2003-08-27 - Springfield, OR - Cigar

Object seen the night Mars was closest to Earth August 27, 2003.

August 27, 2003. It was the night that Mars was closest to the earth and I was staying at my son & daughter-in-laws apartment on top of a mountain that was a rock quarry off of Camp Creek Rd., Springfield, OR.

My son asked his wife this night if she had seen ‘Mars’ and she said no, so all 3 of us went out of the apartment (it was attached on the end of a very large metal shop building) and as we walked outside there was a Very Bright Light, my son said “see there it is” and I said to him,,, “No, that is not Mars, it is more to the Southeast, but I don’t know what that ‘bright light is’…..

As we got to the end of the building there to the South was ‘Mars’, and we looked at it and then at the ‘Bright Light’, that looked like a Star,,,, we all walked out to the clearing on the top of the mountain and was looking at this ‘Light’, and all of a sudden it went Vertically UP… not far from what one would estimate in ‘height’ but then I got the distinct feeling it was coming right at us…..”I yelled to my Son and his wife “get back to the apartment quick”, my son said as he was running he was going to get his camera and being 6’3” 195 of solid muscle ran quickly to his pick-up and grabbed his camera and ran to the apartment door where his wife and I were (there was a little cover built over the doorway),,,

My son looked up and tried to use his camera (which he used every day for work but it would not work) as we all looked up “There was this Beautiful Object just above the tree tops that had the most Amazing Lights I had ever seen in my life”, I kept saying…. “Wow,,,, look at those lights, they are beautiful”, and my daughter-in-law wanted to run out under the object and I held her back and told her “NO…. You can’t go out there, haven’t you seen the movie “Fire in the Sky”???? She said NO, and even though I didn’t know what we were looking at…. In my subconscious mind I knew it was not something to investigate.

The object only stayed above us for a minute maybe two… but as fast as we ‘blinked our eyes it was gone’!!! We ran to the other end of the building and could find no trace of where it had gone….. I told my daughter about it the next day and she told me she was listening to CNN that morning and a couple reported seeing a ‘bright object that looked like a star in the sky that same night we did and it came towards them as well’…. I tried to contact CNN to get information about the couple but never got a response.

This really did happen and after we went inside, my son stated that “we just saw a UFO”, it was like we were mesmerized when it was above us, but we lost no ‘time’ in this encounter and none of us have had nightmares or dreams that have frightened us so I do not believe there was any encounter with whoever was in the object.

This actually did happen to all 3 of us and I am grateful no ‘encounter’ happened to us or that we were subjected to any abduction from ‘them’!