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UFO. United States

ID #1624787588
Added Sun, 27/06/2021
Author July N.
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
14.05.2008 03:00
Location: 
Топок, AZ
United States

On the river Colorado near Topoka, Arizona, one of the longtime residents of a houseboat was stunned to see a large bright "fiery object" rushing from the sky towards him. From the upper deck of his houseboat, RB was puzzled by the bright turquoise-blue color with shades of green, which he saw instead of red, yellow and orange under more ordinary fire.

Despite the strange blue-green color, the witness thought that perhaps he was watching a plane that was about to crash. Unbeknownst to RB, there was another eyewitness - Frank Costigan, former superintendent of Operations and chief of police at Los Angeles International Airport from 1978 to 1985 and Superintendent of Operations at Ontario International Airport in California from 1985 to 1986.

Frank got up to release his Siamese cat, and went outside to look at the clear night sky. His home is about three miles east of the Colorado River. To his surprise, a large bright object of many colors, dominated by turquoise-blue with a small amount of green, raced across the sky towards the Colorado River. Frank could also see some red and yellow colors similar to flames, and expected to hear a huge rumble from the impact.

"I thought I could hear something when he fell to the ground, because if he was as close as I thought, and so big, I thought I would hear something. But I didn't hear anything. And he disappeared from my field of vision before he fell to the ground."

But on the Colorado River, the RB was just 400 yards (360 m) from where the fiery turquoise blue object fell to the ground on the west side of the river. He was fishing at 3 am when he saw a bright turquoise flaming object. 

When he hit the ground about 100 yards (90 m) west of the river, he saw the whole thing bounce into the air with even more glowing red-yellow particles around the large central object. Still, he didn't hear the expected crash.

"There was only the sound of a blow," he told the interlocutor. 

But he was afraid that some plane had crashed, and urgently went down to the lower deck of his houseboat to get his mobile phone, and again went up to the upper deck to get a satellite signal for his phone. When he had a signal, he continued to dial 911, but only received a busy signal. All this took about seven minutes after the accident.

Then, to his complete amazement, the eyewitness heard the loud sound of a Sky-Hook or Skycrane helicopter flying rapidly in the night sky. 

The next thing he knew, the still-glowing object was hooked on a sky crane and quickly carried away. He thought the object was the size of a 10,000-gallon tanker truck and oval in shape. After sunrise, David Hayes, owner and CEO of KTOX AM 1340, was driving to work on I-40 in Needles when he saw very unusual cars traveling along with black and white US government license plates.

Original news

On the Colorado River near Topock Arizona a long time houseboat resident was stunned to see a large, bright “fiery object” hurtling from the sky toward him. From the upper deck on his houseboat, R. B. was puzzled by the vivid turquoise blue with touches of green he was seeing instead of reds, yellows and oranges in more normal fire.

Despite the strange blue green color, the witness thought perhaps he was watching a plane about to crash. R. B. did not know there was another eyewitness—Frank Costigan, retired former Superintendent of Operations and Police Chief at Los Angeles International Airport from 1978 to 1985 and Superintendent of Operations at Ontario International Airport in California from 1985 to 1986.

Frank had gotten up to let his Siamese cat out and went outside to look at the clear night sky. His home is about three miles east of the Colorado River. To his surprise a large, bright object of many colors dominated by turquoise blue with some green was streaking through the sky toward the Colorado River area. Frank could also see some red and yellow colors like flames and expected to hear the huge boom of a crash impact.

“I thought I might hear something when it hit the ground because if it was as close as I thought it was and as big as it was, I thought I would hear something. But I did not hear anything.

And it went out of my view before it hit the ground.”

But over on the Colorado River, R.B. was only about 400 yards from where the fiery turquoise blue object hit the ground on the west side of the river. He was outside fishing at 3am when he saw the brilliant turquoise blue flaming object. When it hit the ground about 100 yards west of the river he saw the whole thing bounce back up in the air with even more glowing red yellow pieces around the big center object. And yet, he did not hear the crash sound he expected.

“There was only a thump sound,” he told the source. But he was afraid that some kind of plane had crashed and urgently went down to the lower deck of his houseboat to get his cell phone and climbed back up to the top deck to get a satellite signal for his phone. When he had a signal he kept dialing 911, but only got a busy signal. All of this took about seven minutes after the crash.

Then to his complete amazement the witness heard the loud sound of a sky-hook or skycrane helicopter coming fast in the night sky. The next thing he knew the still glowing object was hooked underneath the skycrane and carried away rapidly. He thought that the object as big as a 10,000 gallon tank truck and oval shaped. After the sun came up, David Hayes the owner and general manager of KTOX AM 1340 was driving to work along I-40 in Needles when he saw very unusual vehicles traveling together with black and white U.S. government license plates.

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