The craft hovered over my house for several seconds at nearly a complete stop with absolutely no sound. There was no visible propulsion. No jet engines and no propellers. No glow, or heat signature, whatsover. There was no smoke, or fire. Just the orange lights down each side.
We don't have any estimate, or idea of how long the craft could have been hovering over our house before we came outside and noticed it. However, we did get a very close look at this craft as it was fully illuminated by our neighbor's huge security light.
The craft had absolutely no rivets, or seams to indicate that it had been 'assembled' in any familiar sense. It appeared to be one solid shape, as if poured out of a mold. The skin of the craft appeared more advanced than any aircraft engineering technology that I had ever seen before... and, in that sense, it looked quite 'alien'. I could not identify the alloy from which this object had been made, but it was definitely copper-colored.
After a few seconds, the craft banked upwards, just slightly, on the leading edge, and then slowly - very, very slowly, started to move due east of our vantage point as seen from the back porch of our home office.
There was an incredible sense that the object was being controlled by some type of an intelligence who knew that we were watching. And, I had the distinct feeling that they were observing us as well. This feeling persisted throughout the duration of the incident lasting less than one minute.
Sadly, there was no time to grab the phone and take a video, or get a picture. Something that after thirty years of UFO research I have regreted ever since. This has been the curse of experiencers for decades. Even if you have a camera, you don't think to use it when these extraordinary events happen. S.A. McGee
I did not think too much more about it until one year later, during the Summer of 1994, when my nephew took my cargo van to Atlanta, Georgia. Upon returning he informed me that he was going to have to buy me a new CB Antenna because it had fallen off and the base was broken. Imagine his shock when I told him that this was the exact place where my incident had occurred! He was even more surprised when I asked him if the 'popping noise' had frightened him as much as it did myself one year earlier. Ed
EDITOR'S NOTE: It should be noted that although this incident reportedly happened several years prior, the Hartsville Radio Station (WJKM) had reported to the US UFO Center strange phenomena occuring in 2001 that may be directly related to this incident. The incident actually resulted in the death of local wildlife in the same area where this report had indicated. Click Here to read the full account submitted by WJKM Station Owner, Ted Randall.
I wanted to alert my wife, who was sleeping beside me in the car, but I felt controlled. It was almost as if I was in a trance, or experiencing some kind of hypnotic mind control! It was as if I was being forced to keep my focus on the road and look straight ahead. I even tried to take my foot off of the accelerator, but I could not do it. I continued to think again, and again that I should wake my wife, but couldn't manage it. The only thing I could do was use my eyes to look in the forward direction and glance at the rear view mirror from time to time. Again, I felt 'compelled' to keep track of its movements, as this was 'all' I was supposed to be doing at that moment.
I also noticed that my palms were sweaty on the steering wheel, but I couldn't take them off to wipe them. It felt like all of this was happening over a matter of hours and not minutes, as if time was standing still! I noticed that there were no cars in either direction during the entirety of this event. In fact, nothing else seemed to be happening until this bright light behind us gone. And, instead of moving off away from our car, it was just gone! There one second and gone the next.
When I was able to make movements with my body the first thing I did was move my head then wipe my hands off then I stopped the car on the side of the road got out and looked all around including the night sky, this caused my wife to wake and you can only imagine what she said when I told her of this occurrence.
However, we were back from where ever it was we were, as I noticed that cars were now driving past us in both directions. Did time actually stop? Anyway, the years have passed and from time to time I try to take myself back to that experience and ask myself, "Why me?"
I have never felt comfortable talking about this subject, even to this day, but it seems like a lot of people are coming forward now with their own reports. I have had many reoccurring dreams which started from my early teens of flying in some sort of craft. I remember always looking down at the terrain and cities as we were moving and I distinctly remember being asked if I wanted my family to go and I always said no, only because either I feared for their safety or maybe I knew it was not my choice to make. I thought I was never going to return again.
After this episode my life completely changed. It steered me into the defense electronics world of repair. I began traveling to far away lands. And, sadly, this all led to the eventual divorce of I and my first wife. I now live in Cairo, Egypt and view out my window is the Great Pyramid. Darrel
After it disappeared behind a large mountain to our left, I went to school the next day and several people were talking about having seen it. There was a story circulated that the newspaper over in nearby Bristol detailing a story about a craft of some sort crashing in the mountains near there. Apparently, several people went into the woods to investigate and spoke of smelling something like sulfur in the air. There was also a report of someone seeing a "little man" up in a tree. But, Bristol is in the exact direction the craft was headed when we last saw it! I have never forgotten the incident and wondered if anyone else saw it. I don't believe that our government has that kind of metal flying craft now, let alone in the 1950s. Anonymous
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