Team Member Mike Harmon
Founder
Mike is our founder who drives us forward in our quest. He shares his
personal experiences and drives us to continue our own and investigations for
others.
UFO-PI FIELD INVESTIGATOR
Mike_Harman@rocketmail.com
Born April 6, 1946, Michael C. Harman, Washington DC.
I first became interested in subject of UFOlogy back in the mid 60's, in high school, although back then, most of my time was spent reading tabloid and other UFO magazines like FATE. It wasn't until 1996 that I began my current quest, and launched my first web site, “UFO TIMES, TEXAS EDITION”. This web site stayed up for about a year or so before I decided to close it down in order to move in a different direction. Then in 1998 I created the current web site, UFO-PI, which also launched my current endeavor, that being to investigate sightings in my local area. However this project is moving at a much slower pace than I had expected.
My main goal in studying the UFO phenomenon is first to discover where these mysterious craft are coming from, and secondly to learn as much as I can about their advanced technology and finally and ultimately to meet a being from another world, and if possible, take a ride in their craft, that is if I haven’t already done this.
INFLUENCED BY A DREAM
My main influence for pursuing "The endless search for truth" and what drives me forward, was a dream I had about ten years ago...
I had a vivid dream, at least I think it was a dream, a few years ago, I think around 1990. In this dream I was taken aboard a ship and allowed to pilot it. The craft in my dream was about 30 feet in diameter and saucer shaped; this would be considered your standard flying saucer. I remember visualizing or actually being in the domed area at the upper most part of the craft, where the pilot operates the craft. The pilot uses what appeared to be some sort of hand operated control, something I could place my hand on and cause the craft to move and change directions. I was told that the dome of the craft was made of a special kind of metal that could be made clear like glass for visibility from the dome. It could be turned off or on. Then I was asked if I wanted to take control of the ship, which I was glad to do. I vividly remember seeing the tops of tall pine trees passing beneath the craft, as I skimmed along just above them. I believe I was traveling about 200 miles per hour at the time, however this craft was capable of much faster speeds. I also remember pushing the hand operated control forward to move in a forward direction and pulling back to stop, this device operated much like a standard joystick, forward, reverse, left and right all from a single control. I also remember communicating with three bogeyed aliens that were with me on this craft. I must point out that I still believe this to be a dream, however a very vivid dream. Some have told me that if I see UFOs I have probably been abducted by them, however I have not seen any evidence, on my body to suggest this hypothesis.
MY SIGHTINGS
Here is a list of my UFO sightings or at least all of them that I can remember.
1. Back in the 60s I had a UFO sighting on the Potomac River. I observed a red orb traveling up the river at a fantastic speed. This orb looked about like a LED light, and seemed quite small. It skimmed just above the surface of the water. This occurred on the Potomac River near Washington DC. I believe it occurred around 1965 or 1966.
2. I also had a sighting of an orange ball of fire possible three feet in diameter. I saw this in Alexandria Virginia, in, I think 1966. You could see it float slowly to the ground. The flames were visible on this object. We went looking for the object but never found where it landed. This occurred in a dense residential area of Alexandria.
There may be more from this time but I do not remember them.
3. I had a dream when I was 8 years old. We lived in Alexandria Virginia in an apartment building. In this dream I was sitting outside with my mother, as it was too hot in the apartment. We did not have air conditioning back in those days you know. As we sat there, We began to observe many triangular shaped craft, many thousands of them, all moving in the same direction across the sky. I remember the totally clear and black sky, and all the triangular craft. These craft looked somewhat like the ship in the original Star Wars movie, the wedge shaped craft that is shown at the beginning of the movie. I do not know why I had this dream especially at that age, and back them (1952) we had not heard of triangles or UFO's. Could it have some meaning? I think I have been interested in Flying Saucers since then. Later I started hearing about them in the newspapers and Magazines.
