Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
July 1976 at Cannon Air Force Base
The following events occurred 30 years ago. The exacts
details have become a little fuzzy, after all I haven't thought about this
stuff for 3 decades.
I arrived at Cannon Air Force Base in November of
1975. I remember the night because there was about an inch of snow on the
ground and the next morning it was in the 70's. It's true what they say about
desert weather. LOL.
I was a member of the 27th SPS (Security Police) and
the only event that I can recall
happening during January of 1976 was some talk of a plane crash that was
supposed to happen, but everyone had different stories with different facts, so
I passed them off as fairy-tales. But early July 1976 is a different story.
I was working Security and we were on rotating shifts,
something like 3 days on days then 2 off, 3 days on afternoons and 2 off, then
3 days on nights then 2 off.
Anyways, it was my last day on nights and I was on
patrol with another Airman and we were back by the Portales Gate (a remote gate
that basic lead to the town of Portales, hence the name) when my partner
pointed at something in the sky and asked, "what the hell is that"?
I saw a light in the sky that appeared to be hovering,
maybe a couple hundred feet above the ground, just outside the base. We pulled
over to the side of the road and observed it for a few minutes. It was blue on
top, white in the middle and green on the bottom.
We finally called dispatched and asked them if they
could contact Flight Tower to see if they had any planes flying. The response
was that they did not have anything in the air. It was about then that our
dispatch got a call from the Clovis Police and said that they could see some
strange lights over the south side of our base.
They asked if we had anything in the air. The radio
then came alive with other reports all saying the same thing, the light were
being seen by others. The Flight Tower was contacted and their radar showed
nothing in the sky.
We told dispatch how close we were to the light, and
soon 2 other patrols were parked along side us watching it. One of them decided
to drive towards the light and we kept in contact with them, to direct him, but
as we gave directions and he got directly under the light it could not be seen.
Suddenly the light just seemed to vanish, gone in a
blink of an eye. It did not fly away, it just disappeared.
The next night I was sleeping and it was approximately
2:00 a.m. when I heard a commotion coming from the hallway of my barracks. I
got dressed and followed everyone outside to see what was going on. In the
skies above us were approximately 12 lights that made a perfect circle around
the base.
Each one was the exact same distance from the other,
so I knew that this could not be by accident. I wondered if it could be related
to the events I witnessed a few nights before. We watched the lights for about
an hour or so and then it was as if someone had turned off the power to them,
they went off one at a time in a circular manner.
The next night, I could not fall asleep so I went
outside to take a walk around, hoping that would make me tired. As I was
walking I found myself looking up at the sky and the next thing I saw was a
single light appear, then another and another until all 12 lights had come back
on like the night before. I noted the time and it was the exact time as the
night before.
I ran back to my barracks, where the entire squad had
assembled and several people had movie cameras and were filming the sky. As
they did the night before, and at the same time, they went off one at a time,
just like they had come on.
I eagerly waited the next night for the lights to
appear, but they never returned.
The next month in one of the "men" magazines
that were being sold at the time (I think it was (removed) magazine) had
interviewed the base commander for an article about the lights. So if you want
to read up on this, look for a back issue of (removed) magazine dated August or
later of 1976.
Thank you to the witness 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.
