2003-08-23 - Sedona, AZ - Oval

Dark stationary craft - hovering at about 1000 feet

Attn: Peter Davenport
Subject: UFO
Sighting Area: Village of Oak Creek (VOC), Sedona AZ

Dear Peter, (being I am 72-years of age I will address you as Peter instead of Mr. Davenport.)

This sighting took place in 2003 (the exact day is unknown but I believe it was on August 23rd). The sighting was later verified as having been seen by two Mexican laborers I had working on my property.

As you can see by the attached photos (jpegs) of which there are two (2) the sighting was photographed with an old digital camera close by the edge of a street in VOC and shows the same landscape with about a 10-feet difference. I am sending you four jpegs of the sighting of which two are enlargements of the object in question.

For your information, although I would prefer anonymity regarding what I am sending you, my wife and I are known artists, although 30 some years in the past I was, for 14-years, a trained US Army Special Forces NCO and worked in intelligence and communications under the command and control of the CIA. The reason for my telling you this is that if there is an investigation it will not leave you hanging for a response. Also, there is the fact that since 2000 I have video-taped a number of unidentified flying objects in and nearby VOC; but enough of the past as this sighting was accidental as at the time my wife was photographing monsoon clouds to use in her paintings and we did not see the object until the photographs were downloaded onto our computer.

Even then the object was thought to have been a speck of dirt or other material on the lens. It wasn’t until I began enlarging the photographs that I sighted; on the bottom left of the photo a red spot lighted area upon the ground and above, on the top left, a white spot lighted area on a cloud. Reflected sunlight? However, photo nr. two shows, on the bottom left, only a white spotlighted area on the ground. Further enlargements of the black spot (see corresponding formation of sky surrounding the unknown object) piqued my curiosity when it showed an oval object that looks to be a person in side the object, standing before a vertical rectangular object (control board?). I will leave it up to you as to what the object is and, if you find it intriguing, enlarge the object yourself.

As for the Mexican laborers, they told me they had sighted the same object while changing a flat tire on their vehicle. They also stated that the object had then approached and landed upon one of the Mesas in the background shown in my photos. When they returned home and told their families they had been ridiculed so they hadn’t told anyone else other than their employer. Later, while working upon a studio for me I showed the photos to their employer and he then showed it to the two men and they told me that the object was the same one they had sighted. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the two men write down what they had seen and like the unknown day we took the photos I or my wife cannot provide any further information.