2000-01-18 - Dayton township, NV - Oval

((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB near Los Angeles.))

A bright light shone straight out of an object which appeared to be oval and surrounded by a smoke or fog like cloud. The light cut through the fog not unlike a laser light will cut through smoke and catch the eddies. The object made no sound neither when it was coming toward my house nor when it blew up.

At 6:15 PM (1815hrs.) it was dark and clear outside and clearly visable were the moon, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. There was a cloud bank low on the eastern horizon. There were a few intermittant clouds to the northwest of our position as I had been outside doing work since about 6PM (1800hrs.) A strong sideways facing light came toward our house from about the ssw about 500 to 800' off the ground. The ovalish object resembled a helicopter with a bright spot light but the light had a green hue & did not move around. Surrounding the object was a sort of fog or smoke because the light caught the smoke as a laser light catches smoke. The object itself was difficult to see because of the haze surrounding it. The objects light got very bright then dimmed and then the object imploded. It blew up sort of like a sky rocket does and a small ringed cloud appeared where the object was. The light turned bright green and became plasma like but remained stretched straight out and angled at about 45 degrees down toward the ground. The straight green light remained for a good 10 minutes after the object was gone. The cloud which had surrounded the object shrunk in with the light and exploded outwards into a huge cloud. The green light hung in the sky for upwards of 40 minutes after the implosion. The way the light looked was a lot like the norhtern lights but without the pulsating movements. It was straight to begin with, then slowly drifted together and remained noticable for a long time. No sound was heard when the object blew up. No sound was heard when the object was approching my house. I called 911 and they were real excited about it and had the Fallon Naval Air Station on the phone and would know in about an hour. When I called back the military told the police that it was just a titan missle from Vandenberg AFB and it was nothing to worry about. When I mentioned the lack of debris and the fact that an glowing green cloud hung my place for a half an hour or so they said that they were told that there is nothing t! o worry about. The object blew over my house an nothing fell out of the sky. I have never seen anything with no sound blow up and still have no sound. Also, if it is a titan missle shouldn't there be stuff that fell off of it around here? The three observers were myself, my daughter and her friend. I am a substitute school teacher and part-time librarian and my daughter (16) and her friend (17) are in high school in Virginia City, Nevada. We had all just come home from work, rested a bit, then started in on our chores for the evening.