Rowley Regis UFO Era Encounter

Rowley Regis UFO Era Encounter

Dad’s story goes like this: he was riding home on his bike one evening, late 70s I think (I’d left home not long before so after 77) between 9.30 and 10.15, as was his custom. He became aware of an unusually bright light in the sky looking westwards, which was to his left, which didn’t actually move. In fact, it seemed to be following him.
(At this point, a note on Dad: he was an RAF radar operator in WW2, Japanese POW, atheist and certainly not given to flights of fancy or imaginings.)
His take on UFOs was that any FO is U until it is I, then it is an IFO, and when it lands it’s an O. This one was behaving very strangely indeed, in that it was not exhibiting any of the behaviour he would expect from any celestial body, or any aircraft that he was familiar with: not even a helicopter coming directly towards him, which does give the illusion of being stationary.
This object continued to move with him until he pulled into our garden, and came in to the lounge. He looked out of the front window (we had a through room, windows on two sides) – and there was the object. Now that made him jump: it was not actually in the place he’d expect. It had moved to follow him into the house and became visible through that window! If it had stayed in the same place as it was when he was cycling, it would not have been visible as we lived in a row of terraced houses and his estimation of the expected location was that it would be hidden by the other houses.
He went to bed and left the curtains open, and the object was still visible through the window. Closer to midnight it just vanished…
and then a short while later it returned, again to the exact same spot.
Now if you can match it up with the rough timings in the reported Rowley Regis UFO they seem to match.
He never saw anything like it again.
Mom was with him while he was at home and witnessed what happened. Both are now deceased and have been for 20 (Dad) and 25 years (Mom).
To his dying day, Dad was adamant that it had been a UFO, and when he got to hear about the incident with the woman who saw the craft and its occupants, he was going to contact the local press with his experience – but Mom persuaded him not to as she didn’t want every journalist in the country turning up and labelling them as cranks!

Ufo sighting Arizona 1997

This happend in Yuma, AZ in 1997. My husband at the time was about 19 yrs old. He and his brother were outside shooting hoops in the street. They saw a very large craft slowly go over there heads. He said it looked like a triangle about the size of a football field. He said it was huge. And it had lights along the bottom of it. When it went over their heads, it was just above the street lamps. And it made no sound at all. Like, everything was silent. His brother’s girlfriend saw it too. He said, they were just too stunned to speak. It went in the direction towards Phoenix.
Several years after we were married, we saw a show that was called Phoenix Lights and he told me “see, that’s what we saw!” Lol. Wish I could’ve seen it but I think that was the day that Hale-bopp was in the sky. I do remember staying outside and watching it with wonder. I was 16 at the time.

Sighting of large triangular craft – in the 90’s

Approximately 27 years ago, in the summer, when I was a teenager; a friend of mine and I both saw a UFO.
I lived approximately and hour north of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada, in a small farming town, population approximately 12,000.
I don’t recall the exact time the sighting happened, but it was late at night or in the early morning hours. It was certainly dark outside.
My friend had walked me home, from his house. We were standing across the street from my house, in a residential neighborhood. We were chatting, and saying goodnight.
My neighbourhood was built on a fairly steep hill. The streets ran in and east/west direction, the top of the hill was to the north. My street ran along the bottom of the hill. Looking north from my location, I could see homes up the hill.
I don’t know who saw the UFO first, but I recall looking up the hill, and seeing lights appear in the sky overhead coming in my direction. Before I knew it, the UFO was passing above us. This craft, was massive, at least the size of a football field. It was triangular in shape, it had several lights (I only recall red and yellow, but there may have been more). The bottom of the craft, looked like it was carved metal. Almost like runes are carved.
It’s really hard to judge the distance it was flying at, but I do recall it feeling like it was very close, perhaps around 3000 ft. above us. My biggest recollection of it, was that it was completely silent. It was not moving very quickly, perhaps 30km – 50 km per hour; slowly enough that we were able to get a clear look at it. It passed over us, and then over the streets to our south. We lost sight of it, and both stood in silence for a minute. I know I was feeling very stunned, and very confused. We looked at each other, and both said “what the f@%k was that!”. We compared notes as to what we had just witnessed, and the details were the same. We discussed it in depth for a little while, both agreeing that there was no way that the craft was human made. Oddly enough, though we talked about it several times over the next week or so, I don’t remember discussing it much with him later. We were friends for another three years. I think there was just nothing left to discuss, there was no other explanation than what we had already come to. This craft had to have been a UFO.
My friend and I both thought that this sighting had to have been shared by many other people in our town. Although it was late at night, that there must have been some people still out and about. We expected this to be big news, that it would be reported to the media. I checked the next news paper that was published, and there was no mention of it.
However, it was later that year, that there was a UFO symposium advertised in our town. There was talk about a huge increase in sightings in a triangular area, my town and two others being the points on the triangle if looking at a map of southern Ontario. I attended the symposium, which was interesting, but not especially helpful, except in making my friend and I feel less alone in our experience.
I have had a few other experiences since. One sighting of a light that was stationary initially in the night sky, and then began to move in an infinity pattern. That sighting was also experienced by my Mother. Who, was frightened, demanded that we go in the house, and then refused to discuss it again.
Hopefully I have written a clear enough account here. It’s challenging to remember all the details, so I may have missed some. I really regret not writing down my account and drawing what I had seen immediately after the event. As a youth, I had no clue that memories would fade, even for shocking events.

