Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.
Noticed you said you
were working on the Phoenix Lights. You know, I was stationed at Luke AFB 73-75
and I was in the 58th Security Police Squadron and my last position was Desk
Sgt., so after hours I would have to field all the incoming calls from the
civilians around the Phoenix area explaining to them that there was no longer a
Project Blue Book and that the Air Force no longer investigated UFO's, but I
can tell you this, that area is a true hot bed for these objects and I have the
pleasure of once again moving back there (early next year).
Yes, a hotbed, but
not just for UFO's. I was also stationed at Davis Monthan at Tucson (was
Strategic Air Command at that time), both of these bases had what was described
by the Security Police who encountered it as a very tall bi-pedal humanoid type
thing, mainly featureless, almost like a dark shadow. This thing would lurk
near the perimeters of the bases.
I read years later
that the Security Police at Edwards AFB also had the same problem. At Davis
Monthan this thing was seen time and time again within the Nuclear Storage area
which was about a mile away (still on base) from the main area of the base. The
Sentry dogs were terrified of it. This area of course contained the
"Nukes" used by the 52's sitting on the Flight line, so it was a very
sensitive area. This was my first Base and the area was very, very strange.
Especially working the Mid night shifts.
I witnessed this
thing in 1974, when after fielding call after call from civilians reporting
UFOs all over the Phoenix area, I decided to have some one relieve me on the
desk, took a car and went out to the perimeter of the base along with a SAT
team (Security Alert Team) as we sat watching, lights were darting about the
White Tanks area, one of the Security guys yelled out and pointed toward the
perimeter fence, sure enough there walked a tall dark "thing".
As we watched it, it
looked as though it began to run. It was about 200 yards away and in a very
deserted area. The perimeter fence near the flight line was only a small barb
wired fence. As we drove out to where it should have been, it disappeared on
us, no trace. Actually there was no where for it to go, but it was no longer
there.
As I'm sure you well
know, often times when an area is sustaining a "flap", flying objects
are not the only anomalous things making their presence known in the area,
although the Phoenix and Tucson areas don't exactly experience flaps, its more
like a continuous affair.
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There has got to be
many others (Security Police) and others of course, to this day who have
witnessed some of the goings on at the base. I don't think these things have
stopped. I'll tell you a little story about Davis Monthan when I was sent there
in 1971. As you know, this is the air craft grave yard.
Within the base
property there is a road that leads out of the main base and down the road to
the Nuclear Storage facility, or at least there used to be a nuclear storage
facility. Within the Security Police of the United States Air Force you have
two divisions, one is Law Enforcement Specialist (which I was) and the other is
Security Specialist, or what we used to call "ramp rats", these are
the guys with the M-16's you see walking around the ramps where the fighters or
bombers sit, you will also see them guarding the nuclear facilities or ICBM
silos, my job was like that of City Police, we were the Law Enforcement branch.
When I first started
at Davis Monthan I worked a lot of Midnight shifts, one of our
"duties" was to bring the guys (security) out at the nuclear site
coffee. This we would do every night around 2 or 3 a.m. The site was perhaps 15
acres in size, surrounded by a large security fence, within the compound were
numerous bunkers where they stored the nukes, this area was lit up by spaced
telephone poles with lighting. So, you would have 2 or 3 guys at the entry
control point, one guy on foot inside the area, and most of the time there
would be one guy with a sentry dog in the area (usually asleep with his dog
somewhere - LOL).
So, this one night we
picked up their coffee and began our drive to the Nuclear Site, it was a two
lane road that led out into the desert area (actually I here you can go on
tours there now, and I imagine the same road is still there), on both sides of
the road you had high metal fences so that you couldn't just stop and walk into
the area of the aircraft "graveyard". It was really a quite spooky
and kind of desolate ride going out there. So here we are driving out to give
them their coffee. The ride was maybe 10 minutes. We pulled up to the gate, one
of the guys came out, we handed him his coffee, we made a U turn and went back
toward the main base.
