Original headline: UFO sighted by 2 during newspaper delivery
A couple of rural St. Joseph News-Press carriers 100 miles apart see the same UFO!
You haven’t picked up the Weekly World News by mistake. Ivana Calhoun and David Stafford both claimed they did see something strange zip past their windshields one morning this month.
That Mrs. Calhoun, who was delivering papers in rural McFall, Mo., saw the same object Mr. Stafford saw while traveling through Grayson Mo., makes it even stranger.
“I’ve never seen nothing like it, and I’ve seen plenty of shooting stars. I’m out there every night. I know what they look like,” Mrs. Calhoun said.
Mr. Stafford said he’s driven the same road a million times and never seen anything like it, either. Not for several months, at least.
“About nine months ago,” he said, “I saw one on the side of me, like following me.”
For Mrs. Calhoun, Tuesday morning, May 4, didn’t seem out of the ordinary. She noticed a full moon peering out from behind a wisp of cloud in the dark blue sky. She noticed the quiet. Besides that, everything else was so routine she could probably have delivered the papers in her sleep.
After delivering a paper on her route, she slowly backed her silver 2004 Toyota RAV down his gravel driveway, like she always does. She knew from habit to drive slowly and look in her rearview mirror. She wanted to make sure Mr. Spier’s two huge St. Bernard dogs were out of the way.
But this morning she saw something else.
“I looked in the left side mirror to make sure the dogs weren’t back there, then coming from the left side, I saw it,” Mrs. Calhoun said.
About 50 feet away and 50 feet upward in the sky, Mrs. Calhoun said she saw a fluorescent orange sphere the size of a basketball zip across her windshield. The orb flew in a straight line and didn’t make a sound, she said. In less than three seconds, it was gone.
“There was no glow, no halo coming from behind it, but a straight orange line that tapered to a brown color then tapered to a black color,” she said. “You know how a cigarette in the dark, when you wave it through the air, leaves a trail behind it? That’s what it looked like to me, but the line wasn’t attached to it.”
It so happened that Mrs. Calhoun was on her cell phone talking to Mr. Stafford at the time.
He was just leaving Grayson, Mo., when he saw the same “Day-Glo” orange object about 30 feet away.
“We described it to each other, and it was the exact same thing,” Mr. Stafford said. “I thought it was a falling star, but it was going parallel to the ground. Both of us were going south.”
And both of their watches read 3:45 a.m.
The only difference for Mr. Stafford this time was that the UFO didn’t chase him.
“This one here didn’t scare me. It was like it was going away from me, and that was OK,” he said.
After she got home that morning, Mrs. Calhoun couldn’t get the whole thing out of her mind. She had to do something to prove to herself what she saw.
“I was still upset,” she said. “That’s why I had to draw a picture.”
Her husband, Kelly Calhoun, could tell something had scared his wife. And she doesn’t scare easily, either, he said.
“I could hear it in her voice. She was reliving it again,” he said.
That same morning around noon, Mrs. Calhoun made a detailed report with the National UFO Reporting Center.
She was a guest on the “John Rense Program,” a nightly radio show about UFOs and other strange occurrences.
Mrs. Calhoun and Mr. Stafford both said the UFO hasn’t kept them from their paper routes. They both were back at it the next morning.
“That customer hasn’t missed a paper,” Mrs. Calhoun said. “But (the customer) has no idea I’m scared of his yard.”