1965 Everglades UFO

My family and I were fishing on loop road in the Everglades and fished into the night. My Father was watching planes on approach to the airport as we fished. He pointed one out to me that was not behaving like the others. It was coming towards us at low level and only a single orange-ish red light was visible. when it got close my Father had us load up. He was in the drivers seat with his hand on the ignition switch as we all watched the light. It was just above the treetops and 150 foot away. It was silent. When it crossed the road the light went out. Dad had enough and started the car. The light came back across the road and went out. Dad took off. We were all spooked.

Boomerang Over my Car in 1984

New to your podcast in 1984 , I lived in Yonkers I worked in New Rochelle and was coming home as I got onto the Cross County Parkway I noticed 2 lights , really low ,I thought it was plane but it was so slow,it wasn’t flying past me, so I started going slow I was on a 5 Lane Highway the two lights turn into 4 then 6. I was just so amazed it was floating and going so slow and it was so so low I didn’t understand what I was looking at I ended up stopping on the parkway I flicked my high beams, got out of my car and the thing literally just stopped, turned and then floated towards me, stop over my car and it just hovered all I could think about was how is it not falling and how could it just be floating then I noticed they had no nose no tail .i was crossing off what it should have been. As it was over me I could see underneath it it was literally no higher than maybe a 50 story building it was just so low and so huge, made no noise,I could see the belly…the pipes, ducts…it looked like the ceiling of an industrial buildings basement. It was all black and huge HUGE. It was about 1:30 in the morning , as I Stood out my car and pointed up to other vehicles pass by but did not stop near me and then at some point I was talking to them in my head asking who and where are they from things of that sort and then I just got really spooked and jumped back in my car and I started to drive away . I kept looking back as it slowly turned and went back the way it came. As I advanced I would turn my head back every two3 seconds and then the last time it wasn’t there anymore. But I don’t think it just disappeared I believe there’s a radius based on its perspective that can only be seen with in that radius. This is why it appears to skip and blink out, and also why one block sees it but not another down the street. NOW, What should’ve been a 20 minute drive home took me an hour and a half when I arrive home at 3:30 it didn’t understand how it was so late I literally woke up my whole family and being a New Yorker ,my sisters told me to shut up and go to bed. I was 19 or 20 I’m 57 now, live in LA and last year on February 19 I remember because it was the day before my birthday at 8 o’clock in the morning saw this little white dot in the sky zipping across the sky it was so tiny and we thought yeah maybe just a plain really really high but then it stopped and then it went back the way it came it was so amazing the incident in the 80s, 2other car stopped but we never spoke to each other I have often wondered who they were and I wonder what happened during my missing time just want you to understand It was so big and it was just floating so slow there was nothing too compare it to
Since then I always look up I believe I’ve seen a total of 3 yap’s to date. Somehow,I believe I can tune into other frequencies at certain times,I capture ghost in pics. Orbs and balls of light in the clouds.
I’m open to talk if you have any questions, thank you Tony

Huge cigar shaped UFO

I was on my front porch in Barrington NJ in the fall of 1990 or 91, I can’t remember the exact year. It was around 9:30pm. I randomly had the thought to leave the porch and look up, when I did, I saw a massive cigar/blimp shaped craft moving very slowly down the street. It was just above the tree line, was at least 50ft long, completely silent, no lights and it was close enough to see there were no rivets or seams on the craft. I kept looking for a basket to say, oh it’s a blimp or lights, something to make sense of what I was seeing. I wanted it to be anything other than a UFO. Only a blimp could move that slow, but there was no noise at all. As it was moving to the next block, I had a quick thought about following it and I heard, but didn’t hear, go back in the house, you have babies in the house. I turned to walk up the driveway and that’s all I remember. I don’t know what, if anything happened after that.

I never told my now deceased husband about it, he was at work and I just felt uncomfortable talking about it until years later. A part of me filed it away so I wouldn’t be called crazy. I know what I saw and decided it was more important to talk about it than keep it secret.
I have watched the skies ever since that night. I am not longer afraid to talk about it.
Thanks for giving us a platform to share our experiences.

Huge fireball almost hit my car!

