My UFO History
My dad got me interested in UFOs when I was a kid in Michigan. He himself was hooked when the neighbor shared with him a UFO snapshot and home movie from the early 1950's. The snapshot was of a "flying saucer" landed in a field of grazing cows off the Pennsylvania turnpike. The movie was of a small disk flying ahead of their car crossing the California desert on Highway 10. He tried to get them into his possession, but in those days "you didn't say anything to anyone."
But it did motivate him to buy of lot of books on UFOs. Eventually I read them all myself.
Living in the suburbs outside of Detroit doesn't lend to great UFO viewing. It seems to be cloudy much of the year, or at least way too cold or rainy to want to stand outside. Nonetheless, I tried.
I believe I had success once in my early teens while at a friend's house swimming in his pool at night. For once it was a clear, starry night, and I did see a star moving in a curvy path. And back in the 1960's, there wasn't anything that could do that. I "claim" that as my first UFO.
Skip ahead to 1994 in Southern California, where I now lived. I had lived in Phoenix, AZ, from 1972 to 1977, and then moved to Riverside, CA. But even in those times and places of clear skies, I never saw anything.
But on October 11, 1994, at about 3:45 am, while getting into my car to leave for work, I had my first official sighting. That day was the only time I ever left for work 15 minutes early, and it was one of the clearest mornings I ever remember seeing.
With Orion rising to my right and the Pleiades almost straight up behind me, my eye caught a chevron-shaped body of lights traveling north to south, along the 91 Freeway. It was silent and covered from 12:00 high to gone on the horizon in about three seconds.
There were about fourteen lights total on the craft, in one double row, and at each wing tip, one light was jutted forward. Google "the Lubbock Lights" to see a very similar picture. It was about the same size in the sky as the Pleiades Constellation, with the brightness and size of the lights matching those stars, but, of course, in a chevron configuration.
I was astonished and excited, but surprisingly also a bit ....unnerved. I left for work, got on the freeway, and made sure I was surrounded by cars along my trip to work. A very odd reaction, I think.
Eleven months later, on September 12, 1995, at 4:00 am, I had a sighting of a similar craft...I believe.
In the northeastern sky, there was what appeared to be the rear view of a chevron-shaped craft moving away and upward. It looked like a boomerang flying up and away from me, and it was entirely amber in color. I assume the color was a reflection from the rising sun directly in its path, although it possibly could have been the result of the craft's propulsion systems.
My next sighting wasn't until March 19, 2004. Walking through my backyard late evening (dark out), straight above me passed a craft flying west to east. It was about 30,000 up, totally silent, and had maybe ten-ish white lights all over it. It was not a chevron-shaped craft, but it was like the wings of that type of craft had been cut off to about a quarter their length.
I didn't have any more sightings until about 2010. Then I started seeing strange objects about one per year. A rose-colored daytime star that slowly moved east to west. A round, dark gray globe hanging over the freeway interchange--with an exhaust port on the back. Two white orbs pacing each other across the sky.
Then in 2016, I started having an increase of sightings. And finally I started capturing them on video. Those are the ones listed on my "UFO Videos" page. So far I have dozens of videos. And for every video I have, there's another sighting that "got away" because I didn't have my phone with me or the action was SO FAST that I couldn't keep up.