(11-27-2022, 09:07 AM)BIAD Wrote: When my family and I were at White Sands in the late-nineties, a F-117 Nighthawk flew right over us when we
we chilling on an outdoor seat of the National Park Visitor Centre!
You know, I was never really convinced that those things could actually fly. I saw one on the ground around 1987, inside a hangar at Langley AFB in Hampton, VA. It was still secret, so it was inside the hangar and had guards posted at 4 points around it, so I couldn't get close enough to touch it without getting shot, but I got a good look at it and decided there was no way that thing could actually get airborne. Too much body for too little wing, and too angular, I thought. A couple years later, during the ramp up to Desert Storm called "Desert Shield", the Air Force flew in a squadron of them, again to Langley, They flew them in at night to keep them from being spotted in the air, Kept them in hangars over-day, and flew them out again towards the Middle East the next night. I was convinced it was just a cover story, and those things never really flew in at all... !
I think UFOs are "real" - in that I think they are actual flying contraptions that we don't know the origin of. However, I have a really hard time thinking they come from other planets. People don't understand the vast distances involved, and all of them appear too little to me to be able to carry enough supplies to sustain a multi-generational flight from whatever star they are supposed to come from. The problem is, I can't really figure out where they DO come from.
The last one I saw was just a tad over 10 years ago. It was may of 2012, and I was at work in NC. i heard a flight of helicopters, and went out to look to see what was up. I saw a flight of 4 or 5 helicopters flying along, but in the lead, ahead of the choppers, was a silver ball flying along, looking like it was either leading or being trailed by the helicopters. It wasn'r huge, it was just about the size of one of the helicopter cockpits, but without any helicopter attached to it. Just a shiny metallic ball flying along without any wings or rotors, trailing a few helicopter. Kinda like the choppers were taking it out for a walk.
I did take some photos, but those, AND the camera they were taken with, are gone now. That's a whole 'nother sad story that I won't go in to.
It was just east and slightly north of Snow Camp, NC.
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