Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Silver metallic disc flying on edge at a low rate of speed. Darkened center with a reflective "protrusion" at its horizontal axis, or "hub."

Description of Area / Surroundings

Rural desert highway.

Full Description & Details

I was 11 years old. We were driving back from our summer vacation to CA on a highway in the desert. I want to say we were still in California because I was still fresh from the trip. By this, I mean that there was none of the "road fatigue" that comes with the boredom of hours in the back seat of my grandma's car, and we were probably travelling I-10 eastbound. I can't say for sure.

What I do remember is this:

I was sitting on my knees looking out the back window of my gramma's '76 Malibu Classic. There were no cars behind us for a considerable distance; that I'm sure of. I mean, they could have been some miles back, but being a kid with a short attention span I think I would have focused on that first. Looking out the back window at our 7 o'clock position, I was transfixed by an object which reflected that day's sun. If you were to hold a thumbtack by its point with the head facing you, at arm's length; that's about how big this thing was in the sky... between that size and the size of a pencil eraser, looking at it from the end while still holding it at arm's-length. Anyway, it was a disc-- not a sphere-- on edge, TRACKING the car. It had a dark raised center which cast a conical shadow down the bottom side of the object; and inside the dark part, I remember some detail... something reflective which seemed to stick out and re-catch the sun. I watched this thing until my eyes were getting dry and I had to blink. How long I witnessed this thing, I have no idea. I mean, I was eleven years old, it was summer... I have no frame of reference, really. But, the whole episode ended when I looked away to see if there were any more in the sky. I glanced to the right, and when I looked back at where it had been, and it had vanished.

I screamed at the top of my lungs for my mom to stop the car! "I just saw a UFO!" She pulled us over and I climbed right over my little sister to get out on the shoulder of the highway, wanting to see hat I knew was there just seconds before! It was gone. I knew it but I didn't want to admit it.

Later that year, I was walking home from school and there was the old Loretto mall which was kinda on my way home, but not really... There was a Skaggs drug store there which had a toy section and a decent magazine rack. This must have been about the time Close Encounters was getting ready to come out, because there was a UFO magazine I was thumbing through. To make a long story short, I ran across this photo of what I saw magnified about 15 times. It was taken in a narrow canyon by a student, the caption said, and when he looked down to reload his camera, he looked back up and the thing disappeared, just like mine did. Ha! Cool!



Anyway, for a rendition of the object I saw, go to www.littlegreymen.net. You can see what I saw. I guess that's one advantage to being an artist. Peace.

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

I don't believe so.

Witness Background

I'm just a union ironworker with a couple years of college and a year of art school I'm also an amateur cartoonist living in the Seattle area. I want desperately to get out of construction and go back to school.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I can't vouch for anyone else. I know what I saw... NOONE is going to convince me that it wasn't there. Never. As far as my views on UFOs, I have to say that I believe. There's something deep and substantive to the phenomenon... Prior to my sighting, i didn't know JACK about UFOs. I mean, I'd heard of "flying saucers," sure, but only in the movies. Think about it--- the ones I saw in the movies up to that point were stop-acion, black and white B-movie models which moved slowly and hesitantly onscreen. NOTHING like what I saw There was no way I could have pulled what I saw out of my butt at age 11!

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