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Coata Mesa, California

1975, 10:00 PM

Around 1975, Coasta Mesa, Southern California. My time frame for this event is a bit sketchy but I was married in 1976 and I know it was a year or so before this.

I was driving my (now) wife home from a date. When we were pulling into her housing tract and we noticed a bright light coming from the east. She lived just across the freeway from the South Plaza mall. At the time there were few structures in this area other than the mall and her tract, mostly bean fields. We thought it must be Costa Mesa Police copter so we decided to stop and watch for a while since it appeared to be coming our way. It crossed above the freeway, now only about a 1/4 of a mile from us. It was apparent at this time that it wasn't a helicopter. We got out of the car and watched. It was about 10:00 PM and pretty quite. We heard no sounds coming from the object.

As it got closer it appeared to be glowing. Finally it was directly over us at only about 100 feet. It stopped and hovered for about twenty seconds. It looked like a ball of fire. We could see the flames boiling over its surface. We were dumb struck. It started to move towards the south, towards an elementary school ( Bear Street School). Behind the school is a row of tall cedar trees, then another housing tract. We jumped into the car and figured we could find it again. It started to descend but by the time we got there no trace of the object could be seen.

We went on to her house, rushed in and told her parents what we had seen. I then called the police to see if any one else had reported a UFO, no other reports. We didn't give this too much thought after this, that is until the film "Fire In The Sky" was released a few years later. I watched the movie and noticed the interpretation they had for the UFO. It was exactly what we saw. The time frame was even approximately the same and the fact that it happened in the South West of the United States made the whole thing just a bit too real for me.

I for one do not believe in E.T.'s or life on other planets, but I do know what we saw that night.

Friend

Garden Grove, California

October 1992

I wanted to tell you about a sighting I had about 8 years ago in October with my father as a witness. It was a huge rectangular object with absolutely no lights and no sound. It was just after the last light was fading from the sky and if it had been 20 minutes or so later, I would have never noticed it at all. This occurred over my neighborhood in Garden Grove, California. I am not very good at estimated size and distance in the sky but if I hold my hand out in front of me towards the sky, it was about that big. As for the height it was way higher than a blimp. Not as high as a jetliner when they are cruising but maybe half that. Very difficult for me to estimate. I have wondered for years about this. I haven't heard anyone talk about a rectangular craft only triangle or round.

The thing that really amazes me though, is I live in a big metropolitan area and I don't think anyone else saw it.

Donna

Santee, CA

April 5, 2001, 1:00 AM

I and my friend viewed these lights from San Diego on the morning of 4/5 from 12:53 am to 1:20 am. Your show alerted us that reports were coming in concerning lights just south of the San Diego border. I walked outside not really thinking I would see anything. Boy was I wrong! About 100 or more star sized none flashing lights were moving in a loose formation across the sky from north to south. It was totally incredible! An armada of UFOs. I got out my big fujinon 10x70 binoculars and watched them move all the way across the horizon. I could see no detail even with the fujinons. They were so high up they must each have been huge to be so bright when viewed from ground level. This was a major display that I think was more shocking than the phoenix lights. Again let me repeat, over 100 star sized solid white lights moving together in formation across the background star field. They were not stars. You must investigate this. I never thought UFOs were real, now I have seen 100 at once!

Car Size UFOs With Fire Shooting Out The Front?

A friend and I was in Radisson Inn at Bel-Air Cali. we were at the pool as we show something hovering through the air coming towards us as it got right over us it was about 500 feet in the air above us looking at it from the bottom it looked like the bottom of a car with 4 parts on the object looking like -the 4 wheels on a car- it appeared to look like fire shooting out the front like fire from jet boosters, but out the front?, there was no propellers like a helicopter and it had no wings like a plane it was no cloudy it was a clear sky it was night time. It continued on over us and continued traveling in a straight forward (hovering like) path going about 20 MPH. We kept watching it until it traveled to far for us to see it. It did have like a humming sound coming from it, it did not have any lights on it. Looking at it from the bottom it was a rectangular shape as a said looking at the bottom of it looked like looking at the bottom of a car. The Size of it if I had to compare to a car size was about the size of the late 90's Cadillac car size. Sorry these are the only descriptive features I have but my friend and I talked about it and we both agree on what we saw we both saw the same thing this was back in 1994 around June. MY QUESTION----- Has anyone ever spotted or heard of such UFO sightings? I cant definite say it was a space ship or anything of such but it was DEFINITELY an Unidentified Flying Object.

