More Memphis UFOs-- confirmed by investigator as unidentified.
Saw first craft at 8:52pm. It was silver in color, cigar-shaped. It had no contrail and was flying much higher than an airplane, but you could tell it was much larger than an airplane and had no wings. It seemed smooth. At times the silvery color appeared whiter or lighter in areas, but did not seem to be light, more the metal itself reflecting light? That's a guess. We watched it fly from West to East over a period of about 2 minutes or so. It was long enough to watch it slowly glide out of sight.
At 8:03pm, I saw a solid black object in the sky. At first I thought it was just a black bird because they are usually flying around, but I noticed it wasn't moving or if it was moving, it was coming straight at me. Regardless, it was not fluttering about like a bird. I watched it for a second, my girlfriend was on the balcony during all of this and I pointed it out. She doesn't see as well as I do and I watched it get much closer before she was able to see it. It was so far away or so high in the sky that I couldn't even make out a definite shape to this object. Briefly, I thought I saw what appeared to be a triangle, but this object was sitting upright. When it got to it's closest point near us, we could both clearly tell it was moving, rotating. It would rotate around and turn itself as it was rotating. I hope that's clear. At some point, it curved off and started heading East (from the South). Neither one of us could make out what shape this thing was. It was! a solid upright object, not like the longer, more horizontal cigar-shaped object. In the dropdown list before filling this out, I looked to see if any of those may have described it: like I said, it looked at some point to have at least a triangular edge to it, so it could have been "diamond" shaped, but I'm not entirely certain, but that's the best way to describe at least the edge I did see and the mass of the object itself. This object appeared to have a haziness around it. At it's closest point to us, it was probably about the size of my pinky nail if my arm was stretched out. It was small, but very far and very high. It stood out like a sore thumb because it was solid black on a light blue sky. You couldn't miss it. This one also moved much slower in comparison to the silver cigar-shaped object, which it probably why it appeared to be standing still when I first saw it. Also, this thing came pretty much out of nowhere. I don't know if I ever mention that, but! the same for the cigar-shaped objects. We suddenly just see ! them and then watch as they glide away. We never see them come INTO view. They are just suddenly there.
Since we have frequently been seeing this, we contacted MUFON locally and I was contacted by an investigator. While witnessing what I described above, I called the investigator. He called me back later and it turned out he witnessed the exact same object I saw first-- the cigar-shaped one, heading the same direction, etc. If it's any help to gauge the size of this object, he lives approximately 2-3 miles from me. He mentioned that it was not an airplane, had no contrail, etc etc etc and ultimately it could not be identified.
((NUFORC Note: Student report. One of several from the same source. PD))
Saw first craft at 8:52pm. It was silver in color, cigar-shaped. It had no contrail and was flying much higher than an airplane, but you could tell it was much larger than an airplane and had no wings. It seemed smooth. At times the silvery color appeared whiter or lighter in areas, but did not seem to be light, more the metal itself reflecting light? That's a guess. We watched it fly from West to East over a period of about 2 minutes or so. It was long enough to watch it slowly glide out of sight.
At 8:03pm, I saw a solid black object in the sky. At first I thought it was just a black bird because they are usually flying around, but I noticed it wasn't moving or if it was moving, it was coming straight at me. Regardless, it was not fluttering about like a bird. I watched it for a second, my girlfriend was on the balcony during all of this and I pointed it out. She doesn't see as well as I do and I watched it get much closer before she was able to see it. It was so far away or so high in the sky that I couldn't even make out a definite shape to this object. Briefly, I thought I saw what appeared to be a triangle, but this object was sitting upright. When it got to it's closest point near us, we could both clearly tell it was moving, rotating. It would rotate around and turn itself as it was rotating. I hope that's clear. At some point, it curved off and started heading East (from the South). Neither one of us could make out what shape this thing was. It was! a solid upright object, not like the longer, more horizontal cigar-shaped object. In the dropdown list before filling this out, I looked to see if any of those may have described it: like I said, it looked at some point to have at least a triangular edge to it, so it could have been "diamond" shaped, but I'm not entirely certain, but that's the best way to describe at least the edge I did see and the mass of the object itself. This object appeared to have a haziness around it. At it's closest point to us, it was probably about the size of my pinky nail if my arm was stretched out. It was small, but very far and very high. It stood out like a sore thumb because it was solid black on a light blue sky. You couldn't miss it. This one also moved much slower in comparison to the silver cigar-shaped object, which it probably why it appeared to be standing still when I first saw it. Also, this thing came pretty much out of nowhere. I don't know if I ever mention that, but! the same for the cigar-shaped objects. We suddenly just see ! them and then watch as they glide away. We never see them come INTO view. They are just suddenly there.
Since we have frequently been seeing this, we contacted MUFON locally and I was contacted by an investigator. While witnessing what I described above, I called the investigator. He called me back later and it turned out he witnessed the exact same object I saw first-- the cigar-shaped one, heading the same direction, etc. If it's any help to gauge the size of this object, he lives approximately 2-3 miles from me. He mentioned that it was not an airplane, had no contrail, etc etc etc and ultimately it could not be identified.
((NUFORC Note: Student report. One of several from the same source. PD))
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Memphis
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35.12
-89.94
other
TN
Occurred : 7/23/2011 20:52 (Entered as : 07/23/2011 20:52) Reported: 7/25/2011 11:33:05 PM 23:33 Posted: 8/7/2011 Location: Memphis, TN Shape: Other Duration: 15 minutes Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object
More Memphis UFOs-- confirmed by investigator as U/I. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. One of several from the same source. PD))