There are a lot of UFO sighting reports out there, but some of the most interesting ones are from trained military people. Even stranger is when these unidentified objects are huge and seem to have physical effects on the people who see them. There have been many sightings of something very big and very strange out in the oceans of our world. These sightings have had physical effects on the people who saw them.
In the November 1981 issue of Flying Saucer Review, there is a strange case that was sent directly to the magazine by a witness. The witness says that she had a very strange and scary experience with a huge cigar-shaped unidentified object while she was out over the ocean. The unnamed witness says that at the time, she was working as an English language secretary for NATO in Paris. At the time, she was on a military-approved mission on an Air Canada DC-8 plane with fifty NATO employees who were traveling from Paris to Canada for the NATO Ministerial Meetings in Ottawa. At the time, the plane was high above the Atlantic Ocean. The witness was sitting in a window seat and looking out at the sky when she noticed something strange and big. She says this about it:
I was just reaching down to get a book from my carry-on when I was shocked to see something dark and huge below the plane. It stood out against the bright sky because it was so different. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was shocked when I got close to the window and saw a huge dark grey “torpedo” almost under the DC-8. I thought it was dangerous and scary, and I thought it was standing still. It was completely different from anything else I had ever seen in my life. It seemed like it was made out of steel.
No windows or portholes could be seen. No wings or extra parts. Nothing but the long, perfect shape of a torpedo, with a bullet-shaped head and a sharp, square cut at the back. The monster was a long way below us, and I want to stress that what scared me most about it was how big it was. I thought it might be about 2,000 meters below us, but I had no way to measure this or figure out how big it was. I quickly looked down at the monster again and saw that a line of tiny clouds was moving over it. I could still see it through the clouds for a few seconds before I couldn’t see it anymore.
The sighting scared the person who saw it, but when she looked around, the other passengers on the mostly empty flight were either sleeping or lost in their books or thoughts, so it didn’t seem like anyone else had seen that huge thing in the sky. At the time, she chose not to talk about it because she was afraid no one would believe her and she would be laughed at. At the time, the witness didn’t know much about UFOs and was very confused and frustrated. However, she would read several books on the subject years later that helped her realize she wasn’t crazy. She would also start to connect what she had seen to something scarier that had happened to her after she had seen the object. She says this of it:
After I saw the monster “torpedo,” I sat there and thought about it for about half an hour. Then, all of a sudden, the DC-8 started to shake and nose up and down violently, going steeply up, then steeply down, and this went on for a very, very long time. I could say that I had often experienced turbulence and “air-pockets” when flying, but that it was never even close to this. It felt like we were in a huge lift that was going up and down very quickly. And if that wasn’t enough, loud noises that sounded like cannon fire or thunder now filled the cabin.
The plane kept shaking and bucking violently, and every time it came down, I felt like it was going to break in half. During all of this, everyone in the passenger cabin sat there white-faced and completely silent. After a while, I got so scared that I ran to the front of the plane to find a stewardess and yelled, “What’s going on? I’m afraid!” I pulled back a curtain in front of what looked like a bed and saw a stewardess on the bed with her hands over her eyes as if she were crying. She didn’t answer when I yelled at her, and other than the sound of the plane’s engines and what sounded like thunder claps happening over and over again, there was complete silence.
I went back to my seat and all of a sudden was drenched in sweat. I felt like every pore in my body was working hard. But I noticed that the light dress I was wearing was still completely dry. I ran to the stewardesses’ quarters a second time, but no one was there. I pounded on the door to the cockpit and yelled again, “What’s going on?!” because I was terrified. The other flight attendant came out and looked at me like I was an idiot, but she didn’t say anything for a while. Then, in a calm voice, she said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, don’t worry: the cabin’s pressure is going down.” Shortly after that, the same message was heard from the Captain.
Even though she didn’t connect the two things at the time, she said that after she learned more about UFOs, she was pretty sure that they were related. She is also suspicious that the crew may have been trying to hide something about what happened. She tells us:
I’d really like to know if what I just said about the plane’s violent behavior and loud noises can be explained by the process of “depressurization,” and if so, what are the most likely reasons why such scary and drastic steps had to be taken? Is this kind of thing common and normal, as the second stewardess’s calmness seemed to suggest? And if that was the case, why did it seem like the other stewardess was crying? Was it because, like the rest of us, she found the turbulence a little bit scary? Or was she still in shock from seeing the huge “torpedo”? The answers to these questions would be very interesting to know.
Only one of the stewardesses on the plane seemed to be upset. What is known for sure is that the pilots up in the nacelle would have had plenty of time to see the “cigar,” since it crossed their path diagonally from their port side and was far below them. No one on the crew, including the Captain, said anything about the “cigar,” and when we landed in Canada, no one from the government said anything either. We were flying under the rules of the NATO, which meant that the military was in charge of us. In this kind of situation, it wouldn’t be surprising if the pilot and flight attendants were less open about a UFO than they might have been on a regular flight.
What was happening? On July 2, 1971, in the Bermuda Triangle, southeast of Florida, there is said to have been another case involving a huge craft that had physical effects on a military ship. On this day, the USS John F. Kennedy CVA-67, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, was heading back to Norfolk, Virginia after a two-week operational readiness exercise in the Caribbean. They were going to take some time off before going to work for six months in the Mediterranean.
