From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:11:02 -0500
Archived: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:11:02 -0500
Subject: Watchers In The Night Sky




Source: The Beach Connection - Portland, Oregon, USA

http://www.beachconnection.net/news/UFO030509_149.php

03/05/09


Watchers In The Night Sky
By J. D. Adams

Salem, Oregon -- Our UFO sighting was in 1988, but it was years
before we told anybody. Amongst ourselves it was rarely
mentioned, as if we didn't want to believe it. Being practical
Oregonians, our minds reeled at the possibilities that were
unleashed by the occurrence. Suddenly we had become players in
one of the stories that we could only read about before. I know
now what others must have gone through when they saw a UFO at
close range, the incredulity that other people expressed when we
told them. It became a life-changing experience. The universe
seems a different place now, less a barren vacuum of space.

Our sighting wasn’t necessarily extraterrestrial, but it was an
extremely advanced technology. What that really means is open to
conjecture. Most radical departures from conventional wisdom
have had to overcome the inertia of the scientific community.
One day we will reach out for the stars, but it is folly to
think we will be the first to have done so. I have formed this
opinion only since that night in 1988. I was formerly a person
who looked at the sky expecting only the usual clutter of
planes, stars, and the occasional blinking satellite.

Our encounter was on a crisp fall night like any other, with
errands to be completed. The sky was clear and full of stars. My
wife and I were returning from the grocery store, driving
northward along Fischer Road in Salem, Oregon. It is a
residential thoroughfare that parallels Interstate 5. Out of the
corner of my eye I saw something hovering over the freeway. The
unnatural stillness and lack of visible support for the object
had caught my eye. At first I thought it was a traffic
helicopter, which by itself would have been unusual in this
area. As I looked closer at the object, the uniqueness of it
compelled me to pull the car over to the side of the road and
stop. I got out and listened hard for the sound of rotor noise,
but there was none. The fact that it was only about 200 feet
away made this highly unusual. The craft had lights about its
perimeter, but the exact outline of the body was strangely
indistinct, like it had a low profile when viewed from the side.

In an attempt to explain the phenomenon, I initially dismissed
it as one of those Harrier jets that can vent the exhaust
downward for landing. However, the quietness of the craft and
the fact it was over the freeway made this impossible. As human
beings symbolic logic is our forte. It is one of the things that
distinguish us from lower primates and other animals. But there
was nothing in my experience with which I could represent the
UFO in my mind, so I came up with the best that I could, a
rather poor representation of what I was actually seeing. Later
this would become more pronounced, a bothersome feeling of
something totally alien in my familiar world. My wife was also
observing the strange craft. Exchanging glances with her, I got
back in the car and we drove on to Silverton Road, turning left
and passing under the freeway and several blocks westward to our
apartment.

As we turned into the parking lot, we both viewed a sight that
is still fixed in my mind like a photograph. There was the
hovering craft directly over the parking lot. It had followed us
over from the freeway. I had to drive toward it as I pulled into
our parking spot. We watched in amazement for a few moments and
then decided to get out. There were no bright lights shining
downward, and nobody else was outside at the apartment complex
at this hour to view it besides my wife and I. There was just it
and the two of us, as if we had been selected out of a nighttime
crowd that was too busy to look upward. One of my impressions at
the time was how unusually easy it was for something so
remarkable to be otherwise unobserved in the dark sky. It
appeared that the UFO inhabitants had seen us watching them, and
they were now looking at us out of curiosity or to see if we
represented some kind of threat. At this point the craft was
about 70 feet overhead. I could see clearly it was perhaps 30
feet across, with a triangular shape that was outlined with
small round lights. There was no significant sound coming from
it, only a faint humming that was barely noticeable.

The way it hovered absolutely motionless made it all the more
fantastic. The craft quietly defied all rational attempts to
explain it. It was real, a dark gray triangle floating in a sea
of stars. We stared at it for what seemed like thirty seconds.
By now tension had built to an alarming degree, so we hastened
inside our apartment and walked directly across to the patio
door to look out. The craft was slowly moving southward,
building speed with deliberate precision. Its ponderous mass
floated like it was a feather, disappearing in the night sky.
Since we had said little during the event, I asked what my wife
had seen as verification. She mirrored my observations. Looking
at the clock, we were relieved to see no time was missing. I
feel privileged to have viewed such an amazing phenomenon. We
shall never forget it.

Was it a secret military prototype, the implementation of Nikola
Tesla’s later theories of gravity repulsion, spawned from his
confiscated notes? Perhaps. But at this late date nothing
resembling it has surfaced in the news. Or was it something from
beyond our solar system, cloaked in darkness and the ignorance
of our more primitive world?


[Thanks to 'The Norm' for the lead]



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