Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Date: October 15, 1973
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 20
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Dome of many
lights in the sky that outlined a top-like design.
Full Description of event/sighting:
Lights from an unknown source hovered silently in the night sky over Franklin,
a small rural town located approximately fourteen miles from Nashville,
TN.
The cluster of lights moved in
unison vertically and horizontally at tree top level above small hills that lay
beyond a field with several trees I estimated to be about forty feet
tall. And beyond the field, near the base of the hills, was a long white
wooden fence next to a road where many cars stopped to view the lights.
I saw the same lights the night
before from my house, which was about four miles away from the lights. The
following evening, October 15th, 1973, I decided to drive to toward the
lights. People gathered around, but no one knew the source of the lights.
The newspaper reported strange
objects were seen numerous times during the day and at night. The objects
were reported to be seen at different times and at different locations,
approximately 33-miles from the previous sighting, which formed a triangle in a
systematic path that formed other triangles.
When a person plotted the sightings
on a map the triangle measured 33-miles from point to point. The lights
and objects were sighted several weeks before they disappeared.
People reported that the lights
caused unusual behavior in their dogs and cows. These accounts are
documented in the Franklin and Nashville newspaper (see October 1973
issues). I was a nonbeliever of UFO's prior to these sightings;
however, that experience has changed my attitude about UFO's. I never
reported the incident at the time because I was in the Navy on recruiting
duty.
My experience of seeing the lights
left me feeling like I was seeing something; and yet, not actually seeing
something, as I reflect on this experience more than 30-years ago! The
experience was real. The lights were real. There were reports of
laser-like orange lights beaming to and from this large object in the night
sky.
I saw only the top-like object that
was outlined in several rows of white strobe-like lights that resembled port
holes in an airplane. There were at least four layers of lights with
nothing noticeable holding them together as they slowly hovered up, down, and
side to side. I estimate the object to be the size of three football
fields.
Thank you to the eyewitness for the
very interesting report.
Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British
Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
The Vike Factor Blog.
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.
