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Böttingen, Baden-Württemberg (Germany)

Sighted on Wednesday 16. December 1987
Reported on
Shape: Diamond | Duration: Undisclosed
Source:

It was a cold winters Day when I was a young girl, delivering newspapers with my brother who had been sent to help me since night had set in.We only had to deliver the last road on the other side of the main road into our little town but waited for what we thought was a car coming as we saw bright light shining our way coming from the neighbouring village in the north.There was no sound. We waited as the light got brighter. A diamond shaped, dark, roughly 5-7 meters large object appeared with 5 bright white- blueish lights shining our way - now just hovering about 2-5 meters above the ground on the brow of the hill about 20 meters away from us.Only a minute or so later this object shot high up into the sky, paused, seemed to turn on its side-now flashing coloured lights in a circular pulse then shot off into the distance to the west. I have never seen anything move like that-the lack of sound was so strange. I was so excited and perplexed - I looked at my brother who looked as startled as I must have and felt myself shaking from the experience.We finished our paper round and ran home to tell our parents about what had just happened - I just wanted to see it again & find out what it was but that was the last I saw of it.

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