I have had only one experience where I saw something flying and could not explain it. It was in 1997 in a small town called Woodville, AL. My friend and I had lost our jobs due to the plant moving to Mexico and we were able to go back to school to learn a new trade and commuted to a college in Huntsville which is about 25 miles away. In this area are what I call small mountains as they are about 1000-1400' high. While driving back from college one night on Highway 72 traveling east, I saw a very bright light miles away over the top of one of these mountains. I didn't think much of it until we kept getting closer. I said "what is that?" and my friend didn't really comment. We were in his corvette that had glass T-tops and he was driving so I had unobstructed views of it. It was brighter than any search light I had ever saw before and it was LOW ..like coming right over the top of that mountain at about 1000'. No sound. It came right over the top of us moving across the highway and I estimate its speed at maybe 40 mph. I was looking out the glass top and I could see a dark area for the craft but I couldn't dicern what shape it was. Trying to recall now, I wanted to say like a small blimp from underneath. Now the odd thing about it was the lights. It had that one extremely bright search light out front but you could also see 4 beams of light shining to the back of the craft. (or at least shining opposite the direction it was moving)
Its difficult to describe so I'll do my best. Imagine one of those big lights from a concert like a can light that they move around. Ok, now there were 4 of these underneath where you would imaging corners if the thing was a rectangle. They were all shining light behind the craft with the 4 beams. It was like when you shine a light and there is fog or smoke you can see the beam of light going out into the night. Well, that is what these 4 beams were doing. As it passed overhead (again no sound)it seemed like it almost stopped over us and the beams that were shining out the back, slowly turned sweeping down over the highway and right across my face and then moved to point out forward with all beams now shining the way it was moving. When the beams all "locked" into the front position, it began to move more rapidly off to the northwest. It also had a red blinking light underneath like you would see on our aircraft.
My friend didn't seem to think it was that unusual other than it had some very bright lights and he was driving so he didn't get to see what I saw.
I really wish I could draw as I have always wanted to draw it or get someone who can. I even thought about taking pictures of the area or try to recreate somehow what I saw like they do in documentaries. That's it..that is my one encounter.
So after writing this and re-reading it, I decided to take a pic of a mountain here to give you an idea of the height. I did it with my craptastic cell phone camera so it isn't good.http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/distortioness/041709_1130b.jpg
Its difficult to describe so I'll do my best. Imagine one of those big lights from a concert like a can light that they move around. Ok, now there were 4 of these underneath where you would imaging corners if the thing was a rectangle. They were all shining light behind the craft with the 4 beams. It was like when you shine a light and there is fog or smoke you can see the beam of light going out into the night. Well, that is what these 4 beams were doing. As it passed overhead (again no sound)it seemed like it almost stopped over us and the beams that were shining out the back, slowly turned sweeping down over the highway and right across my face and then moved to point out forward with all beams now shining the way it was moving. When the beams all "locked" into the front position, it began to move more rapidly off to the northwest. It also had a red blinking light underneath like you would see on our aircraft.
My friend didn't seem to think it was that unusual other than it had some very bright lights and he was driving so he didn't get to see what I saw.
I really wish I could draw as I have always wanted to draw it or get someone who can. I even thought about taking pictures of the area or try to recreate somehow what I saw like they do in documentaries. That's it..that is my one encounter.
So after writing this and re-reading it, I decided to take a pic of a mountain here to give you an idea of the height. I did it with my craptastic cell phone camera so it isn't good.http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/distortioness/041709_1130b.jpg
