Goatskin
and the UFO
A true story
It happened nearly 50 years ago. For some reason I
can not recall the exact year and I can't recall
exactly when I first told someone about the
incident. For several years something kept me from
talking about it--what that was, I don't know.
The time was something after 11:00pm (closer to
midnight, I think); it was a relatively clear
late summer night in the hills of western Maine and
quiet except for the drone of the paper mill
across the river. And it seemed that all of the
neighbors had retired for the night.
My house was dark except for the kitchen light
left on for me. I had just returned home from a
date, a dance or whatever, and had taken the trash
to the street. I was returning to the shed,
which was connected to the kitchen, to lock up and
then go to bed.
As I approached the shed door, I felt a strong
pressure on me from above. I don't know how to
describe it except that there was the feeling of
something very heavy above me. There was no sound
other than that of the mill. I looked up and, off to
my right (east of the house), what appeared to be
perhaps two or three hundred feet in the air
(how high depends upon the object's
actual size), traveling at a very modest speed,
was a roundish glowing white object.
Having a long-standing interest in UFOs and other
unexplained phenomena, my first thought was that at
last I was experiencing a UFO. I quickly moved away
from the house to the west side of the shed in order
to view the object from a better vantage point. As I
did so, the object started to turn slowly
northwest in an arc which soon became more westerly
and then southerly, finally moving in a
straight southerly line which brought it toward me
and directly over my head. In all of this time,
there was no sound from the object that I
could detect.
As it passed over, the object seemed to slow down
for few seconds and I was able observe it well.
It appeared to be about 75-100 feet over my head.
And, as I have said, it made no detectable
sound. I could feel its weight. It was essentially
round but, perhaps, slightly oblong. It glowed with
the whiteness and intensity of a "cool white"
fluorescent bulb. If the object was in fact 75-100
feet above my head, it was between 35 and 50 feet in
diameter.
I watched in awe as it moved slowly south above
the trees, across the river and...I do not actually
recall seeing it disappear.
My next memory is going into the house and going
to bed. I do not recall anything said about
the incident until some years later when the memory
came back vividly and I related the story to a
friend one night when the subject of UFOs came up.
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