T-Tail-Tall-Tail:
UFO .... Almost
Gail H Meyer
One very dark night back in the seventies, while
flying from Yokota to
Hickam, with everyone asleep but the pilot and the
engineer. The pilot and
myself were b-s'ing to keep ourselves awake.
I was looking up toward the pilot and he was turned
toward me. All of a sudden
a big bright pale green perfectly round circle, with
six or eight evenly spaced
smaller pale green lights appearing around it,
appeared way above our altitude.
I yelled, "What the f---!?" and pointed at it. The
pilot turned and looked at
it also. We then woke everyone on the crew to make
sure they seen it also.
Needless to say, the topic of conversation after
that was the book, "Chariots
of the Gods" and other such topics. Later the green
light spread throughout the
sky above us and weakened in color.
Later, when we got in VHF range prior to descent
into Honolulu, the controller
asked us if we had seen anything out there. The
copilot said "WHY?"
We didn't want to admit to what we had seen. The
controller then said the Air
Force had fired an ICBM off out of Vandenburg toward
Kwajalein Island, and was
wondering if we had seen it. The copilot said "yes,
we saw it". The big round
light was another stage igniting and the small ones
were the retro rockets.
It was almost a UFO for awhile.
Gail H. Meyer, SMSgt. (Ret)