UFO SIGHTINGS
REPORTS AND INVESTIGATIONS BY DONNIE BLESSING
SOUTHERN OHIO SECTION DIRECTOR FOR MUFON
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SIGHTINGS FOR 1960's
UFO Encounter form the Delta
by K. Lang
I was just , maybe 14, when I saw what I can only call a UFO. I lived in the Delta, which is a stretch of farm land from Memphis, Tennessee to Vicksburg, Mississippi known for its rich, fertile flat soil that lies along the banks of the Mississippi River banks.
My older sister, Diane, and I were sitting in our 1965 Ford in the middle of a pasture smoking a cigarette. We had slipped away so no one would see us smoking. We weren't doing anything else, just watching the smoke curl up and out the window. We weren't really talking to each other as we didn't have much in common other than smoking. Our other sister would have ratted on us, so we were hiding it from her.
Suddenly, Diane grabbed my arm. She didn't say anything, she couldn't. She was frozen into silence; even the smoke she had just inhaled was stuck in her throat. She squeezed my arm and shook it. I looked at her face and then followed her gaze, leaning down to see better out the front window.
An object that was silvery in color, round and lighted was hovering in the pasture. That is the only way I know how to describe it. It hovered, it was some kind of silver-ish like color or metal looking and it had lights on it around the edges of it. It was not a plane. It was not a helicopter. It was not like anything I had ever seen before. It was very much like all the other pictures I have seen drawn of UFO's since. Before I could get a detailed good look at it, it was gone.
When I say that this object was gone, I mean gone! Like in a flash! In the blink of an eye gone! It was gone like in the movies when Star Trek goes into warp speed gone. The only thing is that this was back in the mid 1960's and I had never seen any movies about Star Trek or warp speed. I could hardly believe my eyes, but I knew what I had seen.
Diane and I looked at each other and we both knew that we had seen it; we had seen a UFO. I could tell by the look on her face that she had seen what I saw and I had seen what she saw. After all, she was the one who had grabbed my arm to get my attention to look at the thing. But then a funny thing happened next, Diane turned straight ahead and clamped the steering wheel as tight as she could with both hands. She then said the darnedest thing to me, "We didn't see anything. Don't you dare tell anyone that I saw that. If you do, I'll tell everyone that you are a liar, you hear me?" I didn't rush to school the next day and tell everyone there because of Diane's obvious fear, but I did tell my most trusted friend. I have told a few other most trusted friends over the years, but not many. Now I am telling you and yes, you may use it.
Report by Karen Sargent
SAAAR NW Florida Investigator