Posted on 03/06/2013 9:31:29 PM PST by albionin
Wife and I saw something west of Phoenix one night. We stopped for gas at a little town called Tonopah and several men became agitated when I told them I had seen something. They did not want to discuss it. Whatever they were, they seemed to move at the speed of light.
I corrected it from Pontotoc, which is in Mississippi. Tonopah is where we saw the stuff in the sky.
Thanks. the color is about right. But flares don’t hang motionless and then zoom off and then stop again.
What you mean is, you saw a flying saucer.
They’re just secret weapons from our military, that’s all.
It was a long time ago, when we were young kids, three of us walking up a road at about 8 p.m. saw what we could not figure out.
It was there long enough for my friend to notice it and tell us to look. We looked at for what mut have been 15 seconds. It was pretty close to what you describe, just hovering. I can still picture it in my mind. Then is swooped away to the right of us and gone.
Could have been anything I suppose but it was nothing any of us could explain or had ever seen before.
I won’t believe it until your 13 year old son posts a similar report on Facebook.
Could be refracted lights from ground traffic over the horizon?
The one my dad saw in 1968 in AL they said was a bread advertisement. :)
If I find any mutilated sheep out in the barn tomorrow I’m not calling the government. Not until I sell the pics to a Russian tabloid.
So jealous. I have always wanted to see one. Cool.
You must know Tonopah is close to Area 51 in Nevada, or are you funning us? The really good stories generally come from Rachel.
I saw a bunch of them when I was 13 years old. I had just gotten off work (busboy) and was walking home at 1:30 in the morning. I carried a little transistor radio so I could listen to music while walking home. Suddenly the disc jockey came on and said everyone should look up because thousands of people all over the midwest were reporting UFOs, and that a bunch of people at a ball game in Oklahoma City actually reported one of them had landed briefly and it was huge. City block huge. So I looked up and there they were! Really high, though. I watched them all the way home. All I can say about them all these years later is... they were unidentified. By me and everyone else who saw them. Just little specks of light moving around high in the atmosphere. No idea what they were. UFOs. Unidentified.
Wow! It must have been hard to see those men moving at the speed of light! ;)
You have no true frame of reference for speed or motion in an empty sky. Aircraft moving toward you or away appear to be motionless. Something that looks to be a mile long might in reality be only a few tens of meters long when you have no idea how far away the object actually is.
I had a good sighting in the 60s, was in the afternoon after school, where a friend and I saw a bright point high in the sky, going in a straight line and followed by a fighter jet with contrail (F100 from Spokane?), when the bright point suddenly made a 90 degree zero radius turn and pulled away from the jet like nobody's business.
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