Date: October 24, 1982 Lowell, Indiana Witnesses: Michael Davis, the aircraft Pilot and his father (a student pilot) Description of the object: The UFO, Davis said, looked like two geodesic domes connected together with a nozzle by four tubes. It appeared to be about 7 feet in height, 6 feet across, with one dome 20 per cent larger than the other. The domes were silver-blue, encircled by a ring of geodesic panels made out of some glass-like substance, clear with an iridescent blue-grey sheen. At one point two domes began to gyrate in a peculiar manner, best described as a twisting motion, like holding two tennis balls, one in each hand, and rotating one ball away from you, and the other in the opposite sense (while still touching them together), and then reversing the directions. The encounter: Pilot & student pilot in a single-engine Cherokee 140 just after reaching their cruising altitude of 2,300 ft (above ground level), on a 240° course encountered an object first thought to be a malfunctioning parachute. At one point, the UAP flicked across their nose, veering to its left and missing the aircraft's right wing tip by no more than 10 feet. At the instant that it passed, the vortex hit them so hard that the plane’s airframe groaned in protest, and the altimeter "went wacky". As they descended through the object’s original flight path, they encountered about 2 seconds of heavy turbulence. According to the pilot, it was like hitting the vortex of a large airliner. After 3-4 minutes, the pilot was just about to give up the chase when, suddenly, despite the distance, the dome-spheres went into their peculiar rotation again. Almost instantly the object reversed course once again, picking up speed fast by this time, and giving them only enough time to realize that it had reversed course, where it was headed. It continued to curve to the left, back on what appeared to be its original heading of 355°, still accelerating, and eventually beginning to climb until it finally disappeared into the distance haze. At no time during the encounter had the UFO shown any sort of exhaust trail. Source 1: UFO Report Source 2: IUR Vol. 8. No. 3 May-June 1983.pdf submitted by /u/Shiny-Tie-126 [link] [comments]