Somewhere in the Skies - Witness Accounts: Volume 35

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

On episode 394, we hear a handful of personal UFO stories from listeners. From the emotional story of a UFO seen directly after a funeral service to a haunting retelling of an ominous object that emerged from several bolts of lightning. From a fleet of silver discs to large, blue orbs dancing in the night skies. Special thanks to those who shared their stories. If you would like to share your own UFO story, email Ryan directly to discuss further: [e-mail] Book Ryan on CAMEO at: https://bit.ly/3kwz3DO Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/somewhereskies ByMeACoffee: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/UFxzyzHOaQ PayPal: [e-mail] Discord: https://discord.gg/NTkmuwyB4F Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ryansprague.bsky.social Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomewhereSkies Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somewhereskiespod/ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Sprague51/ Order Ryan’s new book: https://a.co/d/4KNQnM4 Order Ryan’s older book: https://amzn.to/3PmydYC Store: http://tee.pub/lic/ULZAy7IY12U Read Ryan’s articles at: https://medium.com/@ryan-sprague51 Opening Theme Song by Septembryo Copyright © 2025 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

You are now somewhere in the skies with your host, Ryan Sprigg. Something I want to talk with you today about is something I've not really discussed before, but I've just popped back into my consciousness in the last couple of weeks. And these are two experiences of UFOs, and identify flying objects, or as the modern term, is called, an identified aerial phenomena. I'm fascinated by UFOs. I don't speculate. I don't go on about, are they little green men from outer space?

You don't know, that's why they're unidentified. But all I can say is what I saw or what I can relate to. My two UFO experiences. Okay. So the first experience was back in 2008. We did a radio show down in Portsmouth with Key FM, I think it was on KeyFM, called Tuning In, which was presented by Paul Alland, great guy. and he sort of led the show. It was his show. We had Medium Paul Sissell and I came on as a paranormal advisor, investigator, whatever. And Norrie Miles was also there as well, my good friend Norrie.

Now, on this particular day, we were about to interview Nick Pope, formerly of the Ministry of Defence, who's big into researching UFO sightings. So it seemed a bit ironic that I happened to be outside, having a cigarette. when I smoked and I just happened to be casually looking now bear in mind it's about 8 o'clock in the evening and I looked up in the sky just casually and saw five very high-speed blue lights like sort of like going really fast across the skyline and as they sort of went overhead of me they sort of split and went apart it's very hard to get sort of depth of filled when you're looking up in the sky but it did seem really really high up up these phenomena.

Now it could be military aircraft. I don't think it was. I still have no explanation for that. My problem was after seeing this aerial phenomena, unidentified aerial phenomena, I could then not go back in and start talking about it to Nick Pope. It just seemed too obvious

that I'd just seen a UFO and then wasn't going to talk about UFOs. I think I did mention I can't actually remember it, but I think I did mention it, but it just seemed too obvious. obvious. Still got no explanation for that. Yeah, five very blue lights, very high in the sky, going high speed, so it didn't last that long. I think they were probably higher than 35,000 feet, but that's just a speculation.

And it still baffles me to this day what that was. Yeah, if anyone's had any similar things to that, that would be good to know. but yeah, five blue lights, but as they passed overhead, they split apart. Still in formation, still in formation, but split apart, and we're gone. Case number two, I was in my garden having a cup of tea. It was night time, but about the same time, about eight o'clock. And it's amazing how things just catch your eye. I looked up in the sky and just saw this white ball of light.

Once again, you can't tell how far it was away, just hovering and shimmering in the sky. and I'll just captivate by it. This white, shimmering light. And I thought, it wasn't an aircraft, because there was no sound. It wasn't a helicopter or anything like that. And as I say, I couldn't tell how far it was away. And it stood there for about,

or floating for about five minutes, I think it was, about five minutes. This was about 2010, 2011, roughly. I can't remember exactly. And I was just perplexed. I was just staring at this white ball of light as it shimmered. And after the five minutes, this is the part that really shot me.

