Somewhere in the Skies - Witness Accounts: Volume Nine

Episode Date: February 17, 2020

On episode 148 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we bring together a collection of UFO sightings and encounters from listeners, culminating it yet another powerful volume of Witness Accounts. Stretching across continents, time, and space, we hear the extraordinary stories of those who have come face-to-face with the mysteries that lay somewhere in the skies. Ryan would like to thank each and every person who shared their story. Without you, these episodes would never exist. Each story has value, and brings us one step closer to finding answers. If you'd like to share your own UFO story on the show, use the contact tab on the website to discuss further. Ryan will be speaking at Contact in the Desert this Spring! For tickets, CLICK HERE Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies YouTube Channel: CLICK HERE Official Store: CLICK HERE Order Ryan's Book by CLICKING HERE Twitter: @SomewhereSkies Instagram: @SomewhereSkiesPod Watch Mysteries Decoded for free at www.CWseed.com Opening Theme Song, "Ephemeral Reign" by Per Kiilstofte SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES is part of the eOne podcast network. To learn more, CLICK HERE 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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Oh, and free waffles are yours to claim. Well, I hope you like my little song. Book Direct at Choice Hill Tells. This is Somewhere in the Skies with Ryan Spread. This is Bill. I currently reside in central Florida, but at the time of this sighting, I was living in my hometown in northern Kentucky. Back in the early 80s, early to mid 80s, I would say, myself, my dad, who has since passed, and several of my friends were standing out in the front yard. of my grandparents' house, which at the time I was staying with my grandparents.

We were overlooking this pasture that butted up to the property that my grandparents had in the housing development where they lived. Several of us were standing there, and we looked over into the pasture, which was part of a big ranch owned by a well-known family in... my hometown, we looked and there was something floating across the pasture, shining a light down on the pasture. And when we first saw it, it had to be, oh, probably a quarter mile away. But then it continued to come towards us. When it finally got the closest it was going to be, it was approximately 200 feet away, about 150 feet in the air.

Now, I know, you know, some of you're thinking, it's hard to determine distance and size at that range or when something's up in the air. But to that, I kind of add another dimension to the identification process in that it was shining a light down onto the pasture itself. The the light itself,

that was shining on the pasture, was circular once it hit the ground. If the object had been farther away or if it had been shining a light down

at an angle, then of course it would not, the light itself would not be circular, it would be more oblong And then, of course, the greater the angle, the more oblong the spotlight would be. But by the time it was about 200 feet away, there was absolutely no noise whatsoever. And if it had been a helicopter shining down the light, we obviously were to heard it. Now, of course, I know that people say that there are silent helicopters and things of that nature. and I understand that

but this could not have been a helicopter because the lights from the barn on the ranch kind of backlit behind the object itself and the object

was approximately 30 feet across it was flat on the bottom and the light was coming out of the bottom and it was somewhat dome-shaped on the top, maybe a combination of dome shape slightly triangular shaped or pyramid-type shape across the top. Kind of hard to describe, but that's the best way I can describe it is as a combination of the top part of a dome with slight triangular features.

But it continued to shine the light down various places in the pasture. quite often there would be the families herd of cows that would be out in this pasture using it as grazland but at this point I don't believe there were any cows out there at the time so we were all looking at it we were talking in the front yard and then we all noticed it about the same time and then we're all looking at each other like what the heck is this we really had no idea. And as it got closer, we're noticing, again, we all made the comment to each other

that it was not making sound and it was getting closer. So it stopped at about the 200 foot mark about 150 feet in the air and still shining this light down on the pasture. This whole sighting probably

took a good oh, three to four minutes from the time that we saw at first shining the down about a quarter mile away till it got to the closest that it actually was. And then shortly thereafter, it started heading off back towards the edge of the property of the ranch in the opposite direction of where we were. So eventually, we're all standing there transfects.

