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Nevada teenagers encounter multiple UFOs and missing time

August 8, 2009

A Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) report by STAR Team Manager and SIP Project Coordinator Richard Lang details the May 7, 2009, case of two Fallon, Nevada, teenagers who witnessed multiple boomerang-shaped UFOs, chased them, and experienced lost time.

Christine Dickey was the lead case investigator with investigator Paul Dickey for MUFON Case # 16818 and Case # 16819. The UFO Examiner first reported this story on May 8, in UFO Traffic Report: Couple has close encounter in Nevada desert.

According to the report, the two teenagers – one male and one female – were alone in their car near the Fallon Naval Air Station at 9:18 p.m. when they encountered odd lights in the sky to the east. Three boomerang-shaped objects were seen with five lights on each.

They said that each object had one light at its center, one in the middle of each side, and one at each end.

While they watched the three objects, one of them separated from the group, shut off three of its five lights, and appeared as though it would land or crash. At this point, the two witnesses decided to give chase. After driving 3 and-a-half miles, one of the objects moved closer to their vehicle – about 100 yards away and just 20 feet off of the ground – and began to pace it. And a second object positioned itself behind them. At this point, they accelerated from 30 to 50 miles per hour, but the objects kept pace.

The witnesses observed that the objects were about 50 feet across, but they could not estimate their thickness. They drove five more miles, stopping where the road came to a dead end. They turned their vehicle around at a dairy farm’s private drive, and stopped next to an irrigation canal.

The first object was now circling 50 feet above them, while the second object was still behind them at about 50 feet off of the ground.

The female witness described the craft’s main body as “silvery, but when it banked and turned it appeared to be transparent and she could see the stars through the hull of the craft. She described the crafts as being shaped almost like a horseshoe, having two rear ends with red glowing elements.”
The male witness used a million-candle spotlight from his truck to shine on the craft above, using his hand to shade the light back-and-forth to produce a “signal.” The object overhead then responded by descending from 50 feet to 20 feet above them.

At this point in the report, the witnesses have a lost time period. Their next recollection for both of them was driving home, where the male witness recalled that he looked into the rear view mirror and noticed that one of the objects was a “considerable distance” behind them, and then it disappeared.

The witnesses reported that they had been parked near the irrigation canal for only about five minutes, but after they worked through the time sequence with investigators, it appears they were at that location for as long as an hour and 20 minutes.

One odd event at the scene involved a broken iPod in the vehicle. During the event, the unit began playing music, but after the event, they realized it was back to its original and broken state. Additionally, they reported that there were no sounds during the incident coming from any of the nearby farm animals. And no insects were seen or heard during the event. During a demonstration with investigators at the scene, moths could be seen near the spotlight and flying insects were seen above and near the canal water.

Both witnesses arrived at their Fallon homes at 11 p.m. and reported the encounter to their parents. The male witness returned to the scene about an hour later with his father. At this time they were able to observe the area “being combed by helicopters and black SUVs with dark windows” and apparently military personnel with flashlights walking the area. The helicopters were using spotlights to search the ground from the air. The two decided not to approach the group.

The Public Affairs duty officer at Fallon Naval Air Station on May 14, 2009, confirmed an “unspecified aircraft incident” on May 7, 2009, between midnight and 1 a.m.

Fallon is primarily an agricultural community and is the county seat in Churchill County in western Nevada with a population of 7,536. While the area is arid, there are 50,000 acres of irrigated farmland where the principal crop is alfalfa. Route 50 is the main road in town and Fallon is the western most city in the “Loneliest Road in America,” a stretch of Route 50 famed for its remoteness. Eastbound travelers must drive 110 miles to the next town – Austin, Nevada. Naval Air Station Fallon is a significant employer.

Naval Air Station Fallon or NAS Fallon is the United States Navy's premier air-to-air and air-to-ground training facility. Since 1996, it has been home to the Naval Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), and the surrounding area contains 84,000 acres of bombing and electronic warfare ranges. It is also home to the Naval Strike Air Warfare Center (NSAWC), which includes TOPGUN, the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School (TOPDOME) and the Navy Rotary Wing Weapons School. Navy SEAL Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) training also takes place here.

Lang’s report appeared in the July 2009 issue of the MUFON UFO Journal. Mark Easter is the Nevada MUFON state director.

Are flying saucers overhead? Many believe

Are alien spacecraft, as some Nevadans increasingly claim, patrolling the skies above Carson City and other communities in Northern Nevada?

Virtually all responsible scientists say those who claim they have seen or ridden in them are delusional, hoaxers or ordinary people who innocently misidentify stars, satellites, aircraft, solar flares and military drones.

Whether or not you believe such spacecraft are real, you’ll be intrigued to learn that a 2012 National Geographic Channel poll revealed that 36 percent of Americans believe they exist, 17 percent do not and the rest are undecided.

And the UFO Reporting Center (UFORC) in Seattle reports that sightings have increased in the U.S. by 46 percent over the past four years.

Here in Northern Nevada, at least two dozen of the alleged sightings have been registered with the UFORC as having recently occurred over Carson City, Dayton, Gardnerville, Fallon and Winnemucca.

