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highplainsdem

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31. Decades ago, in Iowa farm country. Saw 4 dull brown craft
Fri May 21, 2021, 11:35 AM
May 2021

Last edited Fri May 21, 2021, 12:06 PM - Edit history (1)

shaped like triangles or arrowheads descending, in an irregular V, two behind the lead craft on one side, one following on the other. Not maintaining formation very well, moving back and forth noticeably, constantly, in relation to each other. Coming in fast as they descended. This was in daylight, mid-morning. I'd watched them for at least 10-15 seconds when I was asked for the map in the glove compartment. I got that and handed it over to the backseat driver, then looked toward the craft again, and they were gone. I looked around, couldn't see them anywhere, and it seemed impossible that they'd vanished so quickly. I was asked what I was gawking at and told the other two people in the car, neither of whom had seen the aircraft I'd seen, but they couldn't spot them either. Then suddenly 3 military jets, fighters, came in very fast from different directions and when they neared the point where I'd last seen those 4 unidentified craft, they suddenly climbed steeply. We all saw that. The jets left contrails; the 4 craft I'd seen earlier had left no trails. We stopped at a gas station/convenience store soon after that and I asked the manager if he'd seen anything odd in the sky, like what we'd seen. He told me he hadn't, but customers who were farmers had sometimes mentioned seeing odd lights in their fields. Later that day we called military bases in the area and asked if there'd been any training exercises with military jets at the location this had happened, and we were told that no military jets had been there.

Have you ever seen a UFO? [View all] jpak May 2021 OP
I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Gidney N Cloyd May 2021 #1
Yay! jpak May 2021 #2
Attack Ships On Fire Celerity May 2021 #35
Yes colsohlibgal May 2021 #3
Sure tavernier May 2021 #4
That's why they are called UFOs jpak May 2021 #7
That's My Take ProfessorGAC May 2021 #42
I've seen lots of fire balls and spectacular meteor events jpak May 2021 #54
Years ago, long since I left home my sister saw something strange. Paper Roses May 2021 #5
i'm in the yes column bluestarone May 2021 #6
Yes Throck May 2021 #8
With me it was hashish. marie999 May 2021 #12
Did you chew her arm off? jpak May 2021 #13
I've seen a few odd things on my way home - OhZone May 2021 #9
I've been around a few blocks too Captain Zero May 2021 #57
Five lights in a V-shape EYESORE 9001 May 2021 #10
My guess -misanthroptimist May 2021 #29
Not birds EYESORE 9001 May 2021 #32
Yes, at a distance Dale in Laurel MD May 2021 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author TraceNC May 2021 #14
Wow. What an experience! chia May 2021 #20
Yes. roamer65 May 2021 #15
The Air Force Just Confirmed The Reality Of It colsohlibgal May 2021 #16
Yes, about 20 years ago MANative May 2021 #17
Yeah, but it was over the White Sands Missile Range BluesRunTheGame May 2021 #18
Unidentified, yes. Alien, not likely. Hoyt May 2021 #19
Yes, the triangular ones. In summer of 1967. Greybnk48 May 2021 #21
Parking jpak May 2021 #37
I did see a ghost not long ago...my daughter saw it too...full on apparition. Demsrule86 May 2021 #22
I've seen several ghosts, but I'm still not a full believer Victor_c3 May 2021 #41
Yes around the early 90s in the Kansas City area. cbdo2007 May 2021 #23
Yes, in the sense that it was unidentified by me. Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #24
They're here making home movies for the folks back home. miyazaki May 2021 #25
The government has done a very good job of training us to ridicule what they don't want us to know. Binkie The Clown May 2021 #26
Thank you, Mulder Hekate May 2021 #45
Hmmm. Is that ridicule? :) nt Binkie The Clown May 2021 #49
Never Hekate May 2021 #50
Our perceptions of reality are not and have never been reality. PurgedVoter May 2021 #27
Most of our interactions with the world are... Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #28
Just about every day... Ohio Joe May 2021 #30
Decades ago, in Iowa farm country. Saw 4 dull brown craft highplainsdem May 2021 #31
Yes MFM008 May 2021 #33
Yup... SwannieK May 2021 #34
Article on one of the Malmstrom sightings: highplainsdem May 2021 #56
My sighting was in the 50s SwannieK May 2021 #65
I think we can safely say everyone has seen something they can't identify... brooklynite May 2021 #36
A couple years ago I was walking back to work on my lunch when I looked up to see a 737 flying under neverforget May 2021 #38
A Ukrainian Finger Organ? DFW May 2021 #39
LOL!!122 jpak May 2021 #60
Just follow the bouncing ball........... DFW May 2021 #66
Yes, and was close to one of the most famous sightings. nolabear May 2021 #40
What were they like? Kid Berwyn May 2021 #44
Afterward I only know what everyone else did. My grandmother didn't believe them. nolabear May 2021 #46
Dr. J. Allen Hynek found their story credible. Kid Berwyn May 2021 #52
Oh, that's interesting. I've heard of Dr. Hynek but don't know much about him. nolabear May 2021 #58
Hynek and Vallee applied science to things at the frontier of reality. Kid Berwyn May 2021 #59
Twice hurl May 2021 #43
They're all just dragons. Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #47
Plenty of times ironflange May 2021 #48
Yep. Iggo May 2021 #51
One 4th of July in Pensacola jpak May 2021 #61
I wasn't aware until the last five years or so that you could see the station with the naked eye. Iggo May 2021 #64
Pretty much any time I go out at night krispos42 May 2021 #53
When I was Pot smoking teenager :) we would get stoned jpak May 2021 #55
Yes. And then it was identified the next day. eShirl May 2021 #62
When I was in HS the Maine Air Guard deployed some flares jpak May 2021 #63
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