MY UFO EXPERIENCE

 

I was walking my post in the alert area at Kingsley Field Oregon in early December 1969. The sun had just set and as I turned toward a nearby mountain range silhouetted in the distance I saw a beam of light. At first it looked like a really bright flashlight but then the light suddenly arched upward at an angle. It then morphed into a bluish green laser beam. The point of the beam appeared to split the sky and a cone formed on either side of the laser beam that became a perfect ever expanding triangle of light. The further it traveled the wider the cone of light became. It was as bright as day inside the cone and I was in awe. For a minute I thought this might be the Second Coming of Christ. Off in the distance a C-47 Goonie Bird and an F-106 suddenly appeared on the horizon and the laser beam disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. Where the laser beam had been a fluorescent trail of bright green smoke lingered in the sky for a long time. I was standing there for a moment with my mouth wide open and when I was able to regain my composure I started to call CSC or Central Security Control on the radio and let them know what had happened. I had second thoughts though and didn't say anything until I was relieved because I figured that everyone else on our shift had also seen it. There was no chatter on the radio about it, however. After I was relieved I overheard another Security Policeman talking about it and I told him that I had also seen the light. Like me he had decided not to call it in.

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 I read an article in the paper later in the week headlined, (Railroad Men Spot UFO). It read: Three Southern Pacific Company railroad men saw an unidentified flying object early last Friday night near Kirk about 40 miles north of Klamath Falls. "I'll tell you, it gives you the creeps" Noel Cailloutte, the conductor on a train with 106 cars moving southwest toward Klamath Falls. John Burgoyne, the engineer, apparently saw it first. he called my attention to it, Cailloute stated. "It was a bright light heading north. It had a long, narrow beam. It was moving diagonally across the tracks", the conductor reported. Cailloute was unable to estimate the length of the light. He did say, though, that it was "at least 5,000 feet high". The light "crossed the tracks in front of us. I've never seen anything as bright as that. It looked like a laser beam." Cailloute stated. According to Cailloute, he watched the light for at least two minutes. While looking at the light, Cailloute said, he also saw the lights of an airplane traveling toward Klamath Falls. Then' "all at once, all of the lights went off", the conductor remarked. Eugene Narramore, the flagman on the crew, was the third person to see the lights. The United States Air Force in Klamath Falls, when contacted this morning, was unable to verify the reported occurrence. This account of the UFO was remarkably similar to what I had seen. The air traffic control tower was between me and the UFO. They had to have seen it. A few days later another article stated that the UFO might have been a missile launched from Vandenburg AFB in California. Whatever it was, it was the strangest thing that I have ever seen. This picture is of another UFO sighting out west a few years ago. It looks similar to what I had seen.