By Billy Booth
UFOs/Aliens Expert
Introduction
The following encounter should be
extremely interesting to those who study UFO cases with electromagnetic
effects, as this case certainly shows compelling evidence of such. If you
are interested in electromagnetics and UFOs, see these case files: Alien Encounter near Mt. Shasta,
The Rendlesham Forest Incident and
the Cash-Landrum Encounter.
Scottsboro, Alabama - 1981
In April of 1981, my fiancee and
I had accompanied her parents to visit her brother and family in Scottsboro,
Alabama. I drove the entire distance in her father's car, (at that time) a
late model Olds Cutlass coupe. We had been visiting and talking into the
night and I had a beer or two.
It began to get late and my
fiancee (now wife, Anna, of over 33 years) and I were to go stay with her
brother's in-laws in town. Her brother lived in a log home on a peninsula
into the back waters and main channel of the Tennessee River, at Roseberry
Creek. It was populated, with some street lights, but not many.
Nuclear Facility Near
The evening was clear with few
clouds and a partial full moon. (It should also be noted that just up the river
in Stevenson, was, at that time, a nuclear reactor project which was in
the process of being built in Hollywood,
just to the North of the location of this incident, the Bellefont reactor
project.
I am not sure if there was any
nuclear material at the site at that time, as the unit is still unfinished.
Another site just North of the Bellefont unit, at Widow's Creek, is
coal-fired and likely being shutdown.)
Vehicle Stalled
At around 11:30 PM, we left her
brother's house and began the 5-7 mile trip to the in-laws' house. After about
1/4 mile, the car began to knock and shut off. The radio stopped and shut
off. At the same time, a bright white light appeared over the tree line
just off the road to the right (approx. to the NE).
We had the windows cracked about
2 inches and noticed no crickets which we heard upon leaving the house and entering
the car. The road is narrow at that point, with water on the left side and a
house just prior to it. There is a street light at that point, which had
also turned off when the bright light appeared.
An Intense, White Light
As the intense and blinding white
light shone upon us through the windshield with us trying to peer up and find
out what was going on, Anna asked if we should get out to see. I said
"No,", also mentioning that we should stay buckled in and lock
the doors, forgetting about the windows being partially down. I looked at my
new Seiko LCD watch and it had stopped, as the screen was blank and even
the internal light would not work when I pressed the button. Anna's
battery powered analog watch even stopped. I don't remember the exact time,
though.
After what seemed to be an
eternity, the bright white light simply disappeared. No noise of any kind was
heard until the radio came back on and the crickets began to chirp again.
We looked at each other in shock at what had just occurred.
I remember her watch having
restarted, but was about 10 minutes ahead and I thought that was very weird
since the second hand had stopped when I looked at it while the light was
present.
I started the car after putting
it in park. Apparently, I must have let the engine help slow us to a stop after
the vacuum from the power brake booster was spent from my heavy braking.
We continued on our journey to the in-laws' and agreed to not speak a word
of our experience as we thought people would think us crazy.
Many years later, in 2007, while
in Chicago visiting her youngest niece from Alabama (who is now an ER doctor),
we mentioned the above story to her from 26 years prior. She was not
amazed as her grandparents whom we stayed with on that visit in 1981, had
also experienced the exact same situation in the same location numerous times.
They are both now deceased and cannot corroborate or tell their stories.
Belief in UFOs
While I believed in UFOs before
1981 (a now deceased uncle worked with the USAF's FTD group at Wright Patterson Air Force Base here
in Dayton and was elusively frank with me when describing Project Blue Book,
using a non-denial phrase to let me know about this subject), I had
never thought much about it for years.
I don't believe I was influenced
by any unconscious belief in UFOs with this experience in April of 1981.
However, since that time, both my wife and I are avid believers and do not
push aside many stories of similar or more involved sightings. Sure, the
government could be working on secret projects and the like, but that only begs
the question:
Where did they get the technology
so quickly?
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