Black Triangle Over Alum Creek Lake
by William E. Jones and Dr. Irena Scott
Our witness lives on the north side of Shoreline Drive about one half mile west of the south end of Alum Creek Lake in Delaware County, Ohio. He lives in a subdivision of new two story upper middle class homes that are "typical" for the housing developments currently under construction and being planned for this area. The southern Delaware County area has been changing rapidly from its rural past as a crowded metropolitan Columbus inexorably moves north out of Franklin County. Dr. Scott's ancestor, Lee Hurlburt, on land inhabited only a few short years before by Native Americans, first settled the area in the early 1800s. Now that area is changing once again as the rural life style disappears and BMWs and Mercedes Benz automobiles replace the farm tractors and Ford pick ups of a few short years ago.
Shoreline Drive runs east to west from Lewis Center Road that runs around this part of the lake. The sighting occurred in October of 1998. It was on a Sunday of that month, which Sunday our witness does not recall. But he does remember it was 8:55 PM because the "X-Files" was coming on in five minutes. He stepped outside into his front yard to get a bit of fresh air. The sky was dark and overcast up high; he remembers seeing no stars.
As he stepped into the yard he heard "a loud rumbling sound" coming from behind him and up in the air. The sound was like thunder heard at a distance, but much louder. It was heard during the entire sighting. He turned northward to face the front of his home. Within a short moment he detected movement in the sky coming from behind the roofline of his house. He was looking up at approximately a 70 degree angle. There, silhouetted against the gray sky, was a sharp image of a black triangle, moving from northwest to southeast with one of the points in the forward position. This image was clear against the sky. It was not the psychological construct of the intensely bright lights that shown from each corner of the equilateral triangle above him. In the center of the triangle he saw two strobe lights, one red and the other either blue or green. He first thought these were aircraft running lights, but then realized that such aircraft lights are not that bright nor do they go off and on in the "strobe like fashion" of these lights. This wasn't like any airplane that he had ever seen, he quickly concluded.
The object was as big as his hand extended at arms length with his fingers fully extended and spread apart. The surface of the triangle was uniform in color and appeared to be "tangible"; The outline of the triangle was "hard"; very real. The three lights were each about 1/3 the size of the full Moon. These lights were bright and seemed to be pointed directly downward, but he could see no beam or image from any of them. The colored lights were bright, but small like points. They went off and on in about one second intervals, with one light on when the other was off.
Our witness watched this apparent object move across about a 30 degree arc of sky between the roof of his house and the roof of his neighbor's house next door in a minute or less. It was moving slowly. He could tell neither how high the triangle was nor how big it was, but he said that it was probably relatively low because the lights would have appeared more diffuse had it been higher. As the object disappeared behind the his neighbor's roofline, he thought about going into his backyard to continue to watch its flight. However the area was dark and a fence was in the way, and the "X-Files" was coming on, after all. He returned to his home and to the excitement of the show. A friend who is a member of the Ohio Air National Guard, upon hearing about the sighting, commented that the triangle was not like anything in our known aircraft inventory. It was then the realization that he might have had his own "X-Files" type experience hit him. He really had seen a UFO and calling Scully and Moulder wouldn't help.
Black Triangle Sighting in West Virginia
by Alberta UFO Study Group
This sighting took place one night in the last week of August 1997, about ten miles south of Marietta, Ohio and approximately six miles from Mineral Wells, West Virginia. The following statements are from the witness as he described his experience:
"As I was proceeding down the highway (I-77), my partner yelled, "Look at that!" He startled me so bad I almost lost control of the truck. Anyway, I looked out my side window and to my total astonishment, I witnessed a large, black triangle heading eastward just above the hills. I gathered my senses and pulled the truck off the road. We both got out of the truck to look at it. As I held my arm straight up and made a fist, it was about twice the size of my fist [estimated by the witness to be about 50 to 60 feet, tip to tip]. If I had a rock, I could have hit it.
"I could see, plainly, that it had a non-reflective, kind of like flat-black, surface. On the bottom of this craft were four lights. They looked as if they were on dim. That is to say, they did not shine brightly but were definitely visible. It had one red/orange light in the middle and a beige light at each of the three corners. The lights appeared to be somewhat recessed, although not deeply. The one thing that caught my attention was that it made no sounds, what so ever. It just seemed to float. It was moving so slowly that I could have out-raced it on foot.
"We watched it for at least ten minutes, then it moved over the hills and we lost sight of it. We got back into the truck and went south a few miles and I pulled over to see if I could see it again. We did not see anything again that night."
Dark Triangular Craft Seen Near Toledo
by Anonymous
This report about an Ohio case is a summary of the original that appears on the National UFO Reporting Center's web site.
We asked the Center if they would be able to put us in contact with the author, but no response was received to this request. If anyone has heard about this case from another source please contact us.On or about 02/15/98 at approximately 23:35 hours I observed a large charcoal gray to black UFO. This craft was slowly traveling across the sky from northeast to southwest at between 1000 to 1500 feet in altitude. There was a very low rumbling, more felt than heard, coming from the craft. It was approximately 100 to 150 feet long, and 100 feet wide at it's widest point. There were three strobe lights shifting from dull green to bright blue on this craft, one at each of its three tips. I would estimate the original speed of the craft at between 150 and 200 MPH.
