Bizarre UFO Photographed From Small Plane Over Oregon

Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:59 am » by **Marduk2012**

Occurred: 9/16/2011 11:16 (Entered as : 09/16/11 11:16)
Reported: 1/23/2012 8:25:48 PM 20:25
Location: Sisters (in-flight), OR
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 5 sec
Orange Dart-like craft passes our aircraft at close proximity in flight

I am an airline transport pilot with over 14,000 flight hours in unique aircraft such as the HU16b I am flying in these pictures I have been flying for 40 yrs I am also a certified A&P mechanic and an IA or inspector with over 25 yrs maintenance exp on planes like these. The Albatross we have is used as a test bed for Satellite broadband internet, we are one of the few companies in the world that has airborne satellite systems for high-speed internet. The plane is full of sophisticated equipment for this purpose as it is the original test bed for this.

I have better than 20/20 vision and I usually can spot any single helium balloon of 15" diameter from a great distance and I am trained to do so. I see them all the time. That being said, the object was literally a blur and I didn’t see it as it was moving in the same direction as the plane. The order of the pictures attached here is the series of the 3 that I took with my iphone as I was just trying to get a shot of "Sisters" and Mount Jefferson in the Bend area.

As for the pictures, they cannot be a balloon cluster as this thing passed us!! Look at the lake on the first picture as the object comes from right to left, go to the next shot, it's in frame, look at our relative movement passing the lake then the last shot as the thing is hidden by the wing and our location relative to the lake again. We were cruising at 11,500 ft at approx 200 mph. the balloons would have to be fast!! That thing was a streak, it went by as nothing but a blur. Only the luck of the camera could tell me that it was some sort of object of quite some size, as our wing is nearly 50 long and that float out there (40 ft away) is 10 ft long. I estimate that it is about the same size as our plane or longer, that would make it approximately 70-80 ft long. I would also estimate it to be within 1000 ft of us laterally. The object made no noise that I could discern, nor did it leave any sort of contrails or exhaust paths. It appears to be banking around us for a split second then gone.

Our plane is traveling south-east at approximately 200 mph at 11,500 ft We were in the vacinity of Bend or Sisters Oregon.

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/086/S86794.html

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Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:10 am » by **Noentry**

that looks like a good photo.
First time I have seen this one
Great find. :flop:

Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:11 am » by **Mrmcnuggets**

why is there a sectioned off block containing the part with the UFO? kind of weird. :think:

Interesting picture none the less. :flop:

Any FAA reports?

Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:14 am » by **Marduk2012**

watz zis?

Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:19 am » by **Noentry**

marduk2012 wrote:watz zis?

So under closer inspection it looks like it aint so good :cry:

Shame at first glance it looked good

Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:19 am » by **Marduk2012**

sry, forgot to add the original photo sources.

High Res Photo #1: http://www.nuforc.org/S86794_a.jpg

High Res Photo #2: http://www.nuforc.org/S86794_b.jpg

Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:22 am » by **Seahawk100**

Yeah. That looks like a real one to me. You can see "them" in all the legitimate ones- imo. :look:

There are many that don't look like any of the traditional ship-shaped images that we are pretty used to seeing- historically. I'm not sure what the significance is, - of that- but we see more and more of these odd-shaped objects/ perceptions- almost if they are like tears in the fabric between this dimension, and another- at times. not always a symmetrical, identifiable shape. Cool image. :flop:

Damn. I forgot to put on my foil hat before writing that.

Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:27 am » by **Seahawk100**

If the picture was taken inside the cabin of the plane- as opposed to externally mounted, ( don't know details) then the shadow shapes could easily be a reflection from the window. There are other shadow shapes in the image. I say it's a reflection. Still a good photo- imo. :flop:

Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:29 am » by **Mrmcnuggets**

seahawk100 wrote:If the picture was taken inside the cabin of the plane- as opposed to externally mounted, ( don't know details) then the shadow shapes could easily be a reflection from the window. There are other shadow shapes in the image. I say it's a reflection. Still a good photo- imo.

you might be right on that one, I figured it was taken from a camera mounted on the out side of the plane. :flop:

didn't read the article. :oops:

Do iphones have an autofocus? Or motion function? Could be result of one of those too.
:cheers:

Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:30 am » by **Marcydare**

noentry wrote:
marduk2012 wrote:watz zis?

So under closer inspection it looks like it aint so good
Shame at first glance it looked good

It's through a window, It could be a reflection.
...Very odd though.
Just say'n, ,Marcy Dare.