1972-06-22 - Oregon City, OR - Triangle

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))

Triangular-Rounded Edges-Very Black-Rimmed evenly with small lights and unevenly on its underside.

Im only reporting this because on the front page of your web-site... a sighting(Triangular Object...) reported by a witness in San Diego California(apr 27,2001/23:00pm) was almost exactly the experience that i had!. (Story): A school friend and i camped outside(after the last day of high-school exams) in the backyard at his parents place...my friend was listening to a recorded tape of a football game from the previous afternoon. I didn't care to listen to it so i positioned myself so that half of me was outside the tent(laying down on my back). I folded my hands behind my head and looked upward's into the clear night sky to look at the stars(amazingly... at that time in Edmonton... one could still see the stars at night). After a short while(30 to 60 minutes)... i saw something very odd and striking directly above me... very high in the sky. It was very Black...very clearly Triangular...with rounded edges, not sharp or pointed edges. Because i could make out evenly spaced lights all around the triangular circumference of the object, i could see that it had rounded edges... and interspersed within its shape was a limited assortement of lights with no pattern or organization. All the lights were white(no-colors)...and perhap's a little less brighter than the star-light( it blended almost perfectly into the black starry sky). Like the other witness said... if he hadn't been directly looking at that exact position in the sky he probably would have missed it...this was the same for me... i was afraid that if i took my eyes off of it... that i might lose sight of it( the lights of the ship blended with the stars making it hard to see). It indeed was stealthy and hard to keep track of visually. It was without any sound at all!. At that moment my friend's dog which was inside the tent with him went absolutelely berserk...barking like mad...(the dog was quiet all evening)...I quickley got up off the ground to stand up to track it as it moved at a startling speed(no jet travels that fast...ever!) from the ! north-we st to the south-east in a straight line towards the horizion where the very 1st indications of the next morning's sunrise glow was just barely dicernable. As i got up i had only enough time to call out my friend's name 3-4 times to get him to come out of the tent to see the object with me before it was gone altogether!. He didn't even have a chance to come out... this whole scenario was over with in less than 10 second's... his dog returned to his normal quiet self!. Correctly or Incorrectly i evaluated this object as being very large... i thought that it must be approximately a half a mile to a mile long... it did not look like it was small at all!. At this moment i would not care to be contacted by phone... however E-mail would be alright with me.