Somewhere in the Skies - Witness Accounts: Volume 28

Episode Date: July 9, 2023

On episode 325 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, it is another powerful volume of witness accounts where you, the listeners, share your UFO sightings and encounters. How did these events change those who experienced them? And what could it tell us about what the UFO phenomenon is? Special thanks to those who shared their stories. If you would like to be in an upcoming Witness Accounts episode, email Ryan at: [e-mail] Order Ryan’s new book: https://a.co/d/4KNQnM4 Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies Website: www.somewhereintheskies.com YouTube Channel: CLICK HERE Book your Cameo video with Ryan at: https://bit.ly/3kwz3DO Official Store: CLICK HERE Buy Somewhere in the Skies coffee! Use promo code: SOMEWHERESKIES10 to get 10% off your order: https://bit.ly/3rmXuap Order Ryan’s older book: https://amzn.to/3PmydYC Email Ryan directly at: [e-mail] Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryansprague51 Twitter: @SomewhereSkies Instagram: @SomewhereSkiesPod Read Ryan’s Articles by CLICKING HERE Opening Theme Song, "Ephemeral Reign" by Per Kiilstofte Copyright © 2023 Ryan Sprague. All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Terms apply. is somewhere in the skies with Brian's bread. Brian, my name is Suzanne, and I live part-time in Santa Feina, Mexico, and part-time in Memphis, Tennessee, and I appreciate you letting me tell my story today. I was about six or seven years old, which would have been in 1966 or 67, and my grandmothers lived in a tiny town in Arkansas, not too far from Little Rock. They lived a two-block zigzag from each other, and I was so excited. because they finally decided that I was mature enough and responsible enough to walk alone between their houses

instead of them taking me back and forth. And for me, a really responsible kid, this was really a big deal. I was proud of the new freedom and I intended to be very responsible with it. So one sunny morning in the summer at about 10 a.m., I left one grandmother's house for the other grandmother's house. And just as I was about to make my first turn off of the busiest street on the track, there was a deafening and chest rattling roar. And an enormous object, literally city blocks long, so wide that you could not see where it ended on either side of the street. It flew directly overhead very close to the ground, and it scared me terribly. I watched horrified, thinking that this was an airplane there. it was crashing because at this young age, I'd never seen underneath the plane, so the fact that it was

covered in multicolored lights meant literally nothing to me, and neither did I have any reference at all for a UFO or an alien craft. But I was just frozen in fear on this street corner, and I crouched to the ground quickly, covering my ears, but watching it pass very, very slowly. And then I stood up still covering my ears and I was bracing basically for a huge explosion that I knew was going to happen when this plane crashed. But nothing happened. Literally nothing. No cars stopped. No pedestrians paused. No one seemed to notice anything. Not even this terrified little girl standing on the street corner in tears. And obviously there was no explosion. I was shaken from head to toe. Finally pulled myself together. and raced back to the grandmother that I just left.

And I was trying to calm myself down before I got there because I was scared to tell her that this scary thing had happened because the grandmothers might talk again and re-decide that I could not go between their houses and I'd lose this newly acquired privilege that I really liked. But the fear over what had just happened was greater than the fear of losing the privilege. so I told her. She just listened intently. She was obviously concerned, but said she had heard and seen nothing.

And it was just unimaginable to me that they had heard nothing. But I made her promise that if she heard about a plane crash, she would tell me so that I could resolve what I'd seen and heard and felt. She promised that she would, and I raced out the door to the other grandmother's house before the first grandmother could tell me that I couldn't. And I did the very same thing with the other grandmother who had to have heard what I had heard, but she didn't. And I just couldn't understand it.

It was so big and so loud and so close. It literally rattled my body. And for decades, I went back to the memory of it, trying to make sense of it and figure it out. In the 90s, I considered UFOs being an answer when I first read about them. But I continually discounted that explanation because the UFO experiencers all describe their incidences as so silent while mine was deafening and chest rattling. And then, of course, once the Internet was out, I would often search for 1966 or 1967 Arkansas plane crashes all to no avail. Had I just not properly understood what had happened? Was I just too little?

I just didn't know. I just couldn't figure it out. But earlier this month, while on vacation overseas, I started a newly released book that was telling the stories of experiencers of alien abductions and alien encounters. And the first two stories in this newly released book were absolutely identical to mine, but in different locations. It literally took my breath away.

