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Encounters / David L.  > Submitted by: David L. > Date: 2000 > Location: North Port, Fla. > Experience: Sighting > Hynek Classification: Nocturnal Light > Vallee Classification: CE1 > Source Reliability Rating: 3 I am a 33-year-old male, married, educated, with a good job. I do not use drugs and I do not drink alcohol. I live in North Port, Fla., which is 90 minutes' drive south of Tampa. Two years ago, I and a friend were traveling down Highway 41. It was dark and I was en route home. My friend and I were engaged in conversation when we noticed a light off in the distance, moving at an incredible rate of speed. We watched the light zip across the sky and almost disappear [beyond] the horizon. Without warning, the light changed direction and headed straight for us. Within seconds this thing stopped on a dime and was right above the roof of [our] car, moving over us very slowly and very low. The shape of this thing was very strange; it had lots of lights underneath it — some large, some small. I remember wanting to pull the car over, but for some reason I didn't. Although we both agreed it was a bizarre incident, we didn't discuss it after it was over. I didn't tell anyone about this strange craft, but earlier this year my wife and I were visiting some new friends. They are an older married couple; the husband is a retired U.S. Air Force pilot who had logged thousands of flight hours, including bombing missions in Vietnam. They started telling us about a "thing" they had seen in the sky two years earlier, while they were driving home (at night) from Tampa. My jaw dropped as she took out a piece of paper and sketched the same exact thing my friend and I had seen two years ago! Her husband said that in all his years with the Air Force, he had never seen anything like it before. |
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