Dossier reconstruction of the object reported from a home balcony in India, May 28, 2007.
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2007: India UFO Sighting | Triangle-Circular Shape Case Archive
On the evening of May 28, 2007, a witness taking their usual after-dinner walk on a home balcony somewhere in India watched a huge, bright shape emerge from a sky full of milky-white clouds and begin oscillating steadily back and forth for about twenty minutes — with, strangely, a conventional airliner passing near it at the same time, clearly a separate thing entirely. The witness ran down to wake a sleeping sister and dragged her up to see it too; she caught the tail end, watching until it drifted off and vanished, roughly thirty-five minutes after it first appeared.
The witness is admirably honest about the one detail that matters most here: partly hidden behind the clouds the whole time, the object’s shape was never clearly seen. “Somewhat a combination of triangle and circular” is the witness’s own tentative best guess, not a confident description — and this entry treats it that way throughout.
Date: May 28, 2007
Sighting Time: 8:45 PM to 9:20 PM
Day/Night: Night
Location: India — specific city or state not given in the source; witness’s home balcony/terrace
Urban or Rural: Undocumented specifically — described only as “my home balcony (terrace)”
No. of Entity(‘s): 0 — none reported
Entity Type: Not applicable
Entity Description: Not applicable
Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) — point or extended luminous source observed at night, appropriately applied given the object’s obscured, uncertain structure
Duration: 35 minutes total — approximately 20 minutes of initial solo observation while the object oscillated, followed by additional time to wake and bring the witness’s sister, then further joint observation before the object moved away and disappeared
No. of Object(s): 1
Description of the Object(s): A huge, bright object that emerged from behind milky-white clouds and oscillated side to side over a fixed range for about 20 minutes before eventually moving away and disappearing; a separate, conventional aircraft (possibly an Indian Airlines/Air India flight) was seen passing near it at the same time, clearly distinguished by the witness from the object itself
Shape of Object(s): Uncertain — the witness explicitly states the shape could not be properly recognized, as the object was seen behind clouds; described only as tentatively resembling “a combination of triangle and circular.” See Researcher’s Notes.
Size of Object(s): Undocumented — described only as “huge”
Color of Object(s): Undocumented — described only as “bright”
Distance to Object(s): Undocumented
Height & Speed: Undocumented; object oscillated in place before ultimately moving away and disappearing
Number of Witnesses: 2 — the reporting witness (present for the full sighting) and their sister, woken and brought to see the object partway through, who witnessed only its later phase, not the initial ~20-minute oscillation period
Special Features/Characteristics: Sky was filled with milky-white clouds at the time; a conventional aircraft was visible near the object simultaneously, clearly distinguished from it by the witness; witness had previously been teased by friends for frequent sky-watching and did not initially share this sighting with them; witness states that a report of the same phenomenon appeared two days later in the Tamil-language newspaper Daily Thanthi, page 3 — a claim not independently verified in researching this entry
Case Status: Insufficient Data — see Researcher’s Notes for rationale
Source: Undocumented — appears to be a directly submitted first-person account; original submission venue not specified
Summary/Description: On the evening of May 28, 2007, a witness on a home balcony in India observed a huge, bright object emerge from behind milky-white clouds and oscillate side to side for about 20 minutes, with a conventional aircraft visible nearby at the same time. The witness’s sister was woken and joined partway through, watching the object’s later phase until it moved away and disappeared, for a total observation window of about 35 minutes. The witness could not clearly determine the object’s shape due to cloud obstruction.
Related Cases: Undocumented — source does not reference other cases beyond an unverified claim of separate newspaper coverage
Detailed Report
The witness describes a nightly routine: an after-dinner walk on the family’s home balcony, usually spent chatting with a sister about science, politics, history, and other subjects. On the evening of May 28, 2007, the witness was alone on the balcony, the sky filled with milky-white clouds, when something huge and bright emerged from behind them and began oscillating — moving right to left and back again, over a fixed range, for about 20 minutes. At the same time, the witness noticed a conventional aircraft passing near the object, which the witness believed might have been an Indian Airlines or Air India flight, and was careful to note as a separate, ordinary thing entirely distinct from the strange object itself.
Excited, the witness went down to the ground floor to wake a sleeping sister, insisting she come see it, and brought her up to the balcony. By the time she arrived, the object had moved past its initial oscillating phase; she watched with the witness until, after a while, it moved farther away and disappeared from view entirely. Throughout, the witness was unable to make out the object’s true shape, since it remained partly obscured behind the clouds the entire time — the best description offered was a tentative, uncertain impression of something between a triangle and a circle.
The witness had, in the past, discussed sightings like this with friends, only to be teased for spending too much time watching the sky, and so didn’t mention this particular sighting to them. Two days later, on May 30, 2007, the witness says a report describing the same phenomenon appeared on page 3 of Daily Thanthi, a widely circulated Tamil-language newspaper in India. Having no prior familiarity with UFO reporting websites, the witness says they eventually found one and decided to submit the account in case it might be useful to a scientist.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Balcony Sighting — India 2007 and a Shape Nobody Could Quite Make Out
- Shape Uncertainty, Preserved: The witness explicitly states, “I could not recognize the proper shape, because the strange thing was seen behind the cloud.” The “triangular and circular” description in the original field should be read as the witness’s own tentative, partial impression through obscuring cloud cover, not a clear or confident observation.
- Location Gap: The source does not specify a city or state anywhere in the account, only “India” and “my home balcony (terrace).” This entry preserves that gap rather than guessing at a location.
- Partial Corroboration: The witness’s sister was woken and brought to the balcony partway through the sighting, and did see the object during its later phase, but did not witness the initial roughly 20-minute period during which the object oscillated back and forth — a case of genuine, if partial, second-witness corroboration.
- A Distinguished Aircraft: The witness explicitly notes that a separate, conventional aircraft (possibly an Indian Airlines or Air India flight) was visible near the object at the same time, and is clear that the two were distinct — a detail suggesting the witness was not simply misidentifying ordinary air traffic.
- Unverified Newspaper Claim: The witness states that a report of the same phenomenon appeared in the Tamil-language newspaper Daily Thanthi on May 30, 2007, page 3. Daily Thanthi is a real, widely circulated newspaper, but no specific article matching this description was identified in researching this entry, and the claim remains unverified.
- Case Status Rationale: Filed as Insufficient Data given the explicitly uncertain shape, the unspecified location, the unverified newspaper claim, and the absence of any photograph despite a 35-minute total observation window.
What stands out about this account is what the witness didn’t claim to know — no confident shape, no city named, a corroborating sister who only caught the second half. That kind of restraint is a point in the witness’s favor even as it leaves the case thin on hard specifics. It remains filed as Insufficient Data, an honest sighting without enough around it to settle anything.
“I could not recognize the proper shape.”
