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
THANKS, THANKS,
Dave, I assume you've pinged the list. Will check and if not after 20 posts, will do so.
Thanks Dave,
HOWEVER, Some of you sent me notes to add you to the list while I was gone this last 3 weeks to visit my 82 year old Dad in AZ. I was poor at trying to keep track of them and given the vast number of pings I get as well as FREEPMAILS, I would have to search through about 300+ msgs to find those requests.
IF ANYONE ASKED ME OR DAVE TO ADD YOU TO THE UFO PING LIST IN THE LAST 3 WEEKS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AGAIN. Sorry.
INDEED, WELL SAID.
And, The Supreme Court affirmed that the classified stuff our government has on the UFO's is rightfully THE MOST highly sensitive, important etc, classified stuff there is.
So, evidently "swamp gas" is highly critical to our national security.
Can't have it both ways, d***** b*rry naysayers!
Sadly, it will all become exceedingly more evident and clearer when it's even MORE too late to do anything about it.
LOL, Quix, this message is hard to miss! Hope things are going well with you. I'm kindof off and on this summer.
THANKS.
GREAT INFO.
The disinformation campaign [in all it's extremes, questionable motives etc] is about as treasonous, to me, as the SCUBA-TEDDY brigade in the U.S. Senate. Sheesh.
Sigh.
VERY WELL PUT. THANKS.
Thanks much.
Any other detail you could add?
Did the elongating phenomena seem like a light distortion or what? Did you experience a "time standing still" phenomenon?
Any missing time?
Any other such sightings?
Thanks much.
Thanks for your efforts.
MAY YOU HAVE RAPID, PAINLESS HEALING FOR YOUR EYE. NO FUN!
MAVIS BEACON and a few hours or even 30 min a day for half a month or so could teach you touch typing fairly painlessly.
Be careful, Beth.
imho, the critters are either in cahoots with satan or, as some assert, some ET's are bioengineered shells housing demonic critters. In any case, I believe they will be used to coerce the world into the evil, tyrannical world government.
They have it set up to go either way--with ET as saviors or destroyers.
They have not dropped off as any correlation with cell phone cameras etc.
They seem to ebb and flow according to unknown factors.
Actually, I think the brazenness of some sorts of sightings has increased. Some think the raw number of sightings has increased.
THANKS, THANKS,
Please share any details with me whenever you care too.
Also, from your friend.
BTW, just drove through Sedona yesterday. Still one of my favorite places though I hate the New Age conquest of the place.
WEST FORK is sooooo beautiful and serene, to me.
THANKS TONS.
GREAT LINKS.
Share more any time, imho.
Will put you on the UFO ping list
(that I manage and Las Vegas Dave does back-up duties for).
Thanks thanks.
Thanks. Been that way for me, too with all my traveling this summer.
Could be better. Visit with 82 year old blood dad was mostly a bust. Super critical, blaming etc. over NOTHING--even over very kind, thoughtful, gentle, well thought out acts of servant-hearted service in his behalf done as well as could be imagined the way he'd prefer. Sheesh.
Anyway--God is still Good. It was fitting I go. Just grieved at the way he is choosing to be at the close of his life.
And, I'd expected too much, clearly, on hearing that his wife's death had made him more communicative. Guess not with me.
Hope you're having an interesting--pleasantly--and overcoming summer.
I'm having a good summer, thankyou Quix. I'm sorry to hear your visit with your Father didn't go better. Sometimes old people just get mean and cranky, you did the right thing by going so pat yourself on the back!
Thanks...PennsylvaniaMom
Here's a couple more sites about UFOs
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com
http://www.roguesighting.com/
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