USA
1/5/00 · USA · 1 sources
Witness arrived at his business at approximately 4:00am and noticed what appeared to be a star in the northeastern sky. Upon returning to his truck a short time later, he again observed the object and noticed it was too low on the horizon to be a star and appeared to be moving toward him. As it got closer, he noticed many red lights shining down. The object appeared to be two to three stories high like a house, with many windows and a very bright light on the inside. It was moving very slowly and silently in a northeast to southwest direction, passing just to the south of his location just above tree level. From the rear, the light appeared dimmer. He described it as a floating three-story house about the size of a football field with a bright headlight-like light on the front. There were no physical traces and the object was completely silent. He subsequently reported the sighting to the local police department, and the dispatcher notified Central Dispatcher from St. Clair County, who in turn notified the Lebanon Police Department.
- Shape
- Rectangular/house-shaped (floating three-story house)
- Nature
- Unknown aerial object
- Sound
- None — completely silent
- Site
- Business location, near tree level
- Size
- approximately 91 meters (football field) in length; two to three stories high
- Duration
- 5 min
- Time of day
- Night
- Local time
- approximately 4:00am
- Theme
- star_like_points
The unmodified record(s) the master event was assembled from.
NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC:da2d1e8b:123 fields
- date
- 2000-01-05
- site
- Business location, near tree level
- shape
- Rectangular/house-shaped (floating three-story house)
- sound
- None — completely silent
- country
- USA
- date_raw
- 1/5/00
- incident
- Witness arrived at his business at approximately 4:00am and noticed what appeared to be a star in the northeastern sky. Upon returning to his truck a short time later, he again observed the object and noticed it was too low on the horizon to be a star and appeared to be moving toward him. As it got closer, he noticed many red lights shining down. The object appeared to be two to three stories high like a house, with many windows and a very bright light on the inside. It was moving very slowly and silently in a northeast to southwest direction, passing just to the south of his location just above tree level. From the rear, the light appeared dimmer. He described it as a floating three-story house about the size of a football field with a bright headlight-like light on the front. There were no physical traces and the object was completely silent. He subsequently reported the sighting to the local police department, and the dispatcher notified Central Dispatcher from St. Clair County, who in turn notified the Lebanon Police Department.
- time_local
- approximately 4:00am
- trajectory
- Northeast to southwest, passing just south of witness location just above tree level
- case_source
- NIDS
- size_meters
- approximately 91 meters (football field) in length; two to three stories high
- time_of_day
- Night
- source_quote
- He described the object as a floating three story house about the size of a football field. There was a bright light on the front of it like a headlight showing where it was going.
- catalog_entry
- NIDS-DOC:da2d1e8b:1
- ground_traces
- None
- location_text
- northeastern sky, just south of witness location, just above tree level; witness at his business
- witness_count
- 1
- source_doc_sha
- da2d1e8b724335ebd6eff348176134c92654a1812579c584a9551445e4dfdf47
- light_emissions
- Many red lights shining down; very bright light on the inside; bright headlight-like light on the front; dimmer light visible from the rear
- duration_minutes
- 5
- witness_reactions
- Witness was surprised and thought no one would believe him; drove to local police department to report the sighting and requested dispatcher notify the next community in the object's path
- witness_occupation
- Business owner
- nature_of_phenomenon
- Unknown aerial object
- NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC
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