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Date: April 25, 2002
Time: Approximately 10:15 p.m.
Brian, here is the information on
the Black Triangle sighting which occurred on April 25, 2002 just outside of
Stockton, Alabama. This area for the most part is quite rural. At the time of
the sighting I was living in Rabun, Alabama and worked for a man in Stockton.
The road which runs between Rabun
and Stockton, County Rd 94, also known as "Maytower Road" has an
old fire tower on it and I guess that's where the naming comes from. This is a
road well known to me as I traveled it every day to and from work for 10 years.
Also a friend of mine lived just off this road very close to the sighting
location. Here is a map showing the Mobile, Alabama area.
I have highlighted three areas on
this map. Satsuma, where I now live. Rabun, where I lived during the sighting,
and Stockton, where the sighting took place. The next map shows a closer view
of the sighting area, including Stockton and Rabun.
I was heading home that night out of
Stockton and took the right turn on Co Rd 94 as I had so many times. The time
was about 10:15 p.m. After proceeding about a half mile down the road I noticed
a car had just turned off HWY 59 onto Co Rd 94 behind me.
Being in no hurry I knew the car
would soon be on my rear as I was only going 45 and most run 55-60 on this
rural country road. As I entered the curve the car was now a 1/4 mile behind me
and closing.
Just as I started to enter the apex
of the curve that's when the triangle, which was blocked by the
overhanging trees, came into view. The three lights were out of place. As
many times as I have been around this curve there were never any lights there. I
slowed my car to a crawl, rolled the window down, and hung my head out in
amazement. I knew what it was instantly. The lights were like none I have ever
seen. Such a pure white they were.
As I sat there in dis-belief this
craft just slid right up to me at a speed of 40 mph(best guess) and
slowed. Now the car behind me is on my tail so I pulled forward about 500 feet
to Jay Road. Turning in Jay Rd I stopped and the car behind me took off. I
guess they wanted no part of it. They had to have seen it. You couldn't miss
it!
So here we are all alone, just the
triangle and me. I'm sitting in my car hanging out the driver's side window
just blown away by what I am looking at. The craft came to a complete stop at
the apex of the curve and just sat there. A distance of about 500 feet from my
location I watched it for what seemed like a lifetime but was really only
about a minute to a minute and a half.
It appeared to be somewhere between
50-70 feet in length and made no sound. It looked to be about 30 feet above the
tree tops. I can't say how thick it was due to the darkness and the craft's
bright lights, which appeared to be 3-4 feet across in size. They pointed
down but no light reflected off the trees. It was quite strange.
After the 60-90 seconds passed that
I had watched this thing I noticed a set of headlights coming down Jay road.
The road which I am sitting on. So I decided I would back out into Co Rd 94 and
move toward the craft. When I got about half the distance to it , the craft
started to move. gaining speed until it disappeared. I continued back into
Stockton trying to locate it but never saw it again.
The road which I sat on, Jay Rd, is
the very road that my friend lived on. The car coming down the road toward me
that night was coming from my friend's house. I did not find this out until the
following day. The car coming down Jay Rd would not have been able to see the
craft until they reached Co Rd 94, which at that point it was gone. I find
myself looking back on this asking what would I have done differently?
Why didn't I get out in the curve
and stop the car behind me? Why did I not wait for the car on Jay road to get
to me and confront them? I guess because I was in shock just seeing this craft.
So many others have seen it before but now its right in front of me. Clear
thought was not an option at this point.
The next day I called my friend to
asked if anyone there had see it. They did not. However there was the strange
phone call that he received. It would seem that 2 days after this sighting my
friend came home from work. He frames houses for a living. Upon arriving home
he checked his telephone caller ID and found a strange number on it. Curious
about it he dialed the number.
What he got was a FAA answering
machine! He hung the phone up and that was the last of it. He never received
any more calls from them. Soon after this sighting I bought a camcorder.
Never again would I see such a sight
and not be able to capture it. I spent many nights after this sighting putting
many miles on my car looking for it, but had no luck. Since then I have also
bought several cameras. One being a D-SLR. This is my true account of what
happened that night just outside Stockton, Alabama.
In closing let me state the
following. Some people might think it would be so cool to see such an object up
close as I did. It’s been 5 years since the sighting and not hardly a day
goes by that I don't think about it.
It's not something that's easy to
live with. Most people don't care to hear about something that they don't
understand. So you are left to carry the memory around, alone. It’s like a
curse. Just be careful what you wish for.
Thank you to the witness for the
excellent report, maps and graphic.
File
your UFO sighting to Brian at: brian_vike@telus.net or please use the online Sighting Report Form.
Brian Vike, Director
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
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