UFO SIGHTINGS
REPORTS AND INVESTIGATIONS BY DONNIE BLESSING
SOUTHERN OHIO SECTION DIRECTOR FOR MUFON
JOJO FROM HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA SENT ME THE FOLLOWING REPORTS.
My sightings and experiences
The following is an attempt to, describe in detail my sightings and experiences. I will start from the most recent and work backwards to the first memory that I can recall. With an artistic background, I feel I have a very good recall of memory and detail. From an early age I've always been interested in UFOs and other left of center subjects. But not until my sighting on January 27th (a Wednesday morning) 1998 had I really considered the reality of UFOs and beings from another world. I doubted anybody who had claimed to have seen such or considered them mentally deficient in some way. I am a true believer now and I seek out others like me who have seen and want to know more. That cliche "Seeing is believing" is more true than most people will ever know. The following is a conscious attempt to recall all that I have seen and experienced. Furthermore, my sightings are increasing in frequency and intensity.
3/8/07: Last Thursday afternoon around 2:30pm I went out to the garage to get some liquid nails. When I exited the garage a barrage of high flying jets caught my attention. I noticed a group of three coming out of the southeast and three more in formation flying in from the southwest. I also notice a few more very high up jets that were almost as large as a passenger jet but they all were flying in intersecting paths. The sky looked very crowded to say the least. I wondered to myself "what in the heck are all those jets doing up there and flying in the same direction. Their contrails were highly visible. I live in a small town of less than fifty thousand people and there aren't any military bases nearby for hundreds of miles. In fact we have only one very small local airport and the bigger airport is an hour away Charleston. I looked ahead of the planes towards the north east and I was very surprised to see a very quickly moving silver cylinder shaped object. It was much lower in altitude than the jets (about half their height). I would not have noticed it if it weren't for the reflection that it threw off. It was glinting in the sunshine and traveling in a straight line fashion as it remained horizontal. It was blunted on both ends and the underside was in shadow. I couldn't see a tail, wings, or contrail but it had a very dark (almost like a black void) band that encircled the middle. I ran into my house to get my digital camera binoculars and rushed back out. I scanned the sky in the direction of where I had last seen the cylinder but could find nothing but the high altitude jets flying over the area where I had last seen the object. I took pictures of at least three different types of military jets including very high altitude jet fighters (fifty thousand feet or more), medium/large passenger type jets (around thirty thousand feet) and what appeared to be a white cargo type plane (about ten to fifteen thousand feet). I also saw a white and orange helicopter that flew in from the east, circled the entire town, and then flew out toward the west. The sky was very congested with as many as twelve aircraft flying high over this small town. I called my best friend Mike (an ex marine and Gulf War veteran) to come outside and when he saw the number of jets flying in pairs and in groups of threes and singly he thought it was a bit unusual for such a small town. An hour later the sky was clear. However, I took quite a few photographs with the digital camera binocs
3/2/07: It was about 12:45 am and I had just awoken from sleeping and couldn't fall back asleep. I and my girlfriend had just gone to bed around 10:30pm. I wanted to get some much needed rest but I was wide awake as I lied there on my left side facing the clock. When I closed my eyes images would appear and were being flashed on the inside of my eye lids for a split second at a time. I remember seeing the diamond shaped, shaped craft - along with schematics out to the left of it. I saw strange alien faces, light forms and craft zipping about in flash card format on the back side of my eye lids. I was completely awake.
I felt compelled to go look out the bathroom window and when I did I noticed a bright red (steady brightness) light. It looked like an upside down Dixie cup. There was a bright white strobe light underneath the red light. There was some discernable space in between the two lights but nothing could be seen. I felt that the shape should have been visible, at least a hint as to what it could be, when the brighter white strobe flashed. It hovered motionlessly while I peered out the bathroom window and thought to it. " I see you there". There wasn't a sound other than a gusty breeze and the sky was mostly cloudy. I went back to the bedroom to get my girlfriend. I asked her, "Wanna see something cool?" She said yes. And after locating her glasses she peered out to see the same red, upside down, Dixie cup shaped light. It had drifted away just a little but was still moving much to slow to be a helicopter. She stated that she couldn't hear any kind of sound. It was a somewhat creepy and gave me the feeling as if I were being watched back. I estimated it to have been less than five hundred feet up and maybe three to four hundred yards away. I got the phone and called my neighbor who tried to locate it with his night vision binoculars. He had a difficult time trying to get in into the field of view of his binocs but could easily see it with his unaided eyes. As we all three watched, it drifted further towards the south east in a very direct and straight path and seemed to rest atop a tree covered ridge just to the side of the I-64 highway. It never gained altitude nor wavered. My neighbor couldn't hear a sound either. Other than our voices and a strong, gusty wind there was nothing but an eerie silence.
