08/04/08 Sunriver
"This is odd, I said I gotta’ go get my video camera so I ran upstairs to the office and grabbed my video camera and the tripod." Blake Lundstrom was enjoying the view of gliders from the Sunriver airport outside his office Sunday morning when what he calls a UFO appeared out of nowhere.
"The glider was just about 1000 feet off the ground here and the object was way up in the sky up here when I first saw it pretty much we are looking due west," Lundstrom says. He followed the object for 45 minutes as it traveled curving south and then north towards Bend.
"It came way out here there until it became so distant and then I lost it."
Lundstrom who owns a small private television production in Sunriver has been looking for answers online, thinking it might be a weather balloon but can't pinpoint what he saw. Bob Grossfeld at the Sunriver Observatory watched the video on www.kohd.com and isn't sure either.
At first glance he thought it was the planet Venus.
"A spacecraft would be a constant movement like this, a planet would be more like this it would be very very, very slow and it certainly wouldn't change directions so um ya ("Could be a UFO?") Anything is possible," Grossfeld says. He used numerous websites to see if the space station or any satellites were in the area during that time Sunday morning. Nothing turned up. He says these type of sightings aren't unusual. That same day many people in the area saw what turned out to be a fire ball --just past midnight early Sunday morning which illuminated the sky. The unusual part of Lundstrom's sighting was the length of time the object was visible.
"There's certainly tons of things out there. No clue. We've seen some things here. There’s no way we can do all the tracking, we've seen objects that are running triangles,” says Grossfeld.
"I said if I don't go shoot this no one is going to believe me and now I have some video footage and some people think I am crazy but it's unexplained," Lundstrom says.
The following websites are places you can track what's in the sky:
www.heavens-above.com and www.spaceweather.com
