the movie. This lasted about 10 seconds, then the light faded out like shrinking into a hole or being affected by an iris like in a camera and disappeared. It appeared to be high in altitude, we could see aircraft crossing our line of sight, the light was appeared to be at the same altitude. Personal thought is that we witnessed a dimensional jump of some sort.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2012-07-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86411
Occurred: 2012-01-07 03:30 Local
Reported: 2012-01-07 19:02 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

blue sphere in northern sky.went south at hi speed changing to a greenish color and vanished.the moon was bright and seemed to have a blueish hue after the sphere passed in front of it.



Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 85449
Occurred: 2011-11-23 01:45 Local
Reported: 2011-11-23 04:58 Pacific
Duration: 5 mins
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

White orb of light visible from I70 somewhere between 2-91 and Lees Summit rd. moving to the east.

I was driving west-bound on I-70, between 2-91 hwy and lees summit rd exit i noticed an "orb" moving slowly my direction. It passed over me about the time i reached the offramp and had to get out for a better look!

So i jump out of the car and this object seems to stop moving, im just standing there almost right underneath it and i just cant figure out what it is.

Ive seen quite a few helicopters at night in this area but it didnt have any of the same lights the others have had, and no blade noise !

I have to add that i felt so drawn to this object i pulled my car over on the side of the hiway at almost 2 am. . . and after i did the object stopped for almost 5 mins and i swear it felt like it was watching me back!




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD


Posted 2011-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 84352
Occurred: 2011-10-05 20:40 Local
Reported: 2011-10-05 21:17 Pacific
Duration: less than 40 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Glowing, pulsating, orange orb, silent, low to the ground, shot away at amazing speed

My boyfriend and I were taking a walk and we were looking up into the sky and saw a bright orange glowing orb.

Almost looked like it had a fire under it. It seemed it kinda ‘pulsed’ .

It was too low to the ground to be conventional aircraft and made absolutely no sound. Before I could even grab my cell to get a picture. It shot off to the north and out of site.

This happened 10-5-11 at 2040 in Independence Missouri We were on the road: R. D. Mize between the streets Arrowhead Drive and Cochise

Posted 2011-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 84358
Occurred: 2011-10-04 20:00 Local
Reported: 2011-10-06 00:32 Pacific
Duration: 4 to 5 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Hovering triangular craft with many lights seen in the night sky.

I am a 56-year-old metalsmith, mother and grandmother. I have some college education, but no degees. I have lived in all over the USA but am currently residing in the area I was born in.

On October 4Th, 2011, around 8:00 pm, I was driving home from a day of running errands. As I drove down the street I live on, I glanced down another street that angles off at a Y intersection. Above our neighborhood clubhouse, I saw a mass of lights that were appeared to be stationary and about 200 to 500 feet above the building.

I stopped my car, backed up a few feet and turned down that street to see what it was. Of course I was thinking, 'It's a UFO!' 'No, it can't be.' 'Oh my gosh, it's a space ship!' I drove slowly as I looked at the mass of lights until I got almost directly under it. I could see the whole underside of the craft and it was enormous! I could see that it was a triangle-shaped craft with lights running parallel to the edges but about a foot away from them. The underside was slightly rounded and completely smooth. I couldn't see any openings or interruptions in it's smooth, Grey-black metallic surface. The lights were white, orange, red, green and blue and very bright. They weren't inset nor did they protrude. They seemed to be a part of the underneath, which appeared to be almost fluid, like mercury.

As I slowed down to a stop in the middle of the street, it suddenly rotated and then moved up and across the street at an angle. It was moving slowly enough that I could almost keep up with it, but I lost sight of it as I turned the corner. Just past the corner there was a small group of people running toward the next corner. One of the men yelled to me, "Did you see it?" I answered, "Yes!" He replied, "That was a freakin' spaceship!"