I sat in stunned silence, realizing that I wasn't alone in this bizarre experience. that the facts of my experience were not merely childhood misconceptions or misunderstandings, that there was possibly an understandable explanation for what happened to me, and that I might actually be able to let this thing rest in my heart and mind after all these years, which oddly I have done. And for this ability to finally lay down the inquiry, I am so overwhelmingly grateful. grateful despite not really knowing what it was, right? I don't, I can't tell you that it was this or that.

And yet, just knowing there's a plausible explanation out there that makes sense has brought tremendous relief and also encouraged me to finally tell my family about what had happened. And luckily, they were very supportive about it. So this story is not only for me, but it's also for people like you who tell the stories of others, because, I want you to know how important it is to do this. When you tell those other people's stories or allow them to tell their stories, you just might be giving a gift to another human who has spent decades wondering about what happened to her. So thank you, Ryan. I sure appreciate it. Hello, Ryan. My name is Tim. I'd like to tell you about my UFO event. Not sure. how accurate the memory is. It's from 1975, 76. I'm 51 and it happened in central Wisconsin, just outside of Stevens Point. I can show you on a map if you're interested. I was in a car with

my father and we were leaving my grandmother's house. and we were just outside the city right before we used to call it Custard Hill and it's kind of this low plain area. The hill isn't very big but as a child everything seems large and we were driving on Highway 10, which was a two lane at the time. It's now a four lane. It's not called that anymore. and it we came across this farm field because it's Wisconsin there's a lot of cornfields and we're pretty sure it was in in late summer early fall I remember I'm pretty sure I was in kindergarten because you know mathematically wise that's it kind of works out so we're coming in passing between these fields and we noticed um god all these little orbs these orange reddish orange

orbs floating around um you might think they were fireflies but they're about i don't know from like maybe a musk melon to a basketball size um yeah just zipping around they were kind of spectacular there was a lot of them i i don't have a notion of how mini but there was quite a few in the air zipping around just above the car you know weaving and out of these there was a row of trees between the highway and this farm field and then so we slowed down because you know that's what you would do and we slowed down and there the memory is foggy here because I remember other cars that have pulled over and I remember my dad pulled over and he's like looking out the window and I'm

looking out the window and we're slowed down almost to a crawl and there was this object above just slightly to the right of this farmhouse it was huge just a gigantic black trident shaped object hovering in the air. And it was big. It was just massively large. And, you know, it took up a giant chunk of the sky

and it was, I remember it having some lights, but not as bright as the little lights. Maybe windows or, you know, honestly, I don't know. I remember it having three very large prongs sticking off

the back of it. And, And, you know, they were all attached to this central area. And it was just hovering there, silent. And I remember having the windows down. And there was nothing. You know, it was just complete silence. And I was kind of like, you know, enthralled at the time.

And I remember my dad, I think he got spooked because we just took off. And I remember, like right before we left, all those little orbs, they all compressed into one, right behind this object. They all flew into this one orb. They made this red orb, this, and it was bigger than just, you know, than the little ones. And then that orb went into the three prongs sticking out of the back of this ship, thing and it it just bolted.

It took off. And then my dad floored it and we were in the first iteration of a Chevy Chevette. And you know that I remember my dad rabbiting pretty quick and I think he was pretty

shaken. My dad always smoked so he was like smoking like a chimney. And here's why I'm pretty sure this is not just like my imagination. I remember going into my, and I think it was on a Sunday. This happened on a Sunday because that Monday morning, and I'm pretty sure memory-wise, I think it was, you know, it would be a Monday. We used to do these things in kindergarten called Show and Tell.

So I wanted to tell my story about what we saw with my dad. And I remember standing in front of the class and telling them pretty close to what I just told you. And the teacher asked me what the shape of the UFO was. And I said it was shaped like a chicken's foot. And everybody laughed. And I was mortified. It was the first time I experienced embarrassment in front of a group of people. And the teacher laughed at me.

And she said, and this is burned into my memory, are you sure it wasn't a saucer shaped? And I went back to it. This thing was shaped like a chicken's foot. I didn't know what a Triton was at the time. I was in kindergarten. I was trying to figure out what the color blue was. So, yeah, that's my story.

