spectator
07-03-2007, 06:43 AM
I would like to compare my sightings (I've had four of them.) with others on this forum.
I read about others' UFO sightings for many years, both in my area and worldwide. I read the works of many of the world's best-known ufologists and I was convinced that people were seeing SOMETHING that had objective reality, but I couldn't make up my mind about what they were seeing. Naturally, I wanted to see a UFO myself, but I never seemed to be in the right place at the right time. Finally, about seven years ago, I decided to pray about it. I prayed, "Lord, if it is Your will, let me see one of these things, just once!" Three days later, while I was barbecuing chicken on our outdoor grill at our home here in Texas, USA, my prayer was answered far beyond my wildest dreams! It was a brilliantly clear, warm day in late August, at about five o'clock in the afternoon. There was a very light breeze ruffling the leaves of the eighty-foot tall cottonwood trees in our backyard, and I could see no clouds in the sky. The grill was set up against the back wall of our yard, and I was sitting in front of it with my back against the wall, facing the house. I was enjoying the quiet and calm of the afternoon, and the smell of the cooking chicken, and I leaned my head back against the wall behind me, looking up into the clear, blue Texas sky. At that precise moment, a large, burnished silver, circular object glided over the yard toward the house, directly over my head. It had what looked like a fairly large black rubber or plastic "pad " in its' center. I estimate the object was about sixty feet in diameter, and the "pad" had a diameter of at least twenty-five feet.
My mouth agape, I watched as the object glided over the cottonwood trees, barely clearing them. It was completely silent, and was traveling very slowly for an aircraft. I estimate the ground speed to have been not more than twenty miles per hour. Even so, it was obvious to me that it was under powered flight, and was not drifting with the wind, as a balloon does. (There was hardly any wind, anyway.) As it cleared the cottonwood trees, which gave me some relief, because it was so low in altitude, it slowly "banked" exactly as a fighter aircraft does, and dropped even further in altitude! When it did so, I could see that it was shaped like two hexagonal ashtrays joined one on top of the other at the rims. The corners, however, were quite rounded, so that the whole object gave the impression of being smoothly rounded. The "superstructure was of the same burnished silver color, and it flashed in the sun. There were, however, no windows, insignia or numbers on the object. Now, it was over our front yard. At this point, it was obscured from my view by the roof of our house. I jumped out of my chair, nearly knocking over the barbecue grill, and ran into the house, shouting to my family to come out and see the object. My entire family was in the house: my wife, my mother, my father, and my son, but when I ran into the house, no one was there! Puzzled, but hurrying to get back outside, I grabbed a pair of binoculars and ran out to the backyard again. ( Actually, I should have run out into the FRONT yard, but I didn't think about that at the time.)
I ran out to the barbecue grill and stood on the chair I had been sitting in. When I did so, the object rose above the roof of our house and was traveling away from me. I could see the object edge-on now, as it gained in altitude and increased its speed. I noticed that I could now see blue sky THROUGH it! Only its outline was the burnished silver color. I remember thinking, "cloaking device?" It was traveling much faster now and was headed for a cloud I had not noticed before. The cloud was quite small, hardly more than a mile in lenghth. It flew into the cloud and didn't come out the other side. "Fine," I thought. ""It has to come out of there sometime. I'll just keep watching until it does." But it never did come out. I watched the cloud for at least twenty minutes as it slowly dissolved. Finally , there was no cloud and no object.
By this time, I was trembling. "My God," I thought. "Where was everybody? Why couldn't I find anyone to share this sighting with?" I went back into the house. Now, everyone was back in the house! "Where were you?" I asked. "Didn't you hear my shouting at you to come outside and see the UFO?" They all looked at each other, then at me, questioningly. "We didn't hear you shouting," said my wife. "Is the chicken done?"
I saw what I believe was the same object twice more, at different distances, within two miles of my home. I saw another, different-shaped object while I was traveling in a car with my father through the Davis Mountainst, about two hundred miles East of my home, again in daylight, again in the afternoon, but the sighting I just recounted was by far the most dramatic sighting I've had. I've often wondered why I couln't find my family that day DURING the sighting, while I could find them AFTER it was over! I think now that God temporarily "pulled back the curtain," so to speak, between this reality and another so that I could witness the UFO. In that rality, however, my family was not at home! I was bolstered in this opinion when I witnessed the UFO in the Davis Mountains. My father, who has excellent eyesight even though he's in his eighties, COULD NOT see the UFO I could clearly see! Anyway, I hope there are others on this forum who will share their experiences with me.