It's zipped out of shock. It's really, really fast. No build-up, just... Gone. And disappeared. I find that one even more intriguing. So, a sort of glimmering white light and then... Out of sight.

I mean, a lot of people see these UAPs quite a lot now. I'm fascinated by it. I don't speculate, because I have no information. I don't like speculating too much. much. Well, I do it a little bit. But I don't go down the alien route. It could very well be something beyond our consciousness, because they're seeing quite often. Obviously, the US and British military are starting to sort of governments are starting to release unclassified documents of UFO sightings. And especially when you've got military people coming forward as well, speaking about it.

So yeah, I don't know what they were. They intrigued me. So this, Dan Boyd looking up in the sky, see if I can see something. something else. But thank you for just indulging me on that. So I've never really spoken about it before. No particular reason, just haven't. And, you know, if I'm in a conversation about UFOs or UAPs, then it will come out. But generally, I haven't really spoken about it, because I haven't really thought about it for years. So yeah, there you go. Interesting. Have you enjoyed that? Thanks very much. Take care. Hey, Ryan. This is Dave. I'm from Omaha, Nebraska. And hello to all the summer in the skies listeners from across the world. Thanks for giving me a chance to share my story. So this experience happened in May 19th, on May 19th of 2024. I was in Council Bluffs, Iowa. And just to give everybody a little bit of background. So, I'm not only,

Omaha Metro area, there's about just over a million people that live here. Council Bluffs is considered to be part of the Omaha Metro area. I grew up in this area in a town called Bellevue, Nebraska, and Bellevue is home to Offutt Air Force Base. Offutt Air Force Base is historically known for Strategic Air Command. It's currently called Stratcom, but SACS mission, known mission. When I was growing up, was basically control of our United States' nuclear arsenal. And so it's a very important base.

And growing up in Bellevue, we used to planes flying overhead pretty much all day, every day. And so I'm very familiar with what aircraft look like, sound like, how they move in the air. and kind of the general flight paths in the area. The Bellevue is where off it is, it is on the south-east end of the Omaha metro area. Council Bluffs would be across the Missouri River. The Missouri River separates Nebraska and Iowa. Council Bluffs is just across the river.

So on the east side of the metro area, and then there's another airfield, a regional airport called Epley Airfield, that's on the northeast side of the metro area. And so, and again, so this incident took place in Council Bluffs, Iowa. I was leaving a memorial service for someone that reported to me at my job at that time. I was in middle management for a large insurance company. in Omaha there's a couple of them in town I'm not gonna name names but I'm sure process of elimination you could probably figure out which one it is I have family that still

work there family and friends that still work there so I'm not gonna necessarily name names but anyway like I said I was leaving Memorial Service for this person that reported to me that had recently lost there fight with cancer. And so it was a very emotional day. For me, obviously, you know, as emotional as, you know, her family and their children and their spouse. But, you know, it was emotional for me because, you know, I had worked with this person for about a year, just under a year at that point. and for the previous couple months while they were battling cancer, I had been working with my direct manager and with our HR team to talk about next steps,

and they were looking to terminate the person's employment before they passed away because their leave benefits were expiring. And that was something that I did not agree with. there's more circumstances behind that and obviously a different perspective for on the company's side but i vm only disagreed with how they were going about that and i you know struggled with trying to be a good person and match my values to you know how i was making a living and whether it was a very very uh turbulent time for me personally but um i want to describe my mind state as i was leaving the service just because you know I've listening to your show Ryan and reading up on some other

cases there seems to be some correlation between heightened emotional states crisis events what have you in some certain types of signing so I'm not sure if that ties in here but it's it happened I was very emotional in you know heightened emotional state that day and I saw something that I couldn't explain. So I was leaving the service and heading back to my home. I live pretty much in the middle of the city of Omaha. Council Bus is to the east. So I'm driving west to get back to Omaha and get home. So I'm pretty familiar with Council Bluffs. growing up here you know council bluffs has

kind of a reputation around town for some spooky things that go on or have gone on over there in the past and so you know during Halloween season you know as a teenager we would, me and my friends would go over to this parking

council bluffs that was supposedly haunted and has a statue called an angel or death we take our girlfriends over there and try to scare around it and do other things that the teenagers do all the night. So I thought I was familiar enough with the, with Council Plus that I could make my way back home, find the interstate without having to use navigation.

