| ID | #1599732343 |
| Added | Thu, 10/09/2020 |
| Author | July N. |
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Fact
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I served in the army, stationed in Kaiserslautern (Germany). This incident occurred over the weekend when I and a few soldier friends decided to go camping for the weekend. We were not allowed to enter France, but we did it anyway. I was driving one of the cars, so I can't give you directions, landmarks, or exact location. I only remember that we were somewhere in the Western part of France. I won't go into details, so I'll try to keep it as short as possible.
So, we got to our location. We saw a place that looked like a good place to set up camp. We saw a flat area at the top of the hill and decided to go up and camp there. We didn't want to spend a lot of time looking for a suitable location. We just wanted to get there because it was getting dark.
We were outside the city and quite far from any locality. These were the back roads of French vineyards. As I recall, there were six of us. We were all in our sleeping bags and looking up at the sky. I remember it was very dark outside.
There was no reflection of city lights on the horizon, unlike what you can see almost anywhere in the United States these days. The night was very calm and quiet. A beautiful summer night for camping.
I don't remember what time it was, but it was late, maybe 23:00. Suddenly we all saw the same thing. This very bright light, like a ray, came from the distance that a person could see on one horizon. It passed directly overhead and disappeared into the opposite horizon in about 3 seconds. Not a sound.
Some would say it's a comet or a shooting star. It's hard to describe visually, but the light was parallel to the ground and seemed low enough that a person could almost throw a rock and hit it if they timed it correctly. It seemed very round, round, and dense with light, enclosed within itself, because no matter how bright it was, it did not illuminate anything around it.
There was no burnout or tail effect that could be seen in a comet or shooting star.
We could not distinguish any shape or anything that would indicate a solid object in the light itself. Probably because it was flying so fast. I never told anyone about this.
All I know is that six of us saw the same thing, and it gave us a good story to talk about for years to come. I still tell people about it. Was it a UFO? I don't know, but I still don't have an explanation for it.
I've never seen anything like this again, and I've never had the loss of space or time or ill health and similar affects that some people seem to encounter after the fact. This is my story, and I stick to it.
Original news
I was in the Army stationed in Kaiserslaughtern, Germany. This incident took place over a week end while several G.I. buddies and I decided to take a week end camping trip. We were not allowed to drive into France, but we did anyway. I was a riding in one of the vehicles, so I can not give you directions, landmarks or precise location. I only remember we were somewhere in the western part of France. I won’t elaborate too much so I can keep this as short as possible.
So we got to our location. We saw a place that looked like it might be a good place to set up camp. We could see a flat area on top of a hilly area and decided to hike up and camp there. We didn’t want to spend a lot of time searching for the right place. We just wanted to get there cause it was getting dark. We were out of town and quite a ways from any populated area. These were back roads in French grape vineyards. There were 6 of us as I remember. We all were in our sleeping bags just staring up at the sky. I remember it was very dark out. No reflection of city lights in horizon unlike what you might see almost anywhere in the united states these days. The night was very calm and quiet. An otherwise beautiful summer night for camping.
Don’t remember what time it was, but it was late, maybe 11:00 p.m. All of a sudden we all could see the same thing. This very bright light, like a beam came from as far as a person could see in one horizon and passed right overhead and disappeared into the opposite horizon all in about 3 seconds. Not a sound. Some might have looked like a comet or shooting star. Hard to describe visually, but the light was parallel to the ground and seemed low enough that a person could almost have been able to throw a rock up and hit it if he were to time it right. It seemed like a very tubular, round dense light that was contained within itself, because as bright as it was, it didn’t light up any surroundings. There was no burn out effect or tail like might have been seen in a comet or shooting star either. It just kept going. If we hadn’t been staring up at the sky we may not have even seen it.
We could not distinguish any shape or anything that could give the indication of a solid object within the light itself. Probably cause it was traveling so fast. I have never reported this to any one. All I know is that 6 of us saw the same thing and it gave us a good story to talk about for years to come. I still tell people of it. Was it a UFO ? I don’t know, but it certainly was something I still don’t have an explanation for. I’ve never seen anything like that again and never had any relapse of space or time or ill health after affects like some people seem to encounter after the fact. This is my story and I’m sticking to it.
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