MORE RECENT SIGHTINGS
4. VERY BRIGHT WHITE/ORANGE UFO
Arlington, Texas
1998
On Friday, January 2, 1998, at 06:15, I had just entered our kitchen and glanced out the window when I noticed the very bright, large white or white/orange colored light appear in my viewing area to the right as viewed through the kitchen window. The object moved very quickly in a northerly direction across my viewing area as seen from my kitchen window. It then made a zigzagging turn, reversing direction and losing altitude very quickly. Altering course again, the UFO moved behind a building where I lost sight of it. My observation of the bright white/orange light or UFO lasted approximately three seconds." I also noticed a white strobe light that blinked on the object similar to normal aircraft lighting. There were no other lights visible on this object I have seen many aircraft from my window and I have never seen one move as quickly as this one did. I also noticed that the light source remained at a constant brightness even though it was turning. It was dawn however still quite dark, I could not see any tail or wings on this object and they should have been visible. The object was viewed from about a mile to a mile and a half away.
5. Fort Worth Multi-Colored UFO
Downtown Fort Worth, Texas
1998
A STRANGE ENCOUNTER WITH AN UNKNOWN VEHICLE
(LOOKING FOR ANSWERS)
The question remains was I abducted during this close encounter???
PERSONAL SIGHTING REPORT
FORT WORTH TEXAS
March 28, 1998 at 11:00PM
ORIGINAL REPORT TYPED THE NIGHT OF MARCH 28, 1998
My son and I had just left work and were driving on highway 287 South approaching I-30 just out of downtown Fort Worth Texas. We noticed an unusual object looking west from the city over the Trinity River area just east of downtown Fort Worth Texas. At first we thought it was just an airplane, but then we noticed that the object had several very intense rapidly flashing green, red and white lights, all three flashing at the same time in a sort of burst of light energy. The effect was similar to that of a police cars lights as seen from a distance at night, except not quite the same. In the case of the police cars lights, they are in a constant state of flashing, and the lights rotating cause the flashing effect. In the case of the UFO, these lights would stop strobe-like, with now visible lighting for several seconds possibly eight to ten seconds, then suddenly burst with this rapid fire, Random, very intense beautifully colored burst of strobe like or rapidly flashing lights. Each burst of energy lasted only about two seconds then the object went back to an all-dark state. We noticed that there were no other lights visible on the object during the strobe like effect. Then suddenly the light turned to an all green light, then all white this lasted only about a second, then back to the strobe like effect again. We also noticed that the object appeared to be darting back and forth too rapidly for any known aircraft; sometimes it just appeared to jump from side to side causing the lights to strobe here then suddenly a few hundred feet in another direction. It also darted off moving about a half mile in one direction then suddenly dart straight up approximately 1000 feet then back in the opposite direction. Then it changed course moving at an incredible speed in an easterly direction passing our vehicle. Then it suddenly turned and went in the opposite direction from us. During this maneuver I observed a large florescent green colored light or glowing area on what I believed was the rear of this craft. It was almost as if the object was putting on a show for us; as if it knew we were there watching it, totally amazed at what we were seeing. The object followed our vehicle for about five minutes as we drove East on I-30 when we finally lost site of it when it turned and went away from us. I would like to add that I have never seen an aircraft with this type of lighting and flight characteristics. It did not have any of the normal legal aircraft lighting. I am a retired Air Force member and have seen many aircraft in my time and can identify most of the normal aircraft, this object did not fit any of their descriptions. A little further up I-30, probably not more than a mile of so, we noticed a round silver-blue object pacing our van. The object would light up similar to a blue-white or silver florescent light bulb for about two seconds then it would turn this light off for what seemed to be one or two seconds pulsating in this manor two seconds of light, two seconds of totally dark with absolutely no lighting of any sort visible when the light went out. It continued this for a few miles, exactly pacing our vehicle before vanishing completely. The object appeared to be possibly a half-mile away from us. I would estimate the size of this sphere to be roughly twice to three time the size of an automobile or about 30 feet wide. Needless to say this left us with an eerie feeling, for the rest of the night. As soon as I arrived at home I immediately wrote down every detail that I could remember to make sure I didn’t forget any of the details of this strange encounter.