So I leave the funeral home driving around for a couple minutes. And I wouldn't say I'm lost, but I am meandering my way back home and I lose patience at a certain point decided to punch home back into my navigation. And so navigation takes me to an intersection, and this will come back up later, but the intersection was 25th in Nash in Council Bluffs

to merge onto I-29 South to get back either to Interstate 480 or Interstate 80 West so I can get back home to Omaha. So as I'm merging onto the interstate, And first, let me set the stage a little bit more. So spring in the Midwest, so it was like, you know, average temperature, I want to say it was in the 70s, really nice outside. It was cloudy overcast, but I don't think it rained that day. So the clouds weren't like thick storm clouds, but, you know, it was cloudy enough to where, you know, the sun wasn't always out. but you know you could the sum would peak every once in a while it was a thin layer in clouds as the player so

as i'm verging on to the interstate um i'm looking over my left to each train by my shoulder and out my driver's side my front driver's side window to try to make sure there's no oncoming traffic and it saves and merge and as i look out the driver's side window i notice in the top corner it just looks like I don't know how to describe it, but just like a ball of rust floating in the air. And there's no one else in the car with me. I went to the service by myself and came home by myself. But I remember saying out loud, what the F is that? That shouldn't be there because it shouldn't be there.

It was, I don't, I can't say exactly how big it was, but I know it was bigger than like a birthday balloon, but like smaller than a hot air balloon. And it was just kind of sitting there floating in the air. Wasn't moving or anything like that. There's not any like telephone poles or utility poles where I was that would have been at that height where, you know, sometimes utility power tables have those balls attached to them or whatever

to keep, I think it's to keep the, the cable straight. There was nothing like that to the left where I was looking. And so I knew that's an object. That's that that's something in the air that definitely shouldn't be there. Why is it there? I had to say this at the time that these are all the thoughts that I had after effect. And you know, Epley airfield that is, you know, it's not an international airport. It's currently being converted to an international airport but it's a decent-sized regional airport and this object would have been right in the flight path of planes approaching the land at the airport and often Air Force base so there's a key defense function is 10 15 minutes down the road south so and

they definitely don't want anything in the area that shouldn't be there that could just potentially be a threat or disrupt, you know, the air traffic or whatever, you know, planes may be coming in the land at the base or on missions or whatever. So it just kind of blew my mind. I was like, well, this doesn't make sense. Why is this thing just sitting floating in the air? I'd estimate maybe it was, I'm not sure if I said this argument. But I think it was about as high as a cell phone tower would be at the top,

so maybe 200, 300 feet off the ground. And I couldn't have been there for more than five seconds, or at least when I noticed it first. It couldn't have been more than five or ten seconds before, you know, the thing just disappeared, vanished, disintegrated, whatever you want to call it. One second it was there, another second it wasn't. And like I wanted to describe it. the clouds that day because you know the clouds weren't thick enough to where you know

if something just kind of floated behind them you wouldn't be able to see it they did it and just kind of floated behind the clouds I would have still been able to see like some sort of shadow behind this thin layer of clouds that day and there was no puncture hole in the cloud so like it clearly didn't rapidly rise up in the air it didn't speed off in the distance all of a sudden it was just there one second and then the next second it was and it was just just very weird so it was about a 20 minute drive back home I'm you know trying to figure out what what just happened you know I've downfounded right um and get home let my dog out try to gather my thoughts I text a friend of mine to let him know, you know, what just happened.

