toobfreak
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If people interested wish, they can place all of their reports related to UFOs and the government file release here. I plan to use it to relate how some of my personal experiences mirror some of the released photos and observations.
To begin, here is a link to the archive where all the released files are stored, unfortunately, like all government websites, it is not very easy to use.
www.archives.gov
Then to begin, reading through several articles covering the topic by CBS, MSN, and a few others, who had already combed some of the files and included several photos and stories, there were TWO which particularly caught my eye.
STORY #1:
In December of 1972, while on the Moon during Apollo 17, astronauts took this photo. Upon closer study back on Earth, it was noted that the image captured a triangle of three small lights near the horizon. Actually, astronauts have released several UFOs spotted while walking on the Moon, and in every case, while the object was not always noticed at the time by the astronaut, when later detected, in every case I've seen, the UFO was always near the horizon, almost like it was hovering low so to remain inconspicuous. Why am I interested in Photo #1? I have slightly enhanced it a bit to further bring out the contrast and sharpness. Here it is:
Why does this photo strike me? Because, best as I can recall now, my first UFO sighting as I have recounted here several times, was in the late 60s, through a little toy telescope, I want to say maybe around 1968 maybe, and this is pretty much what I saw too, effectively seen just four years (approx.) before this lunar shot, it was three dots of light high up, traveling along in a triangle against the starry backdrop, none of the usual markings of flashing red and green lights to identify an aircraft by orientation, just three white dots, and I could not tell if they were self-luminous or were merely reflecting sunlight off their surface (it was after dark in the summer), but miles up as these were, they were still probably in the sunlight).
Following them for several minutes, one jumped ahead then made a 90° turn, then the other two caught up, made the same turn and they resumed their triangle formation. In each case, the jump in speed and the turn were both effectively instantaneous, impossible by any science we know. How curious that within a few years of my experience that Apollo astronauts should see so similar an observation. No vehicle by any known science can change speed and direction instantly, so by this one experience alone I know that whatever the case is with the thousands of other sightings, that at least some UFO sightings are real and cannot be explained as seeing Venus, a trick of the light, or a weather balloon.
STORY #2:
The other most credible UFO observation I had which is hard to explain as a weather balloon or some event dirigible, that I usually assign as having seen it AFTER the first experience but now I cannot be sure, I was very young, it was daylight, probably summer, it was nice out, I was playing in the street and looking up between the houses, behind my house was an apple tree and another home. Beyond that was a large field, part of a monastery, Generally vacant and unused this field, it went down into a valley with woods beyond. I want to say it was probably mid to later 60s, maybe 1965-1968, so might have been before or after the first story, I cannot be sure, I saw a partiality obscured long silvery gray "balloon," like a big cigar, like a big balloon that got away, but it had no markings, no writing, no attachments, just a big, long, gray sort of cigar, quietly, silently tumbling in the air, probably 100-200 feet off the ground?
It was only partly visible, partly obscured by the apple tree, it made one revolution tumble, end over end about once every 4-5 seconds I would guess, and as I began to lose sight of it, I began running up the street to get a better view. There was no one else around. As I ran up the street to keep a view of it between the next houses and the next, it seemed to be moving farther away from me and I was losing sight of it, and without running into their yard and climbing a hill at the back of their property to get higher, I could no longer follow it and gave up trying to see it.
Thing is: it could not have been from some sort of event--- there was a shopping mall near by where the balloon might have come from, maybe from some event they were having, but I do not recall anything going on that day, worse, the balloon would have had advertising, writing or something pictured on it. This thing was smooth, long, maybe 100-200 feet long, featureless and gray. Stranger still, I saw no means to cause it to tumble, it maintained speed slowly pinwheeling over end to end, noiseless, and was moving toward the West, so despite it being a calm day, had there been any breeze, it would have been moving INTO the wind. Further, how could it have developed this slow tumbling motion end over end immediate having left the ground? Its motion did not follow anything you might expect of a large dirigible no matter how you explained it getting loose, the wind, etc.
PICTURE TWO: What interested me here was an account released in the files of eyewitnesses seeing a long orb, similar in size and shape, described as being bronzish whereas what I saw looked more metallic silver gray. Here is their account and an artist's sketch.
I did not see any light, and my object did not appear and disappear, but the size and shape similarity is curious at best. These were my two most credible UFO experiences, both events defy all efforts to rationalize or dismiss them as commonplace objects. That around the same time, others were seeing very similar objects is no small coincidence. I have seen other objects and been told stories, the one story came from a very credible source, another came from a man who knew he was dying, but the other two objects I witnessed, though strange (I even got pictures of one of them), though unidentified, could be dismissed as probably some sort of weather packages, so I only mention them with an asterisk.
And while the gray tumbling cigar was very strange, it remains unexplained, but there just is no other possible explanation for the three dots I saw jotting about the sky at night as anything other than genuine flying saucers. Therefore, UFOs MUST be real, at least SOME of them.
