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Hi
Brian, I was based at Cannon AFB, New Mexico in 1975/76 when there were a rash
of UFO sightings at the base. I can only describe one, and I believe it was a
weather balloon. (You may be more interested in my second story). It was a
summer afternoon on a weekend. There had been a lot of talk about UFO's around
the base. Someone came running into our barracks shouting there was a UFO in
the sky directly over the base.
As
you can expect, everyone ran outside to see. I remember running outside and
noticing several hundred soldiers around my barracks and the other barracks in
my area looking up at it. It was extremely high and appeared to be silver. It
seemed to slowly change shape and after watching it for several minutes you
could tell it was moving slowly west to east.
Some
of the senior soldiers said it was a weather balloon but there was a large
group that insisted it was a UFO. I watched it for about 15 minutes and it
never did anything unusual that a UFO might do. I believe it was a balloon.
But,
I did see a UFO around January, 1975, actually two of them, at Sheppard AFB in
Wichita Falls, TX. I was with two other soldiers and it was about 1:00 in the
morning. (No, we were not drunk and not on anything). We were returning to the
base in a pick-up truck. The sky was completely overcast with a ceiling around
3,000 to 4,000 feet.
While
driving east, we noticed two white lights about 2,000 feet AGL (above ground
level) a couple of miles ahead of us traveling east north east. Both were
making a gradual left turn in front of us. Each light was about as bright as a
car headlight. The first light was flying along at about 200 knots leading the
second light by a 1/4 mile or so when we first saw them.
The
trailing light was traveling approximately twice as fast as the first light.
They were in level flight. No strobes or beacons, just two white lights. We
were watching the planes, which is what we thought they were, and talking about
them. As the trailing light caught up to the first, everything happened almost
instantly.
They
were no longer two lights, just one about the same brightness as before the
other one had joined it. As soon as the second light caught up to the first,
the light shot straight up threw the clouds at mach ?
I'm
just guessing at the speed because I have no experience with flying things that
can turn and accelerate this fast. I've seen tracer bullets fired from powerful
military weapons, and this thing went from level flight to faster than a tracer
bullet, straight up. I have no doubt it was a UFO. Whatever that means.
(Name
removed) USAF Veteran 1974-1979
Thank
you to the witness for the excellent report.
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Brian Vike, Director
Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net
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