1930's UFO Hovered Above Witness In Southern West Virginia

Date: 1930's
Time: Approximately 9:00 p.m.

This possible UFO sighting occurred around the mid to late 1930's in southern West Virginia. It occurred about 3 miles distant from the sighting my grandma had earlier in that decade of a possible UFO.

James, whose brother had married into our family, was a no nonsense kind of person. A hard worker ,who raised a large family, he was also known as one who was "afraid of nothing and no one".

On the night this happened, James had left the church which let out around 9:00 p.m. He had a long walk to his home down a country road known as Saw Mill Road. Often , especially after church services or revivals, groups of people would be walking together on the road to their respective homes. Whether or not James had such company for awhile isn't known, but he was definitely by himself when this event happened. As to whether anyone else in the area on their way home may have witnessed something unusual in the skies that night is unknown.

At any rate, not too far from the church, the road had a steep uphill grade. It was banked by a forest on one side and small meadow below on the right. As James reached the top of this hill, he began to feel uncomfortable. He wasn't afraid or spooked by anything, but the feeling that overcame him caused him to be wary. As we use to say "to put one's guard up". He looked around as he walked, but saw nor heard anything unusual.

He had reached the bottom of the hill and had walked less than five minutes further when something caused him to look behind him. It was never made clear whether it was a sound , a flash of light, or that feeling that someone was following that caused him to do this.

But in doing so, what he saw was a "large" ball of white light suspended very low and very near him. One thing he knew for certain about this was -- it wasn't the moon.

If James expressed sheer fear he never indicated it to his family when telling the story. In fact, there was never any indication that he was so frightened that he bolted.

His exact words were "the faster I walked, the faster it picked up speed". The object kept right up with him. It never attempted to overcome him or out distance him. Instead it tagged along behind him on the long road like a wary dog for approximately another mile.

When James reached the forks of the Saw Mill Road, the white ball of light had suddenly disappeared . "I looked one second and it was there. The next, it was gone." He had not witnessed whether it sped away or just blinked out.

Someone in later years suggested that the white ball of light might have been something like "swamp gas" or some such phenomena as that. I find it difficult to believe that a ball of "swamp gas" would tag along behind someone , making every twist and turn of the road, for a mile or so as this one did.

As far as I know, James never offered an explanation himself as to what he thought it might be. Given his character, I believe he just told the events as they happened and somewhere in his mind classified it as something that was profoundly out of the ordinary in his life. Something as it turned out would never happen again to him.

If you have seen anything like this in Southern West Virginia or somewhere in the world, would you please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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1930's Red Glowing Fireballs Over Southern West Virginia

Date: Spring of 1932 or 1933

Time: Evening

Hi Brian, my grandmother lived in rural southern West Virginia near a small town nestled in the Appalachian foothills. There were very few cars in those days so most people walked to and from town or church often for miles along hilly paths or long stretches of isolated dirt roadways night or day.

It was in the spring of around 1932 or 1933 that grandma , who was in her 40's ,had been returning to her home from town which was just a couple miles away. It was near dusk when she found herself on a particularly isolated stretch of road near a hill the locals had dubbed "Water Tank Hill". At the time , she was the only one on the road and as far as she knew the only one who witnessed this event.

"Water Tank Hill" was known apparently then for its "ghost lights". Evidently, at some point in time, these ghostly lights were seen by various people as "red, glowing fireballs" which would zig zag or bob along this hill and adjacent ridges. As mysteriously as they would appear, they would disappear-- then reappear again in cycles.

Grandma had just started down the gentle slope in the road when suddenly something shot out just in front and above her in the sky from a ridge near the "infamous" Water Tank Hill. She said it had so startled her that she actually "froze " in midstep. The next thought in her mind was that she was looking at one of the "ghost lights". Her description of it therefore fit what the others had apparently been seeing during the nights---"red, glowing" or "fireball".

The next second she realized it had to be something other than a "ghost light" and that frightened her even more because she had no explanation at all for what she was seeing. The red object hovered (as I recall , it made no sound ) and she saw "protrusions" from the object. When I asked her just what she meant by that, her reply was 'well, like antennas or legs sticking out from it". It therefore in her mind was "machine", not "ghost" and this defied any concept of any machine she knew about. I asked her if it somehow could've been an airplane, but she shook her head emphatically 'no'.

She went on to say that once she saw these strange protrusions , she ran like "a scared rabbit" the rest of the way home. She didn't know if the object followed her for she was too afraid to look up. Once she got inside the house and bolted the door (a rare thing for one to do in those days, as people often left their doors unlocked all hours) , she wouldn't look out. My grandma was not the person who was easily frightened . But what she saw that spring night unnerved her for sometime.

It's just possible she was the only one who got a good look at the "ghost lights " that made their appearances around this hill.

From her description, I rather think that these lights were more UFO related than will o' wisps or ghost-related. Thank you.

