Posted on 07/28/2005 8:25:37 AM PDT by CHARLITE
EXETER - There was something odd in the sky last week, something that caused a Navy veteran with 10,000 hours of flight experience to have his own close encounter. The former flight engineer, who wished to be identified only as "David," said of the experience, "this was like nothing I’ve ever seen before."
What the retired Navy chief petty officer said he saw last Wednesday could only be classified as a UFO, an unidentified flying object.
It was a bright and sunny afternoon, about 3:15 p.m., and David was outside preparing his lawnmower. He had filled the mower with gas, checked the oil, and took a sip from a glass of water he had poured. When he tilted his head back to get the final sip, through the bottom of the glass he saw a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky.
David said windows were equally spaced around the object, however he didn’t see anyone or anything inside. The size of the object was enormous. By comparison, he said, consider what an ultralight plane would look like next to a Boeing 747. He said it was about the size of two USS Nimitz aircraft carriers.
At first glance, through his empty glass of water he thought it could have been the Hood blimp. "But, the instant I put my glass down, I said, ‘that’s not a blimp.’"
The object moved from west to east, very slowly for something that size, he said. His initial instinct was that the object was moving at about 100 knots, but something that big shouldn’t be able to stay in the air if it’s going that slow, he said.
The object began changing colors from a bright silver to an orange-ish red. A strange cloud of red and orange flames began surrounding the object, and before he knew it the object stretched out like a rubber band. It grew to about twice its original size, and then it was gone.
The entire incident lasted about 10 minutes, he recalled Monday morning, but he is unaware of the specific time because, "it felt like time stopped."
He went into his house and first thought to call the police. He decided not to because he didn’t think they’d take him seriously. So he went on the Internet and searched for "report UFO," and found the Web site for the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center.
Peter Davenport, director of the UFO reporting center, said David’s report was astonishing because of his history with flight. "I have no question on his reliability."
He said he gets several accounts each year, but this one stood out. The report was well written and scientific, Davenport said.
"In my view, that’s one of the cardinal rules of an account," he said.
The center was founded in 1974 by UFO investigator Robert Gribble. The center’s Web site, www.nuforc.org, has a large list of UFO sightings. According to the site, the center’s primary function is to receive, record, and to the greatest degree possible, corroborate and document reports from individuals who have witnessed possible UFOs. David’s report, which will soon be on the Web site, will be among dozens of documented sightings to be formally reported to the center.
Not the first time
The Exeter area is no stranger to UFO sightings. In 1965, two Exeter police officers and hitchhiker Norman Muscarello, who was with them, gained national attention after seeing a UFO hovering over Route 101 in Kensington. The sighting was documented in a book called "The Incident at Exeter."
And then there was the incident involving Barney and Betty Hill, a husband and wife from Portsmouth who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. The couple was driving from a vacation in Canada in 1961 when they saw a UFO.
The object moved directly over their car, and before they knew it they grew drowsy. They later claimed to have been abducted by aliens and gave identical accounts while they were hypnotized.
But for this recent sighting, David said he believes that there is life beyond Earth. He said the galaxy is so enormous, it’s hard to believe humans are the only intelligent life.
"To the point of not being obnoxious, it’d be egocentric to think there is no other life out there."
Questions for the reporter to: adolge@seacoastonline.com
Is there a connection with Charlite...or are you Charlite? Or does Char do your bidding?
Thanks much.
It was a very fitting thing to do. Glad I did it. Just grieving, I think.
BTW, he's been like that all my life. Just had heard he'd been different since his wife's death and allowed myself to hope for meaningful constructive true dialogue.
Will count on God's affirmations instead.
THANKFULLY, HE can be the perfect FATHER for all of us.
Appreciate your kind msg. God's best to you.
THANKS.
Happy to add you to the ping list.
THANKS MUCH.
Charlite is totally new to me. But most welcome to our topic!
Guess I'll have to check out if they have an FR biopage.
I know you don't know me and I actually don't know you (tho I have seen your name). But what you say is true.IMHO. Why are you onto this matter? This is a dangerous place to be. Unless one is ready. Are you saying you are ready to enter at this portal...for the cause of course.
Could you help me understand your tagline. Dangerous subject this.
DS
Charlite doesn't post on FR anymore. She stopped about 10 days ago for personal reasons.
Started out as a corrolary sp
to my sci fi fascinations in Jr High.
As time went along and a relative worked around them at a government facility . . .
I began to see implications regarding Biblical Prophecy.
AT this point, I'm convinced God has fostered and has plans for my interest in the topic--somehow in terms of unkonwn future events.
I'm not one who believes that *ALL* ET's are ONLY demons. But I do believe that all the better known ones are at least in cahoots with satan.
Have engaged in plenty of spiritual warfare in my time and don't consider it my favorite recreation. But neither am I inclined to run from the destiny God has laid out for me.
Has to review it!
GOD'S LOVE IS INCREDIBLE.
BUT, we must receive it to walk in the fullness of His Love, His Salvation, His Destiny for us . . . even to become more fully who we were designed to be. imho.
Someone can give us a gold brick. If we leave it lying on the sidewalk and walk away, it will do us no good.
Christ died for us on The Cross--a supreme selfless gift to us of Eternal Life--
IF WE RECEIVE His Love and His Blood covering etc.
Hmmmm. OK. Thanks.
Please extend my thanks for her posts and prayers for her welfare and that of her family. May God's best be hers.
Like you (I think this is what I hear, tell me if I am wrong), I have been called up.
And I am proud to serve...this holy cause. But it is uglier than I have admitted to myself.
If I am off thread on this matter, I trust you will tell me so.
Thank you for your post. I was beginning to think I was alone on this topic.
I understand. I have similar feelings, for sure.
Still, WE SHALL OVERCOME BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THE WORD OF OUR TESTIMONY as Scriptures assert.
As to off topic on the thread . . . I and those I most respect hereon are quite flexible on such matters.
We mostly get annoyed seriously when folks try and hijack a thread in a fierce naysaying way that chases away all those interested in genuine serious dialogue. You aren't remotely close to that! LOL.
Some of the religious threads have such problems. UFO threads sometimes do. Depends on the attentiveness of the UFO naysayers. Mostly, if we ignore them, they fade away--somewhat to mostly.
Thanks.
Til tomorrow...regards.
DS
Have added you to the backup ping list.
Thx...just now reading your mailed letter.
U R MOST WELCOME.
And I STRONGLY feel likewise.
THANKS!
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