And eventually it just ends up going over a hill. continually shining this light down, it eventually went over this hill and out of sight. After as all said and done, again, all of us are standing there going, what the heck was that? Now, I have to understand in northern Kentucky, that's an area of the country where it's not unusual to have sightings of unidentified objects in the air. It's almost, it's not quite, I'd say, commonplace, but it's enough to where, folks, you know, it doesn't surprise folks when we get reports of UFOs or unidentified objects, things of that nature. And it all just kind of, you know, we weren't shocked by it, but we were all scratching our heads trying to figure out what it was. To this day, I still

have no idea what it was. We looked, you know, being a person who, is interested in sightings of this nature. We all looked for potential articles in the hometown newspaper of cattle mutilations, things like that. After this sighting, none of us saw anything. So either there were none or it was kept hush-hush. That were uncertain of. But I do know what I saw. and everyone that was with me that day,

unfortunately, I can't ask my dad anything else about it since he's no longer with us. But I have to say that while I wasn't afraid of what I saw at all, it left me with the sense of wonder like not every question in the world has been answered and we still have things we need to know or that we need to find out or we need to figure out. and move on.

Thank you for listening. Take care. Hi, Ryan. This is Alenna. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my story. On August 30, 2014, I woke up, went to the kitchen,

had some orange juice, finding myself wide awake. I decided to check on my truck, which was parked next door, to our building. And I could do this by viewing it. from a west-facing floor-to-ceiling window in our living room.

I had to lay on my tummy because the shade was pulled down three-quarters of the way, and the lever for pulling the shade was inconveniently located, and also very squeaky when pulled. My husband was sleeping just down the hall. Again, this is San Francisco, so it's a small place. I didn't want to wake him up. as I laid there checking on my truck

everything was fine by the way the reason I was doing this is the gate was open stuck in the open position so we were constantly worried at night about the truck getting vandalized truck was fine but I found myself feeling very peaceful

it was a super dark inky block night it was so quiet which is very unusual. Nothing going on except for one light kitty corner to where I was positioned in a dilapidated building. I thought it was so unusual that there was one light on in this dilapidated building with nothing else going on that night or that morning. So I grabbed a set of binoculars from my husband's sailbag, which was in the living room. and decided to investigate.

I didn't see anything going on in that building. And yet I stayed still because there was just something very peaceful about the morning, being wide awake in this dark morning. I turned my gaze again to the left where my truck was. I looked up in the sky, and there was a bright star that started to fall. And as it did so, it started to come toward me. And this part I have to read from my blog. It will just help me describe it best.

So as I saw the white lights rapidly twirling downward on a diagonal trajectory in my direction, I thought a jet was falling out of control, but quickly realized with certainty that that wasn't the case, because there weren't any green or red lights. Though I was sure the lights were fixed to an object by their pattern rotation, which slowed as it neared closer. I soon saw that the object was a giant black rectangle, which had been spinning like a top on its vortex.

The spinning stopped, and it glided into a position directly in front of me at my window, straight up and down, long ways like a big black door, where it hovered above the ground. It had four round white lights, one on each corner, and was completely stable in its hovered state. The lights did not emit a beam, pulsate, or blink. The rectangle did not wobble. I don't recall hearing any sounds at all. I inspected the rectangle with my binoculars, but there was nothing to see on the surface, other than the four white lights.