Thanks to everyone who takes time to read. Robbie

Frank Altomonte's Research Into The 1957 Close Encounter

L.A. California

I would like to thank Frank Altomonte for allowing me to place his reseach into this sighting on my site.
If you can help him by way of information on this sighting, or to ask questions.
You can email him at: alto@earthlink.net

Picture for above report (newspaper clipping) Titles - newspaperclipping

Dear Brian

Thank you for your kind note. You certainly have my permission to use my article.

Sandwiched between Los Angeles International Airport on the South and Marina del Rey on the north is the small beach community pf Playa del Rey, a district of the City of Los Angeles. It is here on the coastal highway that still skirts sumptuous coastal properties that our story begins some 44 years ago. It has been mentioned in a number of UFO books but the full story was found in a rare out of print book, "Encounters with UFO Occupants", by Jim and Coral Lorenzen, 1976. This was the second edition of an even more rare, "UFO Occupants", published in 1968. The following text is taken from the second edition.

"A Strange story about stalled cars and little men was told to authorities and the press on the morning of November 6, 1957, when Richard Kehoe, an employee of the General Telephone Company of Santa Monica, related his early morning experience. This is another tale which has fallen into ill repute because of the reluctance of researchers to accept human-like occupants as real, and the lack of corroborating witnesses.

Kehoe claimed that while driving along Vista del Mar at Playa del Rey in California (a beach area) at 5:40 AM his engine stopped as did the engines of the two other cars. When the drivers got out to see what was wrong they saw an egg-shaped spaceship wrapped 'in a blue haze' on the beach. Kehoe claimed two "little men" (about 5 feet 5 inches, which isn't really small) got out of the object and asked questions of him and the other drivers, such as: 'Where were we going? Who we are? What time it was? etc." He said their skin appeared to be yellowish-green in the early morning light, but that otherwise they looked normal. He said they were wearing black leather pants, white belts, and light-colored jerseys.

The two other drivers were identified as Ronald Burke of Redondo Beach and Joe Thomas of Torrance, and Kehoe claimed Thomas called the police. He said they sounded as though they were talking English but he couldn't understand them, and said simply that he had to go to work. The men got back into their ship and disappeared into the sky, whereupon his car started up immediately. The ship was oval, tan or cream color, with two metal rings around it upon which the object apparently rested, according to Kehoe."
The approximate location today has many changes. The coastal neighborhood overlooking the highway was nearly all purchased by LAX in the late 60's for airport expansion. The jets take off constantly overhead during the day and land from over the beach in the late evening and early morning. What's left to the South of the remaining neighborhood is fenced off. Within there is a ghostly scene of vacant streets with 40's vintage street lamps still intact and vacant lots still showing their decapitated foundations with overgrown landscaping and ageing untended palm trees.

It would be difficult to find anyone who still remembers since it was so long ago. With this date in mind, the Los Angeles Public Library main branch downtown held some clue. The Herald Examiner and the Los Angeles Times as well as various small community publications were found in the stacks by this writer one Saturday a couple years ago. The historical volumes of microfilm were scanned on and around this date for any further information. I wasn't until this exact date was referenced in the Los Angeles Times that the following story was found. Would you look at those headlines ! (Frank is referring to the image of the newspaper article above).

"They (USAF personnel) spotted six 'saucer shaped flying objects' at an altitude of about 7000 feet at the base of a cloud bank about 3:50 PM".

Wide Area Covered By Reports - Los Angeles Times November 6, 1957

Those unidentified flying objects first reported over Texas and Gulf of Mexico arrived over Southern California yesterday.
Reports of unidentified flying objects cluttered police switchboards in the west and southwest portions of the city. There were two sightings in Orange County and a belated report of an early sighting Monday at Borrego Springs, San Diego County.

None could identify the objects, neither could they agree on what they looked like.

People living in the Hollywood Hills told of a "ball of fire" in the sky. In the San Fernando Valley people saw "a great green light". A housewife in Corona del mar saw what looked like "an orange jack-o-lantern."

Hovers Over Ocean

Mrs. Charles Weitzel, 243 Driftwood Drive, Corona del Mar, said the object hovered just above the horizon, out over the ocean in the south southwest quadrant. She had the exact time of her sighting -- 6:04 PM -- because that was the time she put the corn -on-the-cob in the pressure cooker, then stepped to her picture window to look out.

The object vanished in the several seconds it took Mrs. Weitzel to summon her husband, a Marine Corps flier, to the window. Although most persons reported just fleeting glimpses of the extraterrestrial phenomena, other observers claimed to have the objects in view for more than an hour.

