It had been a warm Tuesday for the middle of September in Lockport, Niagara County. It was about twilight, Sharon, age nine, and her sister Janet, age seven, were riding in the family car with their parents on their way to the local Tastee Freeze for an ice cream cone.
Suddenly out of the corner of her eye Sharon observed an unusual bright UFO descending vertically in the western sky. Just before the object could have reached the horizon Sharon saw a bright flash and in that flash the object instantly and rapidly began accelerating upward. Sharon immediately swapped places with her sister to get a better look at this bright object. By this time with all the excitement in the car, her dad was pulling off the road so the whole family could take a look.
Sharon says that the object was circular in shape. From their vantage point the thing was about the size of a pencil eraser if held at arm’s length by a child. “The object was white, luminous and bright, but not shiny,” Sharon said, “a glowing white like a fluorescent light bulb.”
As the family gazed upon the object, comments were made that it had no smoke or vapor trails like an aircraft. It was noted that the object was very clearly distinct and was not fuzzy.
While the family was pulled off the road Sharon’s parent and sister became aware of two additional objects of identical appearance that appeared with a brilliant flash. Now there were three of them silently flying in the sky at a leisurely speed in odd random directions. Sometimes they appeared stationary, at other times they appeared to be darting around.
After about ten minutes the family witnessed a half dozen military jets roaring into the area. Sharon’s dad thought the jets might have come from the Air National Guard base in Niagara Falls.
Then one of the jets began to move southward toward one of the objects. As soon as the jet turned toward the disk like object, the disk pulled away at such a great speed that it made the jet look like it was standing still. Soon afterwards the jets seemed to lose track of the three objects and left the area.
The family got back into the car and Dad drove over the back roads, trying in vain to follow the three disks as they moved unhurriedly southward. Then without warning the three bright visitors started upward high into the sky until they vanished. She says that her family watched this amazing spectacle for nearly an hour.
Sharon as an adult says that the bright flash was similar in brilliance to that of burning magnesium flare. Several days later Sharon’s father submitted a written report about the sighting to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP).
This is just one of the amazing sighting stories reported from New York’s Niagara County.
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“The object was white, luminous and bright, but not shiny”