I SAW A UFO
By Dan Miller
January 5, 2007
Matter of fact, I saw five UFOs, all at the same time.
So you can imagine how happy I am that UFOs are back in the news....
I've missed them.
With all the terrible stuff happening here on earth, perhaps the little green aliens figure we could use a little distraction.
I'm referring, of course, to the UFO spotted over Chicago's O'Hare airport on November 7th.
It didn't show up on radar.... and nobody knows what it was.... but a lot of respectable workers for United Airlines are sure they saw something.
Some are United Airlines pilots.
Of course, the spoilsports say it was some sort of weather phenomenon.
But I like to think the UFOs are back.
Now.... the story of my UFO sighting.... **(please read this as if Sgt. Joe Friday is narrating)**.....
It was Sunday, July 24, 1966....
I was serving in the U.S. Army Reserves at Ft. Stewart, Georgia.
It was a hot and unimaginably humid evening....
My pal Paul Wolfe and I drove 30 miles over to Tybee Beach in Savannah, just to get away for a few hours.
Later that evening.... around 11 PM.... as we were leaving the beach to drive back to the post.....
We spotted -- from the car -- five bright, whitish/orange lights over the ocean....
Curious, we stopped in a parking lot and walked over to the beach....
As we walked, we kept our eyes on the unmoving lights, far out over the water.
Four of the lights were in sort of a diamond configuration, with one light alone out to the right of the others....
By now, about 5 minutes had lapsed.
Along the beach, dozens of people had gathered, staring at the lights.
We asked several locals if they'd seen anything like it before.
Nobody had.
Somebody suggested they might be military flares....
But the lights didn't move or flicker for 11 or 12 minutes.... no movement whatsoever.
Now, more people had gathered on the beach.
From inland, behind us, we heard a jet flying out toward the ocean....
Then, in near perfect unison, the 5 lights quickly faded away.
We waited awhile, then headed back to Hinesville and Ft. Stewart.
The next day, in the Savannah morning paper, there was an article about the lights.
They had been visible all along the coast from Virginia to Florida.
The Air Force said they knew nothing about them.... they were not flares.
And here's the really spooky part....
Shortly after we had seen the lights, in the early morning hours of July 25, 1966, Federal Aviation Administration personnel in Atlanta actually observed several vertical, oval UFOs, visually and on radar.
The FAA reported that one of the objects accelerated rapidly.
FAA personnel spotted UFOs the next night as well.
It was the first time the FAA had ever officially acknowledged its own encounters with UFOs.
You can find articles documenting those sightings in the July 27, 1966 issues of both the Atlanta Constitution and the Orlando Sentinel.
On Monday, the day after Paul and I saw the lights, Paul and several other men from our unit drove back to Savannah -- this time with cameras -- hoping the lights would come back for an encore that evening.
They didn't.
That night, I chose to stay on post and play softball.
Oh... by the way.... the image attached to this essay is not a photo of the lights I saw that night.
It's a computer generated reasonable facsimile, created by our website guru Scott Sutton, based on my hauntingly realistic description.
They're back!!!
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