apparently not so uncommon in that neck of the woods!
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I'm somewhat familiar with those two FREEPERS. As I understand it, after tonight's experience they were talking with the 2nd cousin of one of them. And the cousin's mother (deceased several years ago) years before her death had seen a "very large" circular UFO silently go up the river near their home at night. The craft was probably 100-200 feet away at one point in it's silent glide up the river not much above the cliff bordering the river on the South. That craft was reportedly more than 100' in diameter. Their home is probably about 2-4 miles from Aztec.
The mother was a County Judge and a very no-nonsense woman who told it like it was regardless of who was listening and what the listeners thought.
I grew up in the 4 Corners area and cannot say I saw any UFO's all those growing up years. There may have been some strange lights occasionally but none doing anything that forced a UFO label.
On the other hand, around 1957 there was a massive UFO flyover that extended over several hours, if not days. My uncle worked at Smoke's Chevrolet at the time. He saw them and so did the owner. The owner is still alive and still refuses to talk about it, last I heard. There were some reports that they were warned against talking about it. A very close relative of that uncle eventually worked at a highly secret location in Nev where he routinely saw UFO's coming and going in the normal course of his duties.
Then there was the reported crash of a medium sized UFO north of Aztec in I think the '40's. That uncle's son reportedly rode out to look at the site within a week of the crash and it was already thoroughly cleaned up.
About all I have on such goings on locally.
Very interesting. Aztec has been a hotbed for many ufo sighting in my readings and research, most notably, the UFO crash in March 1948 with 14 or 16 ebe's on board, depending on who's telling the story. Thanks for the update!
I think the massive flyover was 1952 instead of 1957.