Personnel at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station reported unidentified objects in sight almost continuously between 6:05 and 7:25 PM.

Lt. Richard Spencer, a flying officer, saw the object from the ground. "It was not a star and it was not an airplane", he said. He admitted, however, that it appeared to be "starlike," and added that it glowed in varying colors, changing from bright to dim and back again.

Airport Tower Operator Louis D. Mitchell and a sentry on duty,Hospitalman Charles Kreiger, also observed the object. Almost all observers were agreed that the object moved slowly -- almost imperceptibly, across the sky. Most were agreed that the direction of travel was north or northwest.

Lending credence to the reports was the fact that there Air Force weather observers, including the commanding officer of the unit, acknowledged sighting the unidentified phenomena over Long Beach Municipal Airport.

They spotted six "saucer shaped flying object" at an altitude of about 7000 feet at the base of a cloud bank about 3:50 PM.

Larger Than C- 46

Maj. Louis F. Baker, commanding officer of the weather observation post, who sighted the objects with his assistants Airmen Joseph Abramavage and William Nieland said: "They were circular and shiny like spun aluminum changing course instantaneously without loss of speed like planes in a dogfight," Maj. Baker said. He said the objects were larger than a twin engine C - 46 aircraft and were in sight for about a minute and a half. The objects also were observed by 10 military personnel waiting to board an airplane at the airport, the spotters reported. Maj. Baker said he rejected the theory that the objects were sheet ice in a cumulonimbus cloud because of their regular circle shape.

Winked Slowly

An electronics executive, Merlin G. Perkins, 1102 N. Wright Street, Santa Ana, said he observed an object through binoculars for almost a half hour as it moved slowly overhead finally fading into reflected light above the Santa Ana business district. It appeared to be round and it winked slowly from dim to bright, with a reddish glow, Perkins said.

Two residents of Borrego Springs, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Burnand Jr., belatedly reported "a powerful mysterious light in the desert about 6 PM., Monday. "It appeared to be about twice the size of the moon," Burnand said, "and it flashed about eight times, each flash being about two seconds duration."

Reddish Color

"When if flashed the rays shot out in all directions and it made you think of an explosion without sound," he added. It was reddish in color, the couple said.

U.S. Weather Bureau official here said last night they knew of no atmospheric conditions which could account for the rash of reports. One weather analyst did observe, however, that the objects sighted in Texas last week end and appeared to be considerably lager than those seen here.

Two brief related reports appear after this on the page to fill put the columns:

Mystery Object, Like A Planet, Seen Over Gulf

New Orleans, November 5 (AP) -- The coast Guard cutter Sebago sighted an unidentified flying object over the Gulf of Mexico at 5:21 AM today. The object, seen for about three seconds, resembled a brilliant planet moving at tremendous speed.

Coast Guard headquarters in New Orleans received a radio message about the sighting. The message did not say exactly who on board the cutter had seen the object.

Air Force Alerts It's Radar Network - by The United Press

The Air Force yesterday alerted its radar network to watch for strange flying objects which might approach the ring of stations surrounding the United States and Canada. The alert followed a flurry of reports of unidentified objects, some as long as 500 feet, mainly in the South and Southwest.

Quite a wild night out ! Whatever happened to journalism like this ? Everyone appeared to be open to inquiry including military. There are no reports from "prefers to remain anonymous" in these articles. Something happened and a door was closed.

Whatever happened on the beach in Playa del Rey that morning so long ago was definitely a part of a larger flap. The tantalizing details can be found in the research notes of Jim and Coral Lorenzen now kept at some mid-west University according to one report and not readily accessible. One day hopefully those will be published in their unedited format. They were the best researchers and compilers of UFO cases that ever lived with an international network of field investigators called the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO)

If only those lampposts on the highway could speak.

Thank you Frank

Encino, CA

May 22, 2001, 9:40 PM

Blue/green spherical craft seen from Ventura Freeway in Encino, CA

While traveling west on the Ventura Freeway in the city of Encino, a bright blue/green light caught my eye. I watched it for a few seconds and pointed it out to my husband who was sitting next to me (he was the passenger, I was the driver) and he saw it immediately. This round shaped object traveled faster than any plane, but slower than a meteorite, was not a plane or helicopter. We watched it fly westwards towards the Malibu area in an arc, and vanish in the sky. Immediately afterwards, I saw two helicopters flying, coming from the southwest to north flashing their lights. The helicopters were lower and closer than the craft we saw. I had the feeling these helicopters had seen the object and were trying to find it, can't say why I had the feeling - just did.