And, yeah, I was pretty embarrassed. I had much regret after telling that story at the time. But now, you know, I kind of just don't give a shit about much anymore. So I feel compelled to tell it. So I've been telling more people and trying to talk about it more. And that's pretty much it. I had some strange things, memories

from my childhood. I used to have night terrors and and some other stuff that happened. Yeah, honestly, it's like when you look at your childhood maybe it was just imagination. I don't know. Anyway, Ryan, that's

my story and I'm going to stick with it. Thanks for listening. The Summer in the Sky's podcast is free to listen to every week. But if you would like to help support the show, we have a very active Patreon page where you give what you think the show is worth. In return, you'll get early access to the main show, bonus episodes, and priority to ask our guests your listener questions. Your support truly makes the show continue and grow. So to learn more and to join, visit patreon.com slash somewhere skies.

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I lived in a small town about 30 minutes west of Columbus, Ohio. And if you traveled from my town an extra hour, hour and a half, you would, of course, eventually run into a right-pat Air Force base. at this time I worked a second shift job in Columbus, Ohio, getting off about 1130 at night and everybody at my job

and myself, we noticed in the westward really direction towards right pat we would see three lights in the sky they were bigger than the stars, brighter than any of the stars and they didn't flash or have any

airplane lights or anything like that and all three lights would move in the same pattern in the sky. And this happened every night for about two weeks. We all wondered what they were, but being about myself and a group of friends I had at my job, we were in our early 20s. Our minds were elsewhere, let's just say. But one night, it was really nice out.

It was clear. It was warm. No clouds in the sky. No wind. And the moon was so bright. it would actually cast a shadow of you on the ground when you were outside. I'm guessing it was a full moon, but I never really paid that much attention to that other than it was very bright.

So this night I decided, instead of going down Interstate 70, the most direct way home, I would take the back roads. So I got in the car and brought the windows down, turned the radio up, and decided to take the back roads home. It was more of an entertaining drive for me. And I paid close attention to the lights at this point, especially driving slow and having to pay more attention to where I was going on these back roads. So I got a brilliant idea that I was going to attract the lights. Now, I'll tell you a little bit about the lights.

So if you're looking out of your windshield, there were three lights. What I called light number one was on the left side. side of your windshield. And it would travel up what I've what looked like to me to be straight up in the air. And it would get to a certain point. It would rotate to its right and then travel down a parallel path, get close to the horizon and would rotate to its to the opposite direction. And it would travel up. So basically it was going slowly up and down in a paper. clip like fashion. Light number three was on the very right side of your field of view out of your windshield.

And it did the same thing, you know, up and rotate, come down, rotate and go up. I don't remember the lights doing this in unison. So one light may have been going up and the other light may have been going down. I don't remember that much detail. But light number two was the weird one. It started on the left near where light number one stopped and turned back up. It would start it there. It would go straight across the horizon right, right to the point where light number three did its turn to come back up.

Light number two would travel left to right and it would turn down slightly towards the horizon more and disappear. and then a second or maybe a second and a half later would appear on the left side and it would rotate up and travel back and back to the right. So basically it was doing the same type of travel, I guess you can say, as the other lights. But the exception it was at the bottom towards the horizon and it was going left to right and then right to left. And with the exception that once it traveled left to right and it started to travel back right to. left it would disappear entirely and reappear a second or two later on the left side so you had light one going up and down light three going up and down on the opposite side of your field of view and light number two would travel left and start to travel right disappear on the left side again

and then travel right start to turn left disappear appear on the left side and travel right so all three of these lights were we're making this these patterns patterns. So I thought being in my early 20s and knowing everything about the world, of course, that I would flash my bright lights and try to attract these lights to me. So every time I would turn in their general direction or west, I would travel as far as I could westwardly and just flash my bright lights back off and on, off and on, off and on. It was then about 20 minutes into my drive home that I noticed light number three on the right side started to get bigger. I took that as saying or thinking that it was coming towards me.

So I noticed as the light got bigger, it started to turn into a shape of sorts. So I found on my way home, driving through the country, I found a area. area where it was a lot of openness, not a lot of trees. And the fields had been taken. So that's why I'm saying it was probably late August, early September, because there were no crops in any of the fields. So everything was just wide open trees here and there and a couple of telephone poles here and there. That was mostly it. So I found this road that I pulled off on and there was a big open field in front of me. and it had one of those roads that the farmers build from the main road into their field so they can get their tractors in.