He's also kind of interested in the topic. I tell him I either add a really vivid eye floater or I saw something in the sky that, you know, I can't explain. And you replied back, do you usually have eye floaters? No, I don't. You're like, well, there's your answer. and so yeah

it was just strange and something weird that I can't explain and I saw and so some time goes by I still think about it but it's not like I'm obsessed or anything like that I'm losing sleep or anything like that

and we get to Christmas morning I've been watching this documentary I watch on my Apple TV app, but I think it's, it actually comes on like MGM Plus or Amazon plus some subscription that I got a trial for

that's included in whatever, plan I have or whatever, but the documentary is called Beyond UFOs, and this was with episode three, Gary Nolan was describing the case that he, was tasked to investigate because there was an object that crashed

at this park, Big Lake Park, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1977 and he was tasked with looking into the metallurgy of some material that they recovered from this crash site. I was like, whoa, I had never heard of this incident before. And what also struck me

was the way and it might be an innocent mistake, but Gary Nolan is a very well-regarded person with a lot of credentials and whatnot, obviously a very brilliant person, but

how we described Council Bluffs was a small farming town in Iowa. And that caught me out guard because, yeah, I mean, it's not like, it's not like a major metropolitan area. Omaha, the metro area in 1977,

didn't have a million people that lived here more like 500,000, but still, you know, it's not, Council Bluffs isn't a small farming town, and he also didn't provide any context about there being a decent-sized regional airport that would have been five minutes away from where this incident happened. Didn't make any mention of Council Bluffs

being part of the Omaha metro area didn't make any mention of the fact that, you know, a very critical Air Force base, critical to national security, was 10, 15 minutes down the road to the south. So that kind of got my antenna up a little bit and, you know, got me thinking, you know, about some other things that I've noticed, like, about certain UFO celebrities, purveyors whatever you want to call them that want to be in the public eye, it seems like, and want their name out there more than what you do, which is sharing story, letting people share their stories

and telling us about previous cases and what's going on in the news, that kind of thing. So we really appreciate what you do, Ryan. But anyway, the reason I mentioned that last piece, is because that is what seeing Gary mentioned, Gary Nolan mentioned the crash in 1977 in Council Bluffs, had me kind of

I don't want to connect the dots, but any connection between what I saw and what happened in 1977? Probably not, but it's weird that it happened in the same time. So, I know I mentioned Ryan to you when I initially reached out that I was going to kind of retrace my steps and to try to see if there's any other details that I remembered about my experience.

So I decided to drive back over to Council Bluffs and, like I said, retrace my steps. And also while I was over there, I might as well see what Big Lake Park is like. What just to, I'd never been to that particular park and never heard of that incident. So my navigation app took me to Big Lake Park and lo and behold, it is very, very close to where I had my experience, where I saw what I saw. In fact, I got off on the same exit as I merged onto when I saw the object in May of 2024, 25th in Nashville, March. So this incident that I initially wasn't aware of from 1977 happened a stones throw five a couple minutes, five minutes maybe, away from where I had my experience, where I saw what I saw. And I just thought that was, that was a strange coincidence. And, you know, he asked me to talk about how it made me feel.

Like I said, it made me feel excited, confused. I wasn't afraid at all. I was just more excited, confused, maybe a little disappointed that my experience was like a ball of rust and not like a triangle or a saucer or one of the more traditional experiences you hear about. But maybe it's a good thing because there's some unpleasant side effect. that tend to go with seeing those kind of crap. Thank you so much for giving me the time to or let me show my story and keep doing what you do. Thank you. All right. The first sighting I ever had was when I was maybe seven, eight, I don't know, somewhere along there. It was back when I lived in Kentucky and it was the 4th of July.

And I remember that everyone was rushing inside, you know, it was so light, everyone was going to bed. And I was kind of the last one in, you know, just kind of taking my time and admiring the stars in the sky. I saw a white saucer. And it just kind of appeared. And kind of, just kind of, you know, like you would see in the movies or something.

