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UFO Magazine Issue # 311, Issue date, 06-16-08
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Possible Abduction of Young Boy in Alaska
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'Little people' e-mail zips through rural Alaska
MIKE DUNHAM / AROUND ALASKA
Published: May 31st, 2008 11:11 PM
An intriguing e-mail hit Bush Alaska in May. In it, a hunter from Marshall recounted how he found a boy alleged to have been abducted by the ircenrraat.
Ircenrraat (singular: ircenrraq; say "irr-chin-hhak" with a harsh hh and you're getting close) are a recurring theme in traditional Yup'ik teachings and legends, "little people" who dwell in the tundra, usually underground. They disorient, discomfort and trap unwary humans.
City folk usually dismiss ircenrraat as superstition. Those who have lived in Yup'ik country for any period of time tend to be a little more inclined to listen. For one thing, the stories are persistent and often come from respectable observers. For another, when you're by yourself in the middle of nowhere, things happen that are hard to explain.
For instance, a few years back, on a very remote solo kayak trip in the lower Yukon region, I swear I heard rocks tossed in my direction by unseen hands or whatever. Big rocks. Whoosh. Plunk. Weird. A little scary -- and not particularly on target, assuming they were trying to hit me. A close inspection of the presumed point of origin showed no evidence of anything. There was nowhere for anything bigger than a squirrel to hide. I can't say it was an ircenrraaq, but neither can I absolutely refute those who suggest it was.
Yup'ik descriptions of the "little people" resemble those in widespread stories shared by many cultures around the world. A conference on such creatures is held every year in Twisp, Wash.
Though accounts of sightings or of inexplicable events attributed to ircenrraat are common in Western Alaska, they seldom receive wide circulation outside the area.
The Internet age changed that.
I called Nick Andrew Jr. in Marshall, whose e-mail started the latest excitement. He intended it as a private message to a family member, he said, and was a little disconcerted that it got forwarded far and wide.
He confirmed the details, however, and gave me permission to use his name, requesting that I keep other names out of print.
Andrew was on a snowmachine hunting birds the evening of May 7, some distance out of town -- three hours away if you had to walk it, he estimated. Preparing to return home, he decided to check a different location on a hunch.
"Stopping to look, I saw a small boy all alone in middle of the marsh," he said.
He recognized the child as a boy from the village. "I asked him where's his dad or hunting partners? I grilled him with questions of who he was with and if he was alone. He was scared and had been crying. All his answers were 'I don't know.' "
He described the boy as "disoriented, dazed, confused and scared" with "no concept of time. He did not appear tired, nor was he hungry or thirsty."
But the lad was lucky, it seems. He was found in a spot frequented by large tundra brown bears.
Andrew took the boy home, noting that there were no footprints in the spring snow to indicate anyone had walked into the area. He found that puzzling. He counted at least 10 other snowmachiners in the neighborhood, none of whom had spotted the boy.
After getting the boy back to the village, he left his VHS radio on overnight, in case some other hunter reported a missing child. No one did.
"It wasn't until the next day that the story started emerging that he'd had what you'd call an out-of-the-ordinary experience," he told me. "He'd had some missing time, just like people who report being abducted by UFOs."
The boy said he was "brought into" Pilcher Mountain, a site often associated with ircenrraat encounters. There, he was questioned and saw other "little beings."
"He said he made contact with a little girl abducted over 40 years ago," Andrew said. "She told him who she was and she wanted help."
After that the ircenrraat decided to release the boy. "And that's when he came to, I guess, a few minutes before I found him."
Andrew maintained calm perspective about the experience. "Is this kid telling the truth?" he said, leaving the answer open-ended.
Responses to the e-mail, by the time it was forwarded to me, treated the news with gravity. "Ladies, please share with your husband/partners," read one forwarder. "Please tell your children about Ircinraqs (sic) and their deceptiveness," said another. "Thank God (he) found this little boy alive."
If you have an experience with ircenrraat that you wouldn't mind sharing, e-mail mdunham@adn.com. Confidentiality will be observed and nothing will be used without permission.
source & references:
http://www.adn.com/life/story/422883.html
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Dad and Daughter Spot 'UFO' above Preston
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We've all heard stories about saucer-shaped, flying objects in the sky but one man claims he saw something much more unusual lurking on Preston's horizon – an iron-shaped UFO.
John Gibirdi, 32, was driving along Boys Lane in Fulwood with eldest daughter Claudia, eight, when a bright light in the sky stopped them in their tracks on a cold but clear night last winter.
The father-of-two, from Wildman Street, said: "We were going down a lane and I saw something in the sky. It looked like a star but a lot brighter and I wondered what it was.
