Q: What is this site all about?
A: UFO sighting reports on a map.

Here is an excerpt of interest from Wikipedia’s Unidentified flying object article…

Typical reported characteristics of UFOs:
* Saucer, toy-top, or disk-shaped “craft” without visible or audible propulsion. (day and night)
* Rapidly-moving lights or lights with apparent ability to rapidly change direction — the earliest mention of their motion was given as “saucers skipping on water.” Disc-shaped craft are sometimes reported to move in an irregular or “wobbly”manner at low speeds.
* Large triangular “craft” or triangular light pattern
* Cigar-shaped “craft” with lighted windows (Meteor fireballs are sometimes reported this way).

The number of different shapes, sizes, and configurations of claimed UFOs has been large, with descriptions of chevrons, equilateral triangles, spheres, domes, diamonds, shapeless black masses, eggs, and cylinders. Skeptics argue this diversity of shapes, size and configurations points to a socio-psychological explanation. Other researchers argue that the large diversity of UFO shapes points to a possible paraphysical origin. Still others argue that there is a large diversity in the shapes and sizes of human flying craft, reflecting different origins, propulsion systems, and purposes, so such diversity in UFOs is not necessarily unexpected or inexplicable.

Other advocates, arguing for the non-conventional interpretation, reply that the volume of impressive sightings reported by witnesses, from commercial airline pilots to United States presidents, and occasionally captured on film and radar, possesses strong consistency and cannot be explained away simply as mundane phenomena (weather balloons, aircraft, Venus, etc.).

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 10/28/2008 19:38 (Entered as : 10/28/08 19:38)
Reported: 10/30/2008 11:51:19 AM 11:51
Posted: 10/31/2008
Location: Medanales, NM
Shape: Fireball
Duration:2 minutes

On the night of October 28, at 19:38, I was going northwest on highway 84 in Northern New Mexico. I was at milepost 204, near the town of Medanales, when a large chartreuse green fireball appeared to my right, to the east of me, about halfway up the night sky. This fireball was trailing a trail of orange sparks. If I were to use my thumb and hold it about 4 inches from my face, and squint with one eye, the fireball was the size of my thumb, and the orange trail of sparks was twice the length of my thumb. This fireball suddenly appeared. I was driving 60 miles per hour, and it was zooming on by, traveling horizontally in the same direction as I was, proceeding northwest at what appeared to be 100 miles an hour.

NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with this witness, just a few minutes after the event, and we found her to be an exceptionally good witness, given her ability to report the facts surrounding the event in a mature, objective, and factual manner.

Because the object appeared to the witness to be “shedding” sparks, we assume that the object was a typical, bright meteor. However, we are uncertain what the object was, given the other sightings that were reported from across the U. S. on the same night.

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