I pulled out or I pulled into this road and pointed my car directly west towards these lights. My brain just automatically assumed it was aliens, right? I mean, that's what you do. That's where your brain goes automatically back in the 90s. Because there is no internet, there was no smartphones. The only people that had phones at that time were people and managers and CEOs and that type of thing. And I wasn't one of those being so young, so I didn't even have a regular cell phone at the time. So I pulled in the road, pointing my car to the west.

I'm thinking it was going to be aliens. I remember about the encounters about how cars and lights and radios, do all kinds of crazy things, sometimes turn off entirely when there's an alien ship by. So I purposely left my car running, the radio on, and the lights on. And I got out of my, put into this road, got out of my car. And I saw, I noticed that my shadow, because the moon was behind me. So I noticed the shadow that the moon was making of myself kind of in front of me. so it was still a bright

it was night but it was still bright out from the moon and no wind no clouds at all just a really nice night and I watched light number three as it came towards me he got bigger and bigger

than it started to get to shape I'm not sure how many minutes it took but eventually this thing got so close to me that I could tell its shape

there was no noise at all from anything other than my engine and my car running in the radio so there was no noise from this object i want to describe it to you of course if you take the stereotypical idea of a raindrop where it's rounded at the bottom and it comes to it comes to a point at the tip you take that and lay it on its side That was the fuselage of this thing. I guess that's what you would call it. However, it didn't taper to a point as abruptly as its raindrop. It was more of a uniform taper. So the front of it, which I'll call the nose, kind of reminded me of an airplane,

but it was round. And it tapered uniformly down to a tip. and this thing also had wings on it that swept the back at probably about a 45 degree angle but they were very thick they looked to be as thick as the fuselage almost as thick as a fuselage of this object as it approached I noticed that it started to bank a little bit to its I guess it would be its left So the left side started to dip and the right side started to rise up. That's when I saw the tip of its left wing. And I noticed that at the front of this thing of the object,

and at the tip of each wing was a yellow light. And it seemed to shine down about towards the ground, but it only reached about a third of the way down from the object to the ground. So it didn't actually reach the ground. It reminded me of spotlights, but not very good ones, because it never reached the ground. And they weren't moving. They were stationary. Along the front edge of its right wing, and I'm assuming it was the same on the left wing,

because I could only see the tip of the left wing, but on the leaning edge of the wings were four or five lights that also shined yellow, but were a different shade. They were more bright. and they looked like portholes to me as best I could describe it. But they were illuminated from within. They didn't shine out like your headlights would from a car, like the other three lights on this object, but they seemed to be illuminated from within like if you turned your interior lights on on your car. they looked they didn't look to be like they were on the edge of the wing but more like they were embedded into the edge of the wing if that makes sense so they reminded me of port holes

this thing was probably 50 feet above me it was very very low it was so low in fact that due to the moon shining on it I could see the outside of this object had texture. So it had texture like if you ever seen a soundproof room, they have these vertical and horizontal squares in the room that alternate. So you're going to have a square that has these vertical ridges. And then the next two you have a square that has horizontal ridges. And next to that you have one that has vertical ridges to help absorb the same. sound. That's the kind of pattern it had all over this object. And the, like I said, the moon was so

bright that it shined on the object. And it was a dark color. I don't think it was black. It looked more like a very, very dark blue. But this thing glided, for lack of a better word, over the top of my car and it started to bank to its left and I watched it and turned my head as it flew over my car or glided over my car

and at that point I saw the three lights at the tip of it and the tip of its wings and then the lights along the wings and the texture and the color I thought well what are the other two lights doing so I turned around to look at the other two lights and they were doing their same pattern

I turned back around, which was probably two, maybe three seconds, and the object that had phoned over my car had disappeared. It was nowhere in sight. I scanned, did a 360 of everything, everywhere in the sky trying to find it. And the only thing I saw was the glow of the city of Columbus faintly in the distance, the bright moon behind me, and there was one puffy, cotted, cotton like cloud in the sky just kind of drifting and that was it so this object flew towards me flew down over me banked to its left i got to see a lot of detail flew over my car and then this

this just appeared like out of nowhere i didn't know what to think um wasn't scared or nervous i was kind of dumbfounded just trying to figure out what this thing was I know I got in the car. I started to drive back because I remember looking for this third light and it never reappeared on my drive home. But I don't remember much after that. I'm thinking this happened on a Friday because I know I didn't go to work for a couple days. I wasn't into the news or anything like that. So I didn't hear anything on the news.

