Hello out there. This is the week we’ve all been waiting for Kossack tales. I’ve been asking people if they would be willing to share their stories of UFO Phenomena and I finally have enough people to make a go of it. It’s not easy to get a person to share aspects of their lives that has the potential to expose them to ridicule, so I really want to thank those people who have put themselves out there. Now as far as I’m concerned I’ve never given a frack what other people think, so here we go.
My blood sugar is fine Moms!
There is a cherished story in my family around when my Uncle came and visited us from back east. During his stay he had an episode that led to the final diagnosis of his diabetes. He decided that we had Patty Hearst chained in our basement and decided to climb up on our basketball goal to tell the world. It took us a solid hour to talk him down.
So when I saw my first UFO and decided to come out with what I saw, I wasn’t surprised to be invited to go get my sugar checked. I did. I’m fine Ma.
Now I have a cherished story. When my sweetie and I were married maybe 7 or 8 years (number 26 coming up) we were working on the roof, and she saw a classic triangle craft and I did not. I semi ridiculed her but she did her lady thing just gracefully accepted the ribbing, but knew what she saw, now that I’ve seen some things etc. she's giving years of I told you so in the kind of way only a lady can. Proving to me the universe does balance.
In October the star Capella rises almost perfectly up a telephone pole in my backyard where I like to set up my telescope. I like to observe Capella it’s about the 5th or 6th if I recall correctly brightest stars visible and on October 9th I was trying to see if I could observe it’s double using my weak binoculars.
I looked down for a brief moment and when I looked back up again there was an object brighter than Capella about 15 or 20 degrees below it. It was brighter in my estimation than Sirius, and I said OH SHIT WTF IS THAT! Like loudly. I watched if for about 15 minutes and it caught Capella in it’s motion, and I said holy Jesus, holy Jesus. I ran in and got my Sweetie she got her even weaker than my binoculars camera and started filming it.
I ran in and got my Meade 4504 and a good eyepiece and set it up. If you hear clicking etc in the video above that’s me setting up the telescope. Ok so it was harder than heck to lock the object up. My telescope doesn’t have a dobsonian mount (don’t buy a telescope without a dobsonian mount) so pointed it at a moving object and focusing it was more than a challenge, but I did it gosh darn it. Now after I saw what I saw I went about Richard Dreyfus from Close Encounters (duh huh?) I got straight focused and wanted to know if anybody else had seen anything that night, and that’s when I got stuck on the YouTubes. There were 100’s of uploads that night and the subsequent nights from regular folks just like myself Strange Stars UFO's being caught on YouTube
I decided I would start a collection, but I got bored after a few days. Then I saw this from Sweden, and if anybody can tell me what this dude is saying I sure would appreciate it. This is the exact phenomena I saw from my own telescope.
I watched it for a solid 3 hours or so. It bounced around it moved, it freaking gave birth to a light orb that flew away, but here’s where the tinfoil really comes in. I could “sense” it wanted us to look at it. As if it was a beacon, as if it was just screaming LOOK AT ME FOOLS! Yeah I know it this is the time of the rational man, we don’t feel things our senses fool us, yadda and yadda, but I’m a spiritual person and one more time gosh darn it I felt it. Then just when I was trying to get a better eyepiece in my telescope the thing straight disappeared. It didn’t fly away it was there one minute looked down, and gone.
So who are the new agers below? They see what I see now on a nightly basis and no what I see and what I believe they see AINT NO SATELLITE. I see as many as 10 an hour on some nights and they interact on a mental level. You can say Adept check that blood sugar again if you want, but I’ve held demonstrations. I had an entire Halloween Party, I’ve had anybody who wants to hang out with me in my front yard to see them. My blood sugar is fine MOMS! I’ve even had her out to see them, and you know what she says? She says Meh. I’ve had my NASA family out to see them, and you know what they say? They say hmmmm.
Join me over the fold for some more Kossack tales.
Hey there....so I've been mulling over whether to send this or not, and finally decided to just do it. I don't know if I would talk about what was seen if I had witnessed it by myself. As it goes, only the females who saw this really talk about it now.