After slowing down at the stop sign, I followed the streets around toward my house and, as I turned back onto my street, I saw that it was moving right in front of me. It was then that I realized that my heart was pounding so hard that I could actually hear it. Then I noticed that the craft was going straight toward my house, but, for some reason, I wasn't afraid. I was in awe of it's enormous size and the fact that I was witnessing something so spectacular! As I approached my house, I realized that it had stopped again, this time just past my house, as if it was waiting for me. I pulled into the driveway and started honking the horn for my daughter to come outside and see it. I jumped out of the car and just as I was turning to run inside, it rotated and then darted over the trees, up and away so fast that it disappeared completely within a second. I was almost to the front door when I realized that I forgot to turn the car off or even shut the door. My purse was still inside it so I ran back, gathered my things, turned the engine off and ran inside to tell my daughter. I'm still not sure if she believed me, even though my heart was still pounding really fast and hard and I was talking so fast she could barely understand me. I went back outside to see if the other people who saw it were still heading down toward my house, but they were gone. I couldn't find them and I don't know which house they lived in or if they were even ne! ighbors or visitors. I couldn't imagine going door to door asking if anyone had seen the UFO. I did ask my immediate neighbors but they were either gone or not looking outside at the time it appeared. I later watched the local news but there was no mention of it.

It was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my life! It was not any kind of aircraft I have ever seen. I have been online reading about new aircraft designs all day and can't find anything that looks in any way like what I saw. I also can't find any articles about aircraft that have been developed to move the way this space craft did; nothing that rotates before it moves away or hovers, even though it was as big as three large houses. It was totally silent and very fluid in it's movements. It really doesn't matter to me if anyone else believes that I saw a UFO because I know what I saw and it wasn't of this earth.

As I think back about the incident, I realize that I was drawn to it in a strange way. The fear I expected to have was non-existent and was replaced by excitement and awe. I almost didn't have a choice of whether I drove away from it or straight toward it and, when it was gone, I somehow knew it wasn't coming back anytime soon. I didn't even think about driving around looking for it to appear somewhere else because I just knew it was gone. I had seen what I was supposed to see. It had fulfilled it's mission. Those were the feelings it left me with. But why did I need to see it? What happened to the other people I spoke to? They ran about a half mile from where I first saw them and yet, when I went back outside less than a minute later, they were gone. Where did they go? Isn't it human nature to stand around talking about something so unusual? Yet none of this seemed strange to me two nights ago when it happened. This has changed me forever. Even though I've always believed t! here is life on other planets, this made it much more real than I could have imagined!

Posted 2011-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83320
Occurred: 2011-08-20 22:30 Local
Reported: 2011-08-20 22:14 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 min
No of observers: 5

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Light


While driving along road I noticed a grouping of lights, ahead were a couple cars with hazards on,pulled to side with the others witnessing same thing. There was a group oh maybe two dozen or so small but bright white lights that were sort of swirling around another stationary light that was more orange and maybe three times the size of the others.the smaller lights swirled the larger one for a few minutes and then broke away from it left a few at a time slithering across the sky after each other in a snake like motion.the small lights followed one another but still moved around randomly. Organic movements no sharp angles or major speed variations. It was a clear night and lights were very very high up.

Posted 2011-08-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80763
Occurred: 2011-03-27 22:59 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2011-04-05 13:36 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

My eyes had blurred after and my voice slurred.

I could not sleep at night, watching movies, then a small flash in the sky occurred.

It changed yellow to green.

THERE WAS NO PLANES AROUND AT ALL.

NIGHT




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2011-05-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79312
Occurred: 2010-12-20 04:00 Local
Reported: 2010-12-20 03:12 Pacific
Duration: many hours
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

weird aircraft over independence missouri

My brother in law works at the mall over night and he was the one who noticed it at first. He notices it around 4 a.m. and it has been going on for quite some time, over a hour as of now. When first glance at the weird aircraft it was red. Then it changed colors, it would go from white to green. Then two little white objects flew around it and disappeared into the bigger object. My husband and I also witnessed it and we saw the colors change. We saw that it was moving up and down and from side to side and the lights were pulsating. Unfortunately it is dark outside so we cant tell for sure the actual shape and size and our camera wouldn't pick it up. By the way it changed colors and how it moved it could not have been a satellite or an air plane. We just don't know what it could be.



Posted 2011-01-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76873
Occurred: 2010-07-23 20:00 Local
Reported: 2010-07-30 03:08 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, OR, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Left a trail

Rocket-like craft with centered- tail- trail over Willamette Valley, Oregon

It was a clear, still-light, evening. I was out watering the yard & caught sight of movement in the sky. Very high, but not as high as the commercial airliners, was a craft moving very quick across the sky. At times it glinted in the sunlight...shining as if shiney silver, but too high to make out shape. It had a tail coming out the center end (directly behind), white...but the tail dissipated (unlike the commercial jets that leave a white trail in the sky..that comes from both sides, behind the wings). The tail was about 7 times the length of the vehicle. I have seen satellites, the space station in orbit...this was not like anything I've seen....easily visible. It kept a straight path and steady speed...disappearing at the horizon. This was not an airplane..it had more of a rocket-like shape. There was NO sound at all...when it's quiet I can hear the commercial jets sometimes...& I heard nothing.