My girlfriend stated, "That's what I saw earlier". She said at approximately 8:30pm she went outside in the front of the house and saw what she thought was a helicopter. She said that it got her attention because of the strobe and as she looked at it and wondered what it could be, as it made no sound, she said it backed away and went into a big cloud bank to the south west above the house. It never came out of the cloud bank. This is when she came in and told me. I did not want to go out and look as I already had seen enough but I thought she had misidentified the Healthnet chopper located at Cabell Huntington Hospital. However, as we studied it from our bathroom window she was adamant that it was the same thing she had seen earlier.
3/01/07: I worked the night shift. As I left work, I noticed my truck was one of the last few vehicles left in the parking lot. I was somewhat pleased to see that the sky had cleared up and all the stars were visible. Just before reaching my truck I looked up to notice one bright star. I watched it for a few seconds and I got that feeling as if it were looking back at me. It appeared as a greenish blue orb of twinkling light and then with out warning I saw a smaller red orb dart out from behind it or maybe it was ejected from it towards my right. The red orb appeared to disappear a very short distance away from the green orb. A second or two later I saw a shooting star like light appear a short distance, at an angle, in front of the green orb and then disappear underneath or slightly behind it. I calmly took out the night vision digital camera binoculars, turned it on, then checked to see it was on and then located the green orb which seemed to be vibrating with a white grid overlain on it. I calmly took six photos and listened for the beep as I took them (to ensure I was indeed taking them). And then I got into my truck and went home.
2/27/07: On this night. two coworkers had joined me to sky watch on our thirty minute break. I immediately located an unusually bright star that pulsed. It was a luminous green orb very high up. It seemed to bounce around vibrate against the binocs. I passed the binocs to a female coworker so she could have a better look while I and a male coworker (whom I've known before working together) watched. She said it was a like "a green ball… just zipping around". Another curious coworker came along and asked what were we watching and I nonchalantly said "Just a UFO". He was on his cell phone when he started to say "Oh, you all are just looking at a plane or a star…." Then he grew silent as he watched with us as the orb pulsed brightly and then moved away in a sweeping arc and slowly descended downwards in a deliberate manner. A large ridgeline was in our direct line of view and we lost sight of it as it dropped out of sight. All were in agreement that it was not a plane, nor a star. I was very much glad to have three others with me, in particular the doubter Even the doubter suddenly changed his mind.
2/23/07: I had a witness this time. Tonight at work at approximately 8:15pm, I saw the same cone like object from Altizer, as it hovered over the Proctorville area. As soon as I came outside, I immediately located the luminous object. It was a bit higher in the sky and somewhat closer (approx. 20 degrees) above the horizon. I motioned the security guard to come over. I pointed it out to him and told him it was the same object I had seen the previous evening at approx. the same time. We were looking towards the north. We stood together and watched the object as it hovered and slowly moved eastward (almost drifting like a balloon) around the hillside and dipped out of view. It was in view for approx two to three minutes. We both agreed it wasn't a star or a plane (the sky was very clear w /a few planes high up). We both watched it together for approx. two to three minutes before it drifted east and dipped downwards. The guard said it seem to be over RT. 775 in Ohio.
2/22/07: At approximately 8:32 PM EST, I Immediately noticed a top like or an upside down teardrop shaped fiery, orange light towards the North. I was standing in East Huntington area, Altizer to be exact. I was leaving my work place for a 30 minute lunch break and I immediately noticed the glowing orange object and I said to myself "That's a weird and unusually bright star to be so low in the sky. I estimated it to be approximately 10 degrees above the horizon. From my vantage point in the parking lot it seemed to be across the Ohio River over southern Ohio and in The Proctorville or Scottown (if it was further north) area. I walked to the furthest end of the parking lot (away from the bright street lights and light washout) to get a better look. It seemed to be at least 3 miles away or maybe 5 miles away over Proctorville. I kept studying it, as it was an unusual orange fire color and seem to undulate. All the time I remained reserved in my opinion as it seemed to grow and shrink or maybe even pulsate. From the East, a small plane was coming in and going toward the West (possibly towards the Chesapeake airport [a very small landing strip] in southern Ohio). I could easily see the red blinking FAA light on the left wing as it traveled from east to west or from my right to left, as I looked north. As the airplane flew from east to west, from my right to left direction), it went directly underneath the orange, glowing object and the object shrank to a small point of light. After the plane had passed under the object, it enlarged and brightened again and appeared as an undulating, flaming top. This is when I began to lose my reservations that it was just a low or rising star. I continued to watch it and noted that the sky was clear with visible stars and the crescent half moon but the exception of some moderately quick moving clouds coming from the West. It was a very breezy also. I watched until the Object dimmed down its intensity and blinked out in two or three seconds. It seemed to collapse into itself as it disappeared. I walked some more, scanning the sky to try to relocate it but I never saw it again. In comparison the red blinking FAA seemed like a speck in the sky. I searched for it again during my second break at 10:30 PM, as I was leaving my job after midnight and again when I arrived at home a short distance away. This is my fourth sighting and I have felt very "keyed up."