Denver, Colorado

Friday 11, 2000, 6:40 PM

Greg Levitch was at home in Denver, Colorado when he heard the approaching sound of deep, powerful engines which I associated with a military helicopter - it was rattling my window. I went outside and saw three lights, Greg said.

"The fuselage of the helicopter was clearly visible as a black silhouette against the twilight with a light at each end. There were just enough variations in the flight path to confirm that the helicopter was following a second independent object - the third light. It was just a light - nothing else. No fuselage, no wings, no sound, nothing."

Boulder, Colorado

2:30 AM

I was outside at 2:30 AM smoking a cig., when I saw a bright flash. I asked my roommate if he saw that flash, he said no and thought I was crazy. About 10 seconds later we both saw a yellow orb underneath the clouds shoot across the sky at amazing speeds and then it was gone. One month earlier I saw the same orb in the same part of the sky but thought nothing of it since I was alone.

Joseph

Salida, Colorado UFO

September 25, 1995

About three weeks go a Denver TV station ran a news segment about a UFO sighting in Salida, Colorado. A local person had gotten several minutes of good video footage. I have seen that tape -- very odd indeed. Mid-day, cloudless sky. What one sees is a bright bar of light, perhaps twenty times as long as it is thick. The image is good enough that at least a certain amount of detail can be seen. If you look closely, you can see brighter points of light moving back and forth along the bar. The thing seems to be bouncing around in the sky a little. Witnesses said it would suddenly jump thirty degrees across the sky "in just a second."
It does not change aspect to show anything but the bar profile. I have just discovered that additional sightings are happening here today -- just this morning

Friend

Estes Park, Colorado

September 6, 2000, 9:15 PM

Deborah Lindemann C.H.T. interviewed Marie regarding two major sightings 55 miles northwest of Denver. Marie and her family witnessed an UFO on September 6, 2000, four miles south of Highway 34 in the Rocky Mountain National Park area. They saw a "big white light" come up from behind a hill directly west of their house at 9:15 PM. "It was about the size of a full moon." Marie said, "This thing came fast right towards us, and my husband, my new daughter in law and myself, were all there on the front porch saying "What is that ?" It came right over the top of our heads. We were getting ready to go on vacation and our cameras were packed. So, I just stood there and tried to see everything ! I could see a triangle shape inside this big white light that had curved edges. The triangular points were curved and it had hieroglyphic like squiggly markings around the edges. The squiggle's were all the way around and a bit lighter that the body color. It was slightly bigger than a full moon and about the size of my fist at arm's length. The sighting lasted fifteen to thirty seconds as the object moved silently to the east. As this white ball of light came over our heads at a continual speed, you could look right into it. It was dark gray, but the light was all around it.
Deborah asked, if it was a perfect triangle ? Marie indicated two sides were longer, and one side was shorter like an elongated triangle. Later they drove two miles to the area where it first came into view which is near the mountain tram that runs in Estes Park.

Friend

Mary's Lake, Colorado - Second Sighting

Sunday, October 1, 2000

Marie's son and daughter in law shared a second sighting on Sunday, October 1, 2000. Ironically, the two would never have remembered the second sighting, except that Marie had unintentionally triggered their memories by discussing their earlier sighting. This suddenly jogged their memories and they were amazed that they had forgotten. They began to relate their sighting that was even more frightening. They were driving by Mary's lake near Rocky Mountain National Park a few miles south of highway 34, when Jim slammed on the brakes and said, 'Look over there !' They saw an absolutely huge thing just hanging in the sky at 8:00 PM ! "It looked like two giant eighteen wheelers, with trailers, end to end with two blue lights and a red light on it." It was in the sky just below mountain level. I can't tell you the shape, because we were looking at the side of it." Estes Park is a valley, an if you're up high on the mountain looking across the valley, the UFO is airborne at your level. "We looked at each other in disbelief, and when we looked back it was gone, just that quickly. They then drove home and all the wife could do was hold on to Jim and shake. They come over quite often to visit and typically leave around that time. The son claims, "I've seen allot of them now." It was over by Lake Estes, but this one didn't scar us like this last sighting !" My son actually said, "I'm going to be ready."

Debra

East Coast Of Florida

I was within 100 feet of a chevron shaped object here on the east coast of Florida about a year ago... My wife and 2 sons along with several other people witnessed it ...

It drifted in from the ocean ....
3 orange lights, 1 on each tip ...
No sound whatsoever ....
It hovered over the top of us ...
After about 2 minutes the lights went out and it shot back over the ocean ... My father is a commercial pilot ....
I'm a licensed private pilot ...