Posted 2010-08-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75727
Occurred: 2010-06-08 18:50 Local
Reported: 2010-06-08 19:44 Pacific
Duration: five minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, OH, USA

Shape: Changing


The object changed shape and moved slowly and eratically

I saw an object that I mistook for a very high flying , large bird . It appeared to be drifting on the wind current . The object began to change shape and spread out a bit . It appeared to be about half the size of the sun . It appeared to me to be about twice to three times as high and a large bird would ever fly .

The speed at which the object was moving appeared to be 50 percent faster then a hot air ballon . It moved from one course to a new course at about a 45 degree angle difference .

The top portion seemed to be a large circular , black , dual basketball shape attached to a cube with a rectangle coming off of that . Then the object changed to the shape of a zeppelin and became more metallic and shiny in appearance .

It went behind the trees and out of my view then . There was no sound , no lights , no gondola .

I originally saw the object with my naked eye and then after about two minutes I went in the house and came back out with some binoculars .

There is a NASA center within 15 miles of my house . However , this object was not a plain , or any type of aircraft that I’ve ever seen or heard of .

I saw an object that I mistook for a very high flying , large bird . It appeared to be drifting on the wind current . The object began to change shape and spread out a bit . It appeared to be about half the size of the sun . It appeared to me to be about twice to three times as high and a large bird would ever fly .

The speed at which the object was moving appeared to be 50 percent faster then a hot air ballon . It moved from one course to a new course at about a 45 degree angle difference .

The top portion seemed to be a large circular , black , dual basketball shape attached to a cube with a rectangle coming off of that . Then the object changed to the shape of a zeppelin and became more metallic and shiny in appearance .

It went behind the trees and out of my view then . There was no sound , no lights , no gondola .

I originally saw the object with my naked eye and then after about two minutes I went in the house and came back out with some binoculars .

There is a NASA center within 15 miles of my house . However , this object was not a plain , or any type of aircraft that I’ve ever seen or heard of .



Posted 2010-06-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 74988
Occurred: 2010-04-09 18:30 Local
Reported: 2010-04-12 10:22 Pacific
Duration: 20 secs
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

7 to 10 lights in the sky an hour before sunset. Way high in the sky moving really fast. First few lights were white followed by green lights with an occasional yellow light and finished with 2 green lights. Too far apart to belong to one vehicle. I estimate 5 mile plus or minus separation between lights and maybe they were at airliner altitude. No falling arc, no sparking like a falling star. Just lights in the sky moving very fast in a flat plane straight west. I estimate that due to location in the sky, they would have actually flown over south Kansas City, MO. Total viewing period was approx. 20 seconds and occurred over a 60 degree field of vision. Both witnesses were left wondering exactly what we saw. Viewing took place in a Sam's Club parking lot looking directly south. Didn't notice anyone else reacting as if they saw it too. Have seen NO report in the local press, of course!

Posted 2010-04-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70411
Occurred: 2009-06-07 21:30 Local
Reported: 2009-06-08 21:28 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

bright red light with white belly

Around approx 9:30 pm ES, I was putting yard tools away when I noticed a bright red light in the sky. We see planes all of the time, so I thought that was what it was at first glance, but when I turned around, it wasn’t. By what we could only describe as a red light, with a little white light on the bottom, was going diagonally across the sky in a north western direction (very uncommon for out weather patterns around here). I took a picture of the light, and when we looked at it later and zoomed in, it actually looks like multiple lights in no particular pattern. We just wanted to bring this to someone else’s attention, we thought it was awful unusual and none of the news stations caught it either. The more I look at the picture, the more curious I am as to what we saw. As for our UFO history, we have none. We have seen strange things before, but never quite like this. My husband is a firefighter and I am a stay at home mom, that does hair for friends on the side. We have NO background as to know what this was.

Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67979
Occurred: 2008-12-13 11:35 Local
Reported: 2009-01-12 09:49 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Orb


Huge Black disk over Independece, strange lights, and strange events since sighting.

