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UFOs are everywhere
Published July 23, 2005
Our newest reporter here at The Sand Mountain Reporter, Craig Wysock, during one of those lulls in the cerebral boxing matches that take place frequently in our newsroom, amongst the staff asked, “Have you ever received a UFO phone call?”
To which I, facetiously, answered, “No, I have never received a phone call from a UFO.”
That little bit of banter resulted in our discussing UFOs and my recalling several personal experiences surrounding the subject of UFOs.
My first encounter was what is referred to as a Close Encounter of the First Kind, which is sighting a UFO.
It happened one New England Autumn day in 1957 while a group of my neighborhood friends and I were playing in an open field not far from my house in Tewksbury, Mass.
It was a sunny afternoon and the sky was light blue with a few wispy clouds.
We were engaged in a good-natured roughhouse-wrestling match when one of my friends suddenly pointed to the sky above and excitedly exclaimed, “What is that?”
Immediately we all stopped what we were doing and looked skyward!
Once we were able to focus upon the object arousing our playmate’s interest, we were all astonished to see what appeared to be a bright silver circular object floating some distance above our heads.
The object remained suspended in the air moving slightly to our right.
Then it disappeared into the clouds.
To say the least we were all dumbfounded as to what it was we had just witnessed.
For those of us raised in the Sci-Fi era of Buck Rogers, The Thing, The Blob and Forbidden Planet our fertile imaginations ran wild.
Our parents and other friends said, “Oh, it was a weather balloon” or “you were seeing things!”
We knew the Russians had recently launched the first satellite called Sputnik into space, but we knew what we saw couldn’t have been it.
We knew deep down that we had seen a real UFO.
My next experience happened as I was driving a girlfriend home after a date one night, again in Tewksbury, this time the year was 1966.
As we drove down Highway 38 from Lowell, my date said, “Look! What is that?”
As I looked to my right in the direction she pointed, I could make out the distinct outline of a cylindrical object in the late night sky.
It remained just above the treetops and parallel to our direction of travel.
Upon reaching a point behind and above that of Tewksbury’s police station it stopped, and so did we!
We both stood silently outside my car and observed the object for approximately 30-40 seconds as it hovered about 40 feet above the old 50 foot tall New England oaks.
The object itself could now be clearly seen in outline against the cobalt blue nighttime sky. It looked like two smooth pie plates flipped on top of each other with a band of pulsating blue, red and white lights revolving around its entire middle.
As we continued to be transfixed by what we both saw it all of a sudden took off in a tremendous burst of silent speed and disappeared.
We looked at each other and I said, “Don’t say anything. When we get to your house you draw a picture of what you think you saw and I’ll do the same and we’ll compare notes.”
The results confirmed we had both seen the same thing.
What its origin was I do not know, but in the paper the next day was a story on the front page relating how two Lowell police officers had seen the same thing the previous night.
On a summer night in1976 my son and I watched three jets chase an object in the South Alabama sky that out distanced them so fast they looked like they were standing still.
I have had Close Encounters of the Second Kind (Alien Landings) and the Third Kind (meeting Aliens), too. Of course it was when I worked with Steven Spielberg in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1976.
Today the only UFOs I see are recognizable ones that my wife throws at me!
No, no! I’m just kidding!
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