MUFON 58773

please see detailed description I was on a tour in Egypt in September of 2008. Part of our tour was a southbound trip down the Nile for three days on fellucas. We had two groups sailing on 2 large, flat-topped sail boats, each having two large sails. On the 23rd (my birthday), the group decided to go ashore to a camel market onshore in the support boat - which is where we ate our meals, showered, etc. and followed our fellucas. We were anchored (approximately) across from an island called, "Elephantine Island", if you need to find it on a map. I decided to stay behind on the felluca, so I could be by myself on the boat and relax in history and enjoy the trees and shrubs along the Nile. I was so relaxed, gazing off to the land south of me and suddenly I saw three fellucas, all horizontal beside the land, one in front of the other. (I wish I could draw a picture). Usually , the boats are landed with the front of the boat on the land. These ones were side by side, horizontally, in front of the land, in a configuration like this: ********************Land*************************** boat boat boat instead of being: ********************* Land ************************* B B B O O O A A A T T T I remember thinking how unusual it was for the boats to be arranged like that. As I was watching (I wasn't thinking anything about UFOs at the time), the masts suddenly turned into like a silver celluloid - it was light and reflected light at the same time. It seems like it knew that it had gotten my attention, but I was still just in observation mode. Then, the sails seemed to melt from the top down, all at the same time until they were level with the boat. Once they were all in order, they all merged into a cigar shape. It stayed in that shape for awhile, then it blinked out of existence. Then it blinked back into existence. And it went in and out of existence about 4 or 5 times. Then it just blinked out of existence. I remember thinking, "Wow, THAT was wierd!", and I just kept gazing at the same spot where they had disappeared from. I didn't think anything about it, I just thought it was very strange. I realized about a couple of hours later, that I had just seen a UFO shape-shifter and was trying to wrap my mind around that. I never told anyone on my tour about what I had seen - I was also just trying to digest what I had seen and just kept going over it and over it in my mind, so I would remember. About 2 years after I had come home, I told one of my sisters who was nasty about it and didn't believe me and told me I was nuts. I haven't told very many people about it. But it was real and it was exciting, once I figured out what I had witnessed. By the way, I don't drink or do drugs, so it wasn't some type of hallucination I was having. If you would like to speak with me about it, you have my permission. I have tried to post this story to your site many times, but my computer would just do weird things when I tried. Hopefully, today, it will work. Thank you for all the awesome work that you do. I would like to join your organization as well.

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CityELEPHATINE ISLAND
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CountryEG
SourceMUFON
Source ID58773