At 11:35 PM I walked my two daughters to their cars outside my house after a party and we stood talking for a few minutes while Rachel got in her car. Rachel, age 30, saw a very large shooting star to the West, then a brightly lit "cloud" above the same area to the West of our location at approximately 60 degrees from the horizon. She pointed to the cloud and followed it heading North. The full moon was out, the cloud ceiling was low and it was windy. The scattered clouds were moving very fast. It was easy to see the sky, stars, moon, and clouds. At that point, at approximately 11:40 PM, Maria and I both saw a large black round disk-shaped object that appeared to be on it side (top or bottom facing us). The size was larger than a dessert plate held at arm's length. It was moving slowly from Southeast to Northwest along the bottom of the cloud ceiling, and moving slower than the clouds, which were clipping along at a fast pace. It was very windy. The full moon shone brightly and I assume that is the only reason we could see the object. There were no visible lights on the object. Maria, age 32, saw this at the same time I did, but Rachel did not, even though she was looking in the same area. After a few seconds, the object changed to a gray color, then just vanished. I then said outloud "We want to see evidence of any persons not of this world" and all of us looked in the same direction where the black object had been and I was pointing. Right after I said this a shooting star appeared in that same spot. Then we saw lots of shooting stars all around the sky (probably a meteor shower). Rachel left for home.

Maria got in her Suburban to leave, but I noticed a bunch of tiny twinkling lights above the center of the hood of her vehicle appear for 2 seconds, then they disappeared. I was looking at this area trying to figure out what the lights were when I noticed a reflection of a rectangular light that came on then blinked off on her hood. Maria got out of the car and the light appeared again. I soon figured out that it was blinking on and off every 25 seconds, so we knew it had to be something mechanical. Being square was odd, though. So she turned off her car and I turned off all the lights in and outside the house in order to see if we could identify the source of the light. It continued to blink on and off, being an amber color, white, or blue at different times. There were two spots close together where the lights appeared. We could not locate the source. We tried blocking the lights out with our hands, and checked the trees moving in the wind that might be blocking or unblocking lights. The one light continued to blink off and on at regular intervals of 25 seconds. The only reflection of light on the hood that we could identify was the moon, which was in a different location from the blinking lights. Then I realized something and said "OMG" - and Maria finished my sentence with "It's something we can't see and it's above us." I ran inside and grabbed my video camera which I had charged up the night before and it went dead after 3 seconds. Maria got her Sony digital camera out of the car and video-taped and took photos of the car and in the sky above us. Note: The photos came out very dark and smudgy. I got the night vision monocular out but could see nothing. I then saw a tiny orb appear inside Maria's vehicle, then disappear. I fully expected to see a ship hoovering right above us! We could feel the presence of something. Then, 45 minutes after starting, the lights stopped at approximately 12:35 AM. Since this date, strange things have been happening around my house and my psychic abiliti! es have improved, almost to the point of being annoying. I see a golden glow around all living things, and this is rather distracting. Also see details in energy fields around humans. Received a vision on the morning of Dec 25 with symbols I did not recognize but later found out that they are the Mayan numbering system. There is more, but I don't have room to put it all down here.



Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 65540
Occurred: 2008-08-07 23:20 Local
Reported: 2008-09-03 18:56 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

bright round object on dark fairly clear night spotted by nonbeliever that faded into the dark

It was a mostly clear night. I was pulling into my driveway and noticed a light in the sky out my window. I originally thought it was a glare off my window. I rolled down the window and it was still there. The silo of the barn came between myself and the light. I parked, got out, and moved to get a better look. A cloud had come in front of the object and because there was no wind it stayed there. The light faded behind the cloud and eventually disappeared. The object never appeared to move except when it faded.

That was one of very few clouds in the sky. The light was white and fairly bright. It was round in shape. It was not a plane; it was too big. I would guess around a sixth of the size of the moon. I do not believe in aliens but I have never seen anything like it. I have never drank or done drugs. I’m reporting this in case others saw the same thing.

Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 60504
Occurred: 2007-12-15 21:30 Local
Reported: 2007-12-26 09:02 Pacific
Duration: 3 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Two red lights that changed colors and began swirling around over tree tops

I was sitting on my porch with my wife and off to the SW I noticed two red lights side by over the tree tops. They were parallel with each other for a few seconds then began swirling around and changing colors from green to yellow ( not a bright yellow thow) then back to red. The whole incident lasted a few of minutes. They disappeared behind the tree line.



