Location: Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tennessee
In light all the other military UFO experiences being recently related, I thought it time to tell what my older brother saw in summer 1967 at the Naval Air Station, Memphis Tennessee. Although designated as NAS Memphis, the base is actually located adjacent to Millington TN.
My brother was at the time, in training as a jet engine mechanic. He was working in a hangar near the main runway one day in summer 1967. It was late morning, and a C-117 (updated version of the C-47, R4-D, DC-3) was on final approach for a landing. As the plane came in over the end of the runway, my brother and his fellow airdales noticed that there was a silvery disk about 25-30 feet in diameter, above the cargo plane, and following it in. The C-117 landed, and taxied to the end of the runway. The disk was above the plane the entire way, accelerating up and out of sight when the plane reached the point where it turned to taxi back to it’s parking spot. At lunch, there was an excited buzz about the “UFO”. Seems almost everyone on base had seen the disk, and the scuttlebutt was that the weather officer in the control tower had taken photos as well.
After lunch everyone on the station was called, by unit, to the base assembly hall to be “debriefed” about the event. No information or explanation was given for the silvery disk, but all were ordered not to discuss the incident with anyone. Court martial was threatened for anyone who disobeyed this order. No further word about the alleged photos. It was assumed that they had been sent up channels.
My brother did not divulge this story to me until the late 1970s, when he had been out of the Navy for almost 10 years. To this day, it gives him the creeps to talk about it.
HBCC UFO Research would like to extend my deepest thanks to the person for getting this story out into the publics eye. Seeing there would have been a good number of military folks on the base at the time of this incident I am requesting that they please come forward and contact me. Also I want everyone to know that I will not give out anyone's personal information to anyone.
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Location: Lake District, Cumbria UK
Date: 1982
Time: 5:00 a.m.
A triangular shape came over mountain top on deserted country road, no sound whatsoever. I remember it approaching us and then hovering above us in what seemed like slow motion. Rest of family only remember it taking off before we carried on our journey. Not one of us have ever spoke of this incident in all this time for fear of laughter. Was visited since on several occasions.
Additional Information:
First of all their was five of us in the car - My Father (Health Physics worker at a nuclear power plant (ex R.A.F) - Now Retired), My Mother (Social Worker - Now Retired), My Grandmother (Now Deceased), My Sister & Myself.
We had just returned from an holiday abroad and had landed at Manchester airport which is a few hours drive away from our home. After we had driven for a couple of hours along the motorway, we turned off to enter the Lake District which is a mountainous area of the UK that's pretty much deserted and frequently visited by ramblers/hikers. The time was around 1:00 a.m. by now and I started complaining I needed to use the bathroom. With us being miles away from anywhere my father pulled the car over and told me to go use the side of the road.
I remember looking up at the sky as I left the car and walked towards some bushes. It was a crystal clear night, no clouds at all, you could see hundreds of stars and several mountains a mile or so away. Anyway, (I was having a wee) and the back door of the car was open when over the mountain top a mile or so away came a blue neon light. I remember looking at this light and thinking wow, how pretty. I shouted to my father to get out the car and come see it too.
My father came out of the car and stood beside me for a minute or so as this thing headed straight towards us. My mother knocked the car headlights off at this point in hope that whatever was coming towards us wouldn't see us down below on the road and she shouted over for us to get back into the car.
It was a triangular shaped object, I'm not sure of the speed it was traveling but it seemed to approach in almost slow motion as if gliding on air and there was no sound whatsoever. As it hovered above us I noticed that the blue glow was totally surrounding it like a thin layer with no apparent source and it was a dark metallic color inside of this light. It must of been about 30 feet above us and roughly about the size of a small passenger aircraft. My mother, sister and grandmother were now screaming at us to get into the car and my father said come on, lets get the hell out of here.
The next thing I remember is us all driving down the road with my father saying how we should never mention this to anyone for fear of ridicule etc. However, my mother & sister recall a different story. Their version matches mine and my father's so far as me getting out of the car and walking towards some bushes. They say the craft rose from the ground behind some trees near where I was standing and emitted huge white beams of light through the trees as it took off before my father dragged me into the car and we drove off in a panic.
