Date:
April 2, 2004
Location: Lamar, Colorado, United States
Six
lights strung together, estimated to be 600 feet in length,
and 500 ft. distance. Craft was disk in shape with a dome
stucture on top. 2nd witness thought the lights were windows
with luminating lights from inside the craft.
Source:
NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center)
"First,
let me say I am a police officer in the Metro-Denver area
and have been for 26 yrs. My wife and I were at John Martin
State Park. There had been a drowning, the previous week
and portions of the lake were closed off since the Park
Rangers had not recovered the body of a 17-year-old that
had drowned. There was a lot of government activity at
this time from state, federal, and county personnel. The
navy had flown in a special sonar to try help locate the
body of the victim. The incident that was witnessed by
my wife and I took place on a camp ground called Point
Overlook. We were in our RV and were the only ones at
the campground, excluding a Park Ranger in a vehicle approximately
2 miles away. We were approximately 300 hundred feet from
the lake and approximately 30 feet above the water on
a bluff overlooking the lake, hence the name of the campground.
My wife had just retired to the bed and I was in the process
of securing the RV as we planned to get up early and go
fishing. This is a lake with approximately 3,500 acres
of surface water and a fairly large concrete dam. This
lake is approximately 8 miles long and 1 mile wide. We
were camped approximately 4 miles from the dam. I first
saw a bright light comming from the dam, heading west.
I initially thought it might be a helo looking for the
drowning victim as earlier in the day, the authorities
had used an airplane and dive teams. As this light came
closer, it became apparent that it was not a single light,
but six lights strung together. The first was white with
the succeeding lights red, blue, red, blue and amber at
the end. It appeared that the lights were connected by
some sort of structure. I estimate the length of these
lights to be 600 feet in length. I yelled at my wife to
get up. She did, in time to see the lights stop directly
perpendicular to our RV. The lights were directly over
the lake, altitude approximatley 500 ft; distance to object
was 500 ft. The lights stopped and rotated. I was in the
process of getting the camera and bicnoculars and my wife
was watching the lights. I did not see the lights stop
and rotate; she did. She states that when the craft rotated,
she could clearly see that it was a craft, disk in shape
with a dome structure on top. She also stated that what
we thought were lights were windows with lumanating lights
from inside the craft. By the time I turned around, the
craft "winked" out. That is the best description
I can give for its rapid disappearance. The whole thing
lasted no more than 5-10 seconds for me. I had an opportunity
to talk to the Park Ranger that was 2 miles away, the
next morning, and she asked me if I saw anything unusal.
I told her and asked her if she saw anything. She said
that in the past week, they all have seen strange lights
in and around the lake. She also said that they talked
among themselves, but that supervision frowned on making
any official report."
Source:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case85.htm