posted on Apr, 1 2014 @ 11:00 AM
I've shared this before on another forum; I feel I should share it here too. Just recently astronaut Leroy Chiao has come forward with his sighting
--mine was very similar in number, and configuration of objects, and I posted it long before Leroy came out. I would be happy to take any kind of lie
detector test, but probably won't respond much on the forum here --p.m. me. I tried to create a whole new topic, but was unable to --perhaps because
I just joined?? Anyway..
An interesting thing happened to me on May 14, 2010. That whole week I had been driving from Eugene, Oregon to work in Lake Oswego, Oregon (USA) in
the morning and then driving back to Eugene after work (on I-5, 11o miles); my dad had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and was undergoing medical
procedures that week, so I wanted to be there to be supportive. That Friday, May 14, I was driving back to Eugene and witnessed something
extraordinary. Everything was lush and the trees were thick, but as I neared milepost 270 the trees gave way to pastures and I could look out West, to
the mountains. As I looked West I was shocked to notice five bright round lights in a row (spaced evenly) that appeared to hover over the mountains in
the distance; they were at a slight angle to the horizon, 5 degrees or so off the horizontal. As I continued to look (awestruck), I noticed that the
lights dimmed slightly and were actually metallic spheres; the top of each sphere slightly reflected the blue light of the sky. The spheres seemed to
have been large, perhaps 30 to 40 feet across to appear as large as they did from my perspective. The spheres hovered there in a row glowing slightly,
seeming to slightly bob in the air for about fifteen seconds or so, and then seemed to slowly disappear from right to left, as I drove on; I was
shocked. Ten seconds later, all five spheres reappeared, this time much closer, and nearer to I-5, but up in the sky, apparently jumping from the
mountains to the West to that location. This time all five spheres glowed brightly red, and were in a slightly different configuration; four were in a
line at a slight angle to the horizon, while one was a bit lower, kind of a lopsided triangle formation –this lasted for about ten seconds, then all
disappeared again. I was completely shocked by the experience and didn’t mention it to my parents until the following evening. Doing a little
research online later, I discovered that that Friday had been the first night of the McMinnville UFO festival, where Stanton Friedman was speaking.
Initially I was confused and thought I saw the objects near Salem (that error is still on the Mufon site, I need to contact them). Later I drove the
stretch and recognized certain trees and landmarks, and I googled a map of Oregon to pinpoint where I had seen the objects; drawing a line west from
that point on I-5 towards the spot where I saw them, directly intersected McMinnville, actually very near the Trent farm (a co-worker grew up right
next to them) –the objects were near or directly over McMinnville that evening. You can imagine how I felt upon discovering that fact… I called
MUFON, and was interviewed by investigators –there was and still is no conventional explanation for what I experienced that Friday. I'd love to
take a lie detector test. I was very disturbed by the whole affair.