| ID | #1617304499 |
| Added | Thu, 01/04/2021 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | National UFO Reporting Center
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Research
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Initial data
Dawn is coming ahead of schedule [from the west] over a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. October 27, 1997, 21: 42.
Black night, low clouds, light drizzle. From the west, beyond the horizon, light rises gradually and quickly, like the dawn, but much faster. Illuminates the entire sky, but no object is visible because of the cloud. The waters of the lagoon are as blue as day. Birds take off from the trees. The roosters are crowing.
The light passes overhead, then up and to the side (instead of leaning over the opposite horizon). At least 200 witnesses, including the director ((name removed)), have ever read, let alone seen, something like this. in the middle of the night. Some say they saw a blue light.
A group of soccer players resting after a practice match say they felt a strong gust of wind as it flew past. One guy saw this while fishing in the ocean and jumped for cover under his boat.
Experienced merchant seamen at home on vacation have never seen or heard of anything like this before. To this day, no one knows what it could have been. The TV footage of meteorites hitting the atmosphere, while impressive, doesn't look like it at all. The whole sky is lit up here, not part of it.
As the light source passed overhead, a red spot appeared on the western horizon, like an explosion, things fell into the ocean, burned, then black.
Funafuti is a coral atoll, extremely flat, so that all the horizons are visible. In total, the event lasted about 15 seconds. There was no noise. Tuvalu is located 700 km north of Fiji, in a remote place where there are no airlines. Nothing like this has been seen [in Tuvalu] before or since, at least in living memory.
If it was photographed, which it isn't, it would probably look like an artist's impression of the "second coming" in the Watchtower style, but without the figures and pipes.
Original news
Date: October 27 1997
Location: Funafuti Tuvalu
Time: 21:42
Summary: dawn arrives ahead of schedule [from the West] over a remote Pacific Island. 27 October 1997, 9:42pm A black night, low cloud, light drizzle. From the west, below the horizon a light lifts steadily and quickly, like dawn, but much faster. Lights up the entire sky but no object discernable because of the cloud. Lagoon waters turn blue, like day. Birds fly startled from the trees. Roosters crow. The light passes overhead then up and away (rather than bending over the opposite horizon}. At least 200 witnesses, including the Director of ((deleted)) ever read of, never mind seen, anything similar. Like dawn breaking at high speed in the middle of the night. Some say they saw a blue light. A group of football players, resting after a practise match, say they felt a strong rush of wind as it flew past. One guy saw it while out in the ocean fishing and jumped for cover under his boat. Seasoned merchant navy sailors, home on vacation, had never witnessed or heard of anything like it before. To this day no one has a clue as to what it could have been. Footage on tv of meteorites entering the atmosphere, while spectacular, were nothing at all like this. Here the entire sky lit up, not just a portion of it. As the source of the light passed overhead there was a reddening low on the Western horizon, like explosions, things dropping into the ocean, burning, then blackness. Funafuti is a coral atoll, extremely flat, making visibility of all horizons very clear. The event took maybe 15 seconds it total. There was no noise. Tuvalu is 700 km north of Fiji, remote, and on no airline flightpath. Nothing like this had been seen [in Tuvalu] before, or since, at least not in living memory. If photographed, which it wasn’t, it would probably look something like an artists impression of the ‘second coming’, Watchtower style, but without the figures and trumpets
Source: National UFO Reporting Center
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