"The underneath looked like the underside of an iron and it was a copper colour. It looked like it was reflecting the sun but it was dark.
"It was moving very slowly. I was amazed, I don't know what it was and I've never seen anything like it before.
"I thought it might be a spycraft but then it wouldn't have been lit up."
Construction officer John and his daughter sat in the layby and watched the silent object hover above for around 15 minutes before returning home to tell sceptical wife Julie about the experience.
"She didn't seem as interested and everybody at work made a bit of a joke about," John said.
"But I was that captivated watching it, I forgot about where I was going
"I have seen a few things in the sky before but they have always looked more like aeroplanes. This didn't resemble anything I'd seen before – the way it moved and the colours. It was a little bit smaller than a plane."
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) released files which saw Lancashire ranked as third for having the most sightings of unidentified flying objects in recent years.
Nick Pope, who worked for the MoD for 21 years and was responsible for investigating sightings across the country, said: "While there's no evidence of little green men in these files, they should be of immense interest to sceptics and believers.
"Most of the UFO sightings here are probably misidentifications of aircraft lights and meteors, but some are more difficult to explain, and include cases where UFOs have been tracked on radar."
source & references:
http://www.lep.co.uk/weirdnews/Dad-and-daughter-spot-39UFO39.4154931.jp
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New Search for Alien Life is Planned
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Published: June 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM
BALTIMORE, June 9 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers say they are developing plans to use the new Allen Telescope Array to search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Johns Hopkins University Professor Richard Conn Henry is joining forces with Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute and Steven Kilston of the Henry Foundation Inc., a Maryland think tank, to search a swath of the sky known as the ecliptic plane.
The telescope array, consisting of hundreds of small dishes, provides the capability to search for possible signals from technologically advanced civilizations in the galaxy.
"If those civilizations are out there … those that inhabit star systems that lie close to the plane of the Earth's orbit around The Sun will be the most motivated to send communications signals toward Earth," Henry said, "because those civilizations will surely have detected our annual transit across the face of the sun, telling them Earth lies in a habitable zone, where liquid water is stable. Through spectroscopic analysis of our atmosphere, they will know Earth likely bears life."
The researchers presented their plans last week in St. Louis during a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
source & references:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/06/09/New_search_for_alien_life_is_planned/UPI-12061213038808/
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Doritos Makes History With World's First Extraterrestrial Advertisement
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ScienceDaily (Jun. 12, 2008) — Today Doritos makes history, taking the UK’s first step in communicating with aliens as they broadcast the first ever advert directed towards potential extra terrestrial life. The University of Leicester has played a key part in the success of the project.
The transmission is being undertaken as part of the Doritos Broadcast Project, which invited the UK public to create a 30 second video clip that could be beamed out to the universe offering a snap shot of life on earth to anyone ‘out there’. Some 61% of the UK public believe this is just the start of communication with ET life and that we will enter into regular communication with an alien species at some stage in the future.
The winning space-ad entitled ‘Tribe’ was voted for by the British public and directed by 25-year-old Matt Bowron. It will officially be entered into the Guinness Book of Records and will be aired on the more conventional medium of television on Sunday 15th June on ITV at 7.44pm in the ad break of the final Group B game of Euro 2008.
The message is being pulsed out over a six-hour period from high-powered radars at the EISCAT European space station in the Arctic Circle. The University of Leicester has also been involved in the project from its inception.
EISCAT Director, Professor Tony van Eyken who will oversee the transmission said: “The signal is directed at a solar system just 42 light years away from Earth, in the ‘Ursa Major’ or Great Bear Constellation. Its star is very similar to our Sun and hosts a habitable zone that could harbour small life supporting planets similar to ours.”
Peter Charles, Head of the Doritos Broadcast Project said: “We are constantly looking to push the boundaries of advertising and this will go further than any brand has gone before. By broadcasting the winning ad to the Universe, Doritos is delivering a world first and Matt Bowron, the winner, will go down in advertising folklore. We also shouldn’t be too surprised if the first aliens start arriving on planet Earth immediately demanding a bag of Doritos.”
The broadcast received praise from Nick Pope, former Head of the MoD’s UFO project. Nick, a leading authority on UFO sightings and alien abductions commented: “I support this bold new venture in space communication. As humanity reaches out to the stars, this broadcast could lead to us finding the real ET. This is a historic day in our continuing search for alien life.”
Dr Darren Wright, a New Blood Lecturer of the University of Leicester Department of Physics and Astronomy said: “The Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group and Department of Physics and Astronomy as a whole at the University of Leicester has a very high international profile in the area of Space Physics.