12/29/99: While taking an evening walk with my dog, I noticed a large rounded light approach low in the sky. I first thought that it was the medic helicopter that can be seen on a daily basis but as it got closer no discernible noise could be heard. I walked up the street where the trees would not block my view and I stood still -- waiting for it to pass directly over me. I noted, that compared to the western horizon and the hills and low mountains in the East that it may have been at 1500 feet or less and was no more than a mile away. The degree of angle may have been 30 to 35. Sky was clear and the moon was brightly waning. It became larger as it approached (size of a penny held at arm's length). By now it looked more like a slow moving, pinkish star low in the sky-complete with radiating striations. Then before it got over head, it just simply blinked out. it never made a sound. Other identifiable craft could be seen flying at much higher, safer altitudes (silhouetted against the sky w/red, green & white strobes on them). But none of them were like this fallen star like object. In addition I could see a thick dark contrail where the object had been before it winked out.
4/7/99: While walking my dog on 14th street and Primrose Avenue at approximately 11:45 pm. I had just spoken to my friend Kirk who was visiting his mother around the corner from my house. I noticed a brilliantly strobbing diamond shaped craft and I turned to shout to Kirk to look at what I was seeing. But the last thing I saw was his cars' tail lights rounding the corner. I immediately returned my attention to the flaming crystal diamond in the sky. It was spectacular and amazing; it had the brilliance of a welder's arc and it was surrounded by a bluish green flame like corona. It reminded me of the flames on a gas burning stove. I could clearly see it rotating in a counter clockwise manner. It was amazingly beautiful as it appeared much like to crystalline pyramids attached at the bases. The strobbing, white light emanated from with in. It was a clear and somewhat breezy night and I recall I could the stars very clearly but I didn't notice moon anywhere. My dog was doing her business on Mr. Bass' front lawn and I looked away out of respect and that when it grabbed my attention. I said to myself "AHAH! I SEEEEE YOU!" I told myself to remember every detail that I could. I stomped my feet into the soft ground (without looking away) so I could relocate my exact position at a later time. And I raise my arm up so I could get a rough triangulation of the diamond. I estimated that it was between thirty and thirty-five degrees above the ground and perhaps three to five miles away. It seemed like minutes had passed but I saw it for less than 10 seconds. My heart felt as though it were overflowing with joy, love and excitement. I was elated. and As I watched in amazement, I did something I had been thinking about doing if I ever got this opportunity again. I thought to it. I thought as I stared in awe, "Who are you?... What are you doing here?........... Why wont you speak to me?" And just like someone whacking me in the back of my head with a baseball bat I heard a clear and distinct message. "NO..NOT NOW". I cannot describe a voice or any other qualities of it other than the message itself. It reminded me of how a parent might talk to a child. Not angry but stern. Then in less than a blink of an eye it sent a solid column of light directly to the ground and then it imploded. Much like when one turns off a television: and all the light rushes to the center of the screen. I extended my walk for almost an hour as I tried to relocate it again but to no avail.
1/27/98: It was a Wednesday (as was my 4/07/99) morning at approximately 6:45am and I was walking my dog and just had dropped off some bills in the mailbox. Being it January and winter the sky was very clear and dawn was making it appearance as a slight blue sliver low on the eastern horizon. I was walking back home with my dog and I was planning to study a while before my 8am Spanish class at Marshall University. All of a sudden, rising rapidly and passing behind or through low clouds, I was shocked to see a huge, fluorescent green sphere or ball of light. It was as big as a quarter held at arms' length. It seemed to follow the curvature of the earth and at one point it was almost directly overhead at a near twelve O'clock position. Houses were in my direct line of sight so I had to back peddle, dragging my dog, into the street where I could have an unobstructed view. It was totally silent and I glanced around to see if a paper delivery person or anybody might be outside this early-I was alone. I wanted someone else to verify it with me. I watched it as it faded out high over Ohio. I remember trying to process what I was looking at and asking myself "What is that?" and then during and immediately afterwards I kept saying to myself "That can't be what I think it is?! … It can't be! They don't exist!" It was almost lime green or chartreuse with fuzzy edges and a whitish center faster than anything I had ever seen and completely silent as it traveled upwards and then in an arc like path from one horizon to the other in less than 10 seconds. I was stunned. I called the local airport and tried to explain to them what I had seen but they didn't seem interested.
1975: This old memory seemed more like fragments of an old dream until my mother verified it. I recall standing outside in front of Ralph's Foodfair as me and mother waited for a cab to takes us and our groceries home. I was about five years old and I remember pointing up into the clear blue sky over the parking lot and asking my mom. "Mommy what is that?" I was holding her right hand with my left as we looked upwards. Cabell Huntington Hospital was diagonally across the street (to our left) from us as we faced south. My mom said "I think it's a satellite or something". She didn't seem too interested but I continued to watch it tumble slowly-end over end. I thought it was neat and I was curious as to what it was. I remember the sun glinting off the top and as it slowly rotated or tumbled. I called my mother about two weeks ago (Feb 25) and started to inform her of this old memory when she recalled it as well. However, she recalled it as a saucer and to me it reminded me of an unpainted aluminum pop can
