Date:
1970
Location: Ft. Gordon, Georgia, United States
Our
company had fallen out for morning formation. we were
waiting for the 1st seargent to join us when someone in
our ranks started saying "what is that?" What
I saw was an object that first appeared to be a full moon
only larger by half than I had ever seen it. As I continued
watching it, it steadily grew in size untill it was at
least 5 times larger than I have ever seen the moon be.
Source:
UFO Evidence
Date
Posted: 3/28/2004 8:52:24 p.m.
Day/Night: Dawn/Dusk
Duration: 20 min.
No. of Witnesses: 200+
No. of Object(s): Single
Full
Description and Details
"Our
company had fallen out for morning formation. We were
waiting for the 1st seargent to join us when someone in
our ranks started saying "what is that?" I looked
down the ranks of my platoon and saw that they were pointing
at a point approx. 30 degrees above the horizon. What
I saw was an object that first appeared to be a full moon,
only larger by half than I had ever seen it. As I continued
watching it, it steadily grew in size until it was at
least 5 times larger than I have ever seen the moon be.
There were no light and dark areas on the surface such
as the moon has, yet the surface was luminous and exactly
as the moon would look if there were no other features
on its face. It sat there for about 20 sec. and then,
a beam of light started (and I do mean started) because
it moved out from the object very slowly. Its width being
the width of the object itself but narrowing as it moved
towards the ground, it looked like the beam of a flashlight
in reverse, only in slow motion."
"It
was about halfway down when 2 F-4s took off under military
afterburner and banked straight for it. You could tell
they were in afterburner by the length of their exhaust
plume. At the same time, our first seargent came out of
the day room and after seeing what we were hollering about
turned around and ran back into his office (apparently
to notify someone}. The 2 F-4s formed up and were heading
straight towards this object of which it was impossible
to tell exactly how far away it was when the beam reversed
direction, went back to the object and the object left
moving straight awy from us so fast it looked like what
happened in those old tube type tv's when you turned them
off and that picture shrunk down to a dot in about 1 sec.
Ever since this happened, I have been interested in UFO's.
Always expecting to read an account of this particular
sighting. Mainly because not only was it viewed by my
whole company, but apparently by the base's aircraft control
tower and someone with the authority to scramble two military
aircraft. As soldiers, we never heard another word as
to what we saw. I can't believe no one has come forward
and told about this after so many years, so I am, for
whatever it's worth."
Personal
Background
Aerospace
machinist (computer numerical control).
Reported
Sighting? No
Name: Lanny Ward
Location: Everett, Wash
Age: 52
Source:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case74.htm