“An important part of this project is that it provides an additional component to the Physics and Astronomy Department’s ever increasing outreach programme. The ad to be transmitted has been created by the public following a national competition thus increasing public awareness of space activities.
"The University is particularly committed to outreach programmes along with the National Space Centre - the brainchild of the University of Leicester - and engaged in a number of programmes with the wider public."
Note: The cleverly created advert features a tribe of Doritos escaping from the pack and sacrificing one of their own to the God of Salsa, as soon as there are no humans around. It can be viewed online from today at http://www.doritos.co.uk and will premier on ITV during the final Euro 2008 Group B game on Sunday 15th June at 7:44 p.m.
source & references:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080612122817.htm
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Accused Taxi Thief was 'Chasing Aliens'
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Christine Kellett
May 23, 2008 - 12:25PM
A Brisbane man who allegedly robbed a taxi driver at knifepoint was in pursuit of alien life forms at the time, a court has heard.
Alfred Aaron Reid, who claimed he was psychotic at the time, was today refused permission to have his case heard before the Mental Health Court for a second time after three senior judges found his deliberate use of the drug speed may have contributed to his behaviour.
Reid is charged with armed robbery and unlicensed driving after he was allegedly caught by police on August 20, 2006.
Prosecutors allege his learner's permit had expired when he was seen getting out of the driver's seat of a car.
Later that day, Reid allegedly caught a taxi from a Goodna taxi rank, in the city's south-west, before pulling a knife and threatening to stab the driver at the end of the journey.
He is accused of rifling through the driver's coat, grabbing his satchel and mobile phone and escaping on foot.
In September last year, Reid, a diagnosed schizophrenic, had tried to have the charges heard before the Mental Health Court on the grounds that he was of unsound mind at the time.
He told doctors he believed aliens were due to make a dawn landing on Earth on the morning of his alleged crimes, and he had gone out looking for extra-terrestrial landing sites. He also claimed he had no memory of the alleged hold-up or driving the car.
His application was refused, however, prompting Reid to appeal.
This morning, the full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the original decision based on evidence that the accused man had injected speed around the time the offences were committed.
His intoxication from the drug may have affected his behaviour, the court found.
Reid will go to trial in the District Court at a later date.
source & references:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/accused-taxi-thief-chasing-aliens/2008/05/23/1211183080790.html
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Roswell Festival
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Media Contact: Alexis Kerschner, Rick Johnson & Company (505) 266-7220, media@ufofestivalroswell.com
ROSWELL, N.M. –The City of Roswell invites UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike to join in the celebration of one of the most debated incidents in history this July 3-6, 2008. The four-day event will feature guest speakers, authors, live entertainment, family-friendly activities and possibly an alien abduction.
The City is expecting more than 50,000 visitors during the festival and guests are encouraged to make travel arrangements early. Links to accommodations, an event schedule and more in depth information can be found at the new festival website www.ufofestivalroswell.com.
In early July, 1947, a mysterious object crashed on a ranch 30 miles north of Roswell. The Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a statement claiming to have recovered a crashed “flying disk.” An article ran on the front page of the Roswell Daily Record and the next day, RAAF changed its statement to say that the object was a weather balloon, not a flying disk as they previously reported. This revised statement sparked immediate controversy and has continued to be a topic of debate more than 60 years later.
During The Amazing Roswell UFO Festival, guests can visit alien attractions, attend lectures, book signings and help uncover the truth about one of the most infamous cover-ups in history. Media passes are available now. Contact Alexis Kerschner at media@ufofestivalroswell.com to get your passes. For more information about the festival, visit www.ufofestivalroswell.com
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Miranda Evjen
Account Coordinator
Rick Johnson & Company
1120 Pennsylvania NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
505-266-1100
mevjen@rjc.com
source & references:
www.ufofestivalroswell.com
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Kansas-October, 1966-UFO over Power Lines, Sends Yellow Beam
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Posted: 1:29 PM 6/9/2008
A UFO Casebook reader and eyewitness to a UFO event describes her sighting.
This is not a recent sighting but it is my only sighting that I have seen in my entire life and I am a 62 year old professional woman who now lives in Arizona. I wish it were more recent so that it could be investigated but it's not.
I think about this very often because I never had closure and to this day am hoping to find an explanation to what it was that we saw that night. The incident occurred in October, 1966, about 8:00 PM, and I don't know the exact date. I know the sky was clear but I don't know whether there was a full moon or not.
It happened as my brother, mother and I were traveling home and passing through Clearwater, KS. We were approaching the railroad tracks (traveling east) and to the left, hovering over the railroad tracks, just above the power lines was this dark object that was either oval or egg-shaped. This object did not appear to have wings and appeared to be about the size of a car and as I seem to recall, it had a long stick or pole that was doing something towards the power line.