Posted 2008-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 59068
Occurred: 2007-09-27 20:23 Local
Reported: 2007-10-03 11:37 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Unknown


Fast bright object over Independence, MO

My daughter, Maria and I went outside my house last night at 8:23 PM and noticed a bright white fast-moving object came into view at about 45 degrees up from the horizon and moved swiftly across the sky from West to NNE. It was the brightness of Sirius or maybe brighter, and the size of half of an eraser head at arm's length - close to the size of Venus. I could not tell what the distance from earth was, but it was high up at the altitude I would expect to see a satellite at. The object changed trajectory at 80 degrees to a more NE direction. It was at that point that I said maybe it was not a satellite - it then faded slowly and moved UP and it was gone at about 110 degrees or so. The entire sighting lasted maybe 20 seconds. We both came away with the idea that it did not look like a satellite or a plane, and by going up and away, this would indicate something else.



Posted 2007-10-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66924
Occurred: 2007-02-01 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-11-15 16:54 Pacific
Duration: 30-45 secs
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, OH, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Huge dark triangle-shaped craft 100 yards wide, 3 white non-blinking lights (1 at each point) gliding silently from south to north.

I am a hospice RN and at the time of my sighting I was an on-call home visit RN, coming home from making a home visit on the east side of Cleveland, OH. It was in February, 2007 at approximately 2-2:30 a.m.

There was snow on the ground and I remember bright conditions, like moonlight reflecting off the snow making the night seem lighter than normal for that time of night. I was driving south on I-77, just north of the Pleasant Valley Road exit. My car window was cracked open because I am a smoker and I was flicking ashes out the window. I had the car radio on, but it was not turned up loud and there was no music on---my habit at that time of night was to listen to talk radio.

There were not many cars on the highway with me and I do not remember any cars near me traveling in my direction close to me. I was focused up ahead as I was nearing the exit. There were fairly dense trees to my right off the road. I sensed movement overhead and looked up through my front windshield and just slightly to my right.

I saw a huge dark triangular shape with red non-blinking lights gliding silently over the treetops, traveling north but almost as if it were following I-77 northbound (but next to the southbound lanes). It was not directly overhead, but no more than maybe 20-30 feet to my right. I could clearly see the outline of the craft and remember thinking it was not an airplane. I also made note of the fact that the lights were solid and not blinking. I put my window all the way down and could not hear anything---it was completely silent. I estimate the craft to be about 100 yards across at the widest part. It was clearly outlined against the moonlit sky. It did not look metallic from my angle; I had the sense that it was black.

I turned my attention to the road ahead and drove as quickly as I could to the curving exit ramp. As I came around the curve of the ramp, I was going to end up facing north. I looked in the direction I had seen the craft and (as large as it was) I expected to see the back end of it. I could not locate the craft again and assumed the tree tops were in my way.

I looked in the paper and online after my sighting, hoping to see reports of other sightings, but I found nothing. For a long time I just felt satisfied that I knew what I saw and it was nothing I had ever seen. After almost 2 years, I’ve decided I want to report my sighting to SOMEONE just so my sighting is documented somewhere. I’m not saying it was extraterrestrial, but it definitely was a UFO because I could not identify it, it was definitely flying, and it was an object. Could it have been a stealth bomber? My instincts tell me that a stealth bomber is not 100 yards wide, but I have no idea.


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NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD))


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45168
Occurred: 2005-07-15 00:00 Local
Reported: 2005-07-19 15:00 Pacific
Duration: unknown
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Unknown


UFO over skylight controls radio- possible visitation.

Around 11:30 pm on July 15, 2005 I heard strange noises in the house. I was watching watching T.V. at the time. My husband was out of town and I was alone in the house. At first I thought the cats were in the house and were playing and running around. But then I looked outside and they were on the porch sleeping. Then I heard loud thumping sounds coming from my bedroom overhead, like someone was walking in heavy boots and making noise on purpose. A few seconds later, I heard the side patio door open and close twice. I turned off the T.V. and went to investigate and when I did I noticed a low-level mechanical humming sound that seemed to have no source. The side door was locked from the inside, so no one could have opened it, yet I clearly heard the door open. I decided to double check the doors and go to bed and listen to Coast to Coast AM to hear Peter Davenport.