Like, I don't know, it was crazy. But it was white, which is so weird. I don't even think I've ever seen a white one in the movies. But another time I was with two of my friends And this was like back in high school. This was also in Kentucky and we had gone to this location that was having like a fireworks show. You know, they had like music and like food and it was just all sorts of fun.

You know, people had their blankets out. And we were bored with it because we were younger and everyone else was like old and stuff. So we were bored. So we wandered off into the woods. We look up and we see this triangular shaped metal object. And it was just kind of very slowly moving along. just like really, really slowly moving. Almost as if you saw a cloud kind of just passing in the sky.

And it had no lights on it. It was just like a very metallic gray color. And I remember it had like all these intricate kind of design. it kind of designs to it. It was really bizarre, but after a few minutes, it kind of just got lost in the clouds. Yeah, thinking back on that stuff is kind of scary. My very last one is the one that I take the most serious because it was just so real and so shocking. It was, this was also when I was, you know, young in high school.

I was living at home. And I used to stay up really late, you know, like any teenager. And I think I wanted to listen to a CD or I needed a CD, but I had it outside in our shed because I had this old stereo out there that I would go listen to my tunes on because I could turn it up really loud. So I go get the CD and as I'm coming back in, I look up in the sky and there's this, like a saucer shape, but like a little bit bigger, I guess, like more round than a saucer. It's hard to explain what I mean by that, but it was more of a classic spaceship look to it.

And like all around the outside, there were lights, like blue and red lights. I think there was another color. But this wasn't Fourth of July or anything, like wasn't near Fourth of July, unrelated to the Fourth of July. But I just remember those lights, they were so beautiful. And one key thing. is that just like kind of like

in the movies like fire in the sky for example there was this beam of light that shined down from this craft and I

I just kind of stood there for a second as I was walking back inside and it just was just sitting there like in the sky for a few seconds

and it wasn't moving and then it just and then it just, you know, I mean, it just disappeared. It was gone. It's just kind of like something sucked it back up into the sky or something. That's the impression that I got. But anyway, talking about this stuff scares the crap out of me. So anyway, I hope you enjoy hearing my stories. Bye. Greetings everyone, Ryan Sprague, your host of Somewhere in the Skies. For over seven years in more than 400 episodes.

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And help us continue to grow by becoming a Patreon subscriber at patreon.com slash somewhere skies. Or by clicking the subscribe button at the top of your Apple feed. Thank you for your continued support. And keep looking up. My name is Ben and I wanted to tell my UFO story now. This was when I was really, really young. Like, maybe like 89, 90. I was just like 8 or 9 years old, something like that.

Maybe younger. So I was, well, this was in grade school. So, yeah. This was in Ohio. It was on the playground. I remember everybody was, all the kids and teachers and stuff were looking up into the sky. And I looked up and I saw like the silver metallic disc shaped craft. And it was moving.

And there's no sound to it. It looked like your classic like Flying Soft. type, you know, craft. To me, it actually was almost in the shape of, like, a football shape, you know, like, that kind of shape. But it's, it was like a flying desk type thing. And it was so strange. It was, it was, like, flying through the air and doing all these, like, maneuvers and stuff.

But then it just stopped. and I thought that was I felt like really creeped out because it looked like it was just staring at us like all the kids and stuff looking at that looking at it so it was and it stopped for a really long time

I think it was like the duration we were outside we were out there it was just it was just up there you know motionless with no sound I don't know kind of, what kind of craft could do that?

Like, especially at that time, I don't think we had anything, any kind of technology like that. Back then, it was definitely silvery metallic. The sun was shining off of it. You could see it really well. I mean, I know we got all these drones and stuff flying around now, but back then, I don't think so. Not like this. like and this thing could do

maneuvers like you wouldn't believe like a drone definitely couldn't do anything like that a plane or a helicopter couldn't do anything that this could do

like it would it went it was flying at like crazy speeds and then it would just stop on a dime like what can do that nothing

nothing can do that that. I don't even think anything now can do with this thing, what I saw this thing do. So back then, I used to see a lot of these UFOs, these like silvery metallic UFOs. They all looked very similar. They're like a disc-shaped, football-shaped craft. I've seen them like zigzag across the sky and fly in maneuver at incredible speeds. again, no sound. These were all in the daytime. It's just crazy.