I didn't read newspaper. And like I said, there was no internet or smart or cell phones or anything like that. So I went back to work a couple days later and the objects air in the sky doing the same thing again. Three lights doing their three patterns. So I got back into my car that Monday evening or whatever the next day was that evening. And I wanted to try to recreate what happened. So I drove the back road. It was another nice, warm, clear night.

And I flashed my lights all the way home like I did and nothing ever happened. The light stayed there for about three or four. for maybe two or three more days. And then they just disappeared and I never saw them again. So I thought it was kind of interesting and weird. I didn't know about stealth blimps at the time. Maybe that's what this could have been. But it was odd because I don't know if any blimps that have wings.

I thought that was kind of strange. And again, I didn't hear any, engine or anything like that. So I really have no idea what it was. So that's my story. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoyed it. Hi Ryan. My name's Jack. I'm a big fan of somewhere in the skies and I've been into UFOs, UAP since I was a kid. I live in Yorkshire. I'm a child of the space age and I grew up watching Jerry Anderson's 1960s TV shows like five ballets have five Thunderbirds and of course UFO which I still watch reruns of. As a kid I'd bought a few books on UFOs but there were always a disappointment, never any good photos which was always the first bit I looked for.

But I'd had an interest and read UFO magazines, the one published by Raymond Matt Bursle, which always had interesting stories like the Todmorden PC Godfrey Encounter, which I think you mentioned lots of long ago. My story is in Sue Parks and is from the summer of 1984, so it's coming up to the anniversary. I was visiting my parents who lived in Ripon in North Yorkshire, which is called a city, because it's got a cathedral, it's actually a small town. And they ran a post office in general store. They were both sensible folk, went to church, and were a key part of the community, as the post office was the centre of a lot of community life

and people go in on a regular basis just to have a natter. I used to go over once a month, I lived in Leeds as I say, and sometimes helped in the shop. And I'd arrive on a Friday night and get ready for tea, which is dinner to non-Y Yorkshire people and they had this particular occasion. I walked up the stairs and my mum said hello. and turned to my dad and said, well, are you going to tell him?

So intrigued, I said, what is it? What's happened? Obviously, fearing the worst, because it sounded important. Anyway, my dad, who was very calm and down to earth, got up and picked up a pair of binoculars that had for bird watching, and went over to the large lounge window. They lived above the shop, so it was an elevated position with good views over the trees and into the city. and he looked out into the still bright summer sky

as I say it was around about 7.30 so still very light at that time he said here I've looked through these and look over there and he pointed to a point in the sky anyway I looked through them and suddenly this object came into view and I had to hold the binoculars steady to focus because obviously it was some distance away and my dad said quietly it's been up there these last three nights

he said it just hangs there doesn't move and it's there for hours can you see it so I looked through and I saw this large gold coloured globe just hanging in the sky the best way I could describe it

is it was like one of those geodesic domes So it's like honey combed, made up of hexagons or octagons. Perfectly circular, perfectly round. So I'm looking round it to see if I could see any wire or cord or rope or anything that was suspending it. Or, you know, if it was a balloon, did it have a basket underneath the people in it? Anyway, there was nothing. So my dad said it appeared one evening and then just kept reappearing and literally just hovering, well, hanging in the sky because it didn't seem it was moving. It was very static.

So we watched it for about 20 minutes completely. And it seemed to have a glow to it. I mean, you know, the sun was going down, but at sort of Saturday, 30, 8 o'clock, it's still a lot. about two, three hours of life in it at this point in summer. So it was, it looked like it had a light inside it, not a spotlight, but just like a glow. And as I'm watching it, after about 30 minutes, it just vanished. And I thought I'd just lost the point in the sky where it was at, but it was nowhere to be found.

It like, it just shot off and disappeared. And that was it. So next day I checked the papers and watched TV news but there are no reports. And thinking back, as I watching it, look, it seemed to be about 30 to 40 feet across. But there were no markings or fittings or engine. So I had no idea what it was, but the facts that it had been stationary made me think, you know, it was reconnaissance or something God knows. but looking at it felt exciting and thrilling

and I was kind of elated looking at it especially as my dad who was down to earth as to come you know solid Yorkshireman very no nonsense he saw the same thing and he didn't have a clear what it was so anyway

I've moved on and I went over a couple of months later. So it would be in August. I was like, have you told him? Are you going to tell him then? And my dad's like, what? No, no. I said, he's just come in. So she said, well, tell him because he wants to know. So I'm like, what is it now? So because they're at a general store, they took deliveries on a daily basis from the baker with the bread and pies, etc. And the milkman. bring the milk eggs and yogurts and things like that. The moment was called, we're calling Fred.