While lying in bed I looked up at the skylight and noticed that it was completely black outside. There was no rain that night, and even with clouds you can always see some light from the street light across the street. I remember thinking that was odd. I was listening intently as Peter came on and was talking about the recent sighting in Idaho on July 8. I remember looking at the clock at approximately 12:45 AM. I don't remember going to sleep, but the next thing I knew the radio was on very loud and the clock said 1:30 PM, and I had missed hearing the witnesses talk about their experience. I don't have an explanation as to how the radio got so loud. I turned the radio off, then looked up and saw that the skylight was not black anymore, and had the familiar bluish glow from the streetlight again. The low humming sound was also gone. I have no idea what happened. I believe that I had a missing time experience, and that something or someone did not want me to hear the radio, but also wanted to get my attention. They did. Was this an abduction or a visitation? I may need to be hypnotized to find out.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 43747
Occurred: 2005-05-01 06:20 Local
Reported: 2005-05-01 11:46 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, KY, USA

Shape: Other


stationary disk-like object seen near I-75/Independence, KY

While driving to work I noticed a metallic object hovering in the sky about 1/2 mile or less away. It was somewhat disk shaped but with a tall dome or arch on top. It was silent and totally still.

I drove towards it to see if it was a helicopter- it wasn't. It was totally silent, no lights of any kind and I was close enough to confirm that it was nothing familiar.

It flew so smooth, like glass. I watched it from a parking lot and attempted to get pictures on my cell phone, but the resolution was too poor. It started to get smaller (moving away) so I drove after it.

I pulled into another parking lot about 1/4 mile away and watched it until it got real small (and I was going to be late to work). It was heading to the Southeast I belive and must have been going pretty fast.

The weirdest thing is that the object had at least two bent poles or "arms" coming off the sides like the probes on a space shuttle. As the object got farther away it appeared more round like a dark ball. I am positive of what I saw.

Posted 2005-05-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44156
Occurred: 2005-01-15 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-05-27 21:26 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, KS, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

weird

it was friday 2005 jan 11:00 pm it was a unknown shape it seem to change shape it flashed like a ball of fire and peices droped off it. It flew back and forth like no other aircraft, then it would slow down and speed up



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that precise date of the event in January 2005 is unknown. PD


Posted 2017-07-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67003
Occurred: 2004-09-15 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-11-19 11:37 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Observed triangular object moving over house.

I am submitting this now because I just came across this site. The date is approximate as I remember the time of year because I had just finished building a deck on the rear of my home and that was in mid-September of 2004. I am a high school debate teacher and had only started school a few weeks earlier, so that also reminds me of the approximate date. But I cannot recall the exact date at this time.

I woke up around 1:00 in the morning for no particular reason and could not fall back asleep. After sitting in the living room for a bit, I decided to go out on my deck to have a cigarette.

It was a completely clear night. I do not recall if there was a moon or not. As I was smoking, I spent time just staring up at the stars. I am not much for astronomy, but there was nothing else to really do and I was trying to get myself back into a mode for sleep.

I first noticed something in the sky to the west of my home. I was sitting in the back of the house which faces northeast. I had been sitting outside for about 20 minutes at this point. I did not identify what I saw as an "object" at first. There was a triangular shape, but my first thought was that it was a flock of Canadian geese. I continued to watch only because it was something to look at. The shape continued to come slowly from the west heading roughly southwest at what seemed to be a rather slow pace.

After what felt like less than 5 minutes of watching, the shape was pretty much directly over the back yard of my neighbor to the immediate west. This is where I had my first impression that what I was looking at wasn't a flock of geese.

First, as it was coming toward my yard, it seemed far too rigid lines to be geese. The shape seemed fairly low to the ground too. I estimate it was no higher than 1000 ft, but likely less. As the shape moved over into my yard, I noticed that the stars didn't seem "right" between the two lines of the "V" shape. By that I mean they seemed a bit fuzzier and dimmed.

What really convinced me that I was not seeing geese was when I noticed a straight line connecting the two ends at the rear of the "V" shape, making it a triangle. As I tried to "come to grips" with what my brain was saying I was seeing, I also noticed a strange distortion along the outer edges of the triangular object. I would best describe it as being like the heat waves one sees coming off of hot pavement. This distortion was visible on all three sides, but I am not sure I would have noticed it if the sky hadn't been so clear otherwise.

There were no noticable lights coming from the object and absolutely no sound. Any other time I have seen geese flying in a "V" formation, I recall usually eventually hearing a goose call or two as they fly overhead. Here, it was total silence.

The object continued to move in a straight line to to the southwest. As the object moved past my yard I could no longer see the outer edge distortion, however there were still three distinct sides to the object. After about a total of 10 minutes or so of viewing the object was out of sight again.


