Posted: February 26, 2008
Hi Brian, I was based at Cannon AFB, New Mexico in 1975/76 when there were a rash of UFO sightings at the base. I can only describe one, and I believe it was a weather balloon. (You may be more interested in my second story). It was a summer afternoon on a weekend. There had been a lot of talk about UFO's around the base. Someone came running into our barracks shouting there was a UFO in the sky directly over the base. As you can expect, everyone ran outside to see. I remember running outside and noticing several hundred soldiers around my barracks and the other barracks in my area looking up at it. It was extremely high and appeared to be silver. It seemed to slowly change shape and after watching it for several minutes you could tell it was moving slowly west to east. Some of the senior soldiers said it was a weather balloon but there was a large group that insisted it was a UFO. I watched it for about 15 minutes and it never did anything unusual that a UFO might do. I believe it was a balloon.
But, I did see a UFO around January, 1975, actually two of them, at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, TX. I was with two other soldiers and it was about 1:00 in the morning. (No, we were not drunk and not on anything). We were returning to the base in a pick-up truck. The sky was completely overcast with a ceiling around 3,000 to 4,000 feet. While driving east, we noticed two white lights about 2,000 feet AGL (above ground level) a couple of miles ahead of us traveling east north east. Both were making a gradual left turn in front of us. Each light was about as bright as a car headlight. The first light was flying along at about 200 knots leading the second light by a 1/4 mile or so when we first saw them. The trailing light was traveling approximately twice as fast as the first light.
They were in level flight. No strobes or beacons, just two white lights. We were watching the planes, which is what we thought they were, and talking about them. As the trailing light caught up to the first, everything happened almost instantly. They were no longer two lights, just one about the same brightness as before the other one had joined it. As soon as the second light caught up to the first, the light shot straight up threw the clouds at mach ? I'm just guessing at the speed because I have no experience with flying things that can turn and accelerate this fast. I've seen tracer bullets fired from powerful military weapons, and this thing went from level flight to faster than a tracer bullet, straight up. I have no doubt it was a UFO. Whatever that means.
(Name removed) USAF Veteran 1974-1979
Thank you to the witness for the excellent report.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Monday, December 31, 2007
Portales, New Mexico Witness Catches Unusual Object
Posted: December 31, 2007
Date: July 18, 2004 Time: Around 8:51 p.m.
Your welcome for the info. My Dad was a firm believer that we are not alone and it rubbed off on me so I find the subject very interesting. Attached are the pictures that I took 2 years ago. I did not witness lights, but a single light. It was early evening in July. The pictures are dated on the 18th around 8:51. There was a normal summer thunderstorm in the distance and it was cloudy with bits of lightning to the east. I was standing in my doorway facing south enjoying the view of the setting sunlight coupled with the colors of the storm clouds. Off on the horizon I saw a bright red light which I thought might have been a helicopter from the hospital or a low flying plane from Cannon AFB.
The wind was pretty calm and it was a pretty quiet evening so I was waiting for the tell tale sounds to come to me. As I watched the light flying what seemed pretty low fly across the horizon from west going east I never heard anything. After the straight flight I watch it seemed to stop. Being that seeing planes flying around I figured the plane had just turned towards me and that's why it seemed to stop. Well I watched the light for an estimated 10 minutes and it never moved but then it seemed to go a little higher. Since the thing never blinked and didn't seem to move or anything I remembered my new camera and decided to try to take pictures of it. The first few pictures I took with a flash and the object was not visible so I turned off the flash and tried to hold my camera steady enough to take the pictures I have. They did not turn out good enough for anyone I showed to make anything of it. The streaking effect in the pictures is because of the combination of my unsteady hands and my camera zoomed to the max. When you turn the flash off on the camera you have to stay very still for the picture to come out right. But you can see that it was a bright red light. As I started to snap the pictures the light slowly faded until I could not see it anymore.
Also my batteries died so I could not take any more pictures. I showed a friend who was working soon after and she could not figure out what I had pictures of and I also showed a police officer who was there and he also could not explain it. Well the thing never blinked, never made any noise and never had a recognizable shape other than a ball of light. The total time I watched the light is around 11 or 12 minutes. To this day nobody really believes me but I still show the pictures.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: July 18, 2004 Time: Around 8:51 p.m.
Your welcome for the info. My Dad was a firm believer that we are not alone and it rubbed off on me so I find the subject very interesting. Attached are the pictures that I took 2 years ago. I did not witness lights, but a single light. It was early evening in July. The pictures are dated on the 18th around 8:51. There was a normal summer thunderstorm in the distance and it was cloudy with bits of lightning to the east. I was standing in my doorway facing south enjoying the view of the setting sunlight coupled with the colors of the storm clouds. Off on the horizon I saw a bright red light which I thought might have been a helicopter from the hospital or a low flying plane from Cannon AFB.
The wind was pretty calm and it was a pretty quiet evening so I was waiting for the tell tale sounds to come to me. As I watched the light flying what seemed pretty low fly across the horizon from west going east I never heard anything. After the straight flight I watch it seemed to stop. Being that seeing planes flying around I figured the plane had just turned towards me and that's why it seemed to stop. Well I watched the light for an estimated 10 minutes and it never moved but then it seemed to go a little higher. Since the thing never blinked and didn't seem to move or anything I remembered my new camera and decided to try to take pictures of it. The first few pictures I took with a flash and the object was not visible so I turned off the flash and tried to hold my camera steady enough to take the pictures I have. They did not turn out good enough for anyone I showed to make anything of it. The streaking effect in the pictures is because of the combination of my unsteady hands and my camera zoomed to the max. When you turn the flash off on the camera you have to stay very still for the picture to come out right. But you can see that it was a bright red light. As I started to snap the pictures the light slowly faded until I could not see it anymore.
Also my batteries died so I could not take any more pictures. I showed a friend who was working soon after and she could not figure out what I had pictures of and I also showed a police officer who was there and he also could not explain it. Well the thing never blinked, never made any noise and never had a recognizable shape other than a ball of light. The total time I watched the light is around 11 or 12 minutes. To this day nobody really believes me but I still show the pictures.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
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