本月，水手们在横渡大西洋时报告了一起神秘目击事件。一份日期为10月11日、提交给美国国家不明飞行物报告中心（NUFORC）的报告详细描述了遭遇发光不明飞行物（UFO）的经过，船员称这些物体以不可能的速度和轨迹移动。
Glowing UFOs spotted racing over the Atlantic at 'hypersonic speeds' as sailors describe them vanishing and reappearing Sailors have reported a mysterious sighting as they crossed the Atlantic this month. A submission to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), dated October 11, detailed an encounter with glowing UFOs that the ship's crew said moved at impossible speeds and patterns.
在大约40分钟的时间里，两名水手用双筒望远镜观察到一个单一球状物出现在12至16英里外，它“快速升降，左右转向，不时以高超音速飞射，持续约5至10分钟”。这份于10月21日发布的报告称，随后又出现了三四个球状物，外观与第一个相同。报告中写道：“它们全都盘旋翻转，一起升降，毫无固定规律。”
For about 40 minutes, two sailors watched through binoculars as a single orb appeared 12 to 16 miles away, which 'rose and fell rapidly, bearing right and left, periodically shooting at hypersonic speeds, for about 5-10 minutes.' The report, posted on October 21, claimed that three or four more orbs appeared, which looked the same as the first. 'All twisting and turning, rising and falling together in no set pattern,' the report states.
“每隔一段时间，它们就会以我只能称之为离谱的速度完全移动到别处，然后又凭空出现在原地。”“我们的雷达上没有捕捉到任何目标。”
'Every so often they went somewhere else altogether, at a speed I can only call unreasonable, and then were simply there again. 'We picked up no targets on the radar.'
NUFORC的报告附带了据称在遭遇期间拍摄的船只雷达截图，显示屏幕上没有任何表明空中有物体的迹象。
The NUFORC report included screenshots of the boat's radar, reportedly taken during the encounter, showing nothing on the screens that would suggest objects were in the sky.
目击者称，遭遇大约始于凌晨3点25分，当时船上的二副发现地平线上方低处、船头略偏左的位置有一道奇怪的光。
The witness said the encounter began around 3:25am, when the ship’s second mate spotted a strange light low above the horizon, slightly to the left of the vessel’s bow.
根据报告，该船当时正在新斯科舍省以南约400英里处横渡大西洋，以约每小时20英里的速度向东航行。
The ship was crossing the Atlantic roughly 400 miles south of Nova Scotia, heading east at about 20mph, according to the report.
目击者描述天空晴朗，只有一弯细细的月牙，称“能见度极佳”。船只没有明显摇晃，附近“没有任何其他船只”。
The witness described clear skies with only a thin crescent moon, saying ‘visibility was great.’The vessel was not noticeably rocking, and there was ‘no traffic whatsoever’ nearby.
看到第一个球状物后，这名水手说：“其他的也出现了，又多了3到4个。它们在各方面都和第一个一样。”去年还提交了另一份令人震惊的NUFORC报告，其中包含一段视频，清晰显示了一名目击者认为是巨型UFO飞越加利福尼亚上空的画面。
After seeing the first orb, the sailor said: 'The others appeared, 3-4 more. They were like the first in every respect.' Another startling NUFORC report was submitted last year, featuring a video showing a clear image of what one witness believes was a giant UFO flying over California.
4月27日，一位居住在特温蒂纳帕姆斯（Twentynine Palms）的居民拍摄了一段视频，视频中显示一个被照得非常明亮的六边形飞行物正在沙漠上空飞行。
The April 27 video taken by an unnamed resident in Twentynine Palms followed what appears to be a brightly-lit hexagonal craft as it flew over the desert.
这份报告发布于10月21日，称随后又出现了三到四个类似的飞行物。目击者提供了雷达截图，证明在看到这些不明飞行物（UFO）时，天空中并没有其他物体。据报道，这些UFO是在太平洋时间晚上10点27分左右突然出现的，当时目击者正在一间偏远的小屋里。
The report, posted on October 21, claimed that three or four more orbs appeared, which looked the same as the first. The witness shared screenshots of the radar to show no objects in the sky when they saw the UFOs The UFO reportedly appeared out of nowhere around 10:27 pm PT while the witness was staying at a remote cabin.
报告指出，这个疑似宇宙飞船的移动速度非常缓慢且不规则，仿佛处于某种“迷糊”状态（即没有明确的移动轨迹）。目击者在向NUFORC（美国不明飞行物研究组织）提交的报告中写道：“它的移动轨迹完全随机，速度时快时慢，而且非常不规律。”
According to the report, the suspected spacecraft was moving very slowly and irregularly, like it was in a daze. 'It seemed to move arbitrarily with no clear path. The movements were jerky and at varying speeds,' the witness wrote in their NUFORC report.
这个大型飞行物在天空中飞行了大约15分钟，其边缘不断发出明亮的光芒。目击者补充说：“今晚是新月，所以那肯定不是月亮；而且它的亮度甚至超过了满月。”他们还强调：“最引人注目的是它的极高亮度和不规则的形状。”
The large object also appeared to pulsate, giving off a bright light from its edges, as it moved through the sky for approximately 15 minutes. 'Tonight is the new moon - so it was definitely not the moon, and in any case was much brighter than even a full moon,' the witness continued. 'The striking thing was its great brightness and irregular shape and path,' they added.
在观察这个UFO的过程中，目击者发现这个奇怪的飞行物开始改变形状——从六边形逐渐变成了圆形。由于拍摄视频的人是当晚小屋里唯一的目击者，因此没有人能够证实他的描述。
As the witness in Twentynine Palms followed the UFO, they added that the strange craft began to change shape - morphing from a six-sided object into a circle. The person taking the cellphone video was the only witness at the cabin that night, so no one else was able to confirm their story.
不过，他们在向NUFORC提交的报告中明确表示，在观测期间没有使用任何会改变意识状态的物质，并且整个过程中视力都十分清晰。
However, they declared in their report to NUFORC that they hadn't taken any 'mind-altering substances' during the sighting and had clear vision the entire time.
NUFORC的官员试图为这一现象寻找解释。他们提到当天确实有一枚SpaceX火箭发射，但那枚Falcon 9火箭是在三小时前从佛罗里达州发射的。专家们解释说，类似的现象也曾发生在3月份，当时英国上空也出现了类似的奇怪现象；实际上，这种奇怪的形状是由于SpaceX火箭喷射出的被照亮的冷冻燃料造成的。
Officials at NUFORC tried to find an explanation for the sighting, noting that a SpaceX rocket launch had taken place that day, but that Falcon 9 took off from in Florida three hours earlier. A previous rocket launch created a similar phenomenon over the UK in March. That bizarre shape was caused by illuminated frozen fuel expelled from the SpaceX rocket, experts revealed.
快速旋转的火箭释放出的多余燃料结冰后，形成了这个浅蓝色的螺旋。
The light blue spiral is formed when excess fuel that has been released from the fast-spinning rocket turns to ice.
随后，它在高层大气中反射阳光，散发出一种超凡脱俗的光泽，最后化为水蒸气。
It then reflects sunlight in the upper atmosphere, giving it an otherworldly gleam before becoming water vapor.