Posted on 05/04/2003 9:32:36 PM PDT by green team 1999
Couple Reports Seeing UFO Wednesday Night
(north carolina)
BY MATTHEW MORIARTY: Staff Writer
A local man and his wife saw what he describes as a UFO Wednesday night.
The unidentified flying object appeared as a bright white light, hovered for a moment then flew across the sky “with the speed of a meteor,” said Fred Lloyd, an assistant golf pro at Whispering Pines Golf Course.
The light appeared to him and his wife, Nancy Lee, above the tree tops on the right side of the road on U.S. 1 near Niagara at almost 9 p.m. as the two were coming home from church, Lloyd said. It lingered then flew across the sky and disappeared, Lloyd said. The entire sighting lasted about two seconds.
The light was much bigger than a meteor, Lloyd said, and brighter than the moon. When Lloyd and his wife first noticed the UFO they saw it out of the corner of their eyes, Lloyd said, and it appeared as if there were two or three lights. When they got a better look, there was just one.
When the light headed north and disappeared, Lloyd said the sighting left him feeling excited and a little out of sorts.
“It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up,” he said.
Lloyd joked about whether people would think he was odd for claiming to have seen a UFO.
“Half the people who know me think I’m credible, and the other half know I’m not,” he said. “My wife is one of the most credible people in the world.”
Nine out of ten times a sighting that happens over such a short period of time turns out to be a meteor, said UFO investigator George Fawcett, of Lincolnton. Fawcett has investigated over 3,000 UFO sightings in 80 different countries over 60 years.
Sightings usually happen near military bases or nuclear power plants, Fawcett said.
Lloyd has no idea what he saw, but he believes that it wasn’t a meteor or an airplane.
“This, to me, has no explanation,” he said. “Nothing that I know of in the sky can act like that.”
Think you saw what Lloyd describes? Report your sighting to the UFO Center in Seattle, Wash. at (206) 722-3000 or fill out a report at ufocenter.com.
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