Posted on 07/28/2005 8:25:37 AM PDT by CHARLITE
EXETER - There was something odd in the sky last week, something that caused a Navy veteran with 10,000 hours of flight experience to have his own close encounter. The former flight engineer, who wished to be identified only as "David," said of the experience, "this was like nothing I’ve ever seen before."
What the retired Navy chief petty officer said he saw last Wednesday could only be classified as a UFO, an unidentified flying object.
It was a bright and sunny afternoon, about 3:15 p.m., and David was outside preparing his lawnmower. He had filled the mower with gas, checked the oil, and took a sip from a glass of water he had poured. When he tilted his head back to get the final sip, through the bottom of the glass he saw a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky.
David said windows were equally spaced around the object, however he didn’t see anyone or anything inside. The size of the object was enormous. By comparison, he said, consider what an ultralight plane would look like next to a Boeing 747. He said it was about the size of two USS Nimitz aircraft carriers.
At first glance, through his empty glass of water he thought it could have been the Hood blimp. "But, the instant I put my glass down, I said, ‘that’s not a blimp.’"
The object moved from west to east, very slowly for something that size, he said. His initial instinct was that the object was moving at about 100 knots, but something that big shouldn’t be able to stay in the air if it’s going that slow, he said.
The object began changing colors from a bright silver to an orange-ish red. A strange cloud of red and orange flames began surrounding the object, and before he knew it the object stretched out like a rubber band. It grew to about twice its original size, and then it was gone.
The entire incident lasted about 10 minutes, he recalled Monday morning, but he is unaware of the specific time because, "it felt like time stopped."
He went into his house and first thought to call the police. He decided not to because he didn’t think they’d take him seriously. So he went on the Internet and searched for "report UFO," and found the Web site for the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center.
Peter Davenport, director of the UFO reporting center, said David’s report was astonishing because of his history with flight. "I have no question on his reliability."
He said he gets several accounts each year, but this one stood out. The report was well written and scientific, Davenport said.
"In my view, that’s one of the cardinal rules of an account," he said.
The center was founded in 1974 by UFO investigator Robert Gribble. The center’s Web site, www.nuforc.org, has a large list of UFO sightings. According to the site, the center’s primary function is to receive, record, and to the greatest degree possible, corroborate and document reports from individuals who have witnessed possible UFOs. David’s report, which will soon be on the Web site, will be among dozens of documented sightings to be formally reported to the center.
Not the first time
The Exeter area is no stranger to UFO sightings. In 1965, two Exeter police officers and hitchhiker Norman Muscarello, who was with them, gained national attention after seeing a UFO hovering over Route 101 in Kensington. The sighting was documented in a book called "The Incident at Exeter."
And then there was the incident involving Barney and Betty Hill, a husband and wife from Portsmouth who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. The couple was driving from a vacation in Canada in 1961 when they saw a UFO.
The object moved directly over their car, and before they knew it they grew drowsy. They later claimed to have been abducted by aliens and gave identical accounts while they were hypnotized.
But for this recent sighting, David said he believes that there is life beyond Earth. He said the galaxy is so enormous, it’s hard to believe humans are the only intelligent life.
"To the point of not being obnoxious, it’d be egocentric to think there is no other life out there."
Questions for the reporter to: adolge@seacoastonline.com
You bet. I am married to a man who hates taking anything to an expert. LOLL Why oh why did I ever tell him I could read. ;)
Good poit. I'll check that out!
I'll say here what I said on the thread of a previous post which I did several months ago about the Roswell, N.M. story.
My 5 children and I stood on the 2nd floor bedroom balcony of our home in the countryside near Boston, on a crisp, clear, cold February night around 8 PM. We each had high-powered safari binoculars, which actually wouldn't have been necessary, as we could have seen the giant UFO mothership and the little individual "baby craft" without binoculars.
The mother ship was hovering possibly several thousand ft. above one of the treelines. The baby craft were buzzing around the bottom of the mothership, going in and out of a huge lighted aperture in the bottom of the big ship.
This activity continued for some 15 minutes. Then, abruptly all of the little ones were almost like they'd been sucked up into the lighted aperture. The opening closed. No more light was seen other than some twinkling lights on the giant craft......and then it shot off at about a 45 degree angle. Within about 30 seconds, it was a spot the size of a quarter, and then another several seconds, it had disappeared.
This occurred in the early 1970's outside of Boston. Neither I nor my children have "mental problems," and I can assure you that no mind altering substances had been imbibed by any of us that night.
BTW, I have a friend who lives in Sedona, AZ, and she sees these phenomena frequently.
Char :)
Shouldn't affect it if you are sure you drained all the gas. A small amount of gas left in would at worst thin your oil.
Thank for all your replys, now yous guys go back to your aliens.
Lawn mowers are more interesting - They are real.
Hey Canedawg...ever read the Book of Enoch?
Char...would you please put me on your UFO ping list?
No DS, I haven't.
I just googled it- it looks very interesting. Is this it?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/096757370X/qid=1122678734/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_3/103-1299942-1443066
It is all about fallen angels mixing with human women and the product of those unions. Many experts in prophecy make the link to Enoch's nephilim and the UFO's, abductions, etc.
Biblical scholars like Chuck Missler believe that what are thought to be aliens are actually demons or fallen angels (some people differ as to the definition of those two categories of being). The presumed strategy is that if fallen angels can make humans think they are aliens and have mucho technology, humans will drop their faith in God and follow the aliens...to their leader, Satan.
Of course, all theory.
But all abduction experiences indicate that the experience is intrinsically evil and usually sexual in nature. I don't even bother with questions as to whether people have had abduction experiences. I approach the whole matter in a more basic way. All abductees seem to suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (per John Mack, now deceased former chairman of Harvard Med School Dept of Psychiatry...google him too). Which means something happened if only in their heads or...
Anyway, let me know what you think. There are many biblical scholars that are focusing on this theory to ignore it.
See my post #72 above. If it strikes a cord, let me know.
It looks like worthwhile reading- I noticed a couple of comments about it while searching- one reader thought it linked Genesis to Revelations. another (Evangelical) group was against it, etc. Many different thoughts and a wide range of ideas.
I will check it out. Thanks.
It isn't hard to see why some people would run away from it...it is frightening.
But of course, that isn't the question. The question is...what is true?
Rely on your judgement to separate myth from fact. My experience in this kind of stuff is that the more one goes at it empirically and clinically (but with an open mind)...the more the truth emerges from the mist.
It's got to be true, Who ever heard of a Navy man who drank?
"a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky"
They're back.
At least its the BUDGET for a military aircraft!
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