This sighting took place within 3 to 5 miles of the Toledo airport. I heard two Ohio National Guard F-16s take off and head in my direction. Both passed directly over my head. The large craft suddenly increased it speed, then tilted upward at I would say was an almost 90 degree angle and continued to accelerate. Both F-16s attempted to stay with the craft, but soon broke off the chase and headed back toward the airport.
Dayton, Ohio Triangle Report
by Jim Spangler, Dayton, Ohio
Jim Spangler received the following report from a witness who lives in the Huber Heights subdivision of Dayton.
I "accidentally" saw a genuine UFO from my yard Sunday night, May 2, 1999. I was sitting out by a campfire by myself. It was about 10 PM. I had just brought out my binoculars to do a little look around the sky. There were a lot of stars but a lot of ground light as well since we live about a block from Brandt behind Marian Lanes. A full moon was just beginning to come up. I looked up at some star in the northeast. I saw nothing until I put up the binoculars. I immediately saw a big triangle. It was long and isosceles shaped, with a white light on all three corners. The back end was the short side being approximately 1/3 the length of the other two sides. It was gliding straight down slowly.
The back two lights are what I first saw then realized that it was real black between them (I couldn't see any background stars). I moved the glasses down slightly and then saw the nose light. I could hardly believe it. I couldn't hear anything coming from it but I had the feeling that it was way up in the heavens. Its lights were about the same brightness as the other stars. The whole length was slightly longer than my field of vision. I had to move the glasses down to see the whole thing, which I did several times. I tried to see if I could see it with unaided vision, but I couldn't. Then I couldn't locate it again with or without the binoculars.
The sighting lasted about 10 seconds. I think it was real far away and HUGE.
Colorado Triangle
An unusual triangular like craft was seen in 1998 in Colorado. While not an Ohio sighting, it so unusual we thought we would report on it here along with the local sightings. This report appeared in an article entitled "Reports of Unusual Aerial Activities These Past Few Months" by Chris O'Brien in the January 1999 issue of the Crestone Eagle, page 8.
Monday, September 14, at 6:15 am, Highway 285 north of Monte Vista, Colorado: a Monte Vista resident, while headed north on 285, witnessed a "V-shaped craft hovering over the tops of the mountains to the west." The sun was above the horizon and seemed to reflect off the object "like the sun reflecting on an airplane wing," but the object's structure was still plainly visible to the witness. The witness described the object as looking like "2 big rectangular pillars put together in a V shape; the size of three commercial airliners." The witness observed the craft for over ten minutes before he traveled too far north and left it behind him, still hovering over the mountains. No one else driving on 285 seemed to notice the object which puzzled the witness because, "it was so big".
Rhode Island Triangle With Logo
Now that we are getting away from Ohio triangle sightings, I don't think it would hurt to quote a very unusual report that is found in Filer's Files 18, 1999, published on the Internet by former MUFON UFO Network Eastern Director George A. Filer.
Dennis reports that on February 15, 1999, a triangle passed overhead heading west to east while he was driving on Route 138 north of Woodville. He lost sight of it due to the trees. A few days later on February 20, he and his wife were sitting in their sunroom at 11:40 PM. They were watching a fox feed on bread they had out outside, when a craft appeared headed in a southerly direction. They stepped out on their porch for a closer look. Dennis states: "The craft passed over us silently, slowly, steadily and very low. The underside of it was dimly lighted by a hazy white light, thus making it possible to see the logo. The logo was a triangle edged in yellow containing the Earth being struck by two lightning bolts with the number "1" in the right hand corner. As it approached, a feeling of serenity and calm came over us making it a wonderful feeling to watch as it passed overhead. I estimate the speed of the craft at five to ten miles an hour. The size was approximately forty feet in length and forty feet wide at the rear of the craft, with the nose of the craft forming a point. The craft looked similar to a Stealth fighter, however it was a much larger plane. The altitude of the craft was about one hundred feet. I repeat, there was not a sound from the craft and it did not even create a breeze."
George talked at length with Dennis who states that the logo or insignia was five feet in diameter and at the front was the Omega symbol. The two lightning strikes began at the 11 and 1 oclock position. George said that Roman soldiers who conquered ancient Britain used a similar lightning symbol.
Selectively Visible Triangle?
The following item is from: Filer's Files 19, 1999.
The young witness writes: "I live by Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana. At the park in my small town, while playing with friends on the gymnasium I saw a black triangular shaped aircraft. I pointed it out to my friends who were unable to see it, however, my brother standing next to me was able to observe it. I think this has something to do with the angle of the sighting. It flew at a very slow speed. It was flying very low at only 800 to 2000 feet when it disappeared behind some tress. Suddenly the sky opened up and it began to rain, so we just went home. This was in July of 1996"
Book on Triangles
For those of you who feel that these triangles just might be Terrestrial in origin, there was a book on the market that explores this possibility in a lucid and objective way. Tim Matthews' book, UFO Revelation; The Secret Technology Exposed?, was published by Blanford with a 1999 copyright date. It was available from Amazon.com. The book is without political rantings of an extreme Nazi-like nature found in some of the literature that looks back to the early 1900s for the early history of the triangles. Perhaps we have been on the Extraterrestrial kick for so long that we are missing some important alternatives to at least part of the UFO mystery. Highly recommended.