In one instance, a Carson City married couple claimed they saw “three mysterious objects surrounded by star-like blinking objects” flying in a “triangle formation near our home.”

In two other reports filed with the UFORC, two Carson men said they had seen “egg-shaped objects bearing very bright lights hover over the ground and then take off” and “a cigar-shaped, wingless craft with white, reflective-like hulls pass over our house at night.”

A Dayton resident driving along U.S. Highway 50 to Mound House said he encountered a flying saucer hover over his car. The saucer, he stated, had “large, wide-open windows through which I could see a female with white, flowing robes. She smiled at me and I could see her hand had three fingers and a thumb. The men in the saucer had no hair, and they drew the drapes and the saucer flew off,” he told the UFORC.

A Carson City man who said he was “a former pilot with more than 20 years experience in military fighters” reported he and his family witnessed a “mysterious object surrounded by a semicircle of blue and green lights” streak across Highway 95 north of Carson. A Gardnerville man reported he had seen a “silver craft with no signs or lights” fly over his house before taking off.

A Fallon man who described himself as an “air traffic controller for more than 24 years” said he and several colleagues saw “a very large, chrome, silver or mirrored sphere” travel about 3,600 mph over Fallon Naval Air Station. Another Fallonite reported he and his wife also had seen five such spheres flying over town “for several hours.”

I’ve never seen a flying saucer, but I know a fellow who says he has. His name is Leo R. Sprinkle, and he holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Missouri.

I met Dr. Sprinkle in the mid-1970s, when I was chairman of the Journalism Department at the University of Wyoming in Laramie and he was a professor of psychology and director of the university’s Division of Counseling and Testing. The Henley and Sprinkle families were neighbors and friends, and our children attended the same Laramie schools.

In addition to my administrative and teaching responsibilities, I wrote a weekly Sunday column for the Cheyenne Tribune-Eagle and the Laramie Daily Boomerang.

Upon learning that Sprinkle had told his students and fellow academicians he had seen flying saucers, I interviewed him and devoted one of my columns to his allegations. It appeared in both newspapers Sunday, Nov. 2, 1975, under the headline “UW Professor Says All Evidence Points to Fact of Flying Saucers.”

My column also was accompanied by a photo of Sprinkle and an illustration, drawn by my wife, Ludie, that depicted a “space creature” as described to me by Sprinkle that reportedly had been seen emerging from a flying saucer near the town of Rawlins, Wyo.

During my interview with Sprinkle, he said that “saucer folks” come in all shapes and sizes ... ”some are green and they like people and flowers.” Others, he said, “have pumpkin-like heads that resemble helmets. Some saucer folks have large eyes that extend around the sides of their heads.”

The saucers themselves “come in many sizes ... ranging from 5 feet in diameter to huge pencil-shaped craft 500 yards long,” Sprinkle told me.

The saucers usually land in rural or uninhabited areas because their occupants are fearful of humans, added Sprinkle, who also told me that he had seen two saucers: “One was a round, metallic object and the other was bright and glowing.”

Today, 38 years after my interview with Dr. Sprinkle was published, he is 83 years old and retired from teaching. But he writes for professional journals, appears on the lecture circuit and has appeared as a guest on network television programs such as NBC’s “Today” show.

I haven’t seen or spoken with Sprinkle since my family and I left Wyoming in 1977 to purchase the then-weekly Lahontan Valley News. But if I asked him if he believes spacecraft are flying over Nevada, I am confident he would answer, “of course.”

David C. Henley is publisher emeritus of the Lahontan Valley News, a sister publication to the Nevada Appeal.

Nevada teenagers encounter multiple UFOs and missing time

Special Report: UFO Activity in Nevada

Multiple UFO sighting on New Year's

Reports of UFO Sightings Across California

By Dina Abou Salem

Jan 2, 2014 2:23pm

Federal authorities said today there has been no “unusual flight activity” in California despite a flurry of reports by civilians in several cities who believe they saw strange lights in the sky on New Years morning.

“I seen like six bright orange colored lights,” Kaye Pinlac of Stockton told ABCNews affiliate News 10. “They were almost like in a diamond or triangle shape. It was weird. And so they started just separating.” Pinlac captured a video of the lighted object on his iPhone.

More witnesses across California reported similar sightings around the same time, including from Sacramento and Auburn.

Witnesses across California reported strange lights in the sky on New Years morning. ABC News

“Well, we saw it right through the trees,” Steven Brown from Sacramento told News 10.

“It was bright enough to shine directly through the trees without any problem seeing it,” he said. “Whatever it was moved up and to the left… It hovered there for probably about 60 seconds, then it took off at a high rate of speed.”

Auburn residents Terry and Hans Mauth told News 10 described similar sightings that happened on New Year’s Eve. “No sound, no blinking lights, just this big illuminated form,” said Terry Mauth.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said there were no reports of UFOs.

“There was no unusual flight activity reported Tuesday night,”Gregor told ABCNews.com today.

The reports came few days after the discovery of a crop circle in Salinas, Calif., which also sparked speculation that were UFO related.

Are flying saucers overhead? Many believe