The binoculars fogged up, so I put them down, and shortly thereafter, It slowly levitated, turned on its side, think flying carpet style, and floated off over the horizon. I ran to my computer to make a post on Facebook, and I'm so glad I did, because it served as a reliable time stamp for the duration of the episode. I know I was drinking orange juice in the kitchen at 4 a.m. because I looked at the clock, rushing to post an update on Facebook, hoping someone would look up and see the rectangle. I know the entire timeline was about 15 minutes. The next thing I did was Google, what do you do when you see a UFO? At no time did I feel threatened or afraid. I felt peaceful in the quiet, dark morning,

and during the incident, I was simply awestruck in a state of wonderment over what was occurring. On my mind were feelings of deep curiosity and gratefulness to be witnessing something so extraordinary and unexplainable. Afterward, I felt invigorated, bewildered, and determined to understand what I had seen. I've relayed this encounter to numerous friends and family and coworkers, and many wanted to know why I didn't wake my husband. The truth is that I didn't even think of it. I was completely in the moment and would not have done anything to distract myself

or put the sighting in jeopardy by creating a commotion. But having had to explain this so many times, I promised myself that if there were ever to be a next time, I'd make it a priority to record by camera or video. In July 2015, I seized such a moment. I've been struggling to share those details from the 2015 incident, but I do expect to do so eventually. Thank you so much. Hi, Ryan. My name is Oscar. I live in Colorado, but the incident I'm about to talk about takes place on the road

somewhere between Arizona and California. Me and my brother took a trip out there to go see some friends, and I think we only went there for, I think, that one day, and we're driving back at night, and the way the freeway is kind of set up driving back from Arizona to California is you have two lanes on one side and then a dirt area dividing a large dirt area

dividing the lanes for the car is going the opposite way and we're driving and it's probably around 11 o'clock at night and my brother had fallen asleep in the car which he was supposed to stay awake to keep me awake but I start seeing this really bright light in the sky. And at first I thought it was a helicopter,

but it started going back and forth side to side. And the light was still facing towards me. And I'm just paying attention to this light. And I try to wake up my brother and I'm telling him, hey, like, look at this, look at this. Just so I have somebody else to see it with me. but he's not waking up. He's just kind of like mumbling telling me to leave him alone.

And I'm paying attention to this light. And out of nowhere, a car driving the wrong way is coming right towards me and I have to swerve really hard to the right. And luckily there was no car on the right lane next to me. And I swerve to get away. And then that's when my brother wakes up and he's like, are you okay? Are you all right? Were you falling asleep? And I was like, no, there was a, there was a car right in front of me.

Like, it came out of nowhere. And when I turned around to see where this person was going, there was no car. I saw no taillights driving away in the distance. I saw other cars in the other lane, you know, going the opposite way. But there was really nobody on my side of the road. And I have no idea where. that car came from, it just seemed like it came out of nowhere. But the light was no longer there in the sky, like immediately right after that.

So it just left me really confused and wondering what I just saw. And still to this day, I have no idea what it was. My brain likes to try to rationalize it by thinking, you saw a helicopter and then somebody was driving the wrong way on the side of the road. but it really felt like the two were connected in some way. And I'm just, it sucks that my brother was asleep and didn't see it. He just knows that I swerved to get out of the way. But when I swerved, I didn't see like a car past me or anything like that. And like I said, when I looked back, there was no car driving away.

So I have no idea what it was. I know that I couldn't tell for me. 100% sure that the light in the sky was a helicopter and I couldn't tell that it was actually a car driving straight towards me. I just saw a bright light right in front of me and I had to swerve right after seeing the light in the sky. And yeah, there's still like, I just don't, I don't know what it was. It was just extremely bizarre and weird. But yeah, that's my short little. incident, experience, whatever you want to call it. I know there's not really a lot to it, but thank you for taking the time to listen. I really enjoy the podcast and keep doing what you do.

