- Date: July 1976
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- HBCC UFO Research Note: The Cannon AFB sighting report
below came in through my submissions feed, the person reporting this event
is anonymous and I have no way of writing back to this person. I certainly
would like to chat to the witness over this event if he would be kind enough
to drop me a line to Brian Vike, at <>hbccufo@telus.net Also
again I would like to request that any servicemen at the Cannon AFB who
witnessed these unusual events to please come forward with a detailed report,
or possible footage or photos which were taken this evening as explained
in the report below.
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- July 1976 at Cannon Air Force Base
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- The following events occurred 30 years ago. The exacts
details have become a little fuzzy, after all I haven't thought about this
stuff for 3 decades.
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- I arrived at Cannon Air Force Base in November of 1975.
I remember the night because there was about an inch of snow on the ground
and the next morning it was in the 70's. It's true what they say about
desert weather. LOL.
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- I was a member of the 27th SPS (Security Police) and
the only event that I can recall happening during January of 1976 was
some talk of a plane crash that was supposed to happen, but everyone had
different stories with different facts, so I passed them off as fairy-tales.
But early July 1976 is a different story.
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- I was working Security and we were on rotating shifts,
something like 3 days on days then 2 off, 3 days on afternoons and 2 off,
then 3 days on nights then 2 off. Anyways, it was my last day on nights
and I was on patrol with another Airman and we were back by the Portales
Gate (a remote gate that basic lead to the town of Portales, hence the
name) when my partner pointed at something in the sky and asked, "what
the hell is that". I saw a light in the sky that appeared to be hovering
maybe a couple hundred feet above the ground, just outside the base. We
pulled over to the side of the road and observed it for a few minutes.
It was blue on top, white in the middle and green on the bottom. We finally
called dispatched and asked them if they could contact Flight Tower to
see if they had any planes flying. The response was that they did not have
anything in the air. It was about then that our dispatch got a call
from the Clovis Police and said that they could see some strange
lights over the south side of our base. They asked if we had anything in
the air. The radio then came alive with other reports all saying the same
thing, the light were being seen by others. The Flight Tower was contacted
and their radar showed nothing in the sky.
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- We told dispatch how close we were to the light, and
soon 2 other patrols were parked along side us watching it. One of them decided
to drive towards the light and we kept in contact with them, to direct
him, but as we gave directions and he got directly under the light it could
not be seen.
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- Suddenly the light just seemed to vanish, gone in a blink
of an eye. It did not fly away, it just disappeared.
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- The next night I was sleeping and it was approx 2:00
a.m. when I heard a commotion coming from the hallway of my barracks. I
got dressed and followed everyone outside to see what was going on. In
the skies above us were approx: 12 lights that made a perfect circle around
the base. Each one was the exact same distance from the other, so I knew
that this could not be by accident. I wondered if it could be related to
the events I witnessed a few nights before. We watched the lights for about
an hour or so and then it was as if someone had turned off the power to
them, they went off one at a time in a circular manner.
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- The next night, I could not fall asleep so I went outside
to take a walk around, hoping that would make me tired. As I was walking
I found myself looking up at the sky and the next thing I saw was a single
light appear, then another and another until all 12 lights had come back
on like the night before. I noted the time and it was the exact time as
the night before.
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- I ran back to my barracks, where the entire squad had
assembled and several people had movie cameras and were filming the sky.
As they did the night before, and at the same time, they went off one at
a time, just like they had come on.
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- I eagerly waited the next night for the lights to appear,
but they never returned.
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- The next month in one of the "men" magazines
that were being sold at the time (I think it was (removed) magazine)
had interviewed the base commander for an article about the lights. So
if you want to read up on this, look for a back issue of (removed)
magazine dated August or later of 1976.
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- Thank you to the witness for the very interesting report.
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- Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. email: <>hbccufo@telus.net
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