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NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD))


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34035
Occurred: 2003-12-20 17:15 Local
Reported: 2003-12-21 12:20 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects

5 amber ufos were flying in weird formations over our heads.

my friend and me witnessed 4 or 5 ufos shaped like cones without points.

one traveled right over us. the object blinked a redish light. all the objects seemed to have an amber aoura around them. the object that passed above us had emitted a smaller bright object. two of the objects dissapeard from view and another traveled over a convenience store further down the road, we ran down the road but the time we got there the object was gone. before that we saw the same object flt in a strange formation.



Posted 2004-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32840
Occurred: 2003-10-11 22:40 Local
Reported: 2003-11-03 13:37 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

UFO with black exhaust sighted in Independence, MO Oct. 11, 2003

The night sky was overcast with an odd low greenish haze/fog with the full bright moon shining through it evenly all over the sky. It was bright enough to be able to see well enough to walk without a flashlight. It was not raining and the temperature was cool. I noticed an uneven break in the clouds at about 75 degrees from the horizon and pointed it out to my brother and daughter who were with me. We noted that there was a very dark black cloud right behind this light area, and no other dark clouds in the sky. The object moved from South to North very slowly but the bright light did not change shape, so I began to suspect that we were not looking at a break in the clouds at all, but rather a craft of some sort with a round half moon shape with fog concealing it. The black cloud did change shape constantly and looked like some type of exhaust, but it stayed right behind the bright object. At one point, I could see stars behind both the black and white areas at the same time. It was very large - the size of a lunch plate held at arm's length. No sound was heard by any of us. We watched it for about 10 minutes until it dissapeared from sight. It is hard to explain, but I "felt" that it was a very large craft that might have been transparent with a black exhaust coming from it. I would be very interested in finding out if anyone else saw this. It is interesting to note that I drove my brother home right after this incident and after only 10 minutes we saw that the entire sky was free of any fog,haze or clouds, and the full moon was out. I wonder if the UFO caused the fog in order to conceal itself. I have no photos as I knew they would not come out, but I could do a drawing of it if desired.



Posted 2003-11-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 20031
Occurred: 2001-10-31 20:30 Local
Reported: 2001-10-31 21:01 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

orange and blue streak of light going from east to west very low. if it was a meteorite it was very low and very bright. and 8:30 pm was aprox. we have a 6'X4' skylight in living room and we were watching tv and the full moon was begining to rise. My wife saw it first and I looked up just in time to see it streak by. I ran and looked out the west window but saw nothing.

Posted 2001-11-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18306
Occurred: 2001-07-04 19:30 Local
Reported: 2001-07-04 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 sec.
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was in the presence of an "aluminum" looking triangle "aircraft" that was very loud, moved very smoothly and ws flying very low .

At 7:30 pm on the 4th of July, it was still very light - I was in my back yard and heard a very loud, low "jet aircraft" sound. I was startled as it seemed very low, very close and very loud. The sound "appeared" immediately before the sighting. I looked up and saw it coming into my view over the tree tops, it passed over my head and watched it "fly" out of sight. It never hovered and it was not moving at an abnormally fast speed and the movement was very smooth. For as loud and large as it was, it didn't seem to be going very fast. The sighting took about 15 sec. It was in the shape of a triangle - a "brushed aluminum" looking material - with 2 flashing red lights on the tip of the "wings". It was moving forward. It had a wide "acoridan" design on the underside. It was a very "strange" experience and I "knew" immediately that I had just seen something very unusual. Background: I have recently moved to the midwest from Houston, I am a middleclass, white female, mother and grandmother, single and am totally sane and have never seen anything "unusual" before no have no desire to go looking for unusual people or things or to have contact with "aliens". But I DO believe I saw something that is NOT a US aircraft.

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18123
Occurred: 2001-06-21 00:00 Local
Reported: 2001-06-21 00:00 Pacific
Duration: traces


Location: Independence, VA, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Landed

crop circles, Independence Virginia.....just outside of Dublin, Virginia.