I know what planets, ball lighting, stars, comets, flares and airplanes look like ... I'm telling you this was not of this earth ...
We had those little goose bumps on the back of our neck and never believed in UFO's until last year ...
I'm a FIRM believer now ....

Anonymous

Gulf Breeze, Fl

I was emptying my dishwasher, it was nine o'clock. From looking out my kitchen window I saw a bright yellow light with two green lights on either side of it. My radio started scrambling and I heard a low humming. I saw a flash of light and felt myself floating upward. I do not remember much after that point, but I remember seeing three beings surrounding me and touching my body with their cold hands. I saw them start to insert a large needle with an orange solution up my nose. I started to scream from the intense pain caused by this. As soon as this happened I found myself back in my kitchen lying on the floor. When I looked at the clock it was ten forty three. And the radio was working fine.

Edgar

Sarasota, Fl, U.S.A.

It was about a month ago when I was at the beach with one of my friends (he witnessed it too). We were laying down, and the beach was pretty empty, although there were a few people around. My friend got my attention and pointed to something in the sky directly above us. There were 6 (mostly round...some were oval..) objects in the sky. They had a glowing outer edge (not very bright, and white)...and in the middle they seemed to be transparent (at least they were of a similar color to the sky).

I could not judge how far they were, but they were right under the clouds, and were moving slowly. It took them 30 secs to move from west to east. (you can try to judge an approximate speed with that). I tried to explain this as some natural phenomenon, like smoke rings, or bubbles, but it was neither. It had a solid shape, and it did not have the colors, or reflections that you find on a bubble...besides...all 6 were moving at a relatively equal speed and direction.

Anonymous

Florida Lights Chased

Destin -- Bob Fiske writes, "I want to report a sighting that a friend of mine had back on March 21, 2000, along the Gulf Coast. He went out on the beach at 10:00 PM and observed seven bright white lights appear near the horizon. They then climbed to about 45 degrees angle in the southern sky. They then went rapidly to the south, fading from view. he had them in sight for about three minutes. What made his sighting very interesting was that a couple minutes after the object disappeared, he heard jets overhead, and saw the flames from the afterburners of two jet fighters going after the objects. Eglin Air Force Base is close by and they must have picked up the objects on radar. I have been interested in UFO's ever since the late fifties when I saw a V formation of round objects fly over my house one summer's day back in Chicago. I have had a strong interest in UFO's recently since buying a computer.

Thanks to Bob Fiske - Bobofvail@gateway.net

Lehigh Acres, Florida

1998. I have lived in Lehigh Acres, Florda for four years and for the first time I saw a UFO from my back yard which was proven not to be anything normal, this was not only seen by me but also my mother. This was about two years ago and one was sighted this month and caught on camera by someone who lives here in Florda. The thing I saw was red circular not like any plane I've every seen nor was it any space vehicle that was sent up. It was stationary for a minute not moving, then very quickly moved across the sky and then stopped and stayed still for another moment then sped off at a incredible speed straight up in the air. This sighting is one that I wasn't able to attribute to anything else but a UFO. Then recently in southwest Florda was the place of another sighting

Miami, Florida

March 28, 2000, 3:00 PM. I was at school with my friend coming back from the park when we looked up and there was a UFO flying upwards. It was white and spinning fast going upwards. they did nothing only went upwards very fast. there was only one of them. It was a sunny day.only with a few clouds.

Lehigh Acres, Florida

March 31,1998, 7:43 PM

I have lived in Lehigh Acres Florida for four years and for the first time I saw a UFO from my back yard which was proven not to be anything normal, this was not only seen by me, but also my mother. This was about two years ago and one was sighted this month and caught on camera by someone who lives here in Florida. The thing I saw was red circular not like any plane I've ever seem nor was it any space vehicle that was sent up, it was stationary for a minute not moving. Then very quickly it moved across the sky and then stopped and stayed still for another moment, then sped off at an incredible speed straight up in the air. This sighting is one that I wasn't able to attribute to anything else but a UFO. Then recently in S.W. Florida was the place for another sighting..

A Friend

Oldsmar, Florida

1989

Mary:

My sister and I were coming back from a meditation class in 1989 in Oldsmar, Florida. I was the passenger looking out the window. I said, "look Susan there's Space Lab." She said that Space Lab wasn't able to leave orbit. She pulled over. It had red and white lights and vibrated peace and love and don't worry, we're watching over you.
The next morning her very spiritual 4 year old daughter had drawn a picture of what we had seen. We asked her what it was and she said "her ruby and diamond starship."