This story’s main witness told the National UFO Reporting Center about it. At the time, he was in charge of watching the teletypes that printed the Fleet Broadcasts from the communications center. Around 8:30 p.m. that night, his equipment started to act up all of a sudden. He soon found out that all of the ship’s communications were broken. Soon after this, someone yelled that something was hovering over the ship. When he and some other crew members went up to look, they saw something that none of their training had ever prepared them for. He or she would say:
When we looked up, we saw a big sphere that was lit up. Well, it seemed big, but there was nothing to compare it to. So, if the sphere was close to the ship, say 100 feet away, it would have been between two and three hundred feet in diameter. If it said the ship was 500 feet long, it would have been bigger. At arm’s length, it looked about the same size as a beach ball. I couldn’t hear any sound coming from it. It didn’t give off as much light as the sun, about half as much. It slowly changed from yellow to orange. We couldn’t look at it for more than 20 seconds because General Quarters (Battle stations) was going off and the Communication Officer was in the hallway telling us to go back into the Comm Center. We went back and stayed (that was out battle station). We didn’t have much to do because we couldn’t get in touch with anyone.
About 20 minutes later, the teletypes started working again. We stayed in General Quarters for another hour, and then we locked up. I did not see or hear any messages about what happened. Over the next few hours, I talked to a good friend who worked as a radar operator in the CIC (combat information center). He told me that during the incident, all of the radar screens were just glowing. I also talked to a guy I knew who worked on the Navigational Bridge.
He told me that none of the compasses were working and that a boatswain’s mate who was watching from the signal bridge had to be put to sleep by the doctors. I thought this was the one who was shouting that it was God. It was strange that only a small number of the 5,000 men on a carrier saw this event. This was because flight operations had just ended a short time before this happened, and everyone on the flight deck was down below resting. It’s important to know that there aren’t many places on a carrier where you can be out in the open air.
Soon after, he would find out that not only the communications equipment, but also a lot of other equipment on board, including the planes, had stopped working when the strange object was nearby. Even scarier, it seemed like “men in trench coats” would soon be on board to talk to witnesses about what they had seen, and the whole thing had a feeling of secrecy. All of this would be explained by the witness:
From what I could tell, during the 20 minutes or so that whatever it was hovered over the ship, almost all of the electronic parts stopped working. The two F-4 Phantoms in the Ready CAP (Combat Air Patrol), which are always ready to take off, would not start. I heard through the scuttlebutt (slang for “rumor mill”) that three or four “men in trenchcoats” had landed and were talking to people who had seen this phenomenon.
I was never asked to do an interview, which could have been because no one knew I had seen it. A few days later, as we were getting close to Norfolk, the Commanding Officer and the Executive Officer came on our closed-circuit TV system. They did this often to talk to the crew and tell them things. During this meeting, the Captain told us how well we did on the ORE and how we were going to be sent to the Mediterranean soon. At the end of his speech, he said, “I’d like to remind the crew that some things that happen on a Naval Combatant Ship are classified and shouldn’t be talked about with anyone who doesn’t need to know.” This was the only official information I ever got or heard about the event.
On October 24, 1989, a sailor on the Naval submarine USS Memphis (SSN-698), which was based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, said that he saw a ship that was even bigger than the ones he had seen before. At the time, they were on Special Assignments to protect the Space Program. They were on patrol about 150 miles off the coast of Florida when the submarine started having a lot of problems. Several electronic systems were acting up, all communication was cut off, tanks were exploding out of control, the ability to navigate was gone, and even the controls in the reactor were acting up. They came to the surface and switched to diesel engines because the situation was very dangerous. The witness says the following happened:
It was raining, and the sky was as red as a neon sign. I saw a large UFO that looked like an upside-down V off the port side. The second-in-command told me to stay put while he talked to the captain. Within a minute, the captain was on the tower and asked me how far away the ship was. The laser range finder showed that the point closest to the port was 200 meters away, and the point farthest from the port was 1,000 meters away. The UFO was not in a straight line with our ship. Instead, it was at a 45° angle.
This huge ship was more than half a mile wide. The UFO went in a half-circle around our ship and then went across the back, which made all of our electronics go crazy. The communications room and the sonar room were permanently damaged. As the ship flew over the back, I could see that the rain had stopped because of the red light. As the UFO flew over quietly, the water seemed to rise almost a foot.
When the UFO was done swinging across the back of the ship, it stopped, the sky got redder, and it took off at a very fast speed within 15 seconds. After the UFO left, everything on our boat went back to normal, except for the radio and sonar. After a quick check of the systems, the captain told us to switch back to reactor power and get going.
Then he says that when they got to port, their leaders took them aside and put them in what he calls “protective custody.” It sounds like the atmosphere was very tense, and then they were told the “official story” and told not to talk about what they saw. This is what the witness would say:
After about 7 hours, we got to port, where I was put in “protective custody.” Two other soldiers and I all agreed that we had seen a real UFO. I was the only one who knew its exact size because I was the one who shot it with a laser range finder. When I shot at that ship while it was hovering, I got solid readings instead of spotty ones like I would get from debris. We were put on hold for about three hours before an Air Force officer came and made up a story about a weather satellite that blew up. The Navy then sent almost everyone on the crew to different jobs. This included the captain, the second-in-command, and everyone else on the ship. They were separated, which almost never happens unless one of them gets a promotion or a new command, neither of which happened.
It seems to be a pattern that these kinds of things are swept under the rug, which makes them even more scary. What happened in any of these situations? Do these huge ships swim around in the oceans of our world? What are they trying to say with all of these physical effects? It’s hard to say for sure, and this is still a very strange part of the UFO phenomenon.
source: theancientzen.com