It was it the first week of March 2020 . I was on my way home from work at 3:30 PM leaving Walnut Creek on my way (west bound) approaching the Caldecott tunnel to my home in Oakland. Traffic Was medium to light traveling at about 55 to 65 miles an hour. I look to my right When I first saw the fireball descending at about a 35 Degree angle. Initially it was about 200 feet in front of me and about 150 feet above the freeway when I first noticed it. I literally couldn’t believe it! It was about 25 to 35 feet in diameter molten like orange center with yellow and white flames surrounding it. Immediately judging its speed an angle I realized it was going to be crossing or coming very close to my car as it crossed over the freeway. I mediately looked in my rearview mirror, hit the brakes and moved over to the right hand lane In an attempt to avoid a collision. It literally crossed approximately 75 to 100 feet above me and in front of me! I definitely thought it was destined to hit the guard rail or the fast lane of the freeway! This part of the freeway was about 20 feet above street level I was so relieved I stepped on the gas and was expecting a very loud explosion in the next few seconds. To my amazement I heard nothing? I checked our local news for the next two or three days and heard nothing?
I recently talked to Mufon and they have no reports of a fireball in that area?
Elton

Summer of 1981 FLYING SAUCER North of Pittsburgh, Pa

I want to first start off by saying that I’ve only witnessed one event in my life that I could not explain. Since then I tend to pay more attention to the sky than probably the average person. It has been 40 years and since then I haven’t seen anything that I could not identify.
A perfect sunny summer day in early July north of Pittsburgh, Pa. around lunchtime. I was 11 years old and was playing whiffle ball with my older brother (18) and his girlfriend around the same age. Two neighbors my age were also playing with us. I just happened to look up and saw a saucer probably the size of a jet plane flying in close proximity to our property.
We obviously all saw it and we were pretty shocked. Another neighbor playing at his house also saw it. So 6 of us in all. It was flying slowly, moving forward but spinning clockwise at the same time. We observed several of what we would call ports and also I remember it was very shiny- the metal or whatever it was made out of.
Very close in appearance to Lazar’s sport craft but different in some ways. I remember feeling pretty scared at the time thinking they could easily see us. We watched for at least 3-4 minutes until we could no longer see it through the tall trees on our property. It was very close and there’s no mistaking what it was.
With that said I don’t know and probably will never know who or what was inside. I wish I would have had a camera. It was so close that I would have gotten a great picture. Over 40 years and while details have faded a bit I still remember very clearly how it rotated and moved forward. A pretty neat experience. Of course I haven’t shared my story much but when I have most laugh it off. I’m okay with how people react as I know it is hard to believe. With that said I know what we saw that summer and their reactions/opinions don’t bother me in the least.

Silver Cylindrical UFO

I live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. My city resides across the river from Detroit, Michigan.

My first experience was a little over 10 years ago on a sunny September afternoon while I was outside on break from my place of work. I was sitting on a picnic table having a cigarette while I was on my first new cell phone, talking with my mom.

As I was talking with my mom, I noticed something coming from the North to south while looking at the west, from my point of view. It can from behind a tree, about approx. 1.5 miles from my position.

I was absolutely positive I was looking at a long cylindrical blimp. Why would I think it was anything else? I live across from Detroit and their sports teams sometimes have blimps flying around for advertising purposes, so I’m quite familiar with these flying balloons. They typically look like big footballs or long stretched out footballs. This object I saw was a very long silver cylindrical object that was shaped more like a silver test tube that was rounded at both ends.

As I was watching this “blimp”, I began to notice the object lacking things that a traditional blimp boasts as part of their usual characteristics. It was slowly cruising from my right to my left as I was continuing to converse with my mom. I noticed that it was lacking a tail for steering but didn’t think anything of it. Then I noticed it had no gondola for a pilot. Then an obvious characteristic most blimps show is advertising. This object had no such thing! I was really confused at this point. I still thought it was a blimp because I wasn’t expecting anything else. Why would I? Lol.

Then as my mom was talking to me, I noticed it came to a stop. It’s at this point, most blimps might use the wind to help push itself backwards into a turn. This cylinder just stopped dead, and stayed there for almost 10 minutes. I was almost 10 minutes over my break already. As I listened to my mom, watching this thing, something really odd happened. Something very bright and small, began zipping around the big object, like a fly. It was very fast. It was a bright white light with every colour of the rainbow flashing throughout the white as it was flying around the bigger object. It had a phosphorus glow to it. My hair stood up on ends while my mom asked me why I was so quiet. Lol. I was totally stymied as to what it was. I told my mom what I was seeing and she agreed that that was indeed very weird. I eventually went back to work while it remained stationary and forgot about it until a few years ago.