NUFORC Note:

We will attempt to obtain more information. We would welcome other reports. PD


Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17616
Occurred: 2001-05-02 07:27 Local
Reported: 2001-05-12 00:00 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

silver, going fast,lights coming out of the bottom, bridge going around the middle

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 56025
Occurred: 2001-01-30 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-03-31 03:56 Pacific
Duration: 20-30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Independence, KS, USA

Shape: Light


Giant white 'Sparkler' wedged in tree during snowstorm

Sorry, I don’t remember the exact date because this happened about 5 years ago… I was driving along the road around the lake near Independence, Kansas, about 10pm or so. It was snowing steadily. I was looking for a place to park and sleep as the next day I wanted to track deer in the new fallen snow. There were no other tracks in the snow, so I am sure I was the only person to witness this event.

As I passed along the edge of the lake (about 100 yards from the road, right on the shore of the lake), I saw a very bright white light in the upper branches of a tree (maybe 25-30 feet off the ground) across the field. The trees, of course, were bare at that time of year, so I could plainly see the branches both in front of and behind whatever this thing was due to the light. I first thought that it must be a broken power line due to the heavy snow, but I couldn’t see any power line. It wasn’t moving at all, just flashing in the same position in the tree. I only saw a brilliant white light flashing intensely, very similar to a 4th of July sparkler. I didn’t see any flame or sign of fire, which was strange as it seemed to be lodged in the tree branches somehow. I would say the whole ‘thing’ was about the size of a basketball or slightly larger.

I drove down the road and managed to turn around. I came back and stopped the car (same position as before) to watch the light. Finally, after about 10 minutes, I decided to investigate. I opened the car door, felt the cold air, and quickly reconsidered. I was either too lazy or scared to hike over the snowy field to get a better look. I regret that to this day, because later I found out there was no power line along the side of the lake. I didn't return the next day to investigate either...




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2007-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12882
Occurred: 2000-05-13 22:00 Local
Reported: 2000-05-15 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 8 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

silent triangle flyover multiple landing lights

Dark triangle, with about eight landing lights spanning about one third of the way back of each leading edge, heading from west to east and a little south. About eight seconds within sight, silent but could hear a faint aircraft sound far to southwest. Witness 1 is an ex Kansas City Aviation Dept. employee, has flown small aircraft, object seemed to fly at about stall speed but no visual reference to determine altitude or speed. If they were landing lights I would guess altitude to be appx 3000ft and size of the object to be appx. the size of a 707.Witness 2 has seen stealth bombers in the air many times (he worked at Whiteman Airforce Base) says the object was not a stealth bomber.

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NUFORC Note:

We highlight this case because we spoke at length with the witness, who is quite experienced in the aviation field. He is quite familiar with all types of aircraft, and he reports that the object witnessed was like no aircraft he has ever witnessed before.)


Posted 2000-06-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 10059
Occurred: 1999-10-01 22:05 Local
Reported: 1999-10-02 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object

Looked up an saw tiny points of light creating the shape of a Chevron.

Came home from a Royals game. Husband putting car in garage. Stopped to look at stars. Movement caught my attention. Moving from SW to NE, I I noticed (I am assuming), a single object, the shape of which was a chevron and formed by golden lights. The lights were bright at the leading edge and decreased in intensity as they went toward the rear, with the midsection being totally dark. The sky was perfectly clear. I could not tell if I was looking at a solid stucture or the sky through the lights. I thought I heard a very faint hum, like an electrical transformer, but I cant be sure. ............... ................... ... ... .... .... Sort of looked like this, but several hundred lights, and the midsection dark. There is no way to tell how high it was, but I got the impression it was lower than a conventional aircraft would be over a populated area. It measure approximately 3 or so inches at arms length. I see there is another report from Independence. Id like to talk to whoever made it. I will e-mail Mr. Davenport and give permission to pass on my e-mail address.

Posted 1999-10-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 9510
Occurred: 1999-09-01 23:30 Local
Reported: 1999-09-02 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 5

Location: Independence, MO, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Aircraft in formation

Peter: I am writing on behalf of the fireball tonight. Tonight while out on the lawn, myself and 4 other neighbors witnessed flashing aircraft lights heading east. The aircraft appeared to be flying in a formation. There were three total, and the aircraft appeared to be within yards of each other. 2 in the front side by side, and one following. It could not have been personal aircrafts or commercial aircrafts flying so close together. It is not normal to see military aircraft in our area, and myself and my neighbors were wondering why they were out flying in formation. Could they have been patrolling the area after the reported sightings tonight? I hope one of Art's listeners comes foward with video of this object. My information may not be f value, but I thought it was worth submitting. I never see military aircraft in our area. Keep up the good work!

Posted 1999-09-12