UFO MuseumRoswell, New Mexico
Although differences of opinion exist on the specifics, there is a tentative consensus among researchers that an extraterrestrial space vehicle crashed on a ranch located about 60 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico, during the time period July 2–4, 1947.
This is one of the most controversial UFO stories of our time. If you don't believe it, try researching Roswell, NM. or Area 51.
The following is a true story and my personal “close encounter”:
It was during the early 70’s, but let me make this perfectly clear - none of us drank alcohol, smoked or did drugs of any kind.
I've only seen one UFO in my life, so far, and to my credit the 5 people I was with, saw it too. It was in the early 70's, after midnight and somewhere in Utah, I think Utah but could've been NV or CO. Wherever it was, the country was flat and deserted desert land. Six of us were driving back to Indiana from Las Vegas and we had no hotel reservations anywhere. We all had decided to drive until we tire, then find a roadside motel for the night. For hours we had been traveling on a lonely (and I mean real lonely) stretch of highway. About every hour or so we might see a car going the opposite direction, but not once all night had anything passed us. That's about it. No houses. Trees were few and far between. No sign of civilization for miles and miles at a time. We could vaguely make out the silhouette of mountains in the far, far distance.
The car we were in was a Chrysler station wagon (two seats facing front, one seat facing back) and the couple in the seat facing the rear saw it first. They alerted the rest of us, including Jack, the driver who apparently had fallen asleep while driving because he hadn't seen anything.
The couple in the back seat said, "hey man, something is coming up on us really fast, we’ve been watching it for awhile, but now it’s getting closer and going faster". At which point we all turned to look behind us. Sure enough one huge light was approaching at an unusually fast speed. Because of the flatness of the land and highway we were able to watch even though it was still quite a distance away. That light was approaching at such a fast rate that we knew it would overtake us in a matter of minutes. We were all talking at once trying to figure this out and the consensus was that it must be a semi with a headlight out and he was haulin’ A! Jack had been traveling around 90 mph most of the night and it was unrealistic to think that anything could catch up with us unless we had stopped, which we had not. How could this “semi” possibly catch up with us?
Then as fast as it approached, it begin to retreat back the way it had come. It was almost out of sight, when it suddenly started moving forward again at an amazing speed. It came closer and closer and all we could see was this one bright light. The six of us were no longer talking, only watching. There really were no words to describe how we felt at that moment, and at no time did Jack slow down, he kept up the same pace, 90 mph. The light followed us along the roadway, but as it got closer to us the second time we could tell that the light was too high above the ground to be a semi or any vehicle that traveled the roads, for that matter. Then it did the reverse, again. It began to retreat away from us, as if it was moving backwards and we were the only ones moving forward. Now, however, as the light retreated in the distance behind us, it stayed at this higher level then it had the first time. It did the approach/retreat thing about 3 more times, then followed us steadily at a not to far distance for another 10 minutes, then disappeared completely.
We were shocked, stunned, bewildered – scared!
We did not report this. We weren’t sure of what we saw. There was no way to back up our story. But six people DID witness this occurrence, and I was one of them.
5 comments:
One of my oldest, closest friends lives in Roswell...
in 1970 I stood as best man at his wedding there. I went through the UFO museum in the picture just last year, and I have to admit bein' a little disappointed. There's nothing there of the "Roswell" UFO... mostly newspaper clippings telling peoples' narrative of what they saw and what happened later.
There certainly is a lot of "nothin" out there... miles and miles of sand, tumbleweed, sage brush, and mesquite between towns. The country is a perfect place for military aircraft bases, and there were a LOT of them out there... still are, although they have closed many of them down.
Were I flying out there, I'd know the terrain and obstacles well, and I'd be doin' some low-level stuff now and then, particularly if I saw a car all alone on a highway late at night... give folks something to talk about, ya know?
But...
you mentioned Area51/Tonopah, Nevada, and there is no question there might be a connection. We now know that during that period there was a lot of experimental test flying going on. It's not entirely impossible that you actually became a pawn in a test of some terrain avoidance system on an aircraft like the F-111, which had a just such a "hands-off" automatic terrain/obstacle avoidance system. Who knows?
Unquestionably, having such an experience while tired, late at night, in the middle of empty, unfamiliar country, would be spooky as hell.
Thanks for telling the story!
GB,
It was late at night, we were tired and yes, it could have been a plane, but at the time we didn't know or realize about the training exercises they did in the military.
Here is an excerpt I copied from an email my daughter just sent me (I don't know why she didn't post it here in comments):
Yes you told me about your UFO "experience". But you know it could've easily been an airplane in an exercise. Back then they had a lot of new planes being made and tested. There are ones who can be very quiet and do black outs. I learned this when I went TDY to Tonopah, Nevada, out in the middle of nowhere, and we did a "blackout exercise." It was pretty cool, you knew there were fighters/or whatever kind of planes, over you, but you couldn't see them. But then again, I guess it could've been a UFO... your choice!
Funny how we use the term "UFO", isn't it?
By definition, it's a flying object that we can't identify.
We can't identify it-
it's an object that's flying-
it's an Unidentified Flying Object!
Could be military, could be civilian, could be "Bewitched's" Samantha playing tricks on us with the lamp from the living-room end table! But something is moving in the air out there and we don't know what it is.
So your daughter and I are of like minds.
In Viet Nam we frequently went "lights off" at night so we were less targetable by ground fire. I've also been in situations where I turned off equipment in the aircraft to keep even friendly folks from knowing exactly where I was and what I was doing. Under those conditions the UFO could'a been me!
Still, it's fun isn't it...
Bein' just a little scared, and acquiring a neat story to relate?
(And I am firmly in the camp that we are NOT alone in the universe, so it's also fun to imagine it might have been something extra-terrestrial!)
That first paragraph sounds like George Carlin on his own definition of UFO's.
It is fun/exciting to have the bejesus scared outta ya. Society is naive to think that we are the only ones in the universe but I think most people "want" to be a "believer", they just need proof. I would love to see some concrete evidence of ET's.
That would be a thrill.
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