Post by Joanna on Nov 26, 2014 19:47:26 GMT -5
Boomerang-shaped UFO Seen over New Hampshire
Around 8 p.m. Sunday, October 5, in the rural north end of Concord, New Hampshire, Ben Speigel was hanging around with a neighborhood friend when something caught their attention in the distance above some trees. "We saw what looked like a bright orb in the sky and something that we thought was a helicopter seemed to be following it," Ben said. "We didn't know what it was and I took a picture (above) of it on my iPod. When I zoomed in, we could see that it was a V-shape. It was probably as bright as when you look at a plane that blinks, but this wasn't blinking. There was a red light blinking on and off [some distance away from the object] and that's what made us think it was a helicopter. It was zigzagging across the sky, not fast, but it kept going back and forth. It made a turn and went up and then down and then back and forth again. As it was circling around, it went up and circled again. The object just finally disappeared behind the trees (shown below) and we didn't see it anymore. The whole sighting lasted about five minutes."
An hour later, 30 miles south in Nashua, New Hampshire, a family traveling in their car, en route home, saw a boomerang-shaped object, with three white bright lights and two smaller, amber colored-lights on the bottom of it. "We were heading west toward the Everett Turnpike when I spotted a twinkle high up in the sky," Nashua resident Jim Bowe said. "At first glance, you'd think it was just a star, but it was slightly larger than the stars further behind it, and I thought that was weird. My wife and I were watching it and when we turned north, we lost sight of it for a second, and then, there it was again, just above the highway. My wife and son kept watching it while I was driving, and it eventually appeared to be just above the treetops, and traveling no more than 30 or 40 mph, because we were doing 50 and we could see it moving slowly, just in front of us. Then, as we drove under it, we could still see it moving over the trees, making no sound whatsoever. The lights on this thing were perfectly round and shaped like domes. They were situated at the point – the nose – with one on each end of the wings. The lights didn't blink or change, they were just a steady, constant brightness. And there were no red or green marker lights, like you'd see on regular aircraft. My wife said she saw amber colors on each tip, right next to the big dome lights."
The first thing Bowe did after arriving home was sketch the object, then showed it to his older son, John, who created a computer rendering of the UFO. To follow up the sighting, Bowe did two other things. First, he called the nearby Nashua airport. "I asked them if they could provide me with flight times of planes coming in and out of there and what directions they were going in. I got an email back, saying, 'we're sorry, but at that time of the night, there was nobody here, so we don't have any records.' There was no one on duty at the time [of the sighting]."
The next thing Bowe did was to file a report with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), who turned the case over to NH field investigator Mark Podell. According to Podell, the object mostly likely has an Earth-based explanation: "I've studied aircraft and propulsion systems for 25 years. I think this sighting adds up to it being a man-made, possibly stealth aircraft that has abilities that most people are not aware of."
Bowe respectfully disagrees with that assessment. "I think it was extraterrestrial, in my personal opinion. From what I witnessed, I've never seen a craft that could do that – being that big – float by without falling out of the sky and not making a sound. It wasn't a blimp or a drone. I estimated the size of it. The wings were about the size of two tour buses – that's how big this was over the trees."
As with the earlier UFO sighting in Concord, the Bowe incident lasted around five minutes before the object left, heading east above the trees.
Back in Concord, Ben hesitated to speculate on what he thinks he photographed that night. "It was a UFO, an unidentified flying object. I didn't know what to think – it was just there."
MUFON is continuing its investigation of the New Hampshire boomerang.
Source: Lee Speigel, Huffington Post, November 25, 2014.