Susan:

My sister and I did see what we believed to be a UFO, however, there is also another strange unexplained twist to the story. The flying object was shaped like a pyramid, with a small structure below the base. red and white lights were visible. We could not really determine the size. It seemed to just recede and vanish after hovering for a while. We were so excited that we stopped at a restaurant to actually sketch out of paper the image of this UFO. When we arrived home I found that my 4 year old daughter had left a drawing on he pillow of my bed of what appeared to be the same thing we had just seen. When she woke up the next morning we asked her what the drawing was about and she said a "diamond and a ruby ship". The similarity between all three drawings is uncanny.

That is my memory and I still have the drawings

Punta Gorda, Florida

July 28, 2000, Between 11:00 & 12:00 PM

Last night, July 28, 2000, my wife, son and I all observed the same UFO. We live in Punta Gorda, Florida and looking west north west and up azimuth 45 degrees we saw a multi colored object, red, yellow green hover in place for over an hour. I estimate the altitude at between 12,000 to 15,000 feet. In the back ground I observed a commercial plane flying in the area. The UFO shifted position on several occasions then returned to the same relative place. I used strong field glasses for observation. I could not see any shape. After the first hour we ceased observation and do not know how long it stayed.

Dunedin, Florida

April, 1998, 6:00 PM

My second encounter was in April 1998, Dunedin, Florida. It was still daylight, about 6:00 PM on a Saturday evening. My husband and I were driving west, leaving Dunedin, heading for Tampa. I just happened to glance up through the front windshield and noticed two spheres hanging in the sky, maybe 100 feet apart. They appeared to be lighted from within and had a misty quality to them. My husband didn't see them, and I totally forgot about them until I happened to turn on the newsmagazine program "hard Copy" and a person in Ft. Meyers, Florida had observed the same objects, videotaping them. What a surprise to see the exact same thin I had seen on TV. It truly validated what I had observed and I feel privileged to have seen them, always hoping for another sighting.

Strange Encounter

This account isn't a recent occurrence, it happened several years ago. And it didn't happen to me, but to my brother. My older brother, who's about as down~to~earth and sober~minded as any person I've ever known.

One warm and moonlit summer's eve, the shores of the great Atlantic hosted a handful of teenage boys as they strolled together, intent on enjoying a weekend of fun, sun, camping and salt~water fishing.

As they meandered along the shoreline, talking & laughing among themselves, all observed a group of very bright lights on the eastern horizon. Someone even pointed them out and made mention of the "fishing boat" in the distance, perhaps a shrimping trawler scooping up a final, twilight haul. This was nothing unusual for the area and the boys continued walking, the lights remaining stationery and slowly moving behind them as they continued northward.

A good while later, someone in the group called everyone's attention to the fact that one of the lights had separated from the others and was charging westward and in toward the beach at an incredible rate of speed.

"My God!" my brother remembered someone saying, "whoever's driving that thing is about to run it straight aground!"

They all stood still and stared in disbelief as this foolhardy captain was obviously about to crash his boat straight into the ocean floor while traveling at a tremendous rate of speed.

But only yards offshore, much too close in for a sea~going vessel to navigate without striking bottom, and without the speed of the craft diminishing at all, the object made an unbelievable 90~degree turn and continued racing along the shoreline in the direction the boys had been walking.

As the light sped along the shoreline, the water, the beach, the sand dunes and everything it passed was being lighted up as if night was turning to day. And even though the group of lights was now located quite a distance behind the boys, this particular light had traveled to shore and towards them so rapidly that it was parallel to their own position in only seconds.

When the light was precisely opposite of where they all stood staring and attempting to shield their eyes from the glaring, painful intensity being produced, the object abruptly halted without first slowing down. And, try as they may, all the boys could observe was blinding white light surrounding them, none of them being able to stare directly at the object.

Moments passed and no one moved or spoke. My brother recalled that there were no noises or sounds whatsoever, only the low, steady rhythm of seawater lapping the sand. The object continued to remain motionless and the intensity of the light did not lessen.

Then, to the astonishment of all present, the light began moving upwards, slowly and steadily rising until it was well into the air above them. There was a momentary pause, and then it blurred upwards and was gone. Seconds later, the lights remaining on the horizon shot into the heavens and were also gone.

My bother commented to me that this occurrence dramatically affected the mood and complexion of the party for the rest of their weekend, altering their conversation and their ability to concentrate on the relaxing activities they had planned. One of the boys reacted badly, being very upset about the event and would become extremely agitated and hostile each time someone would speak of it. Later on, he refused to speak about or acknowledge it at all.

