The Shadow
Standing alone on a hilltop in Kenya about 50 miles north of Nairobi during the summer of 1970, I spotted five black discs on the horizon that were heading west to east toward me.
It was a clear, cloudless day, and the land rover that I had been traveling in had broken down beside the dirt road at the foot of the hill.
The driver of the land rover and my friends had chosen to remain in the shade while I decided to climb to the top of the hill to look around. However, I made a crucial mistake that I have regretted to this day. I left my 35mm camera in the landrover.
The five discs were flying in formation, one leading the way with two trailing on the leading disc’s left and two trailing on the leading disc’s right. The “V” formation did not waver or change as the discs rapidly closed the distance from the horizon toward the hilltop.
As they sped high above the terrain, they appeared to grow larger and larger as I ruled out an airplane, any kind of bird formation, or any kind of reflection. Realizing I had never seen anything like what I was seeing, I pointed at the rapidly approaching UFOs and yelled loudly to my friends at the bottom of the hill to look where I was pointing.
Before the black saucer-shaped UFOs were overhead, they made a sudden right-angle turn to the left and shot off to the north at an incredible speed without making a sound, without leaving any contrail, and unfortunately, preventing any of my friends or the driver below from seeing them because the trees and the hill blocked their view.
The five UFOs sped north so quickly that I could barely follow them in flight, and I had no way of judging their sizes because there was nothing visible in the sky to compare them to.
I drew pictures of them as they appeared in the formation in which they were traveling, and their right-angle turn and high-speed acceleration did not cause them to break formation.
Ever since that sighting in 1970, I have had a keen interest in UFOs, and recently the U.S. Pentagon has released authentic video footage of UFOs that behave in a similar way to the ones that I encountered 52 years ago.
The mystery concerning their movement remains. How can aircraft make a right-angle turn at all, much less at an incredible speed that makes it difficult for the human eyes to record them in flight?
The Pentagon has released U.S. Navy infrared camera footage of a UFO that was taken by a fighter jet in 2004 off the Coast of San Diego after the pilot took off from the USS Nimitz to investigate 10 UFOs that the Navy’s radar operator reported.
A jet pilot can withstand eight Gs’ at most, but the Tic-Tac shaped object that was estimated to be 47’ in diameter defied terrestrial technology by zipping down into the ocean at a speed that the U.S. Navy believes would create 1,350 Gs’ (a force that would crush any human) before popping back up out of the ocean at an incredible speed.
The UFOs, later named UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) by the Pentagon have been sited since the late 1940s following World War II. In 1955, the U2 Spy Plane that flew at high altitudes could have been mistaken as a UFO because it was a secret aircraft that the U.S. deployed to spy on its enemies.
Since the 1950s, the U.S. has developed highly sophisticated detection technology, including infrared cameras that can detect the heat of flying objects. High-tech reconnaissance cameras enable the U.S. military to better detect any object in flight, and more advanced radar systems have been developed.
Balloons that reach high altitudes may have been mistaken for flying aircraft of unknown origins in the past, but the balloons do not produce heat, something that infrared cameras can now detect.
What the Navy pilot encountered off the coast of San Diego remains unexplained, and more recent UAP sightings have occurred there as well.
On July 15, 2019, Jeremy Corbell, a filmmaker, released a film that the Pentagon confirmed was authentic. Filmed from the USS Omaha, the footage shows a triangular-shaped UAP making sudden and high-speed movements before diving down into the ocean. No splash was detected, and no sign of wreckage was found.
The U.S. Military has detected UAPs that travel underwater at speeds no known terrestrial submarines or underwater craft can achieve.
Since Voyager I was launched in 1977, Americans have watched the skies, and many UAPs have been reported and authenticated as unidentifiable. A one-half disc-shaped object has been spotted by aerial photography in Antarctica where scientists claim the equator was located in the distant pass. It appears to be a metallic saucer half covered by ice.
In Feb. of 2020, a commercial airline pilot spotted a dark, metallic object that was cube-shaped. The object caught on the pilot’s personal camera as it sped past the commercial jet without being detected by radar.
On Feb. 21, 2021, the airline pilot of a flight heading for Phoenix was passing over New Mexico when a long cylindrical object traveling at 400 knots passed over the top of his airliner. The object was not detected by radar either. It remains unidentified.
The White Sands Proving Ground located in New Mexico near where the sighting occurred reported that no missile had been launched on Feb. 21.
The UFO mystery has baffled the top scientists, the highest ranking military men, and members of the U.S. Congress for 75 years. “Project Blue Book,” the U.S. Government’s official account of UFO investigations, logged in 12,000 entries.
The springboard for the UFO mystery was the Roswell incident that was reported in the “Roswell Daily Record” that ran the following headline in its July 8, 1947 edition: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.”
President Jimmy Carter reported seeing a UFO on Sept. 18, 1973, after he and 12 others observed a brightly lit object in the night sky that behaved erratically unlike any known terrestrial aircraft.