I mean, he'll be dead and gone by now. He was the local guy. He was mid-70s, been around a long, long time. He drove a really old flatbed truck. And he used to deliver to the post office about 5.15. So my dad would have to be up and ready. Anyway, on this particular day, he opened the door to find Fred in a proper state.

He was shaking, barely able to stand. Pale. You know, this is a ruddy-faced Yorkshireman who spends most of his time outside, but he said it was white as a shape. So my dad said, what's on, Fred? Have you had an accident? And Fred just groaned. My dad helped him inside to sit down and get himself together. My dad had trouble persuading him to talk.

Anyway, finally. my dad said it was dawn was just breaking so it'd be fourish or something like that and he got the milk and he was going to

think to his first drop off so this was about going on for five and as usual on hot summer's mornings there's a lot of fog around and the country's pretty flat

but lots of little back roads known over here is sea roads A road isn't out of way B road you know normal dual carriageway

C road it's virtually a dirt track and you'd ruin your car driving on it anyway it was it got his

milk in the back of the wagon he's driving along down into a dip and in the distance you can see a car coming

so as common practices around in the countryside you look for the widest part of the road you slow down and and flash your headlights and let the guy come past and then you drive on carefully

making sure you don't hit it or scratch him obviously so this is what Fred did pulled into the hedge left the room flashed his lights nothing so he's waiting he said it's completely in fog he said you could barely see your hand in front of your eyes and so he waited

again, he flashed his car, he flashed his lights, waited, and he flashed them again for a third time. And then the next thing, these two lights just go straight up in the air, come towards him, and go over the car. Now it's, like I say, it's thick fog, but it's absolutely silent. He said, I couldn't hear a thing. There was no birds going. There was nothing. And he said, I couldn't have an engine or anything like that. So, it was absolutely petrified. But anyway, he finally got out of the van. But it had gone.

Anyway, he noticed the roof of the wagon, which had had early morning frost, was all melted by whatever he'd passed over him. And my dad said, he couldn't believe what he'd seen. He said he was in an absolute... proper state and he just said I don't believe it I don't believe what I saw so after that my dad didn't see him for a long time and I checked the papers again but there were no other reports so following those those incidents I started reading up

on the subject and a few years later but what I think is an outstanding book called above top secret by one of the first renowned researchers in the field called Tim Good. Really, really excellent book. It's like the Bible of the history of UFOs. I advise anybody with an interest you'd get it. Anyway, within that, it detailed that the area around Rippen. It had quite a few UFO visits in the past,

particularly at two RIF bases, one at the top cliff, which is just five miles away. I think they had something hovering over the flight line. and one at RAF Leaming, which I believe pilots saw a craft or something as they were coming into land. So it's relatively, I wouldn't say a hotspot, but things that have been known to happen around there before. Obviously there's lots of other stories associated with Yorkshire, which always took an interest in. But I bought a further book by Tim Good. I think called Alien Update as a paperback this time.

And reading through it, and it was this story of a sighting in London, and somebody had done a drawing, and the drawing was identical to the thing that I saw, which was a honeycombed, large globe, self-illuminated, that had just been hanging there. So maybe I wasn't the only person who saw it. That's my story. It doesn't seem very sensational,

but you kind of had to be there. And it's always changed the way that I think about things. Convinced the real. I don't think there's any doubt about it. And I think anybody who has got an interest, if you just see the absolute torrent of clips that people film and post and, you know, Twitter or Instagram,

YouTube, I don't think there's only getting away from the fact that there's something out there, particularly with the latest revelations in America. So I'm hoping that there'll finally be an admittance and confirmation that it's real. And then we can go about the business of changing the way we think about things, hopefully, energy production will change. and maybe we'll save the planet. Anyway, it's open. And keep you free on the ground,

keep looking at the stars. See you later. Somewhere in the Skies is produced by Third Kind Productions in association with the Entertainment One podcast network.