What was it my brother and his friends saw and encountered many years ago while walking a lonely, deserted stretch of south Atlantic coastline? That, my dear friend, is something I'd like to know as well.

And I hope you enjoyed the retelling of this account.

Thank you Star Buck

My Name Is Eric, This Is My Story.....

The Beginning: It's hard to really say when my story really began. There are dreams in my past that I feel may or may not to related. I will not bore you with those details. There are two things I must relate to you before I tell you about the night of the Visitors. All of these things transpired within a six-month period.

The Nightmare: Like most dreams, the nightmare was kind of stupid. The only reason I am reporting it is because it is most likely related because of the Buzzing sound I heard during the nightmare. In the Nightmare, I was hiding beneath the floorboards of a building somewhere. I could see the space above the floorboards through the cracks between the boards. Above the floor was an object that I remember being similar to an upright vacuum cleaner. On it's front side was a very bright light. It was searching for me, and I was hiding. It made a loud buzzing sound. The same sound I heard the night of the Visitors.

The Helicopter: I have been plagued off and on through out my life with Sleepwalking. To me sleepwalking is semi-conscious, almost trance like state, other times I remember nothing at all. I have even hurt myself running in my sleep. Sleepwalking is a very bizarre experience. My memory of the night of the helicopter is rather blurred. I was in the familiar trance like state while a helicopter was flying extremely close to the house and shining its lights in the window. This also woke up my girlfriend. The really bizarre part of this incident was that I was crouched down near the floor, near the window, yelling at my girlfriend to get down. I was extremely afraid and very panicked. She later told me that I kept telling her that "They were going to get us". I do not remember how this episode ended.

The Night of the Visitors: A few months after the Helicopter incident I had the most bizarre experience of my life. It was May 2nd 1992. I awoke; around Three O-clock AM, to some noise or activity outside my window. My first impression was that someone was messing with my car outside, however I did not get up to look out. I felt as though there was a crowd outside my window. I remember thinking that if I was quiet, and did not move, they would not know I was there. Fear set in. I knew it was "Them". About this time I started to hear a very strange buzzing noise. (The same buzzing noise I heard in the nightmare.) It was very faint at first but grew louder with each passing second. It soon became very loud, almost loud enough to vibrate objects in the room. I continued to lie very still. My heart was beating very loud and my body was full of adrenaline. I was both absolutely terrified and totally in awe. I knew what was happening. As I lay on the bed, I watched the sky through the Venetian blinds. They were open wide enough to see the outside sky very clearly. As the buzzing grew louder, I saw a triangle shaped craft slowly appear, turn, and head towards my house from the corner of the block. It had three lights. One up front, and two at the back to form a triangle. It reminded me of a helicopter without rotors. It continued in my direction until it was almost just passed the window. It is here that the memory ends. I awoke nearly an hour and fifteen minutes later. Everything was back to normal. I have a small image in my memory of seeing this thing up close. Near one of it's lights. It was a dull flat black color with very little shine. It appeared to be held together by rivets.
I do very much feel that this was not a dream, as I was to full of adrenaline to be asleep. The event seemed too real.

Thank you Eric

Ormond Beach/Daytona Beach, FL

April 8, 2001, 8:30 PM

Looking at a relatively clear Northwest evening sky (some scattered light haze) I observed what I surmised to be a slow moving aircraft turn on it's very bright white landing lights on an apparent approach to Daytona Airport which was a few miles to the South of my location near the intersection of Florida SR 40 and SR A1A in Ormond Beach. After observing the aircraft for about 15 seconds I saw two small round dull red lights, many hundreds of yards apart, appeared over the airplane at 45 degrees above the horizon. The two red lights moved perfectly in unison, first moving away from each other, then almost converging and finally traveling at their original spacing before disappearing near tree top level to the West. The two red lights had a unique deep dull red hue which did not change in color or intensity. The lights movements through the sky approximated the shape of an hour glass. No noise was heard from the lights. The two red lights were visible for 10 seconds. After the red lights disappeared the landing lights from the plane (helicopter?) switched off and the aircraft disappeared into the evening sky.

Orlando,Florida

Is there anyone out there that lived in Orlando,Florida in either 1964 or 1965 and remembers ever reading about or seeing a UFO reported over Orlando at night time? I was there in Orlando and remember seeing a cigar shaped UFO with different colored lights blinking off and on encircling the thing.I got a good look at it while it was hovering across the night sky. I also remember it being in the news, but I can't find it anywhere. thanks, still remembering that night.