NOTES ON THE OBSERVATION MADE ABOUT TWO WEEKS LATER
When we were viewing this object from the highway just outside the downtown Fort Worth city limits, it appeared, or at least the lighted area was about the size of a basketball held at three times my arm length and was viewed at an angle of 45 degrees from the horizon. I had to stick my head clear out of the window of my van and look up to see this thing. My son had half his body stuck out the left front window in order to view it from that side of the van. We were moving at no more that five miles per hour at the time of the sighting and there was very little noise coming from my van as the engine was at an idle, and I was traveling at no more that 5 miles per hour. During the sighting I heard absolutely no sound of any kind coming from this object, and there were no other aircraft or cars in the area at the same time. When the strobe-like effect stopped we were unable to see anything in the sky, the object had become completely invisible therefore we were unable to determine its shape. Also when I viewed this object it gave me a very strange sensation almost like adrenaline rushing through my system or possibly I was feeling the effects of some sort of magnetic or electrical energy similar to static electricity, or simply excited about what I was a witness to. I felt that the object was very close to us almost felt I could reach out and touch it.
UPDATE #1 ABOUT A WEEK LATER
I work in a Fort Worth high-rise building and have an excellent view of the downtown area and Trinity River. I noticed that the river runs parallel to the highway all the way up to interstate 30 then turns northward and follows I-30 for a couple of miles. What is interesting about this discovery is that it appears that the UFO followed the river and was situated beside us even as we made the exit ramp to I-30. It seemed to be always within 200 feet from us until it turned away. It also was not more that 200-400 feet off the ground during this sighting.
UPDATE #2 A FEW MONTHS LATER
I have since learned that another person on the other side of the river has, also observed the above sighting observed by my son and myself. He observed the object over the Trinity River at the same time as we had seen it from Highway 287 that evening. I have been in e-mail contact with this person about this sighting however the teenaged son does not want to talk about this incident, ad he fears ridicule from his friends.
UPDATE #3 Jan. 17, 2000 REFLECTING ON THE ENCOUNTER
The area where we made the sighting had some normal street light poles in the area and there was quite a bit of ambient light coming from the downtown area of Fort Worth city as it is only about a mile away. The only time I actually saw any shape, letting us know something was truly there was when it turned away from us momentarily exposing the rear side of the object, showing a florescent very green looking perfectly round and brightly lit area that reminded me of some the movie special effects used for space ships. I also had a sensation or feeling that there was a honeycomb design within the green-lighted area. The size of the green circle was about the size of or a bit smaller than a basketball with the length of three arms held straight out or a fist with an arm held straight out, and pointed up about 40 to 45 degrees. When the lights strobed they were confined to an area a bit larger than a fist as stated above and in a circular bunch of lights. Also when the lights turned to all white and all green it appeared to be the same lights except they were steady white and green still the very vivid deep color of green and red as in emerald red and ruby green, for about a second. I apologies I really didn't take notice of the exact shape or position of these lights, I think I was simply too awed by the event, I mean my jaw must have been dragging on the ground right about then. I have become interested in the "Edwards Encounter" of 1965 (Sam Sherman) as there are some similarities in the colors of the lights.
I do know that this was not a blimp or helicopter as both make quite a bit of noise at that range, and we heard no sound at all except my van which was at an idle and is very quiet running. The object darted straight up possibly 1000 feet almost instantaneously and did it without a sound. Blimps and helicopters are unable to maneuver that quickly.
It was not a fireball due to the length of time observed and fireballs do not hover absolutely still and silently.
It was not an experimental craft as they would not be operating a craft with advanced technology in such a congested populated area, low over a river, and they would not be observing and putting on a show like they did for us. It would be very difficult to explain why an experimental craft crashed in the vicinity or a residential area like downtown Fort Worth.
Michael Harman USAF (Ret.) Photographer.
