Brian
Vike's Favorite Cases.
Date: January 1976
My next door neighbor and I also had some involvement with the Clovis UFO. I
also knew Steve Muscato, the photographer who took the original picture for the
local newspaper. His photo is of the stationary object that hung directly
over Clovis for several days. I believe it occurred over quite a few
days.
There was one stationary light, in
addition to other moving objects that many people saw. Plus, there was a
photo in the paper of a mystery object found in a field. At the time, I
was 14 years old.
My next door neighbor Bob was an Air
Force electronics technician who was an amateur ham radio operator and amateur
astronomer. He and I spent a night on the top floor of the Hotel Clovis
observing the UFO hanging in the sky. He used some sort of equipment to
determine how high in the sky the stationary object was.
He excitedly reported that in his
judgment the object was approximately 300 miles above the Earth. I also
took some photos, but I no longer have them. Bob was told to shut up by
the base and quit "exciting the locals with wild stories." Bob didn't
tell me about this, but his wife later related the story of the phone call he
got from his boss, to my mother.
I also heard stories of guys coming
from "Project Blue Book" to investigate, but my Dad, an Air Force
master sergeant, said that was ridiculous because Project Blue Book didn't
exist. As an adult, I served a number of years in the Air Force and my job
put me in contact with virtually every plane in the U.S. and NATO
inventory. Some have claimed that the UFOs were British harrier jets. Absolutely
not so.
I grew up around jets my whole life
and could identify them even as a child. Neither were they weather
balloons. I would have to research, but I'm not sure the harriers were
even operational at that time. In all reality, one has to try very hard in
order to mistake a jet fighter for anything else. The whole thing was very
interesting, and ended as mysteriously as it started.
There was no real closure. But
if you recall, Clovis was part of a rather massive UFO "scare" that
occurred for a few years nationwide, beginning with the incident at
Pasagoula, Miss, I think a couple of years earlier. It was a busy time
for UFO activity.
You can contact me at (private
contact information removed) if you like.
Thank you to Jonathan for his
report, and also thank you to this gentleman for taking the time to have a long
telephone conversation over this event and other things.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada
UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
The Vike Factor Blog.
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