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And now on with the show. Hello. Okay. this is going to be kind of difficult for me to do because I have to try to recall things there are pieces missing from my memory but there are little things here and there that I remember I'll tell a quick story I'll make it short

when I was about nine years old my family and I were living overseas in a place called American Samoa it's in the South Pacific me of course you know this little blonde hair a blue-eyed girl. They call them Palonges. So they call us white people. Palonges. It's kind of like how the Hawaiians call us Howleys or Mexicans call, we call me a gringa, you know, male gringo. Anyway,

and my friend Amata, she had red hair. She was, you know, a ginger carrot top. And she had really, like, hazel-colored eyes. And her little brother, Kimo. who had brown hair and blue eyes. She also had a sister named Josie, who looked a lot like me. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. All three of them had the same mom, the same dad, but they all looked completely different from each other. Okay, anyway, my point is,

is we were at the playground in this neighborhood, and it was probably about, I don't know, close to 7 o'clock at night, and I had to be home by 7.30. So we were the only ones there. All the kids had gone inside. We were just kind of sitting out there. We weren't sitting on like a swing or anything like that. There was like this pipe like thing that came up out of the ground

and was shaped kind of like this. You know, and it was yellow. And we were playing on that, you know, like sitting on it, climbing on it. And we were just talking about, I don't even know what we were talking about, we were little kids. When all of a sudden, I saw this red dot. It wasn't a light, it wasn't shiny, it was almost like a balloon would look, just, but very, very red. And it was just in the sky. And it looked pretty far away.

And there was an airport there. there was the FAA was very close to this neighborhood so I see this red dot in the sky and I didn't really think anything of it I just thought oh there's a balloon up there and I pointed it out to Amada and Kimo and they both

looked at it and were like yeah we forgot about it went back to talking and playing all of a sudden I noticed that this red dot had grown it had gotten closer and it was just hovering there like a giant balloon in the sky.

It was weird. It wasn't moving the way a balloon should move. It wasn't stationed in the sky the way that you would expect a balloon to be. And this is on a tropical island. There's wind. This thing was not blowing around. It was like it was literally just had an intelligence to it. And it was doing its own thing.

So, we thought that was odd. Again, being small kids, we didn't really think too much of it. Although I kept looking at it. I just thought, why does this thing keep getting closer and closer to us? This went on for a good 15 minutes, and then I realized, oh gosh, you know, 7.30, I got to get home. It was a good 10 or 15 minute walk home. Amada and Kimo lived on the same side of the neighborhood as me, so we decided we We were going to start walking home.

We start walking and, how do I explain this? It was like almost like a heaviness in the air. We felt this thing. I know I did. So I turned around and this red dot was literally hovering right over us, right over us. And at this point, you could see that it. It was a round three-dimensional circle. It was solid, of course.

It had, I don't even know how to explain this thing. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. But it was red. It wasn't, like I said, it wasn't a light. It wasn't shiny. There was no noise. It was completely quiet. I do remember not hearing any birds or cars going by.

We heard absolutely dead silence when we saw this thing. It scared us so bad, we started to run. I mean, that was our first instinct. Run. So we did. Chemo fell, scraped his knees all up, his hands. Actually, I fell, too, and skinned my hands a little bit. I don't remember a mod of falling.

But anyway, we got back up, and we just, we hauled, excuse my French, ass. We hauled ass. We ran all the way down to where like there was another park and tennis courts. We had to turn right at the end of that street where the tennis court was to go home. Well, to get to our street, which was also right. It was like a right and then a right. I'm only pointing these things out because I want you to realize I even remember which way I had to turn. I remember the tennis courts.

I remember everything. By the time we got there, of course, as kids, what do we do? We run up to our friends. we start telling everybody what we saw. They laughed at us. They thought it was funny. I was completely changed by this experience. And so was Amata in chemo.

When I got home, the first person I wanted to tell was my dad. Because my dad, a very spiritual man, he believed in ghosts and God, and he believed in aliens that they're beings on other planets. I was raised in a strict Mormon home, and Mormons believe, in essence, that God is an alien. You know, he lives on a planet. You know, that's what Mormons believe. I mean, in a nutshell, they believe, it's deeper than that, but yeah. So anyway, I decided to tell my father, because I just knew he was going to believe me.

Well, what does my dad say? Did it land and Superman get out? My brothers laughed about it. My mom, they were like, it's nothing. Don't worry about it. The FAA is right there. It's probably some kind of airplane thing. I don't know.

