Friday, January 18, 2008

Brattleboro, Vermont Rectangular Dark Colored Shaped Object

Posted: January 18, 2008

Date: July 20, 2006 Time: Dusk

Message: We recently moved to Brattleboro, Vermont in mid July, 2006. Around July 20, 2006, we saw something very unusual in the sky. We were playing with our daughter and cats on our front stoop in a fairly new/secluded section of town, and I looked up in the sky, and we saw the strangest thing we'd ever seen. We estimate its elevation at between 1,000 to 2,000 feet, but couldn't really tell. At first I thought it was some sort of bag or box or kite, but it wasn't. We all saw that it was something that was actually flying, very deliberately, but with a bizarre twist--it was *tumbling* forward in a uniform, almost deliberate flight path. This was rectangular in shape, and was dark (daughter thought it was black; wife thought it was dark blue). The thing didn't pitch or roll from side to side randomly; it basically remained within what appeared to be a "set" path or corridor of air--not moving in a straight any direction, from Southwesterly to Northeasterly direction between our house and our neighbor's.

The thing looked like it was a rectangle, but not clearly just a "box," and it moved fairly quickly (we saw it at about 80 degrees in the sky and it was over the horizon/trees in less than a minute). There was no apparent propulsion or stabilizing structure (i.e., wings, tail). It's hard to say how large it was, but if it was clearly visible at a couple thousand feet, it had to be at least, what, 4 feet long, but we really couldn't say. It appeared to me that there was a white light that showed whenever one side was revealed during the tumble, however, my wife said she doesn't remember a light.

I found this site via Google, and read that someone from Torrington, CT, saw a dark rectangle in the sky 10 days after our sighting. Torrington is about 117 miles from Brattleboro, CT. I found it interesting that the person reported something similar to what we saw within a relatively recent timeframe.

About us:

I'm 47; a professional telecommunications consultant with a Master's Degree in International Defense Analysis. My wife is 44 and a teacher. Our daughter is 9. Neither I, nor my wife (and certainly not our child), had been drinking anything. The time of day was dusk, but with a clear blue sky, and white puffy clouds. Neither of us has ever seen anything even remotely similar to what we saw that day. We did not report this to the police, but I did post it in the local online community board, and no one else seems to have seen it.

Thank you to the witnesses for the interesting report.

Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/

HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

About two years ago in the evening time this incident occurred. The sun was setting and it had been a clear day we say perhaps four or five objects at perhaps two or three hundred feet moving in a straight line from SW to NE. We were in our vehicle driving home in the NW corner of the city of Leavenworth KS possible a mile or less from the western gate of Ft Leavenworth. These four or five objects were in formation single file slowly moving perhaps at a speed of 20-30 miles an hour moving over the highway in a northeasterly direction headed right over Ft Leavenworth. The objects looked like some sort of large box kites (they were yellowis-brown seemingly decorated with pieces of dry foliage). There was no observable wind, yet they moved gracefully over the highway, headed for the fort. My wife and I watched them in awe. No apparent propulsion, no apparent instrumentation. We know of no natural. They frames like a box kite, no way of being buoyant, yet they moved in formation. We shall never forget the sight.