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- \ Name:: Margie [Last Name Deleted]
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- City: Independence State: MO Country: USA Phone Number::
816-Removed Date of Actual Experience: 11/11/99 Approx. time of experience:
4:20 pm Location of experience:: 50 miles West of El Centro, CA on Hwy
8
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- Brief description: Saw a cigar-shaped silver metallic
object move slowly from N to S, then turn transparent and dissappear.
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- Brief description of emotions/feelings: very excited
and a little scared. Drugs or Alcohol involved?: No Experience missing
time?: No Personal Contact?: No Experience this before?: Yes Reported to
police or officials?: No Age at time of experience: 42 Need help coping:
No Would you like to keep your submission anonymous?: Yes Can someone contact
you?: Yes
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- Description of experience: A friend and I were driving
from El Centro, CA to San Diego West on Highway 8 in the mountains approximately
50 miles East of San Diego. The elevation was 4100 feet. We had just passed
a sign, so that is how I know it was that elevation. I was driving, and
something made me look to the sky above the mountains to my in a Northwest
direction - I think it was the movement in the sky. I was surprised to
see something that was clearly not a plane because it had no wings or tail,
no lights, and no trail behind it. It looked like a silver metallic cigar-shaped
craft that with rounded edges, and was larger at one end (the left as I
was looking at it) than the other. I could not see if it had windows, but
it was very large. I am not a pilot so have no reference for size, but
my guess is that it was quite a bit larger than an airplane.
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- The object was moving very slowly from North to South
just above the peak of a mountain. It would periodically slow down and
then speed up. I said to my friend a couple of seconds after I first sighted
it - "Donna, what the heck is that?" To which she replied that
she had no idea, and that she had already been watching it for at least
1 - 1 1/2 minutes and was trying to figure that out herself. She kept thinking
(and hoping) it would show some wings or something to indicate that it
was a plane. We both got very excited and said "oh my God, I think
it is a UFO" at the same time!
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- At that point I looked at my watch to verify time, and
it said 4:20 PM. The sun was setting in the West, and it caused the craft
to shine quite brightly. We were behind a mountain at the time, so the
sun was not shining in our eyes. I did look for signs for some reference
as to the exact point, but there were none around. There are quite a few
mountains in this area. We both watched the object for approximately 30
seconds, and were discussing it when it took a 90-degree turn very quickly
due West, became transparent, and then disappeared. Donna did not witness
it becoming transparent first, only that it disappeared instantly. We believe
she must have blinked during this time because that is how fast it occurred.
I then pulled over on the side of the road and grabbed my camera and video
camera in case it came back, because at that point I was convinced that
I saw something otherworldly or perhaps an experimental craft of some type.
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- We both remarked how it began to move away as we were
talking about it. We then kept looking to see if we would see anything
further, or perhaps see planes in the area that would indicate a flight
line to or from an airport, but saw nothing until we reached the San Diego
Area. We saw no planes or helicopters whatsoever going to or from El Centro
at all once we reached the mountains. We are from the Midwest and are unfamiliar
with mountains, but perhaps a topographical map would indicate the tallest
one (the one we were on) for a better reference.
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- Donna had never seen a UFO in her life (she is now 53),
and is convinced that this was a UFO. I should also mention that Donna
was driving first, and then I got very sick and made her let me drive to
minimize the sickness. I do get carsick, but this time was probably the
worst I've ever felt. Also, about 10 minutes after the sighting, I was
compelled to pull off to the side of the road to collect rocks two times.
The second time, we pulled 100 feet behind a stalled van, and right as
I returned to the car I looked in the rear view mirror and saw a semi truck
cab driving at around 90 MPH on the side of the road straight for us. Just
before it would have hit us, it swerved back onto the highway. I have the
overwhelming feeling that that was a message of some sort, and still can't
figure out why I wanted to pull over to the side of the road.
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- ** END UFO SIGHTING REPORT **
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- Morgan Clements Director, World Wide UFO Reporting Center
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