What
I saw throughout the night from where I slept
What
I am sharing here might be nothing, but I have made a pledge to post anything
odd on this blog, so here goes.
I've just returned to my home after two weeks away. I spent most of that time at a UFO conference near Phoenix and then visiting friends in Sedona and Flagstaff.
When I drive around the west I try to sleep out under the stars and avoid getting a hotel room. This is what I did on Sunday night (the night of March 10th thru the morning of the 11th).
I slept along side Utah Highway 20 just a few miles away from I-15. It is noted as Buckskin Road on google maps. I pulled into the spot around 9:PM and walked around a little bit with a headlamp to stretch my legs. The area had low bushy trees (Junipers I think) and there was a series of beaten down roads and little turn outs. Typical of this part of the west there was some litter and evidence of campfires. Plenty of people had been here before. This was a cold Sunday night so I wasn’t really worried about anyone else pulling in. This was a perfect spot to sleep out. I set my sleeping pad down in the dirt near my little Subaru. I climbed into my sleeping bag and went to sleep.
At some point during the night I woke up. I suspect it was around mid-night. The stars were amazing and I was enjoying looking up at the clear sky. I looked at the ridge-line of rounded peaks to the south and saw what appeared to be a large round structure perched on top of a hill. My impression was that I was looking at a round house with a row of lights situated along the outer circumference of the building. It seemed like a big round fancy home.
I've just returned to my home after two weeks away. I spent most of that time at a UFO conference near Phoenix and then visiting friends in Sedona and Flagstaff.
When I drive around the west I try to sleep out under the stars and avoid getting a hotel room. This is what I did on Sunday night (the night of March 10th thru the morning of the 11th).
I slept along side Utah Highway 20 just a few miles away from I-15. It is noted as Buckskin Road on google maps. I pulled into the spot around 9:PM and walked around a little bit with a headlamp to stretch my legs. The area had low bushy trees (Junipers I think) and there was a series of beaten down roads and little turn outs. Typical of this part of the west there was some litter and evidence of campfires. Plenty of people had been here before. This was a cold Sunday night so I wasn’t really worried about anyone else pulling in. This was a perfect spot to sleep out. I set my sleeping pad down in the dirt near my little Subaru. I climbed into my sleeping bag and went to sleep.
At some point during the night I woke up. I suspect it was around mid-night. The stars were amazing and I was enjoying looking up at the clear sky. I looked at the ridge-line of rounded peaks to the south and saw what appeared to be a large round structure perched on top of a hill. My impression was that I was looking at a round house with a row of lights situated along the outer circumference of the building. It seemed like a big round fancy home.
Google
map image looking South, the arrow shows the approximate location of the
structure.
The gray line is Buckskin Road.
The gray line is Buckskin Road.
Right
in that moment I pondered if this was a landed flying saucer. Really, I
literally tried to take in what I was seeing and question the mood of what I
felt deep inside myself. It seemed perfectly terrestrial. There was nothing at
all other worldly about it. There was no feeling of anything at all being odd.
I said to myself, if this was a flying saucer, I would sense something weird.
But everything seemed fine. The lights were partially obscured by the trees but
they seemed normal. I rolled over and went back to sleep.
I woke up again a little while later.
This time I saw a bright light on the ground near where I was sleeping, it was west of where I was lying on the ground. My impression was that it was just a car parked nearby and I was seeing a light. I sat up and tried to peer thru the low bushy trees. The light was mostly obscured and I moved my head from side to side in the hopes of getting a better view. I couldn’t see much but it seemed like nothing unusual. My impression was that someone pulled in while I was asleep and parked a short distance away. I am assuming that they were doing just what I was doing, sleeping in a pretty spot while doing a long drive.
I looked back up to the round structure on the hillside above me and nothing had changed. It still looked the same and the same neutral feeling.
I went back to sleep and woke sometime later. The light thru the bushes was now off and the circular round structure was pretty much the same. This time I noted a new light that appeared to be on the ground and just a little bit off to the left of the structure (see top image). It appeared to be a kind of yard lamp next to the big round home.
I think it was at this point that I felt pretty well rested and I got up. I tossed everything in the car and started driving again. If I remember correctly it was a little bit before 4:AM. This gets a little confusing because the switchover to daylights savings time would have been the night before and I hadn’t changed the clock in my car yet. So it might have been a little bit before 5:AM. I enjoy driving that early when the traffic is minimal.
I remember nothing at all unusual about that night, I slept well despite waking a few times. I feel like I got close to seven hours of sleep and I awoke feeling well rested.
I woke up again a little while later.
This time I saw a bright light on the ground near where I was sleeping, it was west of where I was lying on the ground. My impression was that it was just a car parked nearby and I was seeing a light. I sat up and tried to peer thru the low bushy trees. The light was mostly obscured and I moved my head from side to side in the hopes of getting a better view. I couldn’t see much but it seemed like nothing unusual. My impression was that someone pulled in while I was asleep and parked a short distance away. I am assuming that they were doing just what I was doing, sleeping in a pretty spot while doing a long drive.