About half way
between the main base and where we dropped the coffee, were driving, doing
perhaps 30 miles an hour when we see this object in the middle of the two land
road. At first we thought it was a vehicle broken down, we drove up close to
the thing, when we got close enough and stopped we realized that it was a
"prop" or propeller engine, about the size or maybe a little bit
smaller than a Volkswagen.
Well, obviously we
were pretty stunned because we had just come down this road about 10 minutes
before. So we get out of the car and take a closer look. Indeed that's what it
was, the engine off a large propeller driven aircraft, minus the propeller. So
we call the "flight Chief" our boss, like a Police Lieutenant for a
civilian agency, he comes out, scratches his head and makes another call.
So were sitting there
in our car over the course of perhaps an hour as more and more brass begin
filtering into the area. Eventually the Base Commander shows up, mind you this
is now about 0400 hrs. We are told to leave and go back to headquarters where
are briefed by our Flight Chief a little later who sternly instructs us not to
speak to anyone about this nor to even mention it to anyone.
Now Brian, this thing
was sitting out there like someone had picked it up from the other side of the
fence and then set it down in the middle of the road. The engine was nowhere
near any of the very few gate entrances into this area and there were no drag
marks around it. I would estimate that it had to weight at least a ton, so I
don't think any pranksters placed it there. I think you have to believe whoever
or whatever did this has to have a sense of humor.
Oh, and if you can
locate former Security Police from the Arizona bases I'm quite certain that
will relate similar stories to you, I've lost track of all of them
unfortunately.
Important Additional
Information:
Well I think the area
was safe from what it was being guarded against, but these other
"intruders" we couldn't stop. Nothing really happened due to these
"things" but it was clear to us that we could be trespassed upon
though !!!!!
Final story, although
there were others:
I believe it was near
1975 because I was about to be discharged. It was at Luke AFB and during a
Midnight shift. We had a SAT team working that night comprised of 3 men. As I
was working the "desk" at Security Police HQ, these three SAT team members
came into the office at around 0100 hrs or so.
Normally, they were a
loud bunch but this night they were really quiet and just kind of milled around
near my desk...real quiet and they looked really perplexed.
After a few minutes,
I asked them what the heck was the matter with them. I finally got out of them
that they were parked near the flight line. They were in one of those old Dodge
"6 packs" 4 wheel drive trucks, the type with 4 doors. Two were
seated in the front and one in the back. They were sitting there quietly
talking with the engine shut off. The passenger in the front was talking to the
guy in back when he said he saw this tall black "thing" coming
running out of the desert toward the rear of the truck.
He said he couldn't
believe his eyes and screamed at the driver to start the truck and get out of
there. As the driver was doing this, all three were looking behind the truck
and saw this tall, black man-like thing run up to the truck and...jump right
over the bed (of the truck). It landed, and took a few more steps and was lost
to sight. By then the truck was started and our brave crew of Security Police
was departing post haste out of the area they were sworn to defend (I would
have, too!!).
They said it was just
really tall, running on two legs, they couldn't make out any features or
anything else.
I'll tell you Brian,
I witnessed these guys first hand and they weren't lying. In fact, they weren't
going to say anything to anybody until I dragged it out of them. They were
genuinely in shock.
So, I don't know if
these things were at other bases outside of the desert areas, but I know they
were at Luke, Davis Monthan, and Edwards. Were they somehow related to UFOs? I
don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. I believe Jacques Vallee has mentioned
in his many books how many of these anomalous occurrences happen in tandem with
each other
Probably like you, I
remember in the 50s when I was 6 or 7 years old watching the black and white
clips on TV showing recently photographed UFOs. I remember groups of them in
Flight...and that was it for me, I was hooked from then on. I've spent 20 years
in the San Francisco Police Department and just retired. Nothing in that
department will be as exciting to me as getting back to that desert area and
poking around with my camera
My sincere thanks to
the person for relating this story to me.
Thank you to the
eyewitness for their 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.