To begin, here is a link to the archive where all the released files are stored, unfortunately, like all government websites, it is not very easy to use.
Records Related to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has records related to unidentified flying objects (UFO) and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) across numerous record groups and collections. Explore the links below to find out more about records related to UFOs and UAPs in NARA's...
www.archives.gov
Then to begin, reading through several articles covering the topic by CBS, MSN, and a few others, who had already combed some of the files and included several photos and stories, there were TWO which particularly caught my eye.
STORY #1:
In December of 1972, while on the Moon during Apollo 17, astronauts took this photo. Upon closer study back on Earth, it was noted that the image captured a triangle of three small lights near the horizon. Actually, astronauts have released several UFOs spotted while walking on the Moon, and in every case, while the object was not always noticed at the time by the astronaut, when later detected, in every case I've seen, the UFO was always near the horizon, almost like it was hovering low so to remain inconspicuous. Why am I interested in Photo #1? I have slightly enhanced it a bit to further bring out the contrast and sharpness. Here it is:
Why does this photo strike me? Because, best as I can recall now, my first UFO sighting as I have recounted here several times, was in the late 60s, through a little toy telescope, I want to say maybe around 1968 maybe, and this is pretty much what I saw too, effectively seen just four years (approx.) before this lunar shot, it was three dots of light high up, traveling along in a triangle against the starry backdrop, none of the usual markings of flashing red and green lights to identify an aircraft by orientation, just three white dots, and I could not tell if they were self-luminous or were merely reflecting sunlight off their surface (it was after dark in the summer), but miles up as these were, they were still probably in the sunlight).
Following them for several minutes, one jumped ahead then made a 90° turn, then the other two caught up, made the same turn and they resumed their triangle formation. In each case, the jump in speed and the turn were both effectively instantaneous, impossible by any science we know. How curious that within a few years of my experience that Apollo astronauts should see so similar an observation. No vehicle by any known science can change speed and direction instantly, so by this one experience alone I know that whatever the case is with the thousands of other sightings, that at least some UFO sightings are real and cannot be explained as seeing Venus, a trick of the light, or a weather balloon.
STORY #2:
The other most credible UFO observation I had which is hard to explain as a weather balloon or some event dirigible, that I usually assign as having seen it AFTER the first experience but now I cannot be sure, I was very young, it was daylight, probably summer, it was nice out, I was playing in the street and looking up between the houses, behind my house was an apple tree and another home. Beyond that was a large field, part of a monastery, Generally vacant and unused this field, it went down into a valley with woods beyond. I want to say it was probably mid to later 60s, maybe 1965-1968, so might have been before or after the first story, I cannot be sure, I saw a partiality obscured long silvery gray "balloon," like a big cigar, like a big balloon that got away, but it had no markings, no writing, no attachments, just a big, long, gray sort of cigar, quietly, silently tumbling in the air, probably 100-200 feet off the ground?
It was only partly visible, partly obscured by the apple tree, it made one revolution tumble, end over end about once every 4-5 seconds I would guess, and as I began to lose sight of it, I began running up the street to get a better view. There was no one else around. As I ran up the street to keep a view of it between the next houses and the next, it seemed to be moving farther away from me and I was losing sight of it, and without running into their yard and climbing a hill at the back of their property to get higher, I could no longer follow it and gave up trying to see it.
Thing is: it could not have been from some sort of event--- there was a shopping mall near by where the balloon might have come from, maybe from some event they were having, but I do not recall anything going on that day, worse, the balloon would have had advertising, writing or something pictured on it. This thing was smooth, long, maybe 100-200 feet long, featureless and gray. Stranger still, I saw no means to cause it to tumble, it maintained speed slowly pinwheeling over end to end, noiseless, and was moving toward the West, so despite it being a calm day, had there been any breeze, it would have been moving INTO the wind. Further, how could it have developed this slow tumbling motion end over end immediate having left the ground? Its motion did not follow anything you might expect of a large dirigible no matter how you explained it getting loose, the wind, etc.
PICTURE TWO: What interested me here was an account released in the files of eyewitnesses seeing a long orb, similar in size and shape, described as being bronzish whereas what I saw looked more metallic silver gray. Here is their account and an artist's sketch.
I did not see any light, and my object did not appear and disappear, but the size and shape similarity is curious at best. These were my two most credible UFO experiences, both events defy all efforts to rationalize or dismiss them as commonplace objects. That around the same time, others were seeing very similar objects is no small coincidence. I have seen other objects and been told stories, the one story came from a very credible source, another came from a man who knew he was dying, but the other two objects I witnessed, though strange (I even got pictures of one of them), though unidentified, could be dismissed as probably some sort of weather packages, so I only mention them with an asterisk.
And while the gray tumbling cigar was very strange, it remains unexplained, but there just is no other possible explanation for the three dots I saw jotting about the sky at night as anything other than genuine flying saucers. Therefore, UFOs MUST be real, at least SOME of them.
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