One night just after sunset in late December of 1977 my sister and her best friend were walking back to the house my family lived at in Pacific Grove, CA. They noticed a falling star that was streaking toward the bay and became afraid that it was going to hit the water. These were two giggly, gossipy fifteen year olds who thought the world was going to end in front of their very eyes. They were scared to death, but became even more so when the falling "star" suddenly halted it's flight just above the ocean and hovered not more than a mile away from them.
At that point they knew the disc shaped craft with revolving lights underneath was not a plane or helicopter or missile or a rocket ship that was crashing. When it slowly started moving toward land, and toward them as they were standing there watching it, they freaked. Sodas and candy bars fell to the ground as they turned tail and ran the 8/9 blocks back to Mom's house. I think my chocoholic sister still regrets leaving that candy bar behind to this very day.
When they slammed in the front door screaming to "Come see this, come see this," they were racing out toward the back door where we could access the flat-roofed garage that was used like a patio. Three of my brothers were home watching TV, while Mom was cooking dinner. I remember I was reading a book in a bedroom when the commotion and extreme door slamming got me interested in following everyone out to the roof.
By the time I got there it had just passed our house and was gliding away from us toward Monterey. It was BIG! Two blocks wide I'd guess. And pretty low to the ground. Maybe 1/4 to a 1/2 mile up, not much higher than the tallest pine trees. Silent too. There was no sound from it. It really WAS disc shaped with a thin wafer middle "ring" with lights. It had a domed top and an "underbelly" of sorts with lights that went 'round like a caroussel. Blue and green and white, red and yellow and orange, they spun around and around.
We stood there and watched it fly toward the airport in Monterey, over Seaside, and over Fort Ord (which was still an active Army base at the time). After about 15 to 20 minutes it went out of sight behind a row of trees. My Mom smelled the burning dinner, and I went back in with her to see if it could be rescued. No such luck, and I think we ate sandwiches for dinner.
What did this do for me and my family? With the exception of my sister, we turned into a bunch of serious sci-fi nerds. The brothers at the time were 18, 16, and 14. I was 20 and just happened to be visiting at the time (I was in between two "live-in" jobs and was treating it like a vacation). My mother is now 82 and remembers this like it was yesterday. I have read of cases of mass hysteria, but if you knew my family you'd know we didn't experience that. We tend to be logical to the point of cynicism, and yet we know we can't explain what we saw. So my brothers avoid talking about it unless pinned down. My sis, Mom, and I can and do talk it through occasionally. We accept that "others" visit The Earth, and we're okay with that.
So, that's it in a nutshell. Feel free to ask me any questions. Do keep posting the UFO videos you find. I've taken to showing them to Mr Balanced (he's never seen a UFO and I think he's a tad jealous), as he's a fellow sci-fi geek. At least he's open minded, which is better than some people I know. Thanks for writing the diaries that you do. I always learn something new, which is a good thing.
CA ridebalanced
I have a couple of personal thing-in-the-sky experiences. This is the first one, chronologically:
It was someplace between '73-'75, making me a teenager. I was riding in the family VW bus with my older brother and father as we drove from NYC to my family's cabin in Williamstown, MA. This was a drive we made pretty much every single weekend, up The Taconic State Parkway.
So it's probably 9-ish and pitch dark, and in the early '70s the Taconic was much more open then it is now, so you could see the sky pretty clearly most of the length. And this was a route the three of us knew really, really well, every single landmark, every exit.
At some point, just south of Beacon, NY I noted a light in the mid-sky straight ahead, not moving, not wobbling, just looking for all the world like the top of a radio mast, only much too high in the sky and too bright. It would have been almost directly due north. I watched it for a while, trying figure out what it is. It was a clear night and I could see stars and this light looked out of place.
So I point it out to my brother and father and a long discussion ensues, with them saying that it's an airplane, and me pointing out it's not moving; they say it's a radio mast and I point out it's too high in the sky to be a radio mast, and they say maybe it's really close; and I point out that if it was close it would appear to be moving relative to us and so on. So this goes on for a good 10-15 minutes, going back and forth, with long thoughtful silences, and the thing is still hanging there in the sky.
At some point we decide that it's Venus, even though I'm pretty sure that Venus is never due North, and is never this red. And the thing hasn't moved at all, relative to us, although it starts to look a little odd, a little foggy, but it could be thin clouds.