6. SILVER BLUE UFO FOLLOWING AN AIRLINER
DFW Area Over the DFW Airport, Texas
1996
This sighting occurred in August of 1996 at around 12:00PM over the DFW area of Texas. This was an object about one quarter the size of the moon that followed our American Airlines turbo-prop aircraft the last few miles into DFW about 18 months ago I think August I believe and around midnight. This object always remained outside the left side of the aircraft and somewhat behind. It remained there even during the routine turns that aircraft do when approaching an airport, that is they are required to descend in a square pattern making several turns as they reduce in altitude. This object remained there through all the turns. Once I glanced back and noticed all the passengers behind me were all looking at this object with blank looks on their faces as though they were in a trance, it was absolutely silent except for the engine and prop sounds inside that aircraft. I also noticed just prior to landing, the object grew larger in size to approximately half the size of the moon. This object was a silver blue color. Pretty strange but it happened
7. DAYLIGHT DISK
Fort Worth, Texas
1998
This sighting occurred on October 6, 1998 at 5:35PM in West Fort Worth, Bailey Avenue.
I had just left the office building where I work in Fort Worth and was walking towards my van parked in the front parking lot. I desired to look skyward, as is often my habit, just to see if there might be anything interesting up there. I noticed a diamond shaped object actually it was more of a rounded off diamond shaped object moving quite fast in a westerly direction. I was looking in a southwesterly direction; the object was about 70 degrees up, nearly directly above me. This object was definitely a short and round or rounded diamond shaped, there was no elongated body, and thee were no wings visible, only this short rounded body. I could clearly see its shape contrasted against the deep blue sky above me. Its color was bright silver or silver white in appearance, reflecting the evening sunlight as it proceeded west of me. I could see that it was moving quite fast at least faster than aircraft I have seen at a similar altitude. This object appeared to be flying just below the high cloud cover, which was not much, only some high clouds with mostly clear blue sky.
8. I also had another daylight sighting a little closer to my vehicle while traveling on I-20 returning from a trip in West Texas. Somewhere along I-20 I observed a perfect Flying Saucer shaped object coming out between a cloud and moving into another cloud, as if hiding. I could see its movement and a dull silver color. The edges of this craft were sharply pointed and it had a dome on top, classic saucer.
9. PULSATING RED LIGHT
South West Arlington, Texas
1998
This sighting occurred in South West Arlington, Texas at 9:15PM on June 26, 1998, while attending a family outing at the corner of Kelly Ellott and Gentle Sprints at the 4300 block. I noticed an unusual pulsating red object in the night sky at 9:15 PM. I noticed an object that did not match the "norm" for aircraft in this area. I was five miles from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport where I often watch aircraft make their approaches. I saw several aircraft fly by with their standard aircraft lighting of red, white landing lights and white strobes.? The unknown object was flying in the same area of sky as the previous known aircraft had been flying. This unknown object was displaying only a single red light. No landing lights or strobes were visible during the entire sighting. Only this single very large red light that pulsated from its brightest down to a dim glow and back to bright again was visible. It moved across the sky at twice the speed of the other aircraft about 33 degrees above the horizon. I calculated the frequency from peak brightness to dimly lit and back to full brightness as being one second peak to peak. The transition throughout the cycle was a very smooth gradual brightening from dim to brightest. The size of the red light appeared to be a similar size as a standard aircraft landing light and about as bright. It flew at a steady speed and continued the cycling of the light until it moved out of sight behind some trees. I would estimate it to have been approximately two miles from my location. If anyone has a clue to the identity, please e-mail me at the below address.
10. FAST MOVING BOOMERANG UFO
Downtown Fort Worth, Texas
November 5th, 1999
The date and time of this sighting were 2:37 PM on 11/05/99, The shape of the object was of a large boomerang with no body visible only the boomerang wings angled sharply back.. I have a habit of looking out the windows whenever I get off the elevators on the 37th, 38th and 39th floors of our building. I ride these elevators many times a day therefore get plenty of chances to view the sky. There is a window located on each floor near the elevator doors the window faces due west, giving me an excellent view of the western horizon of Fort Worth Texas and the sky all the way out to the horizon.