I read about others' UFO sightings for many years, both in my area and worldwide. I read the works of many of the world's best-known ufologists and I was convinced that people were seeing SOMETHING that had objective reality, but I couldn't make up my mind about what they were seeing. Naturally, I wanted to see a UFO myself, but I never seemed to be in the right place at the right time. Finally, about seven years ago, I decided to pray about it. I prayed, "Lord, if it is Your will, let me see one of these things, just once!" Three days later, while I was barbecuing chicken on our outdoor grill at our home here in Texas, USA, my prayer was answered far beyond my wildest dreams! It was a brilliantly clear, warm day in late August, at about five o'clock in the afternoon. There was a very light breeze ruffling the leaves of the eighty-foot tall cottonwood trees in our backyard, and I could see no clouds in the sky. The grill was set up against the back wall of our yard, and I was sitting in front of it with my back against the wall, facing the house. I was enjoying the quiet and calm of the afternoon, and the smell of the cooking chicken, and I leaned my head back against the wall behind me, looking up into the clear, blue Texas sky. At that precise moment, a large, burnished silver, circular object glided over the yard toward the house, directly over my head. It had what looked like a fairly large black rubber or plastic "pad " in its' center. I estimate the object was about sixty feet in diameter, and the "pad" had a diameter of at least twenty-five feet.
My mouth agape, I watched as the object glided over the cottonwood trees, barely clearing them. It was completely silent, and was traveling very slowly for an aircraft. I estimate the ground speed to have been not more than twenty miles per hour. Even so, it was obvious to me that it was under powered flight, and was not drifting with the wind, as a balloon does. (There was hardly any wind, anyway.) As it cleared the cottonwood trees, which gave me some relief, because it was so low in altitude, it slowly "banked" exactly as a fighter aircraft does, and dropped even further in altitude! When it did so, I could see that it was shaped like two hexagonal ashtrays joined one on top of the other at the rims. The corners, however, were quite rounded, so that the whole object gave the impression of being smoothly rounded. The "superstructure was of the same burnished silver color, and it flashed in the sun. There were, however, no windows, insignia or numbers on the object. Now, it was over our front yard. At this point, it was obscured from my view by the roof of our house. I jumped out of my chair, nearly knocking over the barbecue grill, and ran into the house, shouting to my family to come out and see the object. My entire family was in the house: my wife, my mother, my father, and my son, but when I ran into the house, no one was there! Puzzled, but hurrying to get back outside, I grabbed a pair of binoculars and ran out to the backyard again. ( Actually, I should have run out into the FRONT yard, but I didn't think about that at the time.)
I ran out to the barbecue grill and stood on the chair I had been sitting in. When I did so, the object rose above the roof of our house and was traveling away from me. I could see the object edge-on now, as it gained in altitude and increased its speed. I noticed that I could now see blue sky THROUGH it! Only its outline was the burnished silver color. I remember thinking, "cloaking device?" It was traveling much faster now and was headed for a cloud I had not noticed before. The cloud was quite small, hardly more than a mile in lenghth. It flew into the cloud and didn't come out the other side. "Fine," I thought. ""It has to come out of there sometime. I'll just keep watching until it does." But it never did come out. I watched the cloud for at least twenty minutes as it slowly dissolved. Finally , there was no cloud and no object.
By this time, I was trembling. "My God," I thought. "Where was everybody? Why couldn't I find anyone to share this sighting with?" I went back into the house. Now, everyone was back in the house! "Where were you?" I asked. "Didn't you hear my shouting at you to come outside and see the UFO?" They all looked at each other, then at me, questioningly. "We didn't hear you shouting," said my wife. "Is the chicken done?"
I saw what I believe was the same object twice more, at different distances, within two miles of my home. I saw another, different-shaped object while I was traveling in a car with my father through the Davis Mountainst, about two hundred miles East of my home, again in daylight, again in the afternoon, but the sighting I just recounted was by far the most dramatic sighting I've had. I've often wondered why I couln't find my family that day DURING the sighting, while I could find them AFTER it was over! I think now that God temporarily "pulled back the curtain," so to speak, between this reality and another so that I could witness the UFO. In that rality, however, my family was not at home! I was bolstered in this opinion when I witnessed the UFO in the Davis Mountains. My father, who has excellent eyesight even though he's in his eighties, COULD NOT see the UFO I could clearly see! Anyway, I hope there are others on this forum who will share their experiences with me.