The lights over the tracks were low enough to allow us to see it and we all said, "What is that"?
My brother stopped the car to stare at it, and the object proceeded to fly slowly and smoothly over our car. It had no sound to it. At this point I still thought it must be some kind of plane. The object then positioned itself in midair, in front of our car, on the passenger's side where my mother was sitting and directed a very bright yellow beam of light inside of our car. My mother and brother continued to stare at this beam and I remember sitting there very still and frightened, and feeling like we were in danger. I finally was able to say to my brother, "Don't stare, just go". The object finally turned out the bright beam of light, dimly lit interior lights came on and one light underneath the craft came on, then the object ascended vertically into the sky at a very fast rate of speed and we saw it just disappear into the atmosphere in a matter of a few seconds. My mother made the remark, "That was quick". Because the object was so dark it was difficult to see details except to see it was a dark oval or egg-shaped object and once it directed the beam of light into our car, we couldn't see what it looked like at all.
After we arrived at our home in Derby, KS, my mother inquired at McConnell Air Force Base about 8 miles from where we lived, but they said they didn't know anything about it and had no other reports of this sighting. I would estimate that Clearwater is about 20-25 miles from Derby which would make the distance from Clearwater to the Air Force Base approximately 30 miles. Mid-continent airport in Wichita, KS is North or Northeast of Clearwater.
I feel very certain that this was not an aircraft or helicopter due to the way it ascended vertically at a very fast speed and disappeared before our very eyes in a matter of a few seconds. My brother and mother are now deceased but when they were living we would occasionally discuss the incident and try to come to a conclusion or explanation for what we saw that night.
I have never received a professional opinion on what it was that we saw that night and I hope that sometime in my lifetime that will happen so that I can let it rest. My mother never believed that extraterrestrial aircraft existed until that night. There is nothing like an experience such as this to make a person a believer.
Please, if someone knows or has an opinion on what we witnessed that night and is willing to assist me, it would be greatly appreciated.
source & references:
Submitted to UFO Casebook
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(last update, 06-14-08)
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Florida-Object Much Larger than Plane
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05-15-08-I saw an unknown object that made no sound at all and moved across the sky slower than a airplane, and seemed to pause, reverse, move left to right at right angles, and then continue on from west to east. At one point the white light (the whole thing was white) would just go out like a lightswitch, and then come back on.
I called my friend to see it, and we both watched it until it was too far away to see. I went to Aviation High School and I know how an airplane can move in flight and how it "cannot" move in flight. It was very large, much bigger than any plane. Again, It made absolutely no sound at all. We live in a very quite place, and there was no other noise.
I proceeded to look at it, it was about 4 or 5 times bigger and brighter than the north star. The light was kind of odd, not quite like starlight, and definitely not like any aircraft light I had ever seen. I was staring at it for about 20 or 30 seconds as it was perfectly still, then it moved at a downward right angle, but dimmed at the same time it began this movement until it had disappeared. From my vantage point, it moved about 10 inches in the sky in about 3 seconds. Though I cannot say for sure, it seemed like it was a good distance away. source: www.mufon.com
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Minnesota-Three Pair of Hollow Lights
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05-17-08-Three friends and I were driving back southbound on Highway 35-W in Minnesota after a brief golf outing near Ely, MN. We were approximately 10 or 15 miles north of the town of Hinkley at the time when I spotted three pairs of circular, hollow lights about 20 degrees off the horizon to the south, southwest. Due to their peculiarity, I watched them for about a minute or so before pointing them out to my buddies.
The lights appeared approximately dime-sized at arm's length and appeared to be hollow, or what I would describe as glowing rings. Each of the three objects consisted of two of these "rings," hovering horizontal to the ground with the middle object slightly above the other two. Our later estimations of the objects' distance ranged from 5 to 15 miles. The four of us observed the object for approximately 1 to 2 minutes before we noticed the far right one veer off slightly in the south eastern direction. We passed under a bridge overpass, and one of the objects immediately disappeared in the split-second that our view was obstructed, leaving two objects remaining (two pair of lights).
The two remaining objects appeared to be flying directly away from us in the same direction we were heading (south). As they did this, each pair of lights converged to a red dot (from paired white rings), then disappeared in the course of about 5 seconds. It should be noted that we did not have to focus, squint or strain to see the initial rings, they were clearly visible and obvious to us all. Definitely not commercial jets or any kind of known military formation flight (no blinking lights, very large, independent movement). It was absolutely the strangest thing I have ever seen. The remaining hour+ ride home was spent scanning the skies trying to located them again and confirming with each other on what we had just seen. source: www.mufon.com
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Mississippi-Light over Field
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05-17-08-In the month of May, my daughter informed me my hunting dogs was going off. I went outside and observed a light over the field. I then went into the house, and got a gun and my 35mm camera.