I've seen a bunch of them together, and then I've seen like a single one. But sometimes there would be, sometimes I would see like two in the same sky together, and they would like, they would be moving at like crazy speeds, like a plane I just don't think could do. and then they would slow down,

then they would like stop on a dime. You know, planes obviously can't do that. You know, a helicopter can, but these aren't helicopters. But these are like cylinder or disc-shaped things. They're definitely circular. They weren't, you know, shaped like any kind of a plane that we would have. I don't know.

I know a lot of people have seen these. There's a bunch of videos on them as well. There's all kinds of pictures. I got my chance to see these darn things too. So I know they exist. I don't know what they are. It's so difficult for me to think that it would be something from us. So difficult the way it was.

Is it aliens? I don't know. Is it something else? I don't know. all I know is what I saw and can share about the experience. It was definitely creepy. Like I had a really creepy feeling whenever I saw them, I was freaked out. At the same time, I did think they were pretty cool looking too.

That's definitely what started getting me believing in aliens and all that, all that stuff. but I don't know back in 89, 90 I don't know what we had you know anything I don't know if we had anything that could do that could do like

crazy maneuvers and then stop on a dime and like I would be more willing to think we had something like that now because it's so many years later but back then I just don't see it I don't see it this was like

this was like years and years of technology ahead of what we had then. Now I know we have better technology, but I can't even see anything now being like that. But back then it's like way, way less believable than it would be now. You know, and as I said, this is Ohio, northern Ohio. So yeah, it's crazy. It's still, it's still crazy to me to this day. But the, the, these, um, mysterious craft that I saw. Um, I saw some other strange things. Like I've seen the black triangles.

Um, that, that was, um, kind of crazy, but it's a little bit more believable that that was one of something from us than, than these metallic craft were. But I have seen those black triangles from back then. At least once, I saw one time at night. It was at night. And that was weird. That was a weird one too.

I'm much more willing to believe that that was something man-made than these silver metallic discs that were just like flying around like crazy. You know, doing impossible maneuvers and stopping like they did. I remember they used to, like, kind of float around in the clouds, like, before accelerating. It's weird. I remember they used to, they used to, like, move, a lot of times they used to move, like, slowly, as I recall. Because I used to watch them a lot.

I used to see them a lot when I was young. This is, like I said, like early 90s. Really strange stuff. All right, I'm just rambling on, so I'll stop. Hey, Ryan. Hello, greetings somewhere in the skies, listeners. Thank you for giving me the chance to put my story out there. My name is Marco Bazonio.

I did some time in the Navy back in 1979. 1980. I've currently, I work in IT and have for the last 30 plus years. I'm very observant. My wife calls me Hawkeye. I see things constantly. So, but not, not UFO things. I don't want you to think I'm wacky or anything like that. This was a one-time thing. Had to be around the year 2011. I was working different hours and what I was used to, and my schedule had kept changing every few months. Right now, at that point, my schedule had changed from 11 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. So I was done with work. My job was about 17 miles from my home. I was driving northbound on I-95 in Jupiter, Florida, when the sighting occurred.

It was dark, it seemed much darker than usual. A lightning storm was brewing. I think the sky was black from clouds blocking all light, but I couldn't see them. To my left, which was west, there was spider web lightning, and it would just streak across the sky and light up everything. And then it would just wink out. and I was kind of mesmerized by that

and it would do it about every 15 seconds or so so I was on the right-hand lane and I was mesmerized by the display only looking forward for a second to make sure I didn't crash I felt time had stopped or slowed down and I was somewhere in the middle between seconds I know it sounds weird but this was the feeling that I felt it