I'm sorry I can't give more details on the actual craft, but it was a long time ago and although it sticks in my mind I'm sure you know that the mind tends to become distorted and add things itself over time. For this reason I've kept it all as simple as possible. Finally, even nowadays I try to avoid that road whenever possible as a feeling of dread, even death, comes into my mind whenever I am on it.
Thank you to the witness for this report.
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Location: The Valley Of Fire, Las Vegas
Date: Spring 1986
In I believe the spring of 1986 my husband, mother, a friend and I decided to take our telescope out in the desert away from city lights and do some sky watching, we ended up in what's called The Valley Of Fire about 35 miles north east of Las Vegas. I don't know what time it was we were there quite a while, it was very dark having no moon. I was facing east when I noticed a white dot moving from the south east directly north east, turned out there were more (9) to be exact in groups of (3) moving slowly across the sky all at the same speed. With the telescope we could make them out clearly even though they were pretty high, they were all white and foot ball shaped and they all had a row of six round port holes on the side toward us.
We watched them move away at the same speed they flew across the sky and on out of sight. We saw one other object that night right after we watched those (9) cross the sky, it was flying in a spiral, a flashing white light, moving to fast straight up. The next experience I will tell you happened (12) years previous to this in the same general area as The Valley Of Fire is just off the old Salt Lake Hwy heading toward St. George, Utah. I believe these two experiences are connected, for what I think is a very good reason, as I hope you will see. Near as I can recall, it could been a year either side, in about 1974 my parents decided they needed new glasses, there was a doctor in St. George, Utah that was at the time charging much less then in Vegas.
Seeing as how they were kind of up in years I decided to drive them, they drove for a long time after this, but I was off work that day and wanted to take the ride. We left early, the appointment was three that afternoon and we decided it was such a beautiful cool morning we wanted to look at the desert as it was in bloom that spring and was absolutely gorgeous. We got there in time to have lunch then see the doctor. His office was on a side street in a converted house, it was quite nice on a corner with a wonderful window seat facing the street. There was of course all sorts of plants and cushions, the house was kind of old fashioned with beveled glass in the door and a old brass door handle that shocked me when I took hold.
The waiting room wasn't to large, about the size of a small living room/setting room with chairs around the walls and coffee tables with magazines like any other doctors office. We sat just to the right of the front door and about five minutes later the receptionist came and took them to a exam room. I glanced at the grand father clock on the wall and it said, three pm, we were right on time. There was a man sitting across the room in the opposite corner reading a magazine, for some reason unknown to me I suddenly had the urge to go strike up a conversation which that really isn't unusual for me as I like to talk with people, but this was a very strong feeling. I sat in the chair on the other wall in that corner so there was a chair between us in the corner, I picked up a magazine and shortly noticed a nice picture of the moon. I had been noticing the shadows on the moon didn't look quite right for a few days, nothing big it's just I watch the sky all the time and it didn't seem quite right. I never talk to strangers about UFO's or anything related for the most part, but today for some reason I said to this man.
"Have you noticed the shadows on the moon don't look quite right?" He said. "Yes, that's because it's shifted 43 degrees, but not to worry it has done this before and will shortly return to normal". I asked how he knew this. He replied. "I'm with a group of scientists and we been in the Utah desert for the last two months taking various measurements and photographs of your planet, sun and solar system with very sensitive sophisticated equipment." The next words from my mouth shocked me. I asked him if while there they saw any UFO's. He right away responded with a big grin. "Oh yes". He then said. "If you watch the eastern sky in spring time you will see the ships in a trade route just outside your atmosphere, you can see them because your sun reflects off them at that time of year." (This is why I believe these experiences are connected.) For some reason I never thought about what he said again until 1986 when we were watching the eastern sky and there they were big as life.
