I wish you would go into detail, it is detail that helps determine whether an account is geniune or false.
I did not see distant lights travelling across the sky, the objects I saw were extremely close to me. The first object I described was probably no more than 500 feet from me, the second object was probably less than 200 feet away from me. If they were any further away they would have been enormous objects. Both were seen under clear conditions, and I had a witness with the first object. I got a clear and detailed look at both objects.
Trust me, if you see one of these objects up close, you will know they are not man-made.
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Twas’ a black and stormy night as we traveled along Highway 540 heading north which we picked up off of Hwy. 40 running west of Little Rock AR. The cloud ceiling was LOW - at about 25 ft. - and the wind was blowing so hard that most of the 18 wheelers were pulled off of the highway to avoid overturning. But not us… we had a customized Greyhound 4104 and the driver just couldn’t afford to stop. We were; however, going VERY slowly – about 25 mph as I recall.
It was my turn to ride shotgun so it was just I and the driver up front. Suddenly, I estimate probably not more than 50 feet directly in front of us, the clouds began to light up as if something big and bright was descending through them. As we got closer, the lighted area kept growing and intensifying until the point that we were almost directly under it. Suddenly, the clouds broke open to reveal five huge lights arranged in a circular pattern. I'm estimating that each was 10ft. in diameter encased in a metallic parabola wired together with something like a metal rod matrix. They actually looked like enormous street lights, but much brighter and whiter than anything I’ve ever seen.
As we passed under it I begged the driver to stop. He told me “…there’s no way in Hell that I’m going to stop under that thing.” I then ran to the back of the bus and, looking out the back window, saw the thing ascend again until the glow was completely gone. Well, being the kind of guy that I am, I started to doubt myself and immediately began to look for possible explanations.
The next thing I did was to write down the nearest highway mile marker. Since I knew we would be returning via this same route and that it would be during the day, I was sure that I would discover something like a pedestrian bridge or a railroad trestle that might account for the lights. After all, the cloud ceiling was so low and conditions so dark that it could have easily obscured just about anything.
Well, you can probably guess that on the return trip there was absolutely nothing like that around. As a matter of fact that highway runs adjacent to Devils Den State Park which at the time was mostly forest area. There were no houses, bridges, or street lights to be found.
The next thing I thought of would be that we saw some sort of helicopter or hovering type aircraft. By talking with military pilots over the years here at nearby Ft. Rucker, I have been able to discount that theory. There is absolutely no way that any kind of "known" aircraft could stay airborne in those conditions much less perform a controlled low altitude hovering maneuver.
Ok… now for the kicker. I’ve always been something of a documentary fanatic. Thus, following my wants, about three months later I was relaxing at home watching a documentary on UFOs (naturally). They were showing old newsreels from the 1950’s of people who had seen “them flying disks.” One of the people interviewed was an airline pilot standing in front of his 1950s TWA Constellation with something like an easel next to him on which to draw. This guy starts describing a UFO that appeared above his plane. Then he draws this sketch which looks identical to the arrangement of what I saw. When asked where he encountered the UFO he responded “…just west of Little Rock AR.”
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