Using PVS 14 night vision goggles, I was able to get a better look at them and it was at that time I noticed something startling. Approximately one mile in front of the two jets at a lower altitude approximately two to three thousand feet up, was something knew I had never seen before. Immensely larger than the fighter jets behind it, or for that matter any other aircraft I have ever seen, it was what I estimated to be about the size of an NFL Football Stadium. The vessel was triangular in shape, gunmetal or carbon black in color, making absolutely no sound as it flew in a straight line under highly advanced intelligent control.
My assistant instructor observed it as well. Though my goggles I could see that the unknown craft had at least one light located at each corner of the triangle under its massive dark outline, blackening out the night sky behind it. Without the goggles, the lights appeared to be pale blue and barely visible to the naked eye. Awestruck, we watched as this amazing spectacle past directly over us for about two minutes when it disappeared over the low tree line. The two jets were following it toward Hoffman to our north. About a minute later, the craft reappeared having changed direction, returning from the same tree line, now heading south, a bit further to our west. There were now three fighters behind it and the craft seemed to have pulled further out in front traveling at a higher rate of speed.
By this time the majority of our 15 student squad had sensed our excitement, overheard our conversation and was now also watching the event curiously as the triangle and following jets disappeared again, this time over the tree line to the southwest. In an immediate after action review and analysis with my assistant who is also a senior Special Forces operator, we both agreed that the fighters behind the craft seemed to be in pursuit rather than in escort. There must be record of the sortie as I imagine they flew out of Pope AFB co-located with Fort Bragg 30 miles east. There is also a possibility the event was observed by radar by the air control tower at Mackall Army Airfield which is in constant operation positioned approximately three miles northeast from the location of this sighting.
Again, although having served in special operations for many years with vast experience working with helicopters, fighters and bombers in support during training as well as combat operations, I am absolutely positive that I have never seen or encountered anything even close to the advanced level of technology we observed that night. Its massive size and capacity of flight in absolute silence and complete absence of any force propulsion disturbance such as wind defies all reason and known laws of physics. In my opinion it was definitely not something made by human hands and moved as though it could have possibly been using some type of antigravity propulsion.
Immediately following this incident my assistant and I debated if we should even share this story in concern of our professional credibility and or sanity but the very next morning a news story appeared in the Richmond County Daily Journal that there had been numerous other sightings reported in the area that night including one from a Sheriff's Deputy in Wadesboro. It was a night I will never forget.
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