SIGHTING: ROSEPINE, LOUISIANA (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"On approx. 06/05/09 at around 9:00pm I visited a friend who lived on the outskirts of Rosepine, LA. We went outside and stood in his driveway, my friend facing towards the east, and I across from him leaning on the hood of my car facing west. As we stood there my friend pointed over my right shoulder and asked "What the hell is that". I turned and looked behind me. I observed that across the street were several approx. 100 ft pine trees at about a hunderd yards east of where we were standing. I observed that just below the highest tree branches was a bright yellow light shining through. I could tell the light was a good distance away but it stayed stationary for a few minutes before appearing to drop in altitude and disappearing. My friend said that from where he stood there had been three lights and had been in a triangle formation and had been moving strangly. I told my friend not to get excited and that I had seen those kind of lights before, some months before, and that I thought it was just flares. We talked about what he had seen for awhile. I first assumed that the lights had been miltary flares from the local military base, Fort Polk. My friend brought to my attention that the base was to the north of where we were standing, and the training area was futher north and towards the west. I laughed it off as a over active imagination. It was at that time my friend pointed over my shoulder again and said "there they are again". I looked over my shoulder again and saw just above the same pine trees as before three bright yellow lights in a triangle formation, the "point" facing up. I moved into the yard, a couple of feet towards the north for a better view. I observed that the lights seem to dip and bob, moving eraticaly. I observed that the lights again appeared to be far to the east, over what I could only guess was Pitkin LA. The lights slowly moved below the tree line again and blinked out. My friend and I were both shocked and started trying to come up with an excuse. We are both ex-military, Air Force and Navy. In my expeirence the flares used for illumination by the miltary are a brillant white, not a yellowish color, almost like a "bug light" you use on an outside light. My friend agreed and told me that he had never seen flares act like that. He also explained that it wasn't chaff from an aircraft because it was dropped alot at one time, not three. As we stood there talking about what we thought it was another thirty minutes or so had passed. Again my friend pointed over my shoulder. I turned again and saw the same lights over the tree line. I observed that the lights were again in a triangle formation and seemed to "dip and bob" as they moved towards the tree line. About thirty minutes later my friends wife came out to see why we were standing in yard still. We explained what we had seen to her and that we didn't think it was the military. As she laughed it off and began to go inside, my friend yelled out "Look, there they are". Again it was the same bright yellow lights, in a roughly triangle formation that "dipped and bobbed" as they moved slowly towards the tree line and out of sight. This time I extended my arm, the thumb of my hand up, and fingers spread, pinkie finger even with the horizon. I observed from where I stood the lights where just above my index finger. That was my best way of calculating where in the sky the lights had been when they appeared. As best as I can remember the my friend and I had seen the lights on and off for approx. two hours. On the fourth of July I stopped by my friends again. I jokingly asked him if he had seen anymor UFO's. My friend, who works at the airstrip on Fort Polk, said he had asked a person he knew at the tower the day after the incident if there had been anyone training in the area. He was told there hadn't been any aircraft near that location that would have dropped flares, but he had heard that more had seen the lights than us."