Those 9 objects certainly could have been cargo ships, that's what they looked like to all of us. Using the telescope we could see a lot of details. By the by I have not seen them since, maybe someone in the more western part of the country could, I have no clue if they still run that area of our sky or not. I knew something was up when he kept talking about your sun, your planet and your solar system, about then I began to notice things didn't feel right, the air felt heavy, hard to explain but that's the best I can do with that one. I noticed the tree's outside stopped moving in the breeze that was there what seemed like a few moments earlier and the piped in music was silent, I also noticed the receptionist had not moved, her head remained resting on her hand, elbow on the desk the pencil in the other hand also not moving. I again looked at the clock, it said (3) PM, the pendulum seemed stuck, no movement at all, I know we had been sitting there for a minimum of twenty minutes and likely a lot more than that. Now I got upset, I said, "What the hell is going on here?" There had been a few minutes previous, I felt I would follow this man any where he wanted to go, that he understood me perfectly, knew everything about me, that feeling was fleeting when I realized things were far from normal.
This man looked to been in his middle fifties near as I could tell, he had reddish blond hair combed to the side thinning on top, his eyes were very blue and his complexion ruddy, as if he was fair but had been in the sun a while. His face was clean shaven, his teeth were very white and even, looked as if they belonged to a twenty year old instead of a older man, and he had a great smile, he appeared absolutely human and he wore round gold rimmed glasses. He told me he was there to pick up another pair the doctor sent for repair. I could see blonde hair on his arms, actually more white than blonde as his sleeves were rolled up, his hands were wide, fingers short and short finger nails. He wore a plaid shirt with light tan corduroy pants, he had on ankle high work or hiking boots that looked absolutely new and they had leather laces, he also wore a white under shirt. The way his boot looked he had not been in any desert, there were no scratches or any dirt and his cloths were absolutely clean. Once I began to suspect things were not normal he began to grin, suddenly I had a very strong urge to get up and see about my parents, as if something awful was about to happen when I knew they were absolutely fine.
I fought for a few seconds but could not resist, I found myself standing up and my feet moving, but I made up my mind I would not lose sight of this guy, which didn't exactly happen. I made three steps and turned to my left so I could see the corner, he was in from the side of my eye, in those few seconds he was gone, as I began to turn back the front door swung open on it's own and I jumped and grabbed it before it could close and ran outside. No one was there, no car was there, no dust was there and there's no way he could gotten out of that room past me that I would not seen him, what's clear is he didn't want me to see how he left. I came back inside needless to say very upset, the receptionist was slowly waking up, she yawned as if she had been sleeping, I asked her if anyone had been in that afternoon but us for glasses or anything else, she said no, I said nothing further. Once we were on our way I asked if they saw anyone in the waiting room when we walked in, my mother said no, Dad described the mans clothing which made me feel a whole lot better, it was not a dream after all. The other thing that's always bothered me is only one other person knew where we were going that day, of course along with what it was he wanted and why he met us there in the first place.
Thank you to the person for their report.
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Location: Lowry AFB, Colorado
Date: Spring 1991
I am really enjoying reading all of these articles on UFOs over military bases. Naturally I thought I would share mine with you. It is not very exciting but still interesting just the same. It happened in the spring of 1991 at Lowry AFB Colorado (now closed). I had just finished basic training with the Air Force and was sent to Lowry for my technical training as an Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist. I was there a few weeks when this happened. I was at what we called the mini-mall. It housed Burger King, the barber shop and a few small shops. I was exiting the building when I just froze and felt like I needed to look up. As I did I noticed this perfectly round sphere coming from my left side in the sky. It was the brightest silver you have ever seen. It shimmered in the sky like a Christmas ornament and made no noise at all. It was about the size of a pea held at arms length. I could not estimate it's height. It traveled across the sky from left to right (in the direction of Denver Int. Airport!) in a perfect line never swaying or fluttering. I watched in stunned amazement the entire time until it went out of sight. It almost seemed as if time stood still for a second because I remember looking around to see if there was anyone else seeing this and it just seemed as if the base had went silent. Afterwards I told few buddies who just laughed it off. I have had several sightings in my life but this was the only one that has ever happened in broad daylight.