I looked back up to the round structure on the hillside above me and nothing had changed. It still looked the same and the same neutral feeling.
I went back to sleep and woke sometime later. The light thru the bushes was now off and the circular round structure was pretty much the same. This time I noted a new light that appeared to be on the ground and just a little bit off to the left of the structure (see top image). It appeared to be a kind of yard lamp next to the big round home.
I think it was at this point that I felt pretty well rested and I got up. I tossed everything in the car and started driving again. If I remember correctly it was a little bit before 4:AM. This gets a little confusing because the switchover to daylights savings time would have been the night before and I hadn’t changed the clock in my car yet. So it might have been a little bit before 5:AM. I enjoy driving that early when the traffic is minimal.
I remember nothing at all unusual about that night, I slept well despite waking a few times. I feel like I got close to seven hours of sleep and I awoke feeling well rested.
overview
showing the sleep site (multi-pins) and the structure site (green pin)
When I got home I felt the need to look at google maps to see an image of that round structure on the hill top. I feel strongly that I picked out where the round structure should have been. I found the exact location of my sleeping spot, but the weird thing is that I couldn’t find anything on the satellite image that would match the circular building. The structure with the lights was approximately 1.6 miles away from where I slept.
I checked the date of the satellite imagery on the google earth and it read 9/14/2011. Perhaps there has been some sort of a structure built since then and it simply isn’t available on the maps yet. Maybe I’ll see something when the satellite imagery gets updated.
It may not have been a house, it might have been an array of cell towers (or something similar) arranged in a circle. It might have been a round water tank, but it is highly unlikely it would be at that location or lit with lights. The ring of lights around the structure weren’t quite perfectly positioned, they seemed to be spaced a little bit irregular and slight up or down. The seemed to be windows and that's why I say it was a house. The top illustration shows a ring of bright lights, but I sensed windows as well.
Another odd thing is that the area where I saw the low light thru the bushes seems to have been well away from the areas cleared for easy parking. If a car had pulled in while I was asleep it (most likely) would not have driven off into that area.
When I awoke and got up to begin driving I sensed nothing at all unusual. I felt like the sleeping bag was zipped just exactly like I had closed it up earlier in the night. I will also add that there were two coyotes yapping away during the night. They seemed VERY close. I have spent a lot of time sleeping out in the west and I was charmed by their calls.
Again, this is probably nothing. What is odd is that I actually searched out the google satellite image when I got home. I didn’t dwell on any of this during the drive and I wasn’t at all concerned that night. I am writing this and sharing it here simply to document what happened. This post might be an insight into my own paranoia or it might be something more.
The Sleeping Spot (exact)
LAT: 38~ 3’29.27”N
LONG: 112~39’17.71”W
The Round Structure (approx)
LAT: 38~ 2’8.90”N
LONG: 112~39’28.32”W
the
pull off from Highway 20 to Buckskin Road
Overview
of the location.
Yellow
Pin: where I slept, Red Pin: pull off point,
Blue
Pin: low light during the night (approx), White Pin: the white jeep.
An odd little extra: When I turned off of Highway 20 around 9:PM I
pulled into the first good spot to park only to realize that the site already
had a car there. It was a white Jeep Cherokee with Wyoming license plates. I
could see a little movement inside Jeep and I realized that I had probably
spooked the people. I backed up and drove to a spot far enough away not to
bother them. Their license plate had the prefix 10, and I that means Fremont
County Wyoming. I have a lot of friends in that county and I figure anyone from
there who would be parked at that spot at that time
of the year would probably be my friend, or at least an acquaintance.
The jeep was still there when I drove out early the next morning.
The jeep was still there when I drove out early the next morning.
Text added the same day:
First,
this was posted at 12:34 PM.
This just screams at me to pay attention!
Second, there is some freaky map weirdness, linked HERE. This is the kind of thing that makes this stuff really hard to deny.
Second, there is some freaky map weirdness, linked HERE. This is the kind of thing that makes this stuff really hard to deny.
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Text added March 10th 2014:
I am
adding to this post, exactly a year after the event along side highway 20 in
Utah. I drove past this site in mid-February or 2014 on the way to the annual
UFO conference in Arizona. I pulled off I-15 and went to the exact same spot
and took some photos. I was confirming what I already knew, that there was no
round structure on top of that hill.
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the
arrow points to the exact location of the round structure
|
I
also retraced my route home, exactly as I had done the year before. I slept in
the same spot as when I saw the round structure. I laid my pad down on the the
exact same flat spot on the ground.
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same
image as above, but zoomed in and with
the "round structure" added in using photoshop |
click on any image for a
HI-Rez view
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Posted
by Mike
Clelland! at 12:34
PM
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