Reply #7: Saturday evening, the first weekend in May, 1967

[LibertyLover]

I was in 9th grade at the time. My best friend and I had spent Saturday afternoon at my house listening to records and had gotten permission from my parents and hers for her to sleep over. We decided to walk to her house, roughly a mile or so away, to get her clothes and have my mom pick us up. It was a lovely evening and so we took my 2 year old German Shepherd with us so that he could enjoy it. On the way, we stopped at church and went to confession (I was RC at the time) and introduced our favorite priest to Hans, the dog. Father Tom really liked Hans and Hans was perfectly happy to have one more person pet him. Then we walked through town and cut across the playground of one of the 2 elementary schools in town to get to the street my friend's house was on. By now it was dark, but the school security lights were on and so were street lights, so we didn't have any problems seeing our way. Off to our left, at the end of the playground, was a Little League baseball field. We were probably 120 feet from the fence of the baseball field and starting to cross the street bordering the playground to walk the one block over to the street my friend lived on when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I stopped and looked back over my shoulder so that I was looking back towards the baseball field. Hovering over it at, roughly 50 or 60 feet in the air, was something. It looked like it was 40 or so feet long and made out of latticework with lights every 2 feet or so. The shape was dumbell-shaped in that it appeared to have a rounded area at either end connected by a tube. It made no noise. At the time, for my age and the time period, I was well traveled, having been to all 48 continental US states, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Morocco. I had been on planes a number of times and not just 707s, but smaller commuter planes as well. I knew was a plane sounded like as well as what a hovering helicopter sounded like and this thing wasn't making a sound. We were about 120 feet from it and should have heard something. My friend saw it as well and we both just stood there watching. Then I realized that my dog was pulling on his leash. I looked away from the thing in the sky and at my German Shepherd, who was frantically trying to dig a hole for himself. That scared us. We took off running to my friend's house. When we got there of course nobody believed us.

3 years later, the summer between senior year and first year of college, several of my friends and I had gotten together at another friend's house to swim and just hang out. It was one of the last times we would see each other until Christmas. Beth's parents were there of course to supervise us - not that we were particularly wild or crazy - they actually liked us and liked to talk with us. For some reason, the conversation turned to UFOs and Beth's dad told about the time 3 years before that he and his wife had seen something. The family lived on a street that was a block long and dead-ended into the play ground of the second elementary school in town, the one I had gone to in fact. Their house was maybe the second or third from the end. Both parents were pharmacists who worked for the regional hospital. Beth's dad had picked her mom up at work and as they were coming down their street they saw a lighted object in the sky start to glide down towards the playground. Beth's dad, Mr. DiMarco, pulled the car into their driveway, jumped out, told his wife to call the police and started running towards the playground. He assumed, he told us 3 years later, that it was a small plane with a medical or mechanical emergency and figured if the latter, he was a pharmacist with first aid training. It wasn't until he got closer that he realized that the object wasn't shaped like a plane, looked like it was made out of latticework with lights and wasn't making any noise. He just stopped and stared as it suddenly took off. Mr. and Mrs. DiMarco and I compared notes and realized that we had all seen something odd on the same night at roughly the same time. To be honest, that freaked me out almost as much as watching my dog try to dig a hole to get away 3 years earlier.

In the interests of full and fair disclosure, I do believe that some UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin and that we have been visited in the past and are being visited now. I also believe that other UFOs are earth-origined and the result of US or other governmental projects. I am not sure if what I saw was ET or T in origin. I know that I could not identify it. It displayed characteristics that I was not familiar with, nor had seen previously.