[ravingnutter]

[oldleft]

[muir_redwoods]

It's got to be true, Who ever heard of a Navy man who drank?

[SunkenCiv]

"a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky"

They're back.

[Quix]

THANKS, THANKS,

Dave, I assume you've pinged the list. Will check and if not after 20 posts, will do so.

Thanks Dave,

[Phsstpok]

The object moved from west to east, very slowly for something that size, he said. His initial instinct was that the object was moving at about 100 knots, but something that big shouldn’t be able to stay in the air if it’s going that slow, he said.

The object began changing colors from a bright silver to an orange-ish red. A strange cloud of red and orange flames began surrounding the object, and before he knew it the object stretched out like a rubber band. It grew to about twice its original size, and then it was gone.

One week before the big Indonesian earthquake that caused the Boxing Day tsunmai there were similar reports (with the addition of a final explosion) in that area.

see this FR thread on the earlier event as reference. Notice the following statement:

Raharto said later that if witnesses' accounts were correct, it could have been a ball of gas some 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) in diameter enveloping a much smaller solid core.

The blast, he said, could have come from the core exploding as it underwent a rapid temperature rise due to friction.

"The fallout would have been small pieces, that could easily go unnoticed in unpopulated areas," he said, explaining the absence so far of any evidence of a large impact.

This UFO report may be a precursor to a giant geologic event in the northwestern US. Maybe the sightings are the result of some unknown peizo electric effect in seismic zones. Whatever the case, I do dismiss this guys explanation, but I don't dismiss that something happened.

I think I'm going to try to correlate the 1965 report to any area geologic events. If I find anything I'll post.