I was talking with someone when I said that I wished I could see a UFO one day because they’ve always fascinated me. I even did a presentation on the subject and the like in high-school when I was seventeen, before the modern internet. I am now 46. Anyway, the my brain lit up and remembered what I saw on that one sunny afternoon.

About 2 years after that realization, I saw a video I will post below that made my hair stand up on ends, again. There are two object around this particular cylindrical craft but the big object is pretty much exactly what I saw. The smaller object could have been around the size of the two smaller objects in this video but they’re different from the glowing ball of energy I saw ripping around the bigger object. Anyways, that’s my first experience. The two others regard orange orbs, close and at a great distance, but nonetheless very similar to each other and not as dramatic as my first sighting. I will tell you, that the orange orbs showed up as I was thinking about the cylindrical UFO. I even freaked my wife out when I told her I just witnessed the first orange orb right after we were discussing my first sighting of the cylindrical UFO. The other time was while we were in our hot tub while I was watching the Cassiopeia constellation. The video link is below.

Lights follow sister, she comes home and wakes my entire family, we all witness low hovering HUGE craft.

Hello, ever since this event happened to me at the young age of 7, I have been and forever will be certain and inquisitive of the fact we are being visited/watched. For whatever reason, this event/subject has been weighing very heavily on my mind particularly the last 6 months. Feel need to share this story. Main differences I notice between the majority of stories I hear via podcast/articles and our story is the number of people witness to it and maybe more importantly, the height at which this vehicle was hovering over us to witness it was very low and blocking out a big portion of the night sky. So here it is.

When I was 7 years old, my 17 year old sister was out past curfew with her BF and came home not very sneakily and quite as she normally would in that situation, but came in freaking out yelling at us all “get up, get up, they’ve been following us all night and follower us home! They are hovering above our back yard right now! Come look! Come look!” So my Mom, Brother, Grandma, and myself all got out of bed around midnight or 1am to follow her outside and see what she was talking about and there it was! This massive huge black square or triangle shaped craft hovering over part of our back yard and into the farmland bordering our backyard. All 5 of us walked around our fence to stand behind our shed in the strip of grass between our yard and the corn field that year. It was pretty much silent, it had 6 big lights that would eluminate one at a time and each one was to my 7 year old recollection about 6 to 8 feet in diameter and lit up in a pattern that was almost a full circle, but before it completed the circle with last light, it would light up a light in what seemed to be the center of the craft. So almost like the pattern of a “G” . I remember looking to my left seeing my mom’s ficus just glued to it with mouth half open in awe, and then looking to my right and seeing my brother, my sister, and then my Grandma with the exact same look on their face. None of us thought to go get our home video camera, I believe my brother said he should go grab one of our family hunting guns, but my mom said no. But other than that, I just remembered we were all staring up at this thing in a memorized state basically, no one saying much, after the initial shock of the sight. To my recollection it lasted about 10 to 15 min, I could very clearly see the STRAIGHT line of the craft where the sky was getting blacked out on one side of craft and only way I felt you could notice its presence other than sight was this slight feeling that there was a vibration to the air, but I sometimes wonder if thus vibration feeling was due to the shock and awe state we were all in. My mother is very very religious and told us to not tall about it to anyone, even her, and I chalk that up to her mainly wanting us to not be the weird UFO kids, AND, I don’t think she could quantify it according to her religious foundation, because that would be admitting there is possibly a higher being other than God and us, whom God created. BUT since then, she has confronted it and come to realization that “if they exist, than God created them as well” that was the first time I realized she had gotten past it, and accepted it, and found a way to cope with it. Since that moment I’ve tried to talk her and my siblings and everyone has the exact same problem with remembering that event, which is, how did they leave? My mom and I both think they just slowly ascended over the tree line behind the corn field, my brother and sister have no definitive memory though, and really, neither does my mom or myself. I di remember running scared out of my mind along with the rest of my family around to the front of our house and into front door. Where we normally would enter through back door, and I ran right out of my dad’s grilling shoes and I know they were left in the yard that night due to that frantic run.

So thats in a nutshell, my family’s experience, my dad was out of town on business at the time. My brother and I, in spite of what my mom said, asked our neighbor friends if they saw anything, they didn’t, and then asked a couple other neighborhood kids and they hadn’t either. So this event has left me stumped, not really stumped I guess, but left me wanting more, more info, more recollection, and just more answers in general.

One weird thing I’ve discovered over the years, is my brother and my brother alone, remembers everything a bit different, he remembers 3 craft with 2 lights each and that we watched them from our sunroom and not from behind the shed. This detail has also been haunting me a buy as of late, as well as none of us not remembering clearly at all, if at all, how they left.

That’s my story, I’m sure I could get my sister and brother to tell it in own words as well and pretty good chance my mom as well, as I have been telling her lately, I need to get it out there, document it, and try and figure it out a bit more.

Thanks for the platform in order to start doing this.

Dane Larsen