There seems to be a pageful of UFO threads per month, so that would be 25 pages to dig through, no luck finding it. Freeper Null and void was the originator of at least one of the threads specific to that particular UFO. Tried your link, and Capitola is a subscription page now.
Another hiker and I were in the High Uintas, Christmas Meadows, setting up camp in an early October evening 1981, when this came within 20 feet of us and turned to pass over the lake we were adjacent to, Ryder Lake. I told Rick to sit down and watch the thing, we did. It hovered over the lake, then over McPheter’s Lake east of us, then ascended the side of Hyden peak to about 11,000 ft. It was probably a mile away when we lost view. Still sunlight when we saw it, no other hikers / campers in the basin. It was intelligent in that it defied the wind and kept a constant vertical distance over the terrain as it traveled. It was not blowing along the mountain side, it was traveling up it.
Told this story to an Uncle, and he related to me a very similar one he experienced near Bremerton, Washington when he was working as a lineman. He saw a larger saucer release several smaller ones (2 ft diameter) which touched lines near him, flew about the terrain, and returned to the main craft which departed afterwards.
Fascinating.
Thanks for your report.
I don’t have a listing of UFO threads . . . Guess that would have possibly been useful when I started hereon with it all not that long after FR’s beginning.
Back then, it was a hazardous topic—seen as trying to destroy FR by bringing discredit to it by such a ‘silly’ tinfoil hat topic. Sigh.
I hope null and void can help you out.
Much appreciate your report of your experience.
Was the orb silvery the entire time or ever opalescent?