The Ufonalyzer’s First UAP: A “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda” Event
By Ufonalyzer August, 2010
On August 19, 2010, at 9:40 pm in Central Arizona, the Ufonalyzer experienced his first ever Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. Here’s how it came about.
At about 9:40pm, the Ufonalyzer looked out a west-facing window and saw a very bright multicolored object flying from south to north. He went outside to see it better. It was quite unusual as it was very brightly lit for an aircraft and had some red lights on it too, but the predominant color was normal white light. Due to the noise from a nearby highway, he could not determine if it was making any audible sound of its own. The object appeared to be about 2000-4000 feet away and was about 5 degrees above the horizon. That was not the UAP, however.
Within about 10 seconds of going outside, he noticed two strings of lights moving northeast to southwest. The sky was brightly lit by a near full moon. It was so bright that it was one of those moonlit nights where you could almost discern colors. The sky was dotted with white puffy clouds which he estimated to be about 1000 feet above the ground. The two strings of lights were flashing small lights, each of which had some violet in them but mostly white. One string of them had about 4 flashing lights in it, only about two of them flashing at a time. The shorter string was moving parallel to the longer and had only about two flashing lights in it. ALL the lights were moving in unison as though they were affixed to a rigid framework which was not “seeable” from the ground. The lights when first observed were about 60-70 degrees above the horizon. Although traffic background noise existed, no noise was coming from the lights in that part of the sky.
The two flickering strings of parallel lights went into a cloud. No cloud disturbance was noted, indicating the what ever the strings of lights were mounted to was extremely thin. (It’s entirely possible that the lights went over the cloud too, but it sure looked like they went into the cloud. Furthermore, a little later, they appeared to go through another smaller cloud.) They were small lights. In about a minute, these lights disappeared into the distance. Never once did their speed and direction change during the sighting.
The Ufonalyzer continued to watch the original object that first drew his attention after the strings of lights left the area. He watched it for about 20 more minutes. It kept the same altitude and went north to south and then south to north for about four cycles. Once in a while it hovered. It sure looked like it was in a search mode. None of its array of lights was used toward the ground, and as best as he could tell none was used as a spotlight in any direction. He thinks it was looking for an aerial object, and naturally the likely suspect is the strings of lights described above. Finally the object (probably a search helicopter) went below the horizon. Just before it disappeared below the horizon, another similarly lit object emerged above the horizon about where the original was descending and headed northeast.
The Ufonalyzer has rehearsed in his head things that he would do if he had a sighting. He is ashamed to tell you that he was very slow and dull witted regarding this sighting because he did not do the obvious things. The only thing that was done was to fire a thought probe at the objects and noted that there was no change in their flight pattern due to this.
The obvious things which were not done follow next in this writeup and these will try to reconstruct the event after the fact even though this will result in more errors than if they had been done in real time during and immediately after the event.
Here is a diagram done 1 week after the event (it should have been done that very evening.) The longer string of lights might have been spanned by 3” of thumb and forefinger at arms length (22”). If the cloud that the lights went into was 1000’ up, then the cloud may have been 1200’ away because it was at an angle to the observer. This calculates out to a 163’ length for the longer string of lights. The longer string took perhaps 2 seconds to traverse its own length, which if it were 163’ long means it was moving only 60mph. The Ufonalyzer, in addition to not doing the right things at the opportune moment, also did not call the local airport the next day to confirm the cloud ceiling height. He also had to call his neighbor (whom he had told the next morning) to ask about the exact day of the sighting. Please, people, if you have a sighting, do a better job than the Ufonalyzer. The Ufonalyzer gives himself an “F” grade for this.
Anyhow, this probably shouldn’t be classified as a UFO sighting which is why the acronym UAP was used. The Ufonalzyer has always criticized night lights as being pretty useless and this one is no exception. It was exciting, nevertheless. Based on the very likely search mode that the apparent helicopter was in, the Ufonalzyer believes that the lights may well have indicated a UFO. It is also interesting to note that the light string’s path initially took it closer to the object that presumably was searching for it, but we all know that UFOs can ignore any and all of our efforts with impunity. But if the UFO had made itself invisible, then why have the visible flashing lights? It makes no sense. It is recommended that you read “UFO Detection” 12/2009 and “Those Vanishing UFOs” 12/2009 in this blog.
This sighting was not reported.
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