| ID | #1607963650 |
| Added | Mon, 14/12/2020 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | MUFON
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Research
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In the ' 80s, I worked in a gold mine in southern Crescent Valley, Nevada, near the Eureka / Lander County line. That night we were pulling gravel out of a hole at the bottom of the valley.
One day, when I arrived at the quarry for gravel, the loader driver was standing on the deck of the loader and pointed to a lamp. Obviously, it was outside the earth's atmosphere, or at least a few miles above the earth's surface. The light will move diagonally down and to the right, then horizontally to the left, back down and to the right, then horizontally to the left, and repeats this pattern several times.
Finally, after the last move down and to the right, it will go up and slightly to the left to get to the starting point. It seemed to stop for a second or two at each change of direction. Then he repeated the maneuver, which we have seen too many times before to get back to work.
The movements were smooth and at a constant speed, with no acceleration at the beginning of each change of direction or no deceleration at the end.
Given that the object must have been in space and the degree of motion, I believe it covered a significant distance in 2 or 3 seconds. At the time of this observation, it was dark outside, and I believe it was summer.
It was in the mid-80s. I often thought and wondered what we had seen that night. I considered the possibility that it was a satellite, but as far as I understand, they don't move that fast.
An aircraft cannot make such changes in direction, nor can it change direction without accelerating and decelerating.
Original news
Date: June 30 1986
Location: Crescent Valley, Nevada
Time:
Summary: During the 1980s I was working for a gold mine in the southern end of Crescent Valley, Nevada near the Eureka/Lander County line. The night in question we were hauling gravel from a pit in the valley floor. One time when I arrived at the pit to get a load of gravel the loader operator was standing on the deck of the loader and pointed a light out to me. It was obviously outside the earth’a atmosphere, or at least several miles above the earth’s surface. The light would travel diagonally down and to the right, then horizontally to the left, back down and to the right, then horizontally to the left, and kept repeating that pattern several times. Finally after a final movement down and to the right, it would go up and slightly left so as to arrive at the point of beginning. It seemed to pause for a second or two at each change in direction. It would then repeat the maneuver, which we watched numerous times before going back to work. The movements were smooth and at a steady speed, without either acceleration at the beginning of each directional change or deceleration at the end thereof. Considering that the object had to have been in space and the degree of movement, I believe it was covering a considerable distance in a mater of 2 or 3 seconds. It was dark outside at the time of this observation and I believe it was summer time. It was in the mid 1980s. I have often thought about and wondered what we observed that night. I have considered the possibility that it was a satellite, but it is my understanding they do not move that fast. An aircraft could not make directional changes like that, nor would it be able to make the directional changes without accelerating and decelerating.
Source: MUFON
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