So they just blew it off as nothing. And, of course, I ended up going the rest of my life, never forgetting that experience, knowing exactly what I saw. Well, I mean, I don't know what I saw, but I knew and I know that I saw this thing. I don't know. Did I see a UFO?

Did I see a giant weather balloon that could move in a way that I've never seen anything like that on this planet move like that? It could move at a rate of speed like so quickly. It was almost like it would disappear and reappear. It was so strange. You're great at protecting your data, but lots of places could still expose you to identity theft. I thought it was safe. If that happens, LifeLock gives you a U.S.-based restoration, agent who will stick by your side from start to finish.

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My wife and I were actually down in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. in the Smoky Mountains for our five-year wedding anniversary. So let me preface this all. Let me just start off by saying that my wife and I do not drink or do drugs. I was not high when this happened. I don't drink at all. I'm completely straight edge. So I was not drunk at the time.

My wife, she has drinks every once in a while, but not, you know, she just takes sips of wine. I don't even think I've ever seen her finish a full glass of wine. But we had nothing to drink, nothing to smoke. on nothing. I hadn't even had a candy bar that day. Um, so we get to Galenburg, Tennessee and check in with our cabin place at around 6 p.m.ish. Uh, it takes us about half hour to find our cabin. We ended up in somebody's driveway. I kept calling the guy Cooter because he just sat on the back of his truck and stared at us, uh, and gave us no indication that we were actually probably about to be

murdered, uh, by him and his entire Embrette family, but that's neither here nor there. Um, so I'd say around 6.30-ish, we found our cabin, which is a beautiful cabin. I forget the name of it now, but it was beautiful on a private road overlooking the Smokies, which thank you for asking. Our vacation kind of sucked because it rained the entire time. It blew, and we couldn't see anything because Smokies have their name for a reason. They have their reputation, and we couldn't see anything off in the distance. And then, of course, here we are a week afterwards, and it's beautiful and sunny, but that's neither here nor are there. So around

7 o'clock, I'd say 7.7.30, we got everything settled into the house, everything unpacked, everything put away. I would even say it was 8 o'clock at night. And we just kind of chilling around the cabin. So we decided that

we were going to stock up on groceries because if it's going to be raining all night, we're not going to be wanting to walk around downtown and checking out all the foods and whatnot down in Gatlinburg. So we decided to go to what was formerly food line is now food city, which is actually, I think it's considered in Severeville or Pigeon Ford area. So it's a distance away. It's about a half hour away, 45 minutes from where our cabin was. It took a while to get there. So we begin the long trek out

there. We pick up our groceries. And on our way there, we actually have to go through the Smoky Mountains National Reserve where the Smoky Mountains Park. And now, at this point, because it was so late after we showered and settled in, and I think we might have even had a little bit of food left in the car that we decided to heat up and eat, it was Mexican from the previous night. I'd say it was closer to about 11, 11.30, maybe, probably about 11 because I think food line closed at midnight, food city closed at midnight. but we decided to, you know, be those assholes that go into a store with an hour to close and shop anyway.

So we're driving through again, Smoky Mountains Park, pitch black, there's no light. And because I drank like Grandpa, I was probably the last in line. There was absolutely nobody behind us and there was about four or five cars in front of us. It wasn't very busy because, like I said, it was late at night. And we were driving a lot. long, kind of mind of my own business, and out of my peripheral, I see lights. Now, there's nothing out of the ordinary when you're down in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, or in Smoky Mountains to see lights through the trees, because there are lodges and cabins and stuff that are up in the mountains.

However, we were actually in the Smoky Mountain Park, and they weren't lights coming from a cabin. It was blue lights. And here's the other thing. It was, now, when you're in the national part, the trees go 50 to 100 feet in the air. You know, they're going up the side of a mountain. So these trees were about 100 feet in the air, 50, 100 feet in the air, and the lights were above the tree line. And I'm talking like directly above the tree line. And they were blue with some orangeish, reddish on them. And at first I thought maybe it was an airplane tower. Quickly squash that because we went through that area about two or three more times.

