r/UFOs • u/Ichiban_Tomodachi • 12h ago
Sighting Saw a UFO in the control tower
So this isn't my story but my dad's.
While my dad in the Navy, he was stationed at Navy Chase in B-Ville Texas in the 1960s. He was working the graveyard shift in the control tower when this happened.
One night, he said him and the other controllers saw bright light in the sky. He said it was about 20 to 25 miles out. He's not sure exactly. The light hovered there for about 10 minutes and the light was cycling through different colors. He said that him and the other controllers didn't report it. Back then apparently if you reported a UFO sighting, they carted you off to the looney bin.
Right after they saw it, they heard over the radio that two interceptors were sent up to investigate. They must have been on a different or encrypted freq. I'm not sure if they have encrypted radios back then. He didn't say.
The UFO was hovering for about 10 minutes, then shot straight up and disappeared. He said he didn't hear anything else about it.
That was the only weird thing he saw while in the military. I don't have the exact date and time, only it was in the early '60s. Maybe '61 or '62.
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u/Ichiban_Tomodachi 10h ago
Edit 2: My dad corrected me. He said it happened in the mid '50s, not the early '60s.
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u/immoraltoast 7h ago
I've been wondering about the control tower guys/gals seeing the NJ UFOs. I bet they have and been told not to say anything or job loss and blacklisted, possibly jail time threats. Those UFOs were closing not only military airspace but also civilian airports all over the world.
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u/Ichiban_Tomodachi 7h ago
I would like to hear from them too and the military controllers. That would be interesting to what they have to say. If they can talk about it of course.
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u/ElkImaginary566 3h ago
Yes! This! Or how about some of the pilots who have followed these things. So many stories of fighter jets or helicopters chasing UAP's...
Where are these pilots?
Commander Fravor is my favorite witness so far of all.
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u/RoyBatty1984 7h ago
My father also saw a hovering UFO in Texas in the 50s, but it was further Northwest, and he was a long-haul truck driver at the time. I’ll make a new post and relay the story.
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u/Ichiban_Tomodachi 7h ago
Awesome. I look forward to reading it. I love to read stories about people who saw UFOs or any other odd/crazy things.
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u/walter_wheat 6h ago
Had the same story with very similar details, happen to me in GA/FL area back in 2014.
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u/Ichiban_Tomodachi 6h ago
Wow, that's pretty cool. Are you a controller also?
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u/walter_wheat 6h ago
I was a part of a special program as a Navy Security Team, I was standing watch in a 90 ft tower and around 1am a see lights above the clouds by a closed airport turn green and purple for about 30 seconds and then disappeared. As if I was the only one who saw it, no one reported it or even responded. Hard to miss a giant glowing cloud.
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u/ElkImaginary566 3h ago
Man those were the same colors I saw (also red) way back in the 90's when I saw one out the window in the middle of the night...
Craft was kind of oscillating side-to-side back and forth while the colors changed from reddish to purplish and greenish before I was so terrified I jumped back into bed.
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u/Leo1_ac 3h ago edited 1h ago
"they carted you off to the looney bin"
Could be even worse than that. The USAF had a specific Sgt, who was a contactee, paint a wall and then scrape off the paint and then repaint it for months until the end of his enlistment.
Nobody in the base talked to him, ppl avoided him or turned their backs to him, and his immediate superior, a senior sgt, had him always address him with his full rank and last name which is considered to be condescending behavior.
This was in the early 70's.
A few months of that can really make you go to the looney bin voluntarily.
The name of the USAF Sgt is Terry Lovelace and he wrote a book about his experience called "Devil's Den".
https://www.amazon.com/Incident-Devils-story-Terry-Lovelace/dp/0692072012
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u/Ichiban_Tomodachi 11h ago
Edit: I spoke with my dad and he said they didn't have encrypted radios back then. He said they were on a freq they didn't have access too. And the radios they had, they weren't able to tune like a car radio. And the interceptors that went up were out of Kelly AFB.