So we've settled on the fact that it's Venus, and we're driving along looking at it and suddenly the thing gets really bright and just accelerates off to the ENE out of sight. And it doesn't accelerate like UFOs are often described, moving too quickly or jerkily. It accelerates just like I would imagine a jet would if it kicked in afterburners, only faster. A smooth linear increase in speed until it zoomed out of sight. And there's just this awed silence from my brother and father. I go "I guess it wasn't Venus."
We were all spooked pretty well by this, and were nervous for the rest of the night. It was eerie and uncanny and unnatural.
So: a reddish light immobile in the sky; no flashing lights, no strobes; after staying solidly in the same place for 10-15 minutes suddenly gets brighter and accelerates off to the ENE really fast, a lot faster than it should have been able to. Certainly not a helicopter, or birds or a balloon. ;-)
What do you make of that, kids? Anything?
Wheever
about UFO's - I clearly remember
Seeing 4 of them pass overhead in close formation on or about December 19, 1968.
What they were up to, or why they were visiting Earth, I have yet to decipher however.
a tad too much LDS in the 60's to really give you a detailed, factual account of that incident . . . ..
But, it was in Northwestern Oregon, on a slightly foggy and chilly night, when the 4 aforementioned aircraft/UFOs passed silently and swifted at an altitude estimated at between 700 and 900 meters. They were moving from NNW to E and were visible for about 20 seconds. It was really quite unusual to have more than the odd single engine plane flying by at such low altitude, especially at night during the winter.
Anyways, the whole thing seemed to be an unsolvable mystery, and in the 70's I turned most of my energies towards tracking down sasquatches
Roadbed Guy
My dad was stationed at Bentwaters AFB in the early 60s. We lived near the base in Ipswich. One evening I was doing the dishes - my turn - and happened to glance up through the kitchen window to see an object flying low on the horizon.
It appeared to be a rather large, oval object, glowing fiery orange with a small, black notch that rotated around the edge. It moved slowly and silently.
I begged my folks to come have a look, but they would have none of it. The object was reported in the Ipswich papers the next day, although no explanation was ever forthcoming. Some here will know about the"Rendlesham Forest Incident", which occurred in the same area a few years later.
I don't know what they are, but I do know that they are... something
Chuckvw
Okay, here's a good one for you. My husband lived in Sycamore Canyon in the early seventies with a lot of other people. A bunch of them, ten or more, were on the trail into the canyon when they saw a spaceship. They would all tell you that is unequivocally what they saw because it was very close in front of them and there was no mistaking it. My husband could have described it for you but he died as well as most of the people who saw it. One who is still alive was so frightened she would never talk about it again. No lights, no maybes. There it was
notdarkyet
My Father Worked for the FAA in relatively high level positions, all of his working life. He was a man of solid stock who did not tolerate foolishness of any sort.
An innocent comment about UFOs had him stop, sit, look me in the eye and say "They do exist, I have seen solid evidence, don't ever believe they don't exist". End of discussion...
I believed him
trinityfly
I'd be glad to share my two stories from many years ago - one witnessed only by myself as far as I know and the other a shared experience with at least 25 other people. Just let me know how much detail you'd like and I'll send them along. I've wondered about and been interested in UFO"s for many, many years and the former Saturday Night UFOria and now your series are a great way to connect with others who are also interested, to whatever degree they choose. I've picked up some of the original books from the 50's and have a real interest in all the various aspects of this issue.
In discussing one of my sightings with my cousin I found out that one fo my grandmothers had a very close encounter with a UFO years ago, with one coming down very close overhead her car as she drove home late one night. I wish I'd known that when she was still with us!
twindad9
The Week in YouTube
STARS FROM BRAZIL AND CANADA
YouTube continues to blow up! Enjoy the show, sorry for the bandwidth burning Markos, but hey you asked for it : )
Read me the TWiUP about Japan and tell me they aren't similar
Crop Circle Season
Blowing up! We had a day last week when 3 were found!
Yee haw that's it for this weeks full edition. See you on Sunday for a lazy day at the movies. Namaste Friends and remember keep looking up!