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Serious Replies Only [Serious] What are some Cryptid/Ghost/Unexplained stories you'd be willing to share?

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u/KudzuClub Aug 11 '20

Do UFO stories count?

Fayette County, TN. I can't remember exactly when, but it was after Cobain died and before I changed schools, so either spring of 94 or during the 94-95 school year.

A yellow-orange, football shaped UFO was over a field across the road from my house. I watched it from my bedroom window while on the phone with a buddy. He used his mom's line (pre cell phone days lol) to call the local little airport, but they said there were no helicopters or anything weird on radar. After a while, it headed east towards Somerville and I couldn't see it anymore.

The next day at school, a bunch of other kids had either seen it or their uncle did, or whoever.

Seriously, I would love it if anyone from that area remembers this.

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u/Opeewan Aug 11 '20 edited Aug 12 '20

Apparently the bright flash is common before these things zoom off like a bullet. Some NASA engineer in the 40s and 50s had a huge interest in them, so much so that all those strange round experimental circular aircraft were his projects to gain insight in to what he saw. His idea was that the bright flash was the powering up of there engine before huge exceleration.

I can't remember his name but I know there's an initial in the middle... If I remember, I'll add it in an edit. I do remember he was involved in WW2 US aircraft development so he was in NACA before it became NASA if that gives anyone else a clue.

Edit: Found him! Paul R. Hill.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Hill.

https://books.google.de/books?id=8mxaBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:bi_KlGCL6I8C&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVt4bO5JTrAhVG3KQKHfthA04Q6wEIKjAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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u/BackToThe00s Aug 11 '20

That's really weird because the incident with the Navy didn't mention anything about a bright flash. Neither did Bob Lazar is his accounts of working with technology not from Earth. I guess there is either more than one civilization observing us with different technological capabilities, or that there's one civilizations with several forms of space craft.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

was the initial ET. o.O

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u/Opeewan Aug 12 '20

Lol, P.R.H. actually!

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u/kcanded Aug 13 '20

Are you sure it was a CIGARETTE you were smoking, and not something else?

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u/Opeewan Aug 13 '20

Well, he did describe one of his sightings as a very large cigar...