Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Shaped like a tylenol capsule a little larger than a Grey Hound Bus. All of the outer surface was glowing red. A low glow, kind of like an amber from a camp fire that is starting to burn down.

Size of Object(s)

Shaped like a tylenol capsule slightly larger than a Grey hound bus.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

See above story.

Description of Area / Surroundings

3 miles outside of a small town. Morris , Ok population 1,250. A few farm houses scattered around the area.

Full Description & Details

It happened late in the summer of 1987 about 3 miles north of Morris, Ok. It was around 10:30 to 11:00 pm on a sunday night. I was on my way home from Talequah Oklahoma heading south on Highway 52 towards Morris. I looked to my right through some trees and brush and noticed a large glowing red light through the tree/shrub line at the north end of a private grass runway that was owned by family friend Dick Ashley. At first I thought it was some sort of airplane with a LOT of red lights all over it. As I got even with it on a paraellel course it started moving south down the runway. It was then that I noticed that when it got close to a runway light (which were turned off) the light would illuminate. The closer it was to the light, the brighter the runway light would illuminate with it's own white light. As it passed each runway light , the runway light would dim back out and go off. They were incandesant bulbs. I have since learned that a very strong electro-magnetic field can cause this to occur. The UFO continued down the grass runway reaching around 70 mph. At the south end of the runway it climbed to around 100 feet and turned directly east , heading for highway 52. I wasn't for sure what it was until then. I pulled my old truck over to the side of the road and stoped and got out. It came down directly over the highway to about 50 feet up and stoped and hovered there with only a very low humming noise. It sat there for about 3-4 minutes as if to study me. I was scared yet intriuged at the same time. I thought that NO ONE is going to believe my story. There was a trailer house directly across the road from where I had stoped and I wanted more witnesses. So I picked up a new rocks and threw them at the side of the trailer, but no one ever came out. There may have been no one home or maby they were asleep. I had hoped that it would land and maby I could meet them if there were any inside flying this thing. After the 3-4 minute hover it started flying north up Hi 52 and decended down to 3 or 4 feeet above the road and continued north for 1/2 mile. Then took a left and headed west on what we all call the old Gun club road staying only a few feet off the ground. I could see the fence posts between me and it as it flew away at about 50-60 mph. I got back in my truck and started to follow it but decided to head on home. I knew I must keep this a secret to myself for the rest of my life. If I told any one they would think I was nuts and I'd end up in a mental institution. My house was only a few miles away from the sighting. As I pulled up in the driveway, I noticed the pourch light came on and my wife was standing in the door to greet me. That was somthing she NEVER did when I came home after a weekend away. As I approached her I noticed a blank, sort of scared look on her face. So I said,"Did you see it?" and she replied "Holy shit did you see it too?" I said "Hell yes I saw it!" So we stood outside looking around the sky and traded stories. She said she was coming home about a half hour earlier and saw the same thing on the old Morris highway. She said it came down and blocked the road in front of her car only a couple of feet off of the road and about 2 car lengths away and sat there for a couple of minutes. She was so scared she just froze. Didn't get out or try to back up. Then it lifted straight up and over the power lines and flew off to the north east. My son was in the car with her but was so young at the time that he doesn't remember much. He was 5 and remembers the big light in the road but didn't know to be afrade or curious.

I thought at the time that this might be the start of a lot of sightings or maby first contact between us and them but that wasn't the case. Neither me nor my wife ever saw it again. But I did carry a cheap camera in my truck for several years after that. At first I tried to tell myselft it was some sort of new experimental military aircraft. But if that were the case it wouldn't be coming down and blocking traffic on public roads. That violates all kinds of Federal Avation Administration regulations. Plus if it was new and experimental they would be doing testing in some secluded location like the desert where no one could see. So I know what we saw that night and there is no stupid weather baloon explination that can change my mind. But I would still like to meet them for I know they have to be highly intelligent to be able to cross the vastness of space to come here.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

There is no way it can be explaned by any conventional man made or natural object. It moved too fast at times and hovered quietly during other times.

Witness Background

I am a graduate of Okla State university. I am an aircraft mechanic for a major airline. I enjoy flying small planes from time to time.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Before the sighting I thought UFO sightings were for crazy drunken rednecks. Now I know what I witnessed and feel that maby some reports are actually true. I now believe a story told to me a few years earlier by a highschool friend and his brothers and sisters.

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