Thank you to the person for this report.
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Location: San Antonio, Texas
Date: 1995
Time: 6:00 p.m. (dusk)
Well anyway me and my wife are down at the Water Gardens and I am telling her all about this boy and the pictures, and just feeding her with all this info...(witness was referring to a MUFON meeting he attended) well she finally says look! I will listen to you and all that but don't push this stuff on me... I have to see to believe, at that moment I made a request to them (aliens I guess) I wish they would come down right now so you can see them and believe in them. Like I do. Well at that moment in conversation I told her in Spanish..." look in the sky. Here comes a car."
There were two lights directly above the Harbor Bridge like back behind it a little . She laughed and we just kept talking thinking the whole time it was probably a plane or something. Well for some reason I was watching it in the corner of my eye, and then realized like in no time it was directly above us. At this point my wife was starting to freak, and I was so full of excitement that this was happening. I remember looking up and this object was huge, and made no sound... that was scary ...something that big floating above us and all you could here was a hovering noise..a very faint hovering noise... not loud at all... The lights glowed from white to yellow to green and then the reverse. The object then moved directly behind the Art Building, came to a perfect stop and made a 90 degree turn around the corner of the building going beyond our sight... I was trying to run to the other side of the building and my Wife was pulling on my hand.She did not want me to go because she was scared... I finally broke loose and ran around the building only to see the object blink out. It jumped from near the art building to about 1 or 2 miles out above the bay and then just blinked out again and disappeared. My wife to this day does not like talking about this incident.... She is old school.. you know every thing has to have an explanation.
Thank you to the witness for this report.
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Location: Windsor, Ontario
Date: June 26, 2004
Time: 10:40 p.m.
My 76 year old father-in-law (name removed), my 14 year old son (name removed) and myself, 42 years of age - were sitting in my backyard, at the entrance of my garage door, watching a small fire I had made in my outdoor fire pit. We were facing due-East at that time and it was a clear night all around. We were talking about the stars that we say in the sky and (father-in-law) was saying how he had never seen a shooting star before. Then (son) and I were talking about NORAD. I was explaining to him what it was all about.
Suddenly, (son) (to my right) looks North, jumps out of his chair in excitement and literally hollers "LOOK! - OH MY GOD, IT'S A METEOR".
Well, instantly (father-in-law) and I looked North, jumped and shouted a few Holy _ _ _ _! 's ourselves. At this point, (son) had moved in front running to get my digital camera for a picture.
The single huge object was fiery bright orange with a huge long trail. It was absolutely crystal clear to us that this was a meteor. From our view, we witnessed the object traveling from the North-west in an Easterly to South-Easterly direction for approx. 15-20 seconds. At which time, two smaller chunks broke away. One headed in a South-Easterly direction and the other same size object, headed North-East.
Wouldn't you know it, the battery in my camera had enough charge to flash but not enough to process and store the picture. Within 5-7 minutes of us losing sight of the object, we were again sitting in our chairs talking excitedly about what we had just witnessed. I reiterated that (father-in-law) had just made the comment about never before seeing a shooting star. This was unbelievable. Looking up from my chair to the South-East sky, I saw three very tiny red lights heading West. I told my son (name removed) to look at them as well. We watch these 3 red lights travel at speeds neither of us had ever witnessed. They traveled across the entire night sky at speeds none of us had ever seen or heard about. And as well, they were not stationary. All three lights jockeyed around each other. Again, like nothing we had ever seen.
I had great difficulty seeing them as they had faded from my sight, (son) said he could still see them. He pointed them out to me and he was right. At that precise moment, we both witnessed one of the lights leave the pack and head directly back in the direction from which it came. And again, at speeds neither of us could explain. (father-in-law) couldn't see them anymore at this point. The two other lights continue on until we could no longer see them and the single light, heading in the opposite direction had also disappeared.
Thank you to the person for sending in this super report.