Today at 2:37PM I glanced out the window on the 37th floor of the Burnett Plaza building in downtown Fort Worth Texas and spotted this object in the sky. I had only been looking out this window for approximately three minutes when I spotted a UFO in a perfect boomerang shaped traveling at a high speed. The UFO looked very much like the artwork I found on the Internet and have included on this document. This object was approximately the size of a dime held at arms length and appeared to be of a dark gray color. The sky was partly cloudy with vivid blue sky showing from between the sparse cloud cover. I spotted this object moving from behind one cloud and again hidden by the next cloud moving in a southwesterly direction. It was visible for only about two seconds due to its rapid speed. However I was able to clearly see its shape as its gray color contrasted against the deep blue sky. It would be my guess that its size would have been at least three times the size of a jumbo jet flying just above the clouds. Judging from the size of a jet when seen moving across this same area in the past. This object seemed to be moving more that three times the speed of a normal jumbo jet. I'm not very good at guessing altitudes or speeds so these are just estimates of what I believe was its true speed.
When I first saw it, I could clearly see the pointed front surface of the object, then I noticed that it seemed to grow larger and larger as more and more of this huge object moved out from behind the cloud. Next I could see that the central part of this object was completely void of a body. The object had only a set of wings in a "V" shape. As the ends of the two giant wings were completely out from behind the cloud the nose had already begun to go behind the next cloud. Some times I wonder why I looked directly at that spot in the sky where this thing was to appear, it was almost as if it had some how instructed me to do so.
Sky conditions during observation period were: Winds South at14 mpg with no gusts, Cloud Ceiling 500 ft., Temperature 64, Dew point 60, Relative Humidity 87%, Visibility 9 miles, and some haze present.
The Object I saw was the same shape as the object depicted in the drawing except no lights were visible and it was grey in color not black.
11. High Strangeness In Arlington Texas
Two, bright Green Lights, traveling at a High rate of speed with an orange companion dancing back and forth behind the lead object
Arlington Texas
April 6, 2000 (My birthday, what a present...)
9:35PM Central Standard Time.
This is the first time I have ever seen anything quite like this. Did anyone else see this strange sight? If you saw it please email me.
I had gone outside to observe the stars for a while before going to bed, I was standing facing south and looking at the Orion Nebula, when something caught my eye coming over our house.
Looking almost directly straight up and just slightly south, I observed two bright green circular shaped lights, or objects coming fast over our house, one behind the other. The objects were green in color, the same color as the green of a traffic light and about the same brightness, or possibly slightly brighter. The color of the green was very rich, intense green, almost a florescent green, like a green highlighter. The size was about the same size or slightly larger than Venus looks in the night sky, or about the same size that a small car would look at that altitude. When viewed through binoculars the object appeared larger and you could clearly see the round shape of both objects. The objects were traveling at a very high and constant rate of speed except for just prior to it dropping below the tree line when it seemed to gain speed rapidly. The speed was what looked to be about four times the speed of aircraft passing over the same area during most of its trek. Aircraft often fly over this area, as it is one of the final approaches to the DFW Airport.
The object took about 12 seconds to go from almost straight up and about 10 degrees south to completely out of sight over some trees down the street looking north. As the objects traveled across the sky, they did not leave streaks, tails, sparks and there was no sign of flaring, the way a Meteorite does. The size, shape and color of these objects remained constant throughout its trek across the sky.
When I spotted the first green light I noticed that there was another object just like the first one and of the same color and brightness, this second object was also traveling in the same direction and at the same speed. This object was just to the right of the first object, and slightly behind it. I remember thinking, "is this a low-flying aircraft?" "It sure is moving fast for an aircraft", however there were no normal aircraft lights or strobes visible on either object. I grabbed my binoculars to get a better look at the objects, as I viewed the leading object through the binoculars; I noticed that I could see the clouds behind the object and that there was no sign of a body or wings or any structure connected to the objects. I could clearly see the clouds behind and around both objects. The clouds were also illuminated by the city lights, which made the clouds seem to glow a dim whitish color. I could clearly see the clouds contrasted against the objects as they moved under them. The clouds were patchy and scattered, and spread out fairly evenly across the sky except for further north, where they were denser. You could also see many stars between the clouds.
