Well, not what I expected, but I appreciate the details, and sounds like I was wrong all along. Good to hear from somebody I trust.
I can well imagine what the locals thought they saw when these things were buzzing around in the 50s/60s in the area!
When I saw this sitting there, I gasped a bit, and blurted to my Air Force guide "dude, did you guys catch a flying saucer or something????". He laughed and explained the deal :-). It's a Pepp Aeroshell meant for testing re-entry and soft landings for spacecraft and missile payloads, they had a few variants for different purposes that they experimented with for ages.
I like the bouncy-ball version they used for one of the Mars landings.
That is really interesting!
I was just talking to my son last week about whether he had ever seen a UFO and he remembered seeing something at our old house, as did I, on a few nights, and so did his brother. But that was a long time ago and it was weird to hear him confirm what I had forgotten--his was at a different time. They were really little at the time, maybe about 8 or 9?
I remember it vaguely but I was in a coma once after respiratory failure and lost a lot of memory of the ten years prior. So sometimes the kids will tell me things and then I remember--it's like the memories are in long term storage and I need to get a connection to retrieve them. When he mentioned it I remember seeing the thing flying horizontally and then up and sort of circling, and slanted, but like I said, my memory is shot in many ways.
I agree - that's so interesting, bae! And very informative. Thanks for sharing. I think I would have found it all very exciting! LOL
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In the early eighties, I was assigned to USAF Space Division at Los Angeles Air Force Station. One occasional responsibility of extremely junior officers like me was to serve as Staff Duty Officer. That entailed spending the night in an underground command post and dealing with such issues as came up. Personnel getting arrested, stranded without funds, notifying Command of major events, etc. You served the shift with an NCO who managed the communication systems and generally knew what they were doing. The lieutenant was there essentially to take the blame for screwup and submit a report for Command to read over coffee the next morning.
Every so often the smirking sergeant would “elevate” a caller wanting to report a UFO sighting. There was no set policy on how to handle them, so I would get all the details I could and write them up for my report. People seemed to appreciate being taken seriously, although a few would demand I scramble interceptors. It may have led some to believe we were acting on their information.
In the mid 70's my primary duty at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage was as the Law Enforcement Desk Sergeant. During my two years there I can recall taking maybe a dozen or so calls, always after hours, reporting UFO sightings in the vicinity. Most of those calls were actually from surrounding area police departments passing along information from concerned residents in their jurisdiction. We had no set policy for that sort of thing either so I would simply dispatch a patrol unit to the base perimeter in whatever direction the report came from to see if they could spot anything unusual, which they never did. I'd then make a blotter entry detailing the initial notification and our followup observations and send it along to the brass. I don't recall ever receiving feedback on those entries.
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