If you have seen anything like this in Southern West Virginia or somewhere in the world, would you please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Red UFOs Jetting Over Morgantown West Virginia

I was only 7 at the time, but my father and I were in our front yard and witnessed some objects that looked like red fireballs jetting across the horizon in formation in Morgantown, WV at about the same time as the Kecksburg crash. My father was in the military, and a licensed pilot who taught ROTC at WVU at the time. He has always been somewhat of a skeptic and was hesitant to talk about our experience, except wit family.

If anyone asks, however, he will tell them exactly what he saw, and that it definitely was not a meteor, as per the "official" reports.

I often wondered over the years if our sighting had anything to do with the Kecksburg incident. My father is now 80 and his email address is (email address removed) if you want any info from him.

Brian Vike wrote to the person's Father, his reply below:

Dear Mr. Vike:

When my wife, (name removed) and I observed what we believed to be UFO's, while living in Morgantown, I immediately wrote down exactly what we had seen. It is now over 40 years later and I cannot find this written account, although I have looked for it several times.

My recollection is the same as what my daughter wrote you, so I would have nothing to add to your research. Sincerely.

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UFO Dove Down Behind Some Homes Over West Hills California

Date: November 19, 2009
Time: Approx: 6:45pm

Hello, my name is (removed). I live in West Hills California. Tonight I was driving towards school at 6:45 or so. As I was driving, I saw an object fly from the left over Fallbrook road. It looked like a plane at first and I thought it was going to crash. It dove below my view on the right side of the road behind some houses. In an instant it shot straight back up in the sky. I saw the whole thing happen, but the lights moved so fast and in so many directions that I knew it wasn't a plane.

When I was close enough, I saw that it had three lights along the side/bottom, couldn't really tell. They were red, green, and blue. It had a slight shine or hue to it. Glowing doesn't quite do it justice. It was really bright at the middle and hazy around the edge. I had pulled over for a minute to watch a bit more and it didn't look like it was going anywhere.

I drove on to the school grounds and it was gone by the time I was coming home. I had called my roommate as well and told him to go out front. He said he saw the three lights, but it was moving so fast he couldn't really make it out. Please let me know if anyone else saw this. Thank you.

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1930's Red Glowing Fireballs Over Southern West Virginia

Date: Spring of 1932 or 1933
Time: Evening

Hi Brian, my grandmother lived in rural southern West Virginia near a small town nestled in the Appalachian foothills. There were very few cars in those days so most people walked to and from town or church often for miles along hilly paths or long stretches of isolated dirt roadways night or day.

It was in the spring of around 1932 or 1933 that grandma , who was in her 40's ,had been returning to her home from town which was just a couple miles away. It was near dusk when she found herself on a particularly isolated stretch of road near a hill the locals had dubbed "Water Tank Hill". At the time , she was the only one on the road and as far as she knew the only one who witnessed this event.

"Water Tank Hill" was known apparently then for its "ghost lights". Evidently, at some point in time, these ghostly lights were seen by various people as "red, glowing fireballs" which would zig zag or bob along this hill and adjacent ridges. As mysteriously as they would appear, they would disappear-- then reappear again in cycles.

Grandma had just started down the gentle slope in the road when suddenly something shot out just in front and above her in the sky from a ridge near the "infamous" Water Tank Hill. She said it had so startled her that she actually "froze " in midstep. The next thought in her mind was that she was looking at one of the "ghost lights". Her description of it therefore fit what the others had apparently been seeing during the nights---"red, glowing" or "fireball".

The next second she realized it had to be something other than a "ghost light" and that frightened her even more because she had no explanation at all for what she was seeing. The red object hovered (as I recall , it made no sound ) and she saw "protrusions" from the object. When I asked her just what she meant by that, her reply was 'well, like antennas or legs sticking out from it". It therefore in her mind was "machine", not "ghost" and this defied any concept of any machine she knew about. I asked her if it somehow could've been an airplane, but she shook her head emphatically 'no'.

She went on to say that once she saw these strange protrusions , she ran like "a scared rabbit" the rest of the way home. She didn't know if the object followed her for she was too afraid to look up. Once she got inside the house and bolted the door (a rare thing for one to do in those days, as people often left their doors unlocked all hours) , she wouldn't look out. My grandma was not the person who was easily frightened . But what she saw that spring night unnerved her for sometime.

It's just possible she was the only one who got a good look at the "ghost lights " that made their appearances around this hill.

From her description, I rather think that these lights were more UFO related than will o' wisps or ghost-related.

Thank you .

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Green Light Falls From The Sky Over Route 80 West New Jersey USA

Date: March 19, 2010
Time: 10:00 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Route 80 West.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Round.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I saw a UFO tonight on the way home on route 80! I saw a greenish light falling from the sky. I thought in my head "Holy ***, that plane is going crash!" I slowed down to watch, thinking it was pretty close and going to actually crash. Then, it suddenly stopped falling and took off like a rocket going from a "vertical" type fall, to a "horizontal" flight.

Once I saw it do that, I knew it wasn't a crashing plane and literally said out loud "What the heck was that?" It was gone in a matter of a split second, which freaked me out even more. Pretty freaky stuff. Now I'm reading other people's sightings of the same/similar thing!

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