And those lights were not in that location. Not a cabin because there were blue and red lights and it was above the tree line. Not a helicopter because it was 11, 1130 at night. Why would they be doing helicopter tours that late at night and hovering in one location? This thing was stationary. And also not a drone. I thought maybe it was like a handheld drone for a second. Problem being is because in my eyesight,

I saw it through the window, through the windshield. And it was probably about this big in my eyesight, which means if we're judging that it's about 50 to 100 feet away up a tree in front of the tree lines, I would say that this thing was about 20 to 30 feet long. It was pretty damn big. And when I saw it, I said very loudly, what the F is that? Which I think is a reasonable response.

I didn't censor myself then like I did now, but I screamed, what the F is that? And my wife actually happened to be staring at it herself and didn't say anything and says, I have no flipping idea. Also, she did not censor herself. I just censored herself. We were on a bend, so we're coming around the bend and my wife immediately whips around to try and get a better look at it, and it wasn't there. It was gone.

Completely. It was in a triangular shape. It actually looked like it would be the underside of a helicopter. That's pretty much what it looked like. It looked like it would be the underside of a helicopter, except it wasn't a helicopter and I believe we had our windows down and I didn't hear the blah blah blah blah a helicopter and you would think it would also be blowing the trees down with how close it was to the tree line that's the only thing I could figure that would be stationary other than

somebody's handheld drone but again why would you be out at 1130 at night in the actual smoky mountain park and who has a drone that that is that big anyway it wasn't an airplane it wasn't an airplane because it was stationary. It did not move while we were looking at it. And we got a good 10 to 15 second look at it because, like I said, I drive like a grandfather. But yeah, it was right above the tree line, gigantic. And again, my wife can vouch for me.

I wasn't on anything. She saw it. She wasn't on anything. And again, we went through there a couple more times. Not that night because we had to get to Food City and Lord knows food is more important than UFO discoveries. But we went through there that exact same area a couple more times and it was not there at all And I also saw an actual plane tower somewhere else located in in the park and it had flashing red lights

This was they weren't blinking at all they were just blue lights in the shape of a triangle a long triangle With some orangish red mixed in there was a crazy sight she saw it I saw it in in in the middle of the Smoky Mountains. I didn't lose any amount of time, so I wasn't abducted or anything like that. And I also looked on the news to see if maybe it was a search helicopter, maybe somebody got lost, but why would a search

helicopter be so close to the road? I mean, we were on the main stretch going through Smoky Mountains. I have no explanation what it is. I'm not going to say it was an alien, but I will say that it was a UFO because I could not identify it. A story for yours and his school started about an hour.

being the Holy Grail, Mother, please, until school starts. And I went into the playground and started doing what I was doing. It was probably Tetherball, because I was a sucker for Tetherfall back in the day. And I don't know what prompted me, but I looked up and rectangular object in the sky, very low. It was very low. I can't stress that enough. It was just above the school, maybe about 50 feet or so, above the school. above the roof line. At my school, it was shaped of that hue. It was a little courtyard. It was grass that had to have been, the end of the concrete, maybe 50 or 60 feet side by side. It was flying over the school.

Probably, it's taken up about three-quarters of that courtyard. Moving very enough that I could, you know, get a good look at it. And I know that this big human memory still blows me away. But I can tell you, for certain, it wasn't, If it wasn't, swamp gas wasn't anything that I can, even to this day logically, it wasn't Nerving, but now that I think about, got a good couple of minutes at least, as it passed over the school, once it got over the school, I couldn't see it anymore, so in all of my infinite wisdom, right across from that courtyard, see if I can see over the school and see it. My little baby legs, me back to that. My school, struggling to find the words.

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