Travel time was way shorter than it should have been (missing time?)
I keep recollecting this incident so decided to submit a report. This happened sometime in the summer/very early fall between 1993 and 1995, in the days before GPS and automated navigation, and before we had kids. My wife and I decided to drive from North Alabama to Western New York State to visit her parents. Since our route was taking us nearby Ft. Thomas, KY, where her aunt lived at the time, we agreed we would stop there for the night and take her aunt with us to New York State.
In those days, I prided myself on my map-based navigational skills and ability to predict our arrival time to within 15 minutes, even driving hundreds of miles. I was never off by more than a couple minutes, ever. The first part of the trip to Ft. Thomas was uneventful, and we arrived within my predicted timeframe. The second part of the trip from Ft. Thomas to our destination in western NYS, I predicted to be around 530 miles with a travel time of 7hrs 45 min to 8 hrs in duration (which gives an average interstate speed of about 66 mph, including stops). All went well and we had a great trip. I seem to recall that the last leg of the journey (maybe 50-100 miles) seemed a bit off from where I expected to be, like I took the wrong exit, but we easily knew where we were, and we made it to the in-laws as expected.
When we arrived, the in-laws seemed surprised. They were not expecting us so soon, even though I had given them the expected arrival time the day before, and we had spoken to them when we left, so they would know when we started. The problem was, we arrived over 2 hours earlier than predicted, based on mileage and travel time from KY to western NYS.
My wife, her aunt, and I were totally confused about how we got there so fast. We checked the distances, and reran the calculations several times, each time showing the original, predicted 8 hour travel time and predicted arrival time (taking time zones into account). I don’t remember if we ever checked the odometer (it seems that we would have), nor what the mileage was. Getting there in 6 hours would have had us averaging over 88 mph. I never drive that fast, and couldn’t through the city areas, and would have surely remembered doing so. After a very short while we shrugged it off and went about our business. However, in the weeks and years after, we talked about it off and on, and agree we all felt very weirded out. It was a memorable experience.
Other than driving through Cincinnati near the start and feeling like we took the wrong exit and road at the end, I don’t have any particular memories of the trip, of how we actually got from Ft. Thomas to our destination, where/when we got gas or made stops, or if we ate along the way. Everything is a blur to each of us. However, I do feel like at some point, I asked my passengers "do you believe in them now.” But it is a fuzzy memory, and I don’t know if I asked it, or if I somehow inserted that into my memory of that day. What I do know is that we made impossible time on that trip, corroborated by outside witnesses, and we three travelers have no idea how we did it. And I have seen plenty of strange things and had a number of odd experiences in my life, a number of which I have reported to this site.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD))
I keep recollecting this incident so decided to submit a report. This happened sometime in the summer/very early fall between 1993 and 1995, in the days before GPS and automated navigation, and before we had kids. My wife and I decided to drive from North Alabama to Western New York State to visit her parents. Since our route was taking us nearby Ft. Thomas, KY, where her aunt lived at the time, we agreed we would stop there for the night and take her aunt with us to New York State.
In those days, I prided myself on my map-based navigational skills and ability to predict our arrival time to within 15 minutes, even driving hundreds of miles. I was never off by more than a couple minutes, ever. The first part of the trip to Ft. Thomas was uneventful, and we arrived within my predicted timeframe. The second part of the trip from Ft. Thomas to our destination in western NYS, I predicted to be around 530 miles with a travel time of 7hrs 45 min to 8 hrs in duration (which gives an average interstate speed of about 66 mph, including stops). All went well and we had a great trip. I seem to recall that the last leg of the journey (maybe 50-100 miles) seemed a bit off from where I expected to be, like I took the wrong exit, but we easily knew where we were, and we made it to the in-laws as expected.
When we arrived, the in-laws seemed surprised. They were not expecting us so soon, even though I had given them the expected arrival time the day before, and we had spoken to them when we left, so they would know when we started. The problem was, we arrived over 2 hours earlier than predicted, based on mileage and travel time from KY to western NYS.
My wife, her aunt, and I were totally confused about how we got there so fast. We checked the distances, and reran the calculations several times, each time showing the original, predicted 8 hour travel time and predicted arrival time (taking time zones into account). I don’t remember if we ever checked the odometer (it seems that we would have), nor what the mileage was. Getting there in 6 hours would have had us averaging over 88 mph. I never drive that fast, and couldn’t through the city areas, and would have surely remembered doing so. After a very short while we shrugged it off and went about our business. However, in the weeks and years after, we talked about it off and on, and agree we all felt very weirded out. It was a memorable experience.
Other than driving through Cincinnati near the start and feeling like we took the wrong exit and road at the end, I don’t have any particular memories of the trip, of how we actually got from Ft. Thomas to our destination, where/when we got gas or made stops, or if we ate along the way. Everything is a blur to each of us. However, I do feel like at some point, I asked my passengers "do you believe in them now.” But it is a fuzzy memory, and I don’t know if I asked it, or if I somehow inserted that into my memory of that day. What I do know is that we made impossible time on that trip, corroborated by outside witnesses, and we three travelers have no idea how we did it. And I have seen plenty of strange things and had a number of odd experiences in my life, a number of which I have reported to this site.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD))
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Cincinnati
USA
6 hours
6 hours
39.18
-84.49
unknown
OH
Occurred : 6/20/1994 09:00 (Entered as : 6/20/1994 09:00) Reported: 8/15/2018 9:00:13 PM 21:00 Posted: 8/17/2018 Location: Cincinnati, OH Shape: Unknown Duration: 6 hours Characteristics: This is a possible UFO abduction case, Missing time was experienced
Travel time was way shorter than it should have been (missing time?)