These objects did not look anything like stars, since they were moving at a high rate of speed. They were also moving under the cloud cover therefore could not have been stars or satellites.
There was one aspect to this sighting that I thought was a bit strange, the objects seemed to be gaining speed rapidly, just prior to dropping down and disappearing behind the trees, which were about a quarter of a mile away.
Early in my observation, when I first spotted the leading object looking through my binoculars, I noticed an orange much smaller light or object that seemed to be dancing very rapidly back and forth going past the lead green object in either direction, from side to side, not a tight zigzag but a much more exaggerated movement, and quite rapid, more so than what would be expected from eye movement or movement of the binoculars. I could see the lead green object at the same time as the orange smaller object and could tell that it was moving past the green one in a rapid movement. I was also able to pan the green object fairly easily allowing me to view the orange object as it danced around or back and forth. The orange object otherwise kept pace with the leading green object as it traversed the sky.
This whole episode caught me totally by surprise, I had gone outside to do some stargazing, and had not planned on looking for UFOs. This incident has left me totally spooked and quite excited, definitely High Strangeness. This is the first time I have ever seen anything quite like this; looked like something right out of the movies.
What I have described above was not the planet Venus or Jupiter, or a star. I was able to see both planets during this sighting. It also was not an aircraft, balloon or a helicopter as there was no sound at all, emanating from this object., and it moved much too fast and smoothly.
#12. Arlington Texas Wingless Grey Object
10/25/2001
8:05 PM
I stepped outside with my brother-in-law at 8:05 PM to take out the trash after a group dinner at my mother in laws apartment. We immediately noticed this gray round wingless object moving rapidly and steadily across the sky. The object had no standard aircraft lighting, no strobing, or other lights visible on the object. I could clearly see the outline of it's shape against the night sky which was lighted somewhat from the ciyt below. The object moved straight across the sky on a southwest heading. My brother in law was with me at the time and we both observed the silent gray spherical object from directly above and slightly south of our position until it went out of sight, in about 20 seconds. It crossed Pioneer Parkway and then on across I-20. It looked about ten feet across, 1000 feet up and round in shape. I seriously doubt that it was a balloon because of the high steady speed, and the fact that there was no wind at the time. No wings were visible on this object and it made no sound as it moved across the sky. The sighting lasted 15 to 20 seconds, and I estimated it's speed to be 80 to 100 MPH. I observed reflected light from streetlights below on the object as it flew by.
This object had none of the typical aircraft lighting like red or white or any strobes. None of these could be seen when it was directly over head, however as it went on out over the shopping mall I culd see mall lights reflecting of the bottom of this thing so that the entire shape of the object all at once reflected the light being seen.
My Abduction Request:
For science, the study of UFOlogy and most of all, for truth, I have decided to conduct a little experiment. I have decided to allow myself to be abducted by aliens, willfully, and without complaint. It is my hopes that this endeavor will allow me to prove without a doubt that alien encounters are real, and that other beings do exist. I have only one request to make to my future abductors, and that is that they abduct me from my home in Central Texas, and when they are finished doing what they do best, that they deposit me on a sandy beach in San Diego, hopefully clothed. I will try to take as many mental and written notes as possible throughout this abduction in order to record the entire event. IF this works out I will document it here on this web site. What I need from you all out there in cyber land is to spend a few moments every day thinking about my abduction, try to project this to the aliens, they are able to read our thoughts.
ABDUCTION LOG
09/16/2000
I've already had two UFO's fly directly over my home... However, no abduction as of yet. I'm waiting for one to land in the back yard. I know, keep on dreaming...
10/18/2000
No abduction as of yet, I will keep you informed if I do. I'm planning some trips into remote areas of Texas at night, it could happen then.
01/05/2001
No abduction yet... going in for a heart-cath today. Hope it turns out OK.
02/15/2001
I'm still waiting... have even spoken to several abductees recently, who said they would inform the Aliens of my request.
If you have any comments or suggestions please send them to me at the below listed e-mail address:
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Mike Harman
Mike_Harman@rocketmail.com