Thanks Rob

N.E. Georgia Triangle

Speaking of triangles. About 10 years ago, I saw a triangular shaped something in the night sky. I would say that except for the rapid acceleration, what I saw was the same as what those people saw in Illinois and was in the TV program last week. I went outside to smoke a cigarette about 10:00 PM one night and walked away from the house, maybe 25 feet and got where there were no windows casting light out on me. I figured that when I was out smoking, I may as well be looking at the sky' I have always done that from my first memories on. I always looked at the sky as if I was looking for something, well I was, but it is as if I knew I would see something. Anyway, I heard a very faint hum, very faint and almost undetectable. It is almost as if I listened for it, I could not hear it, but if I just listened and all, then it was there. This was late November or early December and it was already chilly and it wasn't bugs. I looked up at the sky and saw a large triangular shaped object occulting the stars and I could faintly make out the shape of a darker body against a not so dark sky. There was no moon, out, and I can't remember if there was a rising or an already set moon, but the sky was a lighter color and I could see the dark shape against it.

It, too, was one of those things that if I looked too hard at it, I would not see it and I had to just look and it was there. I couldn't focus too much on any part of it. It moved very, very slowly from the west to the east with maybe a slight north cant, i.e. from west, southwest to east, northeast. I would say the craft was 200 feet on a side and was maybe 500 feet from me and because it was out over a valley, it was following the valley actually, it was about 30 degrees up from the horizon and my vantage point. It was probably 100 feet higher than me and 300 feet above the valley floor. I live in N.E. Georgia and it is just hill and valley, nothing major. After the craft passed and was going off in the distance, maybe a 1000 feet, I saw 4 lights shaped in a diamond pattern, a square actually, but sitting on a point. They were white and I had the feeling they were in a cowling of some sort because I couldn't see them until the craft was significantly by my position. It continued on uninterrupted at the same speed until I couldn't see it anymore because of trees and the horizon. I had no feel at all for thickness.

My first thought was a stealth craft of some sort, but I couldn't figure out how it could fly so slow. The next was a object called a UFO or whatever - ours or theirs, and then after reading about a government program where they fly stealth blimps and UFO shaped blimps around, I think that is what I saw. I believe it was a triangular shaped blimp that probably cast no radar shadow, or a very tiny one that may be rejected by most radar units. The lights were probably so that no fast moving traffic would fly up on it from behind.
Anyway, my triangle sighting. Oh, btw, there have been triangular sightings at dusk and during the daylight out in that area as well as at night, so there are the real things being seen out there. That is, they were seen in enough light so that the witnesses knew they were not blimps and they moved fast and seemed to materialize. I don't live there or own that property anymore :(, but I feel it is a mystical place. I was drawn to it and felt at peace on it. It is very near where the Cherokee called the center of the earth and about 15 miles from the Guide stones. So anyway, flying triangles are us and them.

Pat

Jonesboro, GA

April 6, 2001, 2:00 AM

I had just gotten off the phone with my wife and I was getting ready to go to bed. All the lights flickered and then they all went out. I was a little worried but I did not think anything of it. I went outside to see if the street lights had gone out as well and I noticed that they had.I began to walk back into the house when I heard a noise that sounded like a train. It was very loud and I thought it was coming from the sky so I looked up and I saw a bright flash of light. It was so intense that I turned away and I remember the sensation of falling.The next thing I knew I was opening my eyes to find the light from the street lamps shining on me. I thought that I had just passed out but when I went back into the house I noticed that it was four o'clock. I do not know what happened but I think I was abducted. There are numerous bruises on my body. Some on my neck but most around my genital area. I also had a powerful urge to piss but I could not.

Hawaii, "Buzzed"

On 4/52 - Secretary of the Navy Daniel Kimball was flying to Hawaii when his craft was "buzzed" by a UFO. A second Navy plane containing Admiral Arthur Radford was following and Kimball's pilot radioed back asking for information; they were told that the UFO had buzzed the second plane also but it flew past so swiftly that no one had been able to assess it's shape with any accuracy.

Hawaii Sighting

About a year ago, I was on vacation in Hawaii. I was taping several different spots on the Island of Oahu. Just recently I was watched the tape again and saw something that I didn't see the first time. The object is real small and appears to be moving at a very high rate of speed toward a rock, then it stops and changes directions and disappears off the camera in about 1/4 of a second. I have no idea what it was ? Could it be the camera or reflection ?

Gim