Then, I went back outside with her and observed the unknown object. I took pictures of it. It then went up and made a right angle turn and then it was gone. I was in Vietnam for 2 tours and in law enforcement 20 years and I have never seen any thing like that. It was about 300 feet away from me and never made a sound. source: www.mufon.com
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New York-Stationary Lights
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05-25-08-At 3:15 AM, I let my dog out into my back yard. I noticed as I was standing at the back door waiting for her to come in, at about 45 degrees to the southwest about 500 feet away, there was this stationary set of very, very white flashing lights in the sky about at a 200 foot elevation. I was watching this craft remaining motionless in the sky what appeared to be over the next block. A somewhat dimmer beam of white light was coming out of the bottom directed at the ground. This object made no noise at all.
The bright flashing lights is what first drew my attention, over a quiet residential neighborhood. I first tried to recall if there was any light source which is normally in that location, but when I recalled that there is not, I studied the flashing lights as best I could to try to make out any shape. I could not see any shape, but when I noticed the dim beam of light coming to the ground under it, I could see that the light was coming from a circular port hole type exit.
I became concerned after a couple of minutes of looking at this object that I called my dog back into the house. This object just stood there motionless and dead silent. After getting my dog back in the house, I closed the door, and she seemed very upset and scared. She is a large pit bull and they are not timid. I felt a bit uneasy and after about 10 miniutes, I looked again but it was gone. This was over the quiet upper, middle class neighborhood of Stony Brook, Long Island, NY. I am both a physician and a airplane pilot so I know distances and something about aircraft and airspace. This is not military airspace. I don't have any pictures. source: www.mufon.com
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Pennsylvania-Lights Like the Phoenix Lights
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03-15-08-I recently viewed the movie "Phoenix Lights" and was reminded of something I had personally viewed a few months ago. The description of the "triangular light formation" as portrayed above Phoenix sounds almost identical to what I viewed in the sky above my residence in East York, PA.
The night was crystal clear. At night on our back patio, I often gaze skyward in admiration of the cosmos. On this particular evening, I remember being struck my the sheer "silence" that made this instance seem different than others. The absence of aircraft engine noise, whether by Doppler or more directly audible line, was most telling. What initially caught my eye was what appeared to be the "blotting out" of background starlight in a distinctly triangular and slowly moving shape in the direction of due east.
I had the impression that whatever it was that I saw was virtually, immediately, and closely overhead, not some "far off," "vague," or "remote" optical illusion or imagined bit of "wishful thinking." Again, I made a mental notation of "double-checking" what I was viewing in real time by waiting and listening for a delayed, audible engine noise as is normally heard moments after an aircraft passes overhead. The shape was moving so slowly that common sense told me that there was no visible traditional means of propulsion.
Initially, I saw no point in reporting what I saw since I knew it would be out of eyesight within a matter of minutes, based on the perceived speed of the shape's movement and my angle of viewing. This "black triangular formation" was somewhat "picture framed" between a pair of trees, giving me a sense of scale and scope. I finally lost sight of the moving shape as it passed out of my field of view beyond the easternmost of the two trees. source: www.mufon.com
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Texas-Blue-White Object
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06-08-08-Every night I take my dog outside and give him a cookie when "he goes to bed." Every night for the past several years, I have looked up to the sky, wondering if anything was looking back at me. Tonight I was walking on the patio, under the patio roof. I came over to the fence and instantly looked up to the sky. I noticed this bright, blue-white light southeast of the house. I thought to myself that it was possibly the star Sirius, but dismissed that thought quickly because Sirius is not in the southeast right now.
I kept my eyes glued on the light. It was heading east- southeast-in the direction of Wichita Falls. I then noticed that the light began to fade. I instantly went over several things in my mind. Was it an airplane? NO. There were no strobing lights, and it was one solid light. Was it a satellite? No. Satellites are nowhere near that bright, and do not move that slowly. Was it a planet? No. The only planet that bright is Venus, and it is not visible this time of day, this time of year.
After watching it for about a minute, the light faded away and there were no signs of anything ever being there. I stood in disbelief for several minutes, but I never saw it again. I did however see two airplanes. They seemed to be commercial aircraft. However, there is an Air Force base in the area. Nevertheless, they did not look similar to what I saw. source: www.mufon.com
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