the time. Usually I-95 is very busy. This night it was not. I was in the right-hand lane. I slowed down to a crawl. There was no other traffic and that was really unusual. The lightning flashed again and when it went black, a white ball was left. It looked like the size, about twice the size of a basketball from the distance. But it was, it was pitch black, distance was really hard to judge. And it streaked slowly across, not, I don't want to use the word streaked, it moved slowly across the sky. And it had like these tendrils of electricity coming off of it. And it just kind of moved across. And then all of a sudden it pulsed and it went out and i thought to myself was that a ufo then another lightning flash and it made another

spider web across the sky then another ball of light moved west northwest for about 10 seconds then it was gone um then it occurred to me that this ball this was ball lightning and i said holy shit wow um i know that this is rare and i had not seen it before and and and people talk about it, but they always say they hadn't seen it. So then the lightning flashed again, and this time it lasted, the ball came, and it lasted way longer. So it moved across the sky in the same direction. I watched it intently.

I don't know if I was still driving, but I kept questioning my judgment and thinking, is this ball lightning or a UFO? So as it moved through, a thought came to my mind like my brain was saying, keep watching. And obviously, I mean, I was going to keep watching because I'm watching this thing that I've never seen before. I was amazed and mesmerized by the ball lightning, knowing that it was rare. And I have just seen three, which was awesome to me. Time stretched.

It felt like many minutes passing, though. I was driving, I think. I may have stopped. I'm not sure of this. So many things were going through my head at the time. And I was certainly not thinking of grabbing my phone and taking a picture. The ball lightning winked out. It traveled a long way much farther this time. The lightning flashes again, and I'm looking at it. In the middle is this thing. I for sure don't want to say it's a lot. UFO, even though in my mind I know that's what it was. It was big, like maybe, I don't know, 50 feet long and maybe 20 or 25, 30 feet wide, but it looked like a big 55-gallon drum

that was slightly wider at the top and slightly pinched in about a quarter of the way from from the center of it down. So it almost looked like a snow cone, but not. It didn't come to a point or anything like that. So it was shape. The shape was kind of weird. It didn't have any lights or no control surfaces. And I could see all this in a few seconds that I was able to see it

while the lightning was going. And I could see that it was in front of the lightning, not behind it, because it blotted out part of the lightning. And the sky went black, and I was saying to myself, holy shit, that I just see what I saw. And then the lightning flashes again, and I'm still looking at it. And I had about five or eight seconds to scour the area for it. And I looked from side to side all over, but nothing. It was clearly gone. or moved to a location where it was against the black sky.

I'm thinking the whole experience may have taken many seconds. I think I was stopped on the shoulder. At some point during this, I was very excited by this time. I couldn't wait to get home to tell my wife. Okay. Let me back up here a second. How did it make me feel? I've been haunted by this vision.

I relive it every day of my life. I drive past it every day. day, that spot. It consumes me, yet I want nothing from it, except to understand what I saw. I would like someone to tell me if this or something very similar has been seen before. I have scoured the internet to see if I could find a similar drawing, picture or description, but have found nothing. I need someone who is in the know, like you, Ryan, to tell me that I am not not crazy. I have a similar picture I created in the document that I wrote up so that, you know, if you wanted to, you could see what I'm talking about. It's a rough version. I'm really an

observant person. It's in my nature. I don't embellish or lie, so this is my best recollection to the events. I posted a story on SETI, however, I have not heard back from them. So, A little on my personal history. As a child, I had a reoccurring dream. I would see lights outside my bedroom window and knew it to be a craft of some kind. And when I said I was a child, we're talking about 60 years ago. I was terrified and never wanted to go to sleep

knowing I was going to be taken. I am 65 years old and I think maybe eight years old when this occurred. At that time, I was sheltered and had no reference to flying soft. or aliens. I had no history that could have been corrupted in my mind and made me believe at the time that spaceships and aliens were real. This thing that I saw had no lights, no control surfaces, not sure what it was. It was just hanging there like a Christmas ball. And I wish somebody, I hope somebody, can come back and